10-Day CCIE R&S (4.0) Lab Preparation Bootcamp

Why Choose IPexpert

CCIE R&S 10-Day Bootcamp Facts:

• Week one consists of five hours of lecture per day and five hours of hands-on lab work per day. Classes are long, sometimes lasting late into the evenings. Students must come prepared to learn and be challenged
• During week one, the Instructor will identify the most common mistakes that candidates make and, by the end of the week, will evaluate each individual by providing an assessment of their readiness through feedback
• The instructor will cover all aspects of the new CCIE 4.0 lab exam including how to approach the Troubleshooting and the Configuration sections of each lab
• The Instructor will discuss time management and various test-taking strategies providing insight on how CCIE's have prepared and passed the grueling lab
• During week two, the class consists of no structured lecture. Instead, it consists of 4 mock (CCIE R&S 4.0) lab exams and have full access to private explanations delivered by IPexpert's industry-renowned instructors. Classes are long, sometimes lasting late into the evenings. Students must come prepared to learn and be challenged
• Each student will have access to their own vRack of equipment consisting of 13 routers (2800 or 3800 series - no outdated routers such as 2500, 2600 or 3600s!) running 12.3 / 12.4 mainline (with various Frame Relay, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces), and quad Catalyst 3560 Switches. (Each student will be given dedicated access to their individual vRack throughout the course.
• Students MUST BRING THEIR OWN LAPTOPS. (See laptop requirements here.)
• Course is held in a training facility in close proximity to hotels, airports and restaurants.
• All investments are protected by IPexpert's Investment Assurance guarantee 

IPexpert CCIE R&S Bootcamp Prerequisites:

• Students are expected to have a CCNP-level of knowledge with extensive CCIE-level preparation.
• It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that students should have purchased and completed AT LEAST CCIE Routing & Switching Workbook Volume 1: Focus Labs prior to the course. (Volume 1 is available as a stand alone product and is also included as part of the Blended Learning Solution.)

Week One Outline

Course Outline - Instructor Led Training (5 Day Bootcamp)

IPexpert’s CCIE R&S ILT course covers all topics are covered in the extremely detailed manner with a heavy focus on deep understanding and practical, hands-on, application and demonstration. Below schedule is a basic formand each individual course may vary in order of delivery and additional topics may appear. Our instructors are there for you and all questions will be answered!

Monday

• Introduction and the course objectives
• Lab study, preparation and strategy
• Test-taking strategy
  • Psychology of the CCIE R&S lab
  • Lab environment
  • Using available lab resources
    • Proctors
    • Documentation
    • Tools
• Lab sections
  • Troubleshooting section
    • Troubleshooting section strategy
    • Troubleshooting approach and techniques
  • Configuration section
    • Configuration section strategy
    • Building blocks of a successful multi-layer lab configuration
    • Layer 2 technologies and related services
      • LANswitching
        • Catalyst 3560 ports
        • VLANs
        • Etherchannels
          • Static
          • PAgP
          • LACP
  • Trunks
    • ISL
    • 802.1q
    • Voice VLAN
  • VTP
    • Modes
    • Security
    • Caveats
  • Spanning-tree
    • Modes of operation
      • PVST+
      • Rapid-PVST+
      • MST
      • Root elections
      • Tree manipulation
      • Advanced features
        • Portfast
        • BPDU Filter
        • BPDU Guard
  • SPAN and RSPAN
  • SDM templates
• WAN and IOS services
  • HDLC
  • PPP
    • PPP authentication
    • PPP multilink
  • Frame Relay
    • Frame Relay switching
      • LMI modes and modes
      • Back-to-back Frame Relay
      • DCE/DTE
      • DTE interface types
        • Physical interfaces
        • Sub-interfaces
          • Point-to-point
          • Multipoint
      • Address Resolution in Frame Relay
        • Inverse ARP
        • Static maps
          • Understanding pseudo-broadcast
      • PPP over Frame Relay (PPPoFR)
      • Multilink Frame Relay (MFR)
• PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)
  • Server
  • Client
  • Address assignment methods
• Related IOS services
  • AAA configuration and troubleshooting
    • Authentication for PPP
    • Authentication for console and VTY
    • RADIUS and TACACS
  • IOS DHCP
    • Server
    • Client
    • Relay
    • Individual lab work

Tuesday

• Routing fundamentals and miscellaneous
  • Routing sources and the administrative distance
  • Understanding “network” commands
  • Routing protocol types
    • Distance-vector
    • Link-state
    • Others
• Tunneling
• RIP
  • Metric manipulation
  • Filtering
  • Troubleshooting common problems
  • EIGRP
    • Understanding EIGRP operation
    • Metric components and manipulation
    • Equal-cost load-sharing
    • Unequal-cost load-sharing
    • Filtering
    • Troubleshooting common problems
    • OSPF
      • Understanding OSPF architecture operation
        • Intra-Area
        • Inter-Area
• Network types
• Information propagation
  • LSA types
  • Filtering
• Area types
• Troubleshooting common problems
• Routing protocol redistribution
  • Routing loops
    • Types and mitigation
• Filtering methods
• Individual lab work

