CCIE Routing & Switching Poly-Lab Assessment

Overview

Through our exclusive partnership with Graded Labs, Internetwork Expert now offers the CCIE Routing & Switching Polymorphic Assessment Lab! The Polymorphic Assessment Lab was designed to assess how proficient you are on the topics and technologies covered by the Cisco CCIE Routing & Switching Lab. This lab is dynamically generated based on a self-assessment of your knowledge of the technologies covered by the Cisco CCIE Routing & Switching Blueprint. Each lab generated is unique to you and all the tasks were written by the outstanding instructors at Internetwork Expert.

The goal of this assessment is not to gauge your readiness for the CCIE Exam, but rather to pinpoint your areas of weakness. The Polymorphic Assessment Lab ranges in both difficulty and time, depending on your self-assessment. There are seven technologies covered that map to the Cisco Technology Blueprint: Bridging and Switching, IP IGP Routing, BGP, IP and IOS Features, IP Multicast, QoS, and Security. This is the best tool to measure your training progress in the industry today.

Please note: Rack rental time is not included in the standard 25 tokens. You must purchase tokens for rack rental sessions as well.

Details

This assessment tool is designed to help you pinpoint the CCIE technologies where you need more preparation. Taking this lab will help you focus studying and training efforts on specific technologies so you can become proficient. The lab will first prompt you to self assess yourself on each of the seven technologies covered by the Polymorphic Assessment Lab. You will rank yourself from beginner to expert. Based on your ranking for each technology, a tailored lab is built for you. The time to complete the lab will be dependent upon your custom settings and the approximate time to complete the lab will be shown to you. For this reason, rack rental time is not included.  Once you have completed each task in the lab, your configurations will be automatically graded and you will receive a detailed score report. This report is saved to your members account and can be viewed at any time. The generated Polymorphic Labs are designed to be taken only on racks rented from Graded Labs. Rack rental sessions are scheduled in advance for 5.5 hour time blocks. They are available 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

Score Reports

The score report for your Polymorphic Assessment Lab is divided into four parts: overview, discussion, recommendations, and a task by task score breakdown (solutions included). The overview section of the score report provides a summary of how well you preformed on each one of the seven technologies. This information includes your score and the highest possible score for each technology along with an overall score.

The discussion section calculates your Points per Hour (PPH), a key measure in the actual Cisco CCIE Routing & Switching Exam. The minimum needed to pass the lab is 10 PPH. Also included in this section is your self-rank (beginner to expert) shown next to the Student Assessment Grading Engine (SAGE) rank (beginner to expert). You will be shown which sections you underperformed and which sections you outperformed your expectations.

The recommendations section helps you determine which products and/or services from Internetwork Expert should be used to become more proficient in each of the seven technologies. This information will be helpful to you to know if you are ready to take part in an Internetwork Expert Routing & Switching CCIE Bootcamp, or if you need to refine your skills by attending a CCIE Routing & Switching Mock Lab Workshop.

The final section of the score report is the task-by-task score breakdown. In this section you will see the detailed assertions into how your exams were graded. You are able to navigate down into each individual task to see your input as well as the correct input if you happen to miss a task. This information can provide insight into what steps of the configuration you missed and how to not make the same mistakes next time.

Rack Rental Information

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To purchase R&S rack rentals sign in to your Members account or create a new account. Your members site contains a fully functional scheduling calendar.

Routing & Switching Rack Rentals

Internetwork Expert’s CCIE Routing & Switching Rack Rentals use the hardware specification publicly stated to be used in the actual CCIE Routing & Switching Lab Exam. The physical topology of the racks is cabled to meet the specification of all of our Instructor-Led and Self-Paced product lines including, but not limited to, Internetwork Expert’s CCIE Routing & Switching Lab Workbook Volume II (IEWB-RS-VOL2).

Per the IEWB-RS-VOL2 Topology all of our racks now include the following equipment:

• Six routers running 12.4 Advanced Enterprise Services IOS
• Two Catalyst 3560 series switches running 12.2 Advanced IP Services
• Two Catalyst 3550 series switch running 12.2 IP Services
• One preconfigured Access Server
• One preconfigured Frame Relay Switch
• Three preconfigured backbone routers

Access to the routers and switches is via telnet over the Internet.

View the CCIE R&S Rack Rental Topology

Pricing

CCIE Routing & Switching Rack Rentals are scheduled in 5.5 hour blocks using our exclusive token system. This system is designed to give you the flexibility to schedule and reschedule your own sessions at your convenience. Each token purchased represents $1 (1 USD) and a session can be booked for an average of 2.4 tokens/hour. When consecutive sessions are scheduled on the same rack, you’ll get uninterrupted access for the entire duration of the sessions for an even better value.

Scheduling

To schedule your CCIE Routing & Switching Rack Rental Sessions, log in to your members account and click the Routing & Switching Rack Rental Scheduler. Check which sessions you want and click “Schedule”. It’s that easy! Our advanced scheduling system will schedule all your consecutive sessions on the same rack if they are available. You are also provided with tools to unschedule or reschedule your rack sessions without having to contact Customer Service.

If you would like to watch a brief tutorial about scheduling rack sessions using our exclusive token system please watch the "Using the GradedLabs.com Rack Scheduling System" instructional video.

For information on how to access the rack after you have purchased a session please view our "Accessing the Racks" tutorial.

Rack rentals are sold in 5.5 hour blocks and are offered in four time slots:

• S1. 3:00am - 8:30am Pacific Standard Time (-8 UTC)
• S2. 9:00am - 2:30pm Pacific Standard Time (-8 UTC)
• S3. 3:00pm - 8:30pm Pacific Standard Time (-8 UTC)
• S4. 9:00pm - 2:30am Pacific Standard Time (-8 UTC)

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Poly-Lab Session Estimator

The Polymorphic Assessment Lab ranges in both difficulty and time, depending on your self-assessment. There are seven technologies covered that map to the Cisco Technology Blueprint: Bridging and Switching, IP IGP Routing, BGP, IP and IOS Features, IP Multicast, QoS, and Security. Please use the tool below to estimate how much rack time is required for your anticipated skill level. Move the sliders next to each technology section to approximate the amount of time needed to complete an assessment lab using our CCIE rack rental service. This estimate is what you would need to stay on pace to pass Cisco’s CCIE Lab.

Technology	Self Assessment
Bridging and Switching		Beginner
IP IGP Routing		Beginner
BGP		Beginner
IP and IOS Features		Beginner
IP Multicast		Beginner
QoS		Beginner
Security		Beginner
ESTIMATED DURATION		4h 15m
We recommend you purchase 1 rack session.