Friday, November 26, 2010

CCIE R/S Lab Blueprint

Varies slightly from the written blueprint, so I thought that I would post it.


Exam Sections and Sub-task Objectives
1.00Implement Layer 2 Technologies
1.10Implement Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

(a) 802.1d

(b) 802.1w

(c) 801.1s

(d) Loop guard

(e) Root guard

(f) Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) guard

(g) Storm control

(h) Unicast flooding

(i) Port roles, failure propagation, and loop guard operation
1.20Implement VLAN and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
1.30Implement trunk and trunk protocols, EtherChannel, and load-balance
1.40Implement Ethernet technologies

(a) Speed and duplex

(b) Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet

(c) PPP over Ethernet   (PPPoE)
1.50Implement Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN), and flow control
1.60Implement Frame Relay

(a) Local Management Interface (LMI)

(b) Traffic shaping

(c) Full mesh

(d) Hub and spoke

(e) Discard eligible (DE)
1.70Implement High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) and PPP
2.00Implement IPv4
2.10Implement IP version  4 (IPv4) addressing, subnetting, and variable-length subnet masking (VLSM)
2.20Implement IPv4  tunneling and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
2.30Implement IPv4 RIP version 2 (RIPv2)
2.40Implement IPv4 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

(a) Standard OSPF areas

(b) Stub area

(c) Totally stubby area

(d)   Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)

(e) Totally NSSA

(f) Link-state advertisement (LSA) types

(g) Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access network

(h) OSPF graceful restart
2.50Implement IPv4 Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

(a) Best path

(b) Loop-free paths

(c) EIGRP operations when alternate loop-free paths are available, and when they are not available

(d) EIGRP queries

(e) Manual summarization and autosummarization

(f) EIGRP stubs
2.60Implement IPv4 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

(a) Next hop

(b) Peering

(c) Internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP) and External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)
2.70Implement policy   routing
2.80Implement Performance Routing (PfR) and Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)
2.90Implement filtering, route redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes, and other advanced features
3.00Implement IPv6
3.10Implement IP version 6 (IPv6) addressing and different addressing types
3.20Implement IPv6 neighbor discovery
3.30Implement basic IPv6 functionality protocols
3.40Implement tunneling techniques
3.50Implement OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3)
3.60Implement EIGRP version 6 (EIGRPv6)
3.70Implement filtering and route redistribution
4.00Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
4.10Implement Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
4.20Implement Layer 3 virtual private networks (VPNs) on provider edge (PE), provider (P), and customer edge (CE) routers
4.30Implement virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and Multi-VRF Customer Edge (VRF-Lite)
5.00Implement IP Multicast
5.10Implement Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) sparse mode
5.20Implement Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
5.30Implement interdomain multicast routing
5.40Implement PIM Auto-Rendezvous Point (Auto-RP), unicast rendezvous point (RP), and bootstrap router (BSR)
5.50Implement multicast tools, features, and source-specific multicast
5.60Implement IPv6 multicast, PIM, and related multicast protocols, such as Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
6.00Implement Network   Security
6.01Implement access   lists
6.02Implement Zone Based   Firewall
6.03Implement Unicast   Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
6.04Implement IP Source   Guard
6.05Implement authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) (configuring the AAA server is not required, only the client-side (IOS) is configured)
6.06Implement Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
6.07Implement Cisco IOS Firewall
6.08Implement Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
6.09Implement Secure Shell (SSH)
6.10Implement 802.1x
6.11Implement NAT
6.12Implement routing protocol authentication
6.13Implement device access control
6.14Implement security features
7.00Implement Network Services
7.10Implement Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
7.20Implement Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
7.30Implement Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
7.40Implement Network Time Protocol (NTP)
7.50Implement DHCP
7.60Implement Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)
8.00Implement Quality of  Service (QoS)
8.10Implement Modular QoS CLI (MQC)

(a) Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)

(b)   Class-based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ),  modified deficit round robin (MDRR), and low latency queuing (LLQ)

