CCIE Routing & Switching Bootcamps

Join INE's world class Instructors for 6 or 12 intense days of CCIE lab
practice and lecture in the highly acclaimed CCIE Routing & Switching Bootcamps!

Overview:

Travel to any one of our onsite training centers or attend online from the comfort of your home or office, and join our highly certified team of CCIE instructors for 6 or 12 full days of comprehensive CCIE lab exam training. These bootcamps will help candidates who are nearing their CCIE lab dates to refine and consolidate their technical knowledge into an organized and effective strategy for passing their CCIE lab exam, as well as provide real-world practical knowledge that will carry on past the CCIE lab and into everyday application after becoming a CCIE!

Instructors:

The class is designed and delivered by a team of highly-skilled and industry recognized CCIE instructors, each having many years of in-production and training experience. In short, our instructor names speak for themselves!

Learning Outcomes:

The goal of this bootcamp is for students to finish fully prepared to take (and PASS!) their CCIE lab exam. While ultimate success is up to each individual, our instructors will ensure that every participant has the tools and information they'll need to be successful.

This class will also benefit CCIE candidates who may have attempted the actual CCIE Lab Exam without passing and feel they need to learn a more advanced and structured approach to CCIE Lab strategy. Candidates can greatly enhance their knowledge and understanding of such advanced topics as IGP Redistribution, BGP, IPv6, and QoS before attempting the Lab again.

Investment Protection Program:

Included free with your purchase is our Investment Protection Program, which guarantees that we'll allow you to re-attend this course for free at any time after your first class; whether you feel you need a "refresher course" right before you take your lab, or if you do not pass on your first try and need to re-take the bootcamp before attempting the lab again.

Recommended Background:

Introductory CCIE material is not covered, and candidates for this class should already have a firm understanding of the technologies on the CCIE R&S lab exam blueprint. Every participant must have already completed our R&S Advanced Technologies Class-on-Demand; and is recommended to have completed our Kickstart Bootcamp. In addition you should be familiar and comfortable performing at least the first 5 labs in our Volume II Workbook.

At-a-Glance:

• Live onsite / online course length is 6 or 12 days, Monday through Saturday, or Monday through the following Friday
• Live Course starts at 9am local time (bootcamp location time) and typically runs 12+ hours per day
• 12 Day Course is a combination of lecture, hands-on lab, and unique mock lab exams
• Totally unique custom courseware not found in any other product line
• Students get access to a dedicated rack of Cisco equipment that consists of six Cisco routers, two Catalyst 3550's, and two Catalyst 3560's per student
• Included free with your purchase is our Investment Protection Program

6-Day Bootcamp Outline

During the first three days of the hands-on portion of class students will be provided with advanced, technology-focused scenarios not found in any of our other product lines.  Students will spend half of their time during these days working LIVE on the equipment configuring these scenarios and the other half with the instructors walking through the configurations as well as answering any technology specific questions. The first three days for the bootcamp covers the following CCIE Routing & Switching lab exam topics:

• Lab Strategy
• Analyzing the Scenario
• Working with Diagrams
• Time and Task Management
• Core Knowledge (OEQ) Strategy
• Troubleshooting Strategy
• Bridging and Switching
• Advanced STP, Load-Balancing etc
• Trunking and Etherchannels
• Frame-Relay and other topics
• IP Routing
• RIP and EIGRP
• OSPF
• BGP
• IPv6
• OER
• Advanced Topics (e.g. Redistribution)
• MPLS VPN
• LDP/TDP/Labels
• BGP VPNv4 and VPNs
• PE/CE Routing
• IP Multicast
• PIM DM/SM, RP selection
• IGMP and client-side multicast
• Catalyst Multicast features
• QoS
• Advanced IOS QoS
• Advanced Catalyst QoS
• MQC and HQF
• IP Services
• Core Services: NTP, DHCP, SNMP, HSRP, Syslog etc
• Advanced Topics: WCCP, Netflow etc
• New IOS 12.4T Features, e.g. Flexible Netflow
• Security
• IOS Security Features
• Catalyst Switches Security Features
• AAA and 802.1x
• IOS Zone Based Firewall
• IOS IPS

The CCIE Lab strategy portion of class covers topics such as what to expect the day of your lab, how to distinguish between Layer 2 and Layer 3 topologies, how to prioritize tasks, how to build and verify the network, how to manage your time, and how to track your progress as the instructors walk you step-by-step through various CCIE Lab scenarios. In addition to this, the new topics such as Core Knowledge and Troubleshooting section are also being addressed in the class.

Troubleshooting

Effective October 18th, the CCIE lab exam will feature a new separate troubleshooting section. To accommodate this change, the bootcamp structure will include integrated troubleshooting scenarios. Every day starting after the first one, student will receive a list of trouble-tickets, outlining the symptoms of issues introduced by the instructor into the students' configurations. The students then need to resolve all the issues to be able to continue with the new day's configuration scenarios. This allows for gradual increase in the troubleshooting difficulty level, effectively allowing the students to improve their skills. Prior to starting the new configuration part, the instructor will go over the trouble-tickets explaining the issues and the troubleshooting process in details.

