CCIE Service Provider Certification
Summary: This one-week course is designed
to prepare CCIE Candidates for the one-day CCIE Service Provider
practical Lab exam. The delegates will work on a broad range of
Telephony equipment, which Cisco will include in the practical
lab.
This week is very intensive and covers all
topics tested in CCIE Service Provider Lab including Advanced BGP,
MPLS/VPN, Traffic Engineering, QOS, Multicast, ATM tag switching
and Catalyst 3550 LAN Switching
The course is based solely on hands-on
labs.
Please be aware that these courses do not run to normal
course times, all delegates may be required to work late in order
to complete the lab exercises. Typical course timings 09.00 to
21.00 Monday to Thursday, 09.00 to afternoon on Friday.
Pre-requisites
There are no formal prerequisites for CCIE certification; other
professional certifications or training courses are not required.
Instead, candidates must first pass a written qualification exam
and then the corresponding hands-on lab exam. You are expected to
have an in-depth understanding of the topics in the exam blueprints
and strongly encouraged to have three to five years of job
experience before attempting certification.
Step One: CCIE Service Provider Written
Exam
You must pass the two-hour, written qualification exam covering
concepts and equipment commands related to packet-based networking
infrastructure, before you are eligible to schedule the lab
exam.
Step Two: CCIE Service Provider Lab Exam
The eight-hour lab exam tests your ability to configure actual
equipment and get a service provider network running in a timed
test situation. You must pass the lab within three years of passing
the written to achieve certification. Your first lab attempt must
be made within 18 months.