Cisco® Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) is the highest level of certification in field of networking and it sets a professional benchmark for Internetwork experts. Certified CCIEs can design, install, configure, debug, implement security and operate LAN, WAN, and dial access services for organizations with networks from hundreds to thousands of nodes. The training for the CCIE written exam has been specially designed for candidates preparing for CCIE written exam. Due to the vast breadth of the curriculum, this is an extremely difficult exam. This is a unique strategy of teaching students specifically what is important for the CCIE exam by selecting important topics from five books. Our course has been designed by the collaboration of several instructors who have successfully passed the exam recently.

DURATION

80 hours of instructor led study - 10 days.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND THIS COURSE

• Candidates having CCNP certification or relevant knowledge, Should have studied: a. Building Scalable Cisco® Networks
  b. Building Cisco® Multilayer Switched networks

• Candidates having CCNA certification and minimum TWO year experience in LAN/WAN routing and switching (hands on experience on routers and switches is MUST)
• Candidates going through the whole Cisco® track (CCNA+CCNP+CCIE)

PREREQUISITES & ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE

1. Knowledge of OSI layer model
2. Basic understanding of Routing and Switching
3. Understanding of IP addressing
4. Excellent understanding of LAN / WAN

TOPICS COVERED

1. Networking Theory (refresher) [3 hours]
2. Router Basics (refresher) [3-4 hours including LAB]
3. LAN Switching & Bridging (in depth) [6 hours inculding LABS]
4. Internet Protocol (in depth) [4-6 hours including LABS]
5. IP Routing Protocols (in depth) [16 hours including LABS]
6. Desktop Protocols (only CCIE written test requirements are covered) [4 hours including LABS]
7. Performance Management (only CCIE written test requirements are covered) [2 hours including LABS]
8. WAN (in deptH) [12 hours including LABS]
9. Token Ring / FDDI (only CCIE written test requirements are covered) [4-5 hours including LABS]
10. Security (only CCIE written test requirements are covered) [5 hours including LABS]
11. Multiservice (only CCIE written test requirements are covered) [2-3 hours including LABS]

TOPICS:

1.     Networking Theory (REFRESHER) [3 hours]

1. OSI model
2. Datalink Layer: addressing, 802.2
3. Ethernet/Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet: encapsulation, carrier sense multiple access collision detect (CSMA/CD), topology, speed, controller errors, limitations, 802.3
4. Protocols: Internet Protocol (IP), Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
5. Standards: 802.x, protocol limitations
6. Protocol Mechanics: Windowing/Acknowledgements (ACK), fragmentation, maximum transmission unit (MTU), handshaking, termination

2.     Router Basics (REFRESHER) [3-4 hours including LAB]

1. Infrastructure: NVRAM, Flash, Memory & CPU, file system, config reg
2. General Routing Concepts: Split horizon, difference between switching and routing, summarization, Link State vs. Distance Vector, loops, tunneling
3. Commands: show, debug

3.     LAN Switching & Bridging (IN DEPTH) [6 hours inculding LABS]

1. LAN Switching: Cisco® Discovery Protocol (CDP), VLANS, Trunking, VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP), inter-switch link (ISL), Fast Ether Channel (FEC), Cisco® Group Management Protocol (CGMP), Internet Group management Protocol (IGMP), Spanning Tree Protocol, Configuring BPDU
2. Transparent Bridging: Integrated Routed and Bridging (IRB), Concurrent Routing and Bridging (CRB)
3. Source Route Bridging: Source-route translational bridging (SR/TLB), source-route transparent bridging (SRT), data-link switching (DLSw), remote source-route bridging (RSRB)

4.     Internet Protocol (IN DEPTH) [4-6 hours including LABS]

1. Addressing: Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR), subnetting, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Network Address Translation (NAT), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
2. Services: Domain Name System (DNS), Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
3. Applications: Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)
4. Transport: IP fragmentation, sockets, ports
5. Access Lists (standard and extended)

5.     IP Routing Protocols (IN DEPTH) [16 hours including LABS]

1. Open Shortest Path First (OSPF):
   1. Design: areas, virtual links, stub, not so stubby areas (NSSA), area border router (ABR) / autonomous system boundary router (ASBR) redistributions, media dependencies, external vs. internal, summarization
      
