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I passed the R&S Lab yesterday in San Jose. I'm so amped that I can't sleep!
This was my third attempt and this came after a 2 year break in studying. I decided to focus on studies after passing the written (again) back in February. I pretty much studied every day for four months before the attempt. It was very difficult because I work in the TAC which means normally I have to work on cases from home :) I believe my TAC experience is what got me through due to the extensive troubleshooting skills required day-to-day.

I don't know what I can offer for advice that hasn't already been said...but I would say don't give up in your studies. It was very difficult to start all over again from scratch. Just stay focused and committed. Even when you attempt the lab, don't give up. There was at least a couple of points in the lab yesterday where I said, "I'm not doing well...I'm not going to pass."
But, I managed to push myself and the reward is so sweet.

For my studies, I used Internetwork Expert's Class-on-Demand and the Version
4 Lab Workbook. The videos were essential in my understanding of a lot of the subjects. I would also advise to use all of the usual Cisco Press books for reference. The Doc CD also serves as a great reference. After each workbook task, I would search the Doc CD to not only make sure I knew where to find the reference, but also to read up further and understand the feature or technology.

As if everyone didn't know, this is a great community of networking professionals. I found the answers to a lot of my questions here on Groupstudy. Thanks to all those who helped me and didn't even know it :-)

Keith Foster
CCIE #18411

Internetwork Expert's CCIE Lab Technology Outline

(updated January 2007)

Bridging and Switching

Frame-Relay

HDLC/PPP

Interior Gateway Routing

Exterior Gateway Routing

IP Multicast

Quality of Service (QoS)

Bridging and Switching

Switchports
- Dynamic
- Access
- Trunk
  - ISL
  - 802.1q
  - DTP
  - Native VLAN
- Allowed List
- Tunnel
  - 802.1q Tunnel
  - L2TP
- Speed / Duplex
VTP
- Domains
- Modes
- Authentication
- Pruning
  - Prune Eligible List
- Extended VLANs
Layer 3 Routing
- Router-on-a-Stick
- Native Routed Ports
- SVIs
EtherChannel
- PAgP
- LACP
- Layer 3
- Load Balancing
Spanning-Tree Protocol
- Root Election
- Path Selection
  - Port Cost
  - Port Priority
- Advanced Spanning-Tree Features
  - Portfast
  - Uplinkfast
  - Backbonefast
  - BPDU Guard
  - BPDU Filter
  - Loopguard
- Disabling STP
- Multiple Spanning-Tree Protocol
  - Root Election
  - Path Selection
Advanced Catalyst Features
- Flex Links
- Private VLANs
- UDLD
- SPAN
- RSPAN
- Macros
- CAM Maintenance
  - Static Entries
  - Aging
  - Logging

Frame-Relay

NBMA Overview
Interface Types
- Physical
- Multipoint Subinterface
- Point-to-Point Subinterface
Address Resolution
- Static
  - Self Mapping
- Dynamic
  - Disabling Requests
  - Disabling Per DLCI
Broadcast Replication
LMI
Full Mesh
Partial Mesh (Hub-and-Spoke)
End-to-End Keepalives

HDLC/PPP

Serial Clocking
PPP Overview
Authentication
- PAP
- CHAP
  - CHAP Hostname
  - CHAP Password
- Putting a "?" in Password
Peer Neighbor Route
- IP Unnumbered
Reliable Link
Multilink
PPP over Frame Relay (PPPoFR)
Verification & Troubleshooting

Interior Gateway Routing

IP Routing
- Longest Match Routing
- Metric
- Distance
- Route Recursion
- Layer 2 Resolution
- Default Routing
- Verification & Troubleshooting
OSPF
- Network Statement
- Passive Interface
- Network Types
  - Broadcast
  - Non-Broadcast
  - Point-to-Multipoint
  - Point-to-Multipoint Non-Broadcast
  - Point-to-Point
  - Mismatch
- Virtual-Links
  - Router-ID
- Stub Areas
  - Stub
  - Stub No-Summary
  - NSSA No-Summary
  - NSSA No-Redistribution
  - NSSA No-Advertise
  - GRE over Stub
- Filtering
  - Distribute-List
  - LSA 3 Filter
- Path Selection
  - Auto-Cost
  - Cost
  - Bandwidth
  - Neighbor Cost
- Convergence Timers
- Authentication
  - Area
  - Interface
  - MD5
  - Clear Text
  - Null
  - Virtual-Link
- Summarization
  - Internal
  - External
- Default Routing
  - Always
  - Conditional
- OSPF Demand Circuit
EIGRP
- Network Statement
- Passive Interface
- Split-Horizon
- Metric Weights
- Authentication
  - MD5
  - Key Rotation
- Unicast Updates
- Summarization
  - Auto-Summary
  - Interface
  - Default Routing
- Feasibility Condition
- Variance
- Metric Manipulation
- Stub Routing
- Convergence Timers
- Bandwidth Percent
RIP
- Network Statement
- Passive Interface
- Version
- Split-Horizon
- Summarization
  - Auto Summary
  - Interface Summary
- Convergence Timers
- Filtering
  - Distribute-List
  - Offset List
  - Distance
- Updates Types
  - Broadcast
  - Unicast
- Default Routing
- Authentication
  - MD5
  - Text
- Verification & Troubleshooting
- RIP Triggered
Redistribution
- Metric
- OSPF Metric Type
- Prefix Lists
- Route Filtering
- Poisoning Routes w/ Metric
Miscellaneous
- On Demand Routing (ODR)
- Floating Static Routes
- Backup Interface
- Policy Routing
- GRE Tunneling

