CCIE Routing & Switching

The CCIE Routing and Switching certification course provide configure, validate, and troubleshoot complex enterprise network infrastructure; understand how infrastructure components interoperate; and translate functional requirements into specific device configurations.

The following topics are general guidelines for the content that is likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific instance of the exam.

Course Prerequisites

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.

Outline

1. Describe basic software architecture differences between IOS and IOS XE

• Identify Cisco express forwarding concepts

• Explain general network challenges

• Explain IP operations

• Explain TCP operations

• Explain UDP operations

Network implementation and operation

• Evaluate proposed changes to a network

• Changes to routing protocol parameters

• Migrate parts of a network to IPv6

• Routing protocol migration

• Adding multicast support

• Migrate spanning tree protocol

• Evaluate impact of new traffic on existing QoS design

Network troubleshooting

• Use IOS troubleshooting tools

• debug, conditional debug

• ping, traceroute with extended options

• Embedded packet capture

• Performance monitor

• Apply troubleshooting methodologies

• Diagnose the root cause of networking issue [analyze symptoms, identify and describe root cause]

• Design and implement valid solutions according to constraints

• Verify and monitor resolution

• Interpret packet capture

2. LAN switching technologies

• Implement and troubleshoot switch administration

• Implement and troubleshoot layer 2 protocols

• Implement and troubleshoot VLAN

• Implement and troubleshoot trunking

• Implement and troubleshoot EtherChannel

• Implement and troubleshoot spanning-tree

• Implement and troubleshoot other LAN switching technologies

• Describe chassis virtualization and aggregation technologies

• Describe spanning-tree concepts

Layer 2 multicast

• Implement and troubleshoot IGMP

• Explain MLD

• Explain PIM snooping

Layer 2 WAN circuit technologies

• Implement and troubleshoot HDLC

• Implement and troubleshoot PPP

• Describe WAN rate-based ethernet circuits

3. Addressing technologies

• Identify, implement and troubleshoot IPv4 addressing and subnetting

• Identify, implement and troubleshoot IPv6 