5 Day CCIE R&S (4.0) Lab Preparation Instructor Led Boot Camp

 

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IPexpert 5-Day CCIE R&S (4.0) Lab Preparation Boot Camp

The IPexpert CCIE Routing and Switching Instructor Led Boot Camp 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 Boot Camp 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.

IPexpert 5-Day CCIE R&S (4.0) Boot Camp 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.

Why Choose IPexpert

CCIE R&S 5-Day Boot Camp Facts:

  • This class consists of at least 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 the class, 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 the 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
  • Each student will have access to their own vRack consisting of 13 routers (2800 or 3800 series - no outdated routers such as 2500, 2600 or 3600s!) running 12.4T (with various Frame Relay, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet interfaces), and quad Catalyst 3560 Switches. There is no equipment sharing in the class!
  • 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.
  • Investments are protected by IPexpert's Investment Assurance guarantee 
  • Snacks and beverages are provided throughout the class, Monday through Friday.

IPexpert CCIE R&S Boot Camp 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.)

Course Outline

CCIE Routing & Switching 5 Day Boot Camp Details

IPexpert’s CCIE R&S ILT course covers all blueprint topics in an extremely detailed manner with a heavy focus on deep understanding and practical, hands-on, application and demonstration. The below schedule is a basic format, 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

Topology / Hardware

About Our Online Hardware/ vRacks

 Proctor Labs provides 24 CCIE Routing & Switching vRacks that are second-to-none. Our Cisco equipment is the latest and greatest available and we provide an online experience like no other provider can. All Proctor Labs R&S racks are structured around the IPexpert CCIE R&S product topology consisting of 13 routers (including Frame Relay switch, Terminal Server and three Backbone routers) and four Catalyst switches. We also guarantee that our wireless software and IOS match the lab, that the hardware is the most up-to-date on the market and that the interface will provide clients with a user-friendly experience. Maximize your study time by renting Proctor Labs' online hardware. You will be impressed by the customized graphical user interface that allows you full access and control of the devices in your rack!

Remote Control Tools:

  • 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 CCIE R&S Topology

 

Schedule

Date Location
February 13 to February 17, 2012 RTP, NC
March 05 to March 9, 2012 San Jose, CA, US
May 14 to May 18, 2012 San Jose, CA, US
June 11 to June 15, 2012 RTP, NC
August 20 to August 24, 2012 San Jose, CA, US
September 17 to September 21, 2012 San Jose, CA, US
October 22 to October 26, 2012 San Jose, CA, US
November 12 to November 16, 2012 San Jose, CA, US
December 03 to December 7, 2012 San Jose, CA, US

International Schedule

Date Location
April 16 to April 20, 2012 Amsterdam, Netherlands
July 02 to July 6, 2012 Brussels
Marko Milivojevic
Senior Technical Instructor
Cisco CCIE Routing & SwitchingCisco CCIE Service Provider
CCIE #18427 (R&S SP), CCNP, CCDP, CCIP

Marko, a dual CCIE who has recently passed the CCIE R&S 4.0 lab, has spent 12 years designing and supporting some of Europe's largest service provider networks.  He is accredited with designing the largest multi-service internet infrastructure in Iceland. He has been working with IPexpert over the past few years developing several self-study products, and will now be more-heavily involved in product development, product support and classroom training (throughout Europe, Australia and Asia) on full time basis.


Tyson Scott
Senior Technical Instructor
Cisco CCIE Routing & SwitchingCisco CCIE SecurityCisco CCIE Service Provider
CCIE #13513 (R&S Sec SP), CCNP, CCDP, CCNA, CCDA, MCP, Linux Administrator, ITIL foundations

Tyson Scott, a Triple CCIE, brings to IPexpert more than 14 years of experience in the IT industry, six of those years at a senior-engineer level. He spent five years at Hewlett Packard in its Managed Services division. Tyson also served two years with Advanced Services at Cisco. Over the years, he has gained valuable "real world" knowledge, having worked on global solutions on some the largest networks out there. At IPexpert, Tyson is responsible for automation programs used to simplify customer experiences and increase customer satisfaction. He is also instrumental in the delivery and development of IPexpert's CCIE R&S, CCIE Security and CCIE Service Provider classes and products and has been a key component in IPexpert's world-renowned success.


IPexpert is proud to boast the industry's most extensive portfolios of learning materials and courses, backed by the world's most knowledgeable team of Cisco-focused Training Advisors, Support Engineers and Instructors, IPexpert has been able to certify MORE CCIEs THAN ANY OTHER COMPANY IN THE WORLD. Many have forged ahead, earning two, three and even four CCIE certifications with our assistance and mentoring. We would honor the opportunity to add you to our growing list of successful and satisfied clients!

“Not only did I walk away having learned an enormous amount of new information, but also with a sense of clarity on what areas of the CCIE lab blueprint I need to focus on most.”
By: Jay Taylor

I had a great bootcamp last week with instructor Joe Astorino and intense doesn’t begin to describe it. Come prepared to drink from the firehose of Cisco guru knowledge all day and work through practice labs all night – exactly what I was looking for. Not only did I walk away having learned an enormous amount of new information, but also with a sense of clarity on what areas of the CCIE lab blueprint I need to focus on most. 

Thanks!

 
 
“I recommend you to take the boot camp cause it really helpful.”
By: Rad Balanejad, CCIE# 21219 (R&S)

It is finally over and I like to thank IPEXPERT for helping me during this path.

The boot camp was really helpful cause his hints and experience about the CCIE LAB helped a lot.  I recommend you to take the boot camp cause it really helpful.  He will review with you all those topics that you need to know for the CCIE Lab exam.

Thank you.

 
 
“They are really committed on the students’ success”
By: Eric Rodriguez CCIE #29170
Attending a CCIE R&S Bootcamp is key to getting to the next level of readiness for the exam. Marko and IPexpert were very helpful, not only in the class but also at all times during my preparation. Marko was always there to help. I’d definitely recommend IPexpert because the CCIE instructors are very up to date with the changes and updates in the CCIE Lab exams. They are really committed on the students’ success.
 
 

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