Wednesday

• BGP
  • Architecture
    • Loop prevention
    • Attributes
• Peering
  • Internal
  • External
• Scalability
  • Route reflection
  • Confederations
• Routing policies and route propagation
  • Communities
  • Filtering
    • Route-maps
    • Prefix lists
    • Access lists
    • Regular expressions
  • Aggregation
  • Conditional advertisement
• Troubleshooting common problems
• Optimized Edge Routing and Performance Routing
• MPLS
  • Architecture
    • Label switching data plane
      • PUSH
      • POP
      • SWAP
      • PHP
  • Label assignment and exchange
    • TDP, LDP
    • Integration with BGP
• Troubleshooting common problems
• MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
  • Architecture
    • Peer-to-peer Layer 3 VPNs
    • VPN routing and forwarding (VRF)
    • Route distinguishers
    • Route targets
• VPN data plane
  • Label stack
• VPN control plane
  • Multiprotocol BGP
  • PE-CE routing
    • RIP
    • EIGRP
    • OSPF
    • BGP
  • Advanced PE-CE routing
    • OSPF sham-links
    • OSPF VRF-Lite capability
    • EIGRP SOO
    • BGP SOO
• Troubleshooting common problems
• Individual lab work

Thursday

• Multicast routing
  • Multicast address scopes
  • Dense-mode
  • Sparse-mode
  • Rendezvous-points
    • Static
    • Auto-RP
    • Bootstrap router (BSR)
• Inter-Domain multicast
  • PIM domains
  • Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
• RP redundancy using Anycast-RP
• Any-source multicastand Source-specific multicast
• Reverse path forwarding failures
  • Static “mroutes”
  • Multicast BGP
• Troubleshooting common problems
• QoS
  • Classification and Marking
    • NBAR
    • COS, TOS and DSCP
• Congestion management
  • FIFO
  • WFQ
  • Priority queuing
  • Custom queuing
  • CBWFQ and HQF
  • LLQ
• Congestion avoidance
  • Tail-drop
  • RED and WRED
  • IP ECN
• Policing and Shaping
  • CAR and GTS
  • MQC-based policing and shaping
  • Frame Relay traffic shaping
• Catalyst 35560 QoS
  • QoS maps
  • Policing
  • SRR Queuing
• Auto-QoS
  • Enterprise
  • VoIP
• Control-plane policing
• Troubleshooting common problems
• Security
  • Access lists
    • As route filters
    • As traffic filters
• NAT
• IOS firewall
  • CBAC
  • Zone-based firewall
• Control-plane protection
• Unicast reverse path forwarding (uRPF)
  • Strict
  • Loose
• Switch security
  • Port security
  • Storm control
  • Private VLANs
  • VLAN access lists and maps
  • 802.1x
  • Individual lab work

Friday

• IPv6
  • Addressing and subnets
    • Relationship with Frame Relay
    • Link-local addresses
• IPv6 auto-configuration and EUI-64
• IPv6 routing protocols
  • RIPng
  • EIGRPv6
  • OSPFv3
  • BGP
• IPv6 multicast routing
• IPv6 tunneling
• Other IOS Services
  • First-hop redundancy
    • HSRP
    • VRRP
    • GLBP
• IP SLA
• NTP
• Embedded Event Manager
• SNMP and RMON
• Netflow
• Graded Troubleshooting Lab
• Individual Evaluation
  • No-nonsensereadiness assessment and feedback
  • Guidance for continued studies
  • Individual follow-up with the instructor

Value-Add

• Reference slide-book
• Additional labs
  • Troubleshooting lab
  • Configuration lab
  • Additional over-the-weekend rack access for end-to-end students

Week Two Outline

Course Outline - OWLE

IPexpert’s CCIE R&S OWLE course is not an introductory course. The amount of lecture is minimal and the primary focus is a proctored individual lab work. Our instructors are there for you to proctor the labs and provide key guidance and explanations. All questions will be answered!

Monday

• Introduction and the course objectives
• Lab study, preparation and strategy
• Test-taking strategy
  • Psychology of the CCIE R&S lab
  • Lab environment
  • Using available lab resources
    • Proctors
    • Documentation
    • Tools
• Lab sections
  • Troubleshooting section
    • Troubleshooting section strategy
    • Troubleshooting approach and techniques
  • Configuration section
    • Configuration section strategy
    • Building blocks of a successful multi-layer lab configuration
    • Troubleshooting lab using IPexpert Lab Delivery System
      • Instructor- and self-evaluation
      • Configuration lab using IPexpert’s Lab Delivery System

Tuesday

• 2-Hour troubleshooting section using IPexpert’s Lab Delivery System
  • Grading and Evaluation
  • 6-Hour configuration section using IPexpert’s Lab Delivery System

