CCIE Written

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE Written)

General Info
Exam #: 350-001
Status: Active
Time Limit: 120 min.
Passing Score: 65%-75%
# of Questions: 100
Format: Form-based with Review
Certifications: CCIE
Cost:  
Available Languages: English, Japanese (Japan only)


Objectives
The topic areas listed are general guidelines for the type of content that is likely to appear on the CCIE Qualification exam. Other relevant or related topic areas may also appear.


Cisco Device Operation
Commands: show, debug

Infrastructure: NVRAM, Flash, Memory & CPU, file system, config reg

Operations: file transfers, password recovery, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), accessing devices, security (passwords)


General Networking Theory
OSI model: Layer comparisons, functions

General Routing Concepts: Split horizon, difference between switching and routing, summarization, Link State vs. Distance Vector, loops, tunneling

Protocol comparisons: Internet Protocol (IP) vs. Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX), Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), etc.

Standards: 802.x, protocol limitations

Protocol Mechanics: Windowing/Acknowledgements (ACK), fragmentation, maximum transmission unit (MTU), handshaking, termination


Bridging & LAN Switching
Transparent Bridging: IEEE/DEC spanning tree, translational, Configuration Bridging Protocol Data Unit (BPDU), Integrated Routed and Bridging (IRB), Concurrent Routing and Bridging (CRB), access lists

Source Route Bridging: Source-route translational bridging (SR/TLB), source-route transparent bridging (SRT), data-link switching (DLSw), remote source-route bridging (RSRB), access lists

LAN Switching: Trunking, VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP), inter-switch link (ISL), Virtual LANs (VLANS), Fast Ether Channel (FEC), Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP), Cisco Group Management Protocol (CGMP)

LANE: LAN Emulation Client (LEC), LAN Emulation Server (LES), Broadcast and Unknown Server (BUS), LAN Emulation Configuration Server (LECS), Simple Server Replication Protocol (SSRP)


Internet Protocol (IP)
Addressing: Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR), subnetting, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), Network Address Translation (NAT), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)

Services: Domain Name System (DNS), Bootstrap Protocol (BOOTP), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)

Applications: Telnet, File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP)

Transport: IP fragmentation, sockets, ports
Access Lists



IP Routing Protocols
  • Open Shortest Path First (OSPF):

    Design: areas, virtual links, stub, not so stubby areas (NSSA), area border router (ABR) / autonomous system boundary router (ASBR) redistributions, media dependencies, external vs. internal, summarization
    Operation: Designated Router (DR), Backup Designated Router (BDR), adjacencies, link-state advertisement (LSA) types, link-state database, shortest path first (SPF) algorithm, authentication

  • Border Gateway Protocol (BGP):

    Design: Peer Groups, Route Reflectors, Confederations, Clusters, Attributes, Autonomous Systems (AS)
    Operation: Route Maps, Filters, Neighbors, decision algorithm, Interior Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP), Exterior Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)

  • Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP): Metrics, mechanics, & design
  • Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS): Metrics, mechanics, & design
  • Routing Information Protocol
  • (RIP) & RIP v2: : Metrics, mechanics, & design
  • Multicast: Design, Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM - both sparse and dense), Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP), Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

  • Access lists: distribute lists, route maps, policy routing, redistribution, route tagging


    Desktop Protocols
    Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX): NetWare Link Services Protocol. (NLSP), IPX-RIP, IPX-Service Advertising Protocol (SAP), IPX-EIGRP, Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX), Network Control Protocol (NCP), IPXWAN, IPX addressing, Get Nearest Server (GNS), Novell Directory Services (routing & mechanisms), access lists
    AppleTalk: Routing Table Maintenance Protocol (RTMP), AppleTalk Update-Based Routing Protocol (AURP), Appletalk-EIGRP, Datagram Delivery Protocol (DDP), Zone Information Protocol (ZIP), Name Binding Protocol (NBP), addressing (phase 1 & 2), access lists
    DECnet/OSI: Addressing, access lists
    Windows NT: NetBIOS, browsing, domain controller (e.g. WINS), access lists


    Performance Management
    Traffic Management: Queuing, Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), traffic shaping, load balancing


    WAN (addressing, signaling, framing)
    ISDN: Link Access Procedure on the D channel (LAPD), Basic Rate Interface (BRI) / Primary Rate Interface (PRI) framing, signaling, mapping, dialer map, interface types, B/D channels, PPP Multilink
    Frame relay: Local Management Interface (LMI), Data Link Connection Identifier (DLCI), Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC), framing, traffic shaping, forward explicit congestion notification (FECN), backward explicit congestion notification (BECN), CIR, discard eligible (DE), mapping, compression
    X.25: addressing, routing, Link Access Procedure Balanced (LAPB), error control/recovery, windowing, signaling, mapping, Switched Virtual Circuit (SVC) / Permanent Virtual Circuit (PVC), Protocol Translation
    ATM: Switched Virtual Connection (SVC) / Permanent Virtual Connection (PVC), ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL), Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol (SSCOP), User-Network Interface (UNI) / Network-Network Interface (NNI), Interim Local Management Interface (ILMI), Cell format, Quality of Service (QoS), RFC 1483 &1577, Private Network-Network Interface (PNNI), Interim-Interswitch Signaling Protocol (IISP), mapping
    Physical Layer: Synchronization, Synchronous Optical Network (SONET), T1, E1, encoding
    Leased Line Protocols: High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC), Point to Point Protocol (PPP), async & modems, compression
    Dial on Demand Routing (DDR): dial backup


    LAN
    Datalink Layer: addressing, 802.2
    Ethernet/Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet: encapsulation, carrier sense multiple access collision detect (CSMA/CD), topology, speed, controller errors, limitations, 802.3
    Token Ring: token passing, beaconing, Active Monitor, ring insertion, soft & hard errors, encapsulation, topology, maximum transmission unit (MTU), speed, limitations
    FDDI/CDDI: dual ring, encapsulation, class, redundancy, dual homing, medium (copper, fiber), claims, Station Management (SMT), limitations


    Security
    Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA), Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS), and RADIUS: general concepts, usage, comparisons
    Firewalls: PIX, access lists, demilitarized zones (DMZ)
    Encryption: public/private key, Data Encryption Standard (DES)


    Multiservice
    Voice/Video: H.323, codecs, Signaling System 7 (SS7), Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP), RTP Control Protocol (RTCP), Quality of Service (QoS)