(c) Classification

(d) Policing

(e) Shaping

(f) Marking

(g) Weighted random early detection (WRED) and random early detection (RED)

(h) Compression
8.20Implement Layer 2 QoS: weighted round robin (WRR), shaped round robin (SRR), and policies
8.30Implement link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) for Frame Relay
8.40Implement generic traffic shaping
8.50Implement Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
8.60Implement Cisco   AutoQoS
9.00Troubleshoot a Network
9.10Troubleshoot complex Layer 2 network issues
9.20Troubleshoot complex Layer 3 network issues
9.30Troubleshoot a network in response to application problems
9.40Troubleshoot network services
9.50Troubleshoot network security
10.00Optimize the Network
10.01Implement syslog and local logging
10.02Implement IP Service Level Agreement SLA
10.03Implement NetFlow
10.04Implement SPAN, RSPAN, and router IP traffic export (RITE)
10.05Implement Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
10.06Implement Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
10.07Implement Remote Monitoring (RMON)
10.08Implement FTP
10.09Implement TFTP
10.10Implement TFTP server on router
10.11Implement Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
10.12Implement HTTP and HTTPS
10.13Implement Telnet

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Passed the Written Exam

Well, I can officially announce that I passed the CCIE R/S written exam today.  I actually scored pretty well, but it was a tough test (I thought that I had failed when I clicked the final next).  So, I am pretty happy; full-steam ahead on lab prep now.

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sunday

Well I cant even express or gauge how much time I have put into studying for the CCIE thus far.  I have my written scheduled, and just know that it is VERY soon.  I am, as always, a bit nervous going into the test...mostly because of the monetary costs, and it being the holidays and all.  Luckily my family and I are blessed enough to have the cash to put forward towards such a goal (some are not as fortunate).  Knowing this, when I do finally acheive my goal, I will aim to help others do the same.  I dont know how I will do this yet, maybe something like Stretch has done with a community lab or something.  Anywho, I feel pretty ready for the written, and am just reviewing my 80+ pages of typed notes, and refining them a bit as I go.  So, here is what I have used to study this far:
  • Routing TCP/IP volumes I and II
  • CCIE v4 Official Exam Certification Guide
  • ALL of my CCNP books
  • CCIE Routing and Switching Flash Cards (got these directly from Kevin Wallace's website for 25 bucks! He signed it and everything)
  • Boson Test Engine ($99 bucks, pretty good)
  • Cisco.com 
  • Internetwork Experts CoD and lab books ( I bought the entire CCIE self-study package)
We will see...I just need to hit up my weak areas some more, and I have an idea for a pretty cool poster/diagram.  For instance...going into today I couldnt really deliniate between a PIM DR, and the winner of the ASSERT process...after a bit of research I finally cracked open my Rtg TCP/IP volume II and just got the answer...(the little things like this are really helping).

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Progress towards the CCIE

Well I HAVE been chugging along for those of you following.  I came across this article by Petr Lapukhov over at INE, http://blog.ine.com/2010/10/09/how-to-pass-the-ccie-rs-with-ines-4-0-training-program/.  Since I purchased the program, I figured it couldn't hurt to follow how they think we should use it :)  So I am coming up on my written day pretty quick...to date I have read the CCIE R/S official cert guide, and Routing TCP/IP volumes 1 and 2 (dont forget I did the CCIP., so I have most the QoS, BGP, and MPLS stuff under my belt already).  I am going back through these books now, and refining my notes and knowledge in prep. for the written exam.  It is mind-boggling how much stuff there is to cover.  I have been labbing frequently as well.  In the last week I have done these labs in INE's volume 1 Workbook:
1.1-1.15
2.1-2.8
3.1-3.11
4.1-4.11
5.1-5.12
The labs have been good, some simple, some harder. I have for sure covered all of them in previous years studying for other exams, but the technology or technique has left me over time (use it or lose it!).  So I am going to keep going along, revisiting BGP next probably, then back over to QoS one last time.  Hunting trip next weekend, but I will be reading at night.

Later.