From past experiences I've come to the conclusion that having your own lab is more useful and provides more flexibility when studying for the lab exams, I am not the only one trying to schedule the INE labs with storage/ACE/UCS but they are reserved almost two months at a time to either other candidates prepping or INE's bootcamp schedule, which presents more than a simple inconvenience considering studying for any IE lab exam is already a huge challenge. Anywho, because of this and since affording gear like this is VERY expensive I am putting it together at work thanks to my employer, which some of us working for partners or big Cisco shops might be able to do.
This said my questions for both the individual and full scale lab workbooks:
1. are there any plans to develop a cabling matrix/mapping with everything needed to execute these labs without having to stop in the middle to figure out missed cabling or switch stuff around? maybe make both topologies compatible somehow? an option would be a re-write of the full scale labs, just an idea...
2. for the individual labs I know there are decent maps that could be used for this purpose, but for the full scale labs there is nothing other than going manually over both topologies and putting everything together manually, which is not necessarily bad, but I think it would be more useful to have it somewhere like practicing.