At Cisco Live I was able to attend the CCIE Service Provider technical session by Vincent Zhou who is the product manager of CCIE SP. It was a very good informative session (BRKCCIE-9163) that gave a nice insights into the lab test. Below are my notes from the session, hopefully you’ll find them useful.
Tag: CCIE
EIGRP Filtering with Offset-list and Delay
EIGRP Offset-list is usually used to increase the metric of routes being advertised over a link, but can it be used to filter EIGRP prefixes? I thought about using offset-list in RIP to filter specific routes and thought how about doing the same thing in EIGRP? I haven’t run into any examples or blog posts…
IPv6 ACL Explicit vs Implicit Deny Any Any
Reading the IPv6 Configuration Guide (Implementing Traffic Filters and Firewalls for IPv6 Security), I came across a little known fact that seems to be very important when configuring IPv6 access-lists on IOS. Usually when I configured an IPv4 ACL, I explicitly defined a deny ip any any at the end, which seems like the best…
CCIE Cost
The CCIE certification is a very honored and respected industry certification, but it comes at a high cost of time and money. When I started studying for the certification, I couldn’t find a lot of details on its expense, so I decided to keep a running total. I wouldn’t say that these numbers are representative…
CCIE Troubleshooting Lab Tips
Troubleshooting lab is designed for a CCIE candidate to fix an issues of a pre-configured network. Tickets are very well defined as well as the expected behavior. There are about 10 tickets presented, some are worth 2 points and some 3 points. The troubleshooting lab has an automatic cutoff time after 120 minutes. All devices…
CCIE Configuration Lab Tips
The CCIE configuration is a 6 hour test. The main goal of this section is to test you knowledge in building a network from scratch. All devices are real physical routers and switches, no Cisco IOU. Similarly to the troubleshooting lab, I read the whole lab from start to finish. Just as the troubleshooting section…
CCIE Documentation
The CCIE Routing and Switching test deals with a vast number of technologies. Remembering everything is rather difficult throughout the preparation process. Each CCIE will tell you that you need to have some sort of a method of documenting all of this new knowledge. During my studies I mainly used three types of documentation: mind…
CCIE Written
Before anyone is allowed to schedule the CCIE Lab test, they have to pass the CCIE Written exam 350-001, which is a 120 minute test consisting of 90-110 question (see the link for official blueprint). CCIE candidates usually do either one of these two: take the CCIE written test before doing any workbooks/labs or take…