While I have not been through the lab yet (I face that challenge in 10 days)
I have read and learned enough about it to know what some of the general
challenges are.
What can be said about the CCIE lab is very limited due to a strictly
enforced non disclosure agreement. However, what can be said is that
anything that a Cisco Router or Switch can do is fair game on the CCIE lab.
The lab consists of a series of instructions and each section is worth a
number of points. In order to receive those points your configuration must
be 100% correct. Cisco's policy on this is 99% right = 100% wrong.
The Cisco CCIE blueprint lists the equipment you will see in the lab.
Currently the PIX is not part of that equipment and therefore is not on the
lab. However every capability of that equipment is a possibility, so you
had better know DECnet, IPX, IP Appletalk, LAT, IS-IS, ... You had better
know Token Ring, IRB, CRB, RSRB, DLSW+, Frame, ATM, ISDN, Voice,... VPNs,
access-lists(yes even for DECnet, NetBIOS and MAC addresses),
access-expressions, route-maps, queuing, ... you name it will all be seen
(Don't forget about NTP).
Also keep in mind that you will not be asked to perform tasks in the usual
manner. If there is an alternative method to accomplish a task, you could
be strictly limited to it - they could explicitly forbid the primary method.
An example (not from the CCIE lab) would be: Configure Frame-Relay
point-to-multi on Serial 0/0.2 of RouterA, connect to the physical Serial
0/0 interfaces of RouterB, RouterC & RouterD. Without using ANY Frame-Relay
Map statements and only 1 IP OSPF network statement, configure routing
between all of the routers so that RouterB can ping any interface on any of
the other routers. (your frame switch is not fully meshed, it's spoke and
hub)
Hope this gives you a general idea of what to expect.
LAB
-----Original Message-----
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Jacques Allison
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 3:51 AM
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Subject: CCIE Lab
Hi All,
I would like more information on the CCIE lab (R&S). If anyone has
attempted/completed the lab, can you please tell me more about the two day
experience. How much detail do they ask you to configure on the network?
How do they evaluated what you have done/created on the first day and fixed
on the second day? Do they include DECnet, IPX, IP, and AppleTalk? Will
they add a PIX firewall, CiscoSecure or any other Cisco software running on
a server to the equation ?
If anyone is looking for a (almost)CCIE in the US please take a look at my
CV on http://www.geocities.com/jacquesa_2000/jacquesallison.htm
Regards,
Jacques Allison
CCNP, MCSE, ASE
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