Wednesday

• Evaluationof a Tuesday lab
• Instructor walkthrough of a Tuesday lab

Thursday

• 2-Hour troubleshooting section using IPexpert’s Lab Delivery System
  • Grading and Evaluation
  • 6-Hour configuration section using IPexpert’s Lab Delivery System

Friday

• Discussion of a Thursday lab
• Individual evaluation
  • No-nonsense readiness assessment and feedback
  • Guidance for continued studies
  • Individual follow-up with the instructor

Value-Add

• Additional labs
  • Troubleshooting lab
  • Configuration lab

Topology/Hardware

About Our Online Hardware/ vRacks

Hardware Details

• Routers are 2811 and 3825 series ISR routers.
• All routers run 12.4T IOS.
• Each rack is equipped with four Catalyst 3550/3560 switches running 12.2(46)SE Advanced IP Services code.
• Each rack has Frame Relay, FastEthernet, Serial, and GigabitEthernet technologies.
• Each rack has three Backbone routers used to inject routes; these are reachable and can be accessed by our clients.

• All routers can be controlled via the web with our GUI remote control system.
• You will not waste time on our racks... when you begin your session, your routers WILL BE set to the default (blank) setting.
• Each device can be power cycled by our RPC (Remote Power Control) system with a click of a button.
• Single Page Login (no need to telnet to rack's terminal server).
• Login and begin using our online hardware instantly.
• Session Management (view scheduled time and reschedule without human intervention).

Standard Topology

IPexpert's 5-Day CCIE Routing & Switching (4.0) Lab Preparation Bootcamp

The 5-Day CCIE Routing & Switching (4.0) Lab Preparation Bootcamp is designed for CCIE R&S candidates ready for an intense five day course designed to challenge and immerse students in the knowledge needed to attain the CCIE R&S certification. Over five long days candidates existing knowledge will be solidified, any weaknesses exposed and gain vital test-taking strategies.

In IPexpert’s popular Bootcamp includes hours of in depth lecture from one of IPexpert's world renowned CCIE Instructors. Instructors will provide detailed explanation and facilitate group discussion. Students will also receive individual attention from the instructor if needed. After each day’s lectures students will be challenged with hours of extremely complex lab scenarios reinforcing the material covered during the day.

Our 5-Day CCIE Routing & Switching (4.0) Lab Preparation Bootcamp contains both detailed explanations and challenging labs on advanced topics including Cisco switching, Spanning Tree Protocol (including variants such as MSTP, RSTP, PVST), Dot1Q tunnels, Frame Relay, PPP, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, Troubleshooting, routing protocol redistribution & filtering, router security & management, QOS, multicast and IPv6 to just name a few. The course is frequently reviewed to ensure that it is up to date and meets the latest topics tested on the CCIE R&S 4.0 lab exam blueprint. In addition, the Instructor will provide invaluable tips on lab strategy and test preparation techniques to maximize the opportunity to pass the CCIE R&S lab exam.

Throughout the course students will have unlimited access to their own personal rack of equipment matching the CCIE R&S lab blueprint. Immersing students in an environment without the distraction of work and personal obligations, students will maintain focus required to benefit from the volume of material concentrated into one week.

This course has been the key to success for many of CCIE's around the world, recognized as the most effective preparation course available anywhere.

About Our CCIE R&S One Week Lab Experience Bootcamp

IPexpert’s Routing and Switching One Week Lab Experience is designed for CCIE R&S candidates in the last month or weeks before their CCIE R&S Lab. During the week students will tackle challenging full-day mock labs Monday through Thursday. Students will practice time management, learn test taking strategies and expose any weaknesses in order to resolve them before the lab exam. On the final day of the course, the instructor will review the progress students made on each lab and help plan a strategy to improve any areas of weakness. 

During each day of the labs, the Instructor will act as a proctor by providing clarification in the same manner the proctor will during the certification lab exam to best replicate the actual CCIE R&S Lab environment. Students will be challenged to think problems through without having the solution provided, which is an important part in preparation training.

This challenging course contains difficult mock labs with detailed solutions guides on advanced topics including Switching, Spanning Tree Protocol (including variants such as MSTP, RSTP, PVST), Dot1Q tunnels, Frame Relay, PPP, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, Troubleshooting, routing protocol redistribution and filtering, router security and management, QOS, multicast and IPv6 amongst others with the course being frequently reviewed to ensure that it is up to date and meets the latest topics tested on the CCIE R&S Lab exam blueprint.

Throughout the course students will have unlimited access to their own personal rack of equipment matching the CCIE R&S Lab blueprint. Immersing students in an environment without the distraction of work and personal obligations, maintaining the undisrupted focus required to benefit from the labs during the week.

This course is the final preparation step used by candidates prior to their CCIE Routing and Switching Lab exam and has been the key to success for many CCIE's around the world, recognized as the most effective preparation course available anywhere.