CCIE (Cisco Certified Network Experts)

CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert)

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Routing and Switching (CCIE Routing and Switching) certifies the skills required of expert-level network engineers to plan, operate and troubleshoot complex, converged network infrastructure.

Prerequisites

There are no formal prerequisites for CCIE certification. Other professional certifications or training courses are not required. Instead, candidates must first pass a written qualification exam and then the corresponding hands-on lab exam. You are expected to have an in-depth understanding of the topics in the exam blueprints and strongly encouraged to have three to five years of job experience before attempting certification.

Step One: CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam

You must pass the two-hour, written qualification exam, which covers networking concepts and some equipment commands before you are eligible to schedule the lab exam.

CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam

Exam Number	400-101 CCIE
Associated Certifications	CCIE Routing and Switching
Duration	120 Minutes (90 - 110 questions)
Available Languages	English
Register	Pearson VUE

 

Step Two: CCIE Routing and Switching Lab Exam

The eight-hour lab exam tests your ability to configure actual equipment and troubleshoot the network in a timed test situation. You must make an initial attempt at the CCIE lab exam within 18-months of passing the CCIE written exam. Candidates who do not pass must reattempt the lab exam within 12 months of their last scored attempt in order for their written exam to remain valid. If you do not pass the lab exam within three years of passing the written exam, you must retake the written exam before being allowed to attempt the lab exam again.

CCIE R&S Lab Exam Overview

 

Mobile CCIE Labs provide greater access to take your CCIE Routing & Switching Lab exam.

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About the CCIE Lab Exam

The CCIE lab exam is an eight-hour, hands-on exam which requires you to configure and troubleshoot a series of complex networks to given specifications. Knowledge of troubleshooting is an important skill and candidates are expected to diagnose and solve issues as part of the CCIE lab exam. You will not configure end-user systems, but are responsible for all devices residing in the network (hubs, etc.). Point values and testing criteria are provided. More detail is found on the Routing and Switching Lab Exam Blueprint and the list of Lab Equipment and IOS Versions.

Cost

The Lab Exam cost does not include travel and lodging expenses. Costs may vary due to exchange rates and local taxes (VAT, GST). You are responsible for any fees your financial institution charges to complete the payment transaction. Price not confirmed and is subject to change until full payment is made. For more information on the Lab Exam Registration please reference the Take Your Lab Exam tab.

Lab Environment

The Cisco documentation is available in the lab room, but the exam assumes knowledge of the more common protocols and technologies. The documentation can be navigated using the index. No outside reference materials are permitted in the lab room. You must report any suspected equipment issues to the proctor during the exam; adjustments cannot be made once the exam is over.

Lab Exam Grading

The labs are graded by proctors who ensure that all the criteria have been met. They will use automatic tools to gather data from the routers in order to perform preliminary evaluations.  Candidates must reach a minimum threshold in all three sections and achieve an overall passing score.

Lab Format

The CCIE Routing and Switching Lab exam consists of a 2 hour Troubleshooting section, a 30 minute Diagnostic section, and a 5 hour and 30 minute Configuration section.  Candidates may choose to borrow up to 30 minutes from the Configuration section and use it in the Troubleshooting section.

Results

You can review your lab exam results online (login required), usually within 48 hours. Results are Pass/Fail and failing score reports indicate major topic areas where additional study and preparation may be useful.

Reevaluation of Lab Results

A Reread involves having a second proctor load your configurations into a rack to re-create the test and re-score the entire exam. Rereads are available for the Routing and Switching, and Service Provider technology tracks.

A Review involves having a second proctor verify your answers and any applicable system-generated debug data saved from your exam. Reviews are available for all other tracks.

Payment Terms

Make your request within 14 days following your exam date by using the "Request for Reread" link next to your lab record. A Reread costs $1000.00 USD and a Review costs $400.00 USD. Payment is made online via credit card and your Reread or Review will be initiated upon successful payment. You may not cancel the appeal request once the process has been initiated. Refunds are given only when results change from fail to pass.

Troubleshooting

The CCIE Routing and Switching Lab exam features a 2 hour troubleshooting section.  Candidates will be presented with a series of trouble tickets for preconfigured networks and need to diagnose and resolve the network fault or faults.  As with the configuration section, the network must be up and running for a candidate to receive credit.  Candidates who finish the troubleshooting section early may proceed on to the diagnostic section, but they will not be allowed to go back to troubleshooting.