Exterior Gateway Routing

Establishing Peerings
- TCP Transport
- Update Source
Authentication
EBGP
iBGP
- Route Reflection
- Confederation
- Next-Hop Processing
  - Next-Hop Self
  - Route-Map
- iBGP Synchronization
  - Redistribution into IGP
  - BGP over GRE
Bestpath Selection
- Weight
- Local Preference
- AS-Path Prepending
- MED
Originating Prefixes
- Network Statement
- Redistribution
- Aggregation
  - Summary-Only
  - Suppress-Map
  - Unsuppress-Map
  - Filtering Specifics
  - Filtering Aggregate
- Conditional Route Injection
Default Originate
Communities
- No-Export
- No-Advertise
- Local-AS
- Numbered
- New Format
Local AS
Conditional Advertisement
Outbound Route Filtering
Dampening
Peer Groups
Regular Expressions
Remove Private AS
Timers
Fast External Fallover
Max Prefix

IP Multicast

IGMP
- Join
- Static
- Access- Group
- 3560 Profile
- Helper
- Timers
- Max Groups
PIM
- Sparse
- Dense
- Sparse-Dense
Reverse Path Forwarding
- Static Mroute
RP Assignments
- Static
  - Specific Groups
  - Override
- Auto-RP
  - Sparse-Dense
  - Auto-RP Listener
  - Default Static RP
  - Specific Groups
  - RP Announce Filter
- BSR
  - Specific Groups
  - Priority
  - BSR Border
NBMA Mode
Stub Routing
Shared/Source Trees
- IP PIM SPT-Threshold
Multicast over GRE
TTL Scoping
Multicast Rate Limiting

Quality of Service (QoS)

Legacy QoS
MQC
Classification
- Access-Lists
- IP Precedence
- DSCP
- NBAR
- Packet Length
- FR-DE
- Interface
- Not
Congestion Management
- Custom Queue
- MQC Bandwidth
- Priority Queue
- MQC Priority
Congestion Avoidance
- Legacy WRED
- MQC WRED
- IP Precedence
- DSCP
Shaping
- Legacy GTS
- Legacy FRTS
- MQC Shape
- MQC FRTS
- Adaptive
Policing
- Legacy CAR
- MQC Police
Unconditional Packet Discard
RSVP
Nested MQC Policies
3560 QoS
- CoS
- Voice VLANs
- Priority Queue
- SRR
Compression
- TCP Header
- Predictor
- Frame Relay RTP Header

IPv6

Addressing
- Global Unicast
- Site Local
- Link Local
- EUI-64
IPv6 over Ethernet
- ICMP ND
- Static to Next-Hop
- Static to Interface
IPv6 over Frame Relay
- Layer 3 Resolution
- Static to Next-Hop
- Static to Interface
RIPng
- Enabling
- Default Routing
- Summarization
- Offset List
- Distribute-List
OSPFv3
- Enabling
- Network Types
- OSPFv3 over NBMA
- Summarization
  - Internal
  - External
- Default Routing
MBGP
- Address Families
- Originating Prefixes
  - Network Statement
  - Redistribution
  - Aggregation
- Bestpath Selection
Tunneling
- IPv6IP
- GRE
- Automatic 6to4
Access-List Filtering
Static IPv6 DNS Entries

Security

Standard Access-Lists
Extended Access-Lists
Time Based Access-Lists
Access-List Logging
Reflexive Access-Lists
Dynamic Access-Lists
TCP Intercept
Disabling Services
- Source Routing
- Proxy ARP
- IP Options
- CDP
- IP Unreachable
Local Authentication
Access-Class
Local Authorization
URPF
3560 Security
- 802.1x Authentication
- Storm Control
- VACLs
- Port Security
  - Violation
    - Protect
    - Restrict
    - Shutdown
  - MAC Address
  - Maximum
  - Aging
    - Time
    - Type
    - Errdisable Recovery
- Port Protection
  - Switchport Block

System Management

SNMP
- Polling
- Trapping
- Communities
- Controlling Access
RMON
- Delta
- Absolute
Logging
- Syslog
- 3560 Flash Logging
Timestamps
NTP
- Master
- Server
- Peer
- Authentication
- Timezones
Banners
Menus
HTTP Server
TFTP Server
IOS Image Booting
Aliases
Autoinstall
Refuse Message
CDP
Config Change Notification and Logging
Crash Dump

IP Services

NAT
- Inside Source
- TCP Load Balancing
- On a Stick
- Port Redirection
DHCP
- Server
  - Exclusions
  - Domain
  - Gateway
  - Multiple Gateways
  - Lease Time
- Client
- IPCP Client
- IP Helper
DNS
- Static Entries
- Proxy
IP Accounting
- Output Packets
- Access-List Violations
- Precedence
Mobile IP
First Hop Redundancy
- HSRP
- VRRP
- GLBP
- Tracking
IP Alias
Small Services
Local Area Mobility
Web Caching
- Inbound
- Outbound
- Exception
IP SLA
DRP Server

Miscellaneous

Bridging
- Transparent
- CRB
- IRB
- Fallback Bridging
- Bridging over Frame Relay

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