CCIE bootcamps held in a classroom are fantastic courses and will normally meet your expectations in many ways but only if you are fully prepared. Preparation is key or your might get lost in the technologies as the course pace is fast. All students are expected to know the blueprint technologies before attending as there [...]

You will need workbooks!!! Whatever your approach to the CCIE Lab exam, one thing is certain; you will not pass the CCIE lab exam without many hours of practice on equipment and a deep understanding of the technologies. Its roughly estimated that it takes at least 1000 hours of rack time before you can consider [...]

CCIE R&S Written Exam - Blueprint v4. The two hour CCIE R&S Written Exam (350-001) has 100 multiple-choice questions and can be taken at any VUE test centre. The topic areas listed are general guidelines for the type of content that is likely to appear on the exam. Please note, however, that other relevant or related topic areas [...]

CCIE R&S Lab Exam Blueprint – v4.0 The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the lab exam. You do not need to know absolutely everything about technologies but you are expected to understand and know where to find the information on each technology. However, other related topics may [...]

Essential Reading We all know reading technology books can be painful, especially CiscoPress but will also know it’s essential if you plan to meet the requirements of the Cisco CCIE lab exam. Personally, I use CiscoPress but there are many good authors than are not published by CiscoPress. This is my list with assistance from [...]

CCIE – Does it justify the effort? If you are like me, you would have asked yourself this question during the many hours and study and preparation. The sheer scale of requirements seems overwhelming and almost impossible at times. This is a feeling a lot of engineers have when under pressure by their employer, peers [...]

Cisco introduced the CCIE certification in 1993 to assist the industry in distinguishing the top echelon of internetworking experts worldwide. Today , CCIE certification holders represent less than 3% of all certified Cisco professionals and less than 1% of the networking professionals worldwide. Here are some interesting things about the history of Cisco CCIE program: [...]

Workbooks are fairly useless if you don’t have access to routers and switches. If you have already started preparing for your CCIE exam, you’ll be all too aware that powering-up 9 routers and 4 switches is noisy when your at home and can be fairly distracting as well as expensive. An viable alternative is to [...]

This is my CCIE story… I am just embarking on completing my Cisco CCIE lab exam and thought I would keep a record. I’ll try not to write really boring but it will be honest stuff. So here goes….ok, after a very very slow start, I found the mouse and keyboard and started to look at [...]