Implement Layer 2 Technologies 

Implement Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

• 802.1d
• 802.1w
• 801.1s
• Loop guard
• Root guard
• Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) guard
• Storm control
• Unicast flooding
• Port roles, failure propagation, and loop guard operation

Implement VLAN and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Implement trunk and trunk protocols, EtherChannel, and load-balance

Implement Ethernet technologies

• Speed and duplex Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

Implement Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN), and flow control

Implement Frame Relay

• Local Management Interface (LMI)
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• Traffic shaping
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• Full mesh
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• Hub and spoke
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• Discard eligible (DE)

Implement High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) and PPP

Implement IPv4

Implement IP version 4 (IPv4) addressing, subnetting, and variable-length subnet masking (VLSM) Implement IPv4 tunneling and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) Implement IPv4 RIP version 2 (RIPv2)

Implement IPv4 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

• Standard OSPF areas
• Stub area
• Totally stubby area
• Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
• Totally NSSA
• Link-state advertisement (LSA) types
• Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access network
• OSPF graceful restart

Implement IPv4 Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

• Best path
• Loop-free paths
• EIGRP operations when alternate loop-free paths are available, and when they are not available
• EIGRP queries
• Manual summarization and auto summarization
• EIGRP stubs

642-447 CIPT1 v8.0

Implement IPv4 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

• Next hop
• Peering
• Internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP) and External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)

Implement policy routing
Implement Performance Routing (PfR) and Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)
Implement filtering, route redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes, and other advanced features

Implement IPv6

• Implement IP version 6 (IPv6) addressing and different addressing types
• Implement IPv6 neighbor discovery
• Implement basic IPv6 functionality protocols
• Implement tunneling techniques
• Implement OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3)
• Implement EIGRP version 6 (EIGRPv6)
• Implement filtering and route redistribution

Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

• Implement Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
• Implement Layer 3 virtual private networks (VPNs) on provider edge (PE), provider (P), and customer edge (CE) routers
• Implement virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and Multi-VRF Customer Edge (VRF-Lite)

Implement IP Multicast

• mplement Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) sparse mode
• Implement Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• Implement interdomain multicast routing
• Implement PIM Auto-Rendezvous Point (Auto-RP), unicast rendezvous point (RP), and bootstrap router (BSR)
• Implement multicast tools, features, and source-specific multicast
• Implement IPv6 multicast, PIM, and related multicast protocols, such as Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)

Implement Network Security

• Implement access lists
• Implement Zone Based Firewall
• Implement Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
• Implement IP Source Guard
• Implement authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) (configuring the AAA server is not required, only the client-side (IOS) is configured)
• Implement Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
• Implement Cisco IOS Firewall
• Implement Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
• Implement Secure Shell (SSH)
• Implement 802.1x
• Implement NAT
• Implement routing protocol authentication
• Implement device access control Implement security features

Implement Network Services

• Implement Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
• Implement Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
• Implement Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
• Implement Network Time Protocol (NTP)
• Implement DHCP
• Implement Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)

Implement Quality of Service (QoS)

• Implement Modular QoS CLI (MQC)
• • Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
  • Class-based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ), modified deficit round robin (MDRR), and low latency queuing (LLQ)
  • Classification
  • Policing
  • Shaping
  • Marking
  • Weighted random early detection (WRED) and random early detection (RED)
  • Compression
• Implement Layer 2 QoS: weighted round robin (WRR), shaped round robin (SRR), and policies
• Implement link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) for Frame Relay Implement generic traffic shaping
• Implement Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
• Implement Cisco AutoQoS

Troubleshoot a Network

• Troubleshoot complex Layer 2 network issues
• Troubleshoot complex Layer 3 network issues
• Troubleshoot a network in response to application problems
• Troubleshoot network services
• Troubleshoot network security

Optimize the Network

• Implement syslog and local logging
• Implement IP Service Level Agreement SLA
• Implement NetFlow
• Implement SPAN, RSPAN, and router IP traffic export (RITE)
• Implement Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Implement Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
• Implement Remote Monitoring (RMON)
• Implement FTP
• Implement TFTP
• Implement TFTP server on router
• Implement Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
• Implement HTTP and HTTPS
• Implement Telnet

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• 14. ADVANCED DIPLOMA IN COMPUTER HARDWARE MAINTENANCE AND NETWORKING (ADCHMN)
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