   2. Operation: Designated Router (DR), Backup Designated Router (BDR), adjacencies, link-state advertisement (LSA) types, link-state database, shortest path first (SPF) algorithm, authentication
2. Border Gateway Protocol (BGP):
   1. Design: Peer Groups, Route Reflectors, Confederations, Clusters, Attributes, Autonomous Systems (AS)
      
   2. Operation: Route Maps, Filters, Neighbors, decision algorithm, Interior Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP), Exterior Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)
3. Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP): Metrics, mechanics, & design
4. Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS): Metrics, mechanics, & design
5. Routing Information Protocol(RIP) & RIP v2: : Metrics, mechanics, & design
6. Multicast: Design, Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM - both sparse and dense), Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP), Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)
7. Access lists: distribute lists, route maps, policy routing, redistribution, route tagging

6.     Desktop Protocols (ONLY CCIE WRITTEN TEST REQUIREMENTS
        ARE COVERED) [4 hours including LABS]

1. Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX): NetWare Link Services Protocol. (NLSP), IPX-RIP, IPX-Service Advertising Protocol (SAP), IPX-EIGRP, Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX), Network Control Protocol (NCP), IPXWAN, IPX addressing, Get Nearest Server (GNS), Novell Directory Services (routing & mechanisms), access lists
2. AppleTalk: Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (RTMP), AppleTalk Update-Based Routing Protocol (AURP), Appletalk-EIGRP, Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP), Zone Information Protocol (ZIP), Name Binding Protocol (NBP), addressing (phase 1 & 2), access lists
3. DECnet/OSI: Addressing, access lists
4. Windows NT: NetBIOS, browsing, domain controller (e.g. WINS), access lists

7.     Performance Management (ONLY CCIE WRITTEN TEST REQUIREMENTS ARE         COVERED) [2 hours including LABS]

1. Traffic Management: Queuing, Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), traffic shaping, load balancing

8.     WAN (IN DEPTH) [12 hours including LABS]

1. ISDN: Basic Rate Interface (BRI) / Primary Rate Interface (PRI) framing, signaling, mapping, dialer map, interface types, B/D channels, PPP Multilink, Dial on Demand Routing (DDR) & Dial backup
2. Frame relay: Local Management Interface (LMI), Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI), Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC), Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC), framing, traffic shaping, forward explicit congestion notification (FECN), backward explicit congestion notification (BECN), CIR, discard eligible (DE), mapping, compression
3. X.25: addressing, routing, Link Access Procedure Balanced (LAPB), error control/recovery, windowing, signaling, mapping, Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC) / Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC), Protocol Translation
4. ATM:
   1. THEORY: Switched Virtual Connection (SVC) / Permanent Virtual Connection (PVC), ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL), Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (SSCOP), User-Network Interface (UNI) / Network-Network Interface (NNI), Interim Local Management Interface (ILMI), Cell format, Quality of Service (QoS), RFC 1483 &1577, Private Network-Network Interface (PNNI), Interim-Interswitch Signaling Protocol (IISP), mapping
   2. ATM/LANE: LAN Emulation Client (LEC), LAN Emulation Server (LES), Broadcast and Unknown Server (BUS), LAN Emulation Configuration Server (LECS), Simple Server Replication Protocol (SSRP)
5. Physical Layer: Synchronization, Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), T1, E1, encoding
6. Leased Line Protocols: High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC), Point to Point Protocol (PPP), PAP & CHAP, async & modems, compression

9.     Token Ring / FDDI (ONLY CCIE WRITTEN TEST REQUIREMENTS ARE
        COVERED) [4-5 hours including LABS]

1. Token Ring: token passing, beaconing, Active Monitor, ring insertion, soft & hard errors, encapsulation, topology, maximum transmission unit (MTU), speed, limitations
2. FDDI/CDDI: dual ring, encapsulation, class, redundancy, dual homing, medium (copper, fiber), claims, Station Management (SMT), limitations

10.     Security (ONLY CCIE WRITTEN TEST REQUIREMENTS ARE COVERED)
         [5 hours including LABS]

1. Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA), Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS), TACACS+, and RADIUS: general concepts, usage, comparisons
2. Firewalls: PIX, access lists, demilitarized zones (DMZ)
3. Encryption: public/private key, Data Encryption Standard (DES)

11.     Multiservice (ONLY CCIE WRITTEN TEST REQUIREMENTS ARE COVERED)          [2-3 hours including LABS]

1. Voice/Video: H.323, codecs, Signaling System 7 (SS7), Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), RTP Control Protocol (RTCP), Quality of Service (QoS)