Full Scale Mock Lab

As a bonus for 6-Day Bootcamp attendees, students are provided with a full scale mock lab. This lab features the Core Knowledge Questions section and dedicated Troubleshooting Section to accommodate the latest CCIE R&S blueprint updates .

Course Flow

The table below summarizes the 6-Day Bootcamp course flow.

12-Day Bootcamp Outline

The 12-Day Bootcamp adds an additional week of full-scale lab practicing over the 6-Day Bootcamp. Detailed overview of the both weeks content follows:

Week 1

During the first three days of the hands-on portion of class students will be provided with advanced, technology-focused scenarios not found in any of our other product lines.  Students will spend half of their time during these days working LIVE on the equipment configuring these scenarios and the other half with the instructors walking through the configurations as well as answering any technology specific questions. The first three days for the bootcamp covers the following CCIE Routing & Switching lab exam topics:

• Lab Strategy
• Analyzing the Scenario
• Working with Diagrams
• Time and Task Management
• Core Knowledge (OEQ) Strategy
• Troubleshooting Strategy
• Bridging and Switching
• Advanced STP, Load-Balancing etc
• Trunking and Etherchannels
• Frame-Relay and other topics
• IP Routing
• RIP and EIGRP
• OSPF
• BGP
• IPv6
• OER
• Advanced Topics (e.g. Redistribution)
• MPLS VPN
• LDP/TDP/Labels
• BGP VPNv4 and VPNs
• PE/CE Routing
• IP Multicast
• PIM DM/SM, RP selection
• IGMP and client-side multicast
• Catalyst Multicast features
• QoS
• Advanced IOS QoS
• Advanced Catalyst QoS
• MQC and HQF
• IP Services
• Core Services: NTP, DHCP, SNMP, HSRP, Syslog etc
• Advanced Topics: WCCP, Netflow etc
• New IOS 12.4T Features, e.g. Flexible Netflow
• Security
• IOS Security Features
• Catalyst Switches Security Features
• AAA and 802.1x
• IOS Zone Based Firewall
• IOS IPS

The CCIE Lab strategy portion of class covers topics such as what to expect the day of your lab, how to distinguish between Layer 2 and Layer 3 topologies, how to prioritize tasks, how to build and verify the network, how to manage your time, and how to track your progress as the instructors walk you step-by-step through various CCIE Lab scenarios. In addition to this, the new topics such as Core Knowledge and Troubleshooting section are also being addressed in the class.

Troubleshooting

Effective October 18th, the CCIE lab exam will feature a new separate troubleshooting section. To accommodate this change, the bootcamp structure will include integrated troubleshooting scenarios. Every day starting after the first one, student will receive a list of trouble-tickets, outlining the symptoms of issues introduced by the instructor into the students' configurations. The students then need to resolve all the issues to be able to continue with the new day's configuration scenarios. This allows for gradual increase in the troubleshooting difficulty level, effectively allowing the students to improve their skills. Prior to starting the new configuration part, the instructor will go over the trouble-tickets explaining the issues and the troubleshooting process in details.

Full Scale Mock Lab

As a bonus for 6-Day Bootcamp attendees, students are provided with a full scale mock lab. This lab features the Core Knowledge Questions section and dedicated Troubleshooting Section to accommodate the latest CCIE R&S blueprint updates .

Week 1 Flow

Week 2

The second week starts on Sunday and is essentially a six-day bootcamp. During this class the students must complete four challenging full-scale CCIE labs similar to the real lab exam. Every lab will have the Core Knowledge, the Troubleshooting and the Configuration section. Students are expected to complete every whole lab in 8 hours with 30 minutes allocated for Core Knowledge section, 2 hours allocated for Troubleshooting and 5.5 hours allocated for Configuration ; however, they are provided an additional 30 minutes for a lunch-break. After completion our CCIE instructors manually grade the exams, allowing for intelligent feedback and precise marking.

The following day students are provided with a score report from the previous day's lab that includes detailed feedback about the student's performance. The instructor and the entire class then review the mock exam step-by-step. The instructor provides detailed explanation of the technologies covered, interpretations of the questions, and common mistakes that were made by students with relation to each topic.

Sunday and Monday, students will be provided with two unique Mock Lab Exams, which the instructor will then spend all of Tuesday going over in-depth with all the students. The instructor will cover any weak areas that students had in the exams, clarify questions and run through the solutions in a broken-down, step-by-step format. This process will then be repeated over Wednesday through Friday, with two more unique Mock Labs and another final day of follow-up and review on Friday.

Friday's class includes a breakdown session of Wednesday and Thursday's labs, plus an extended lecture of the week in review. In addition to this the instructors will review the student score reports for the entire week and give recommendations on readiness to take and pass the CCIE Lab Exam, along with suggestions of what topics to focus on during further preparation.

Week 2 Flow

The following is the summary of Week 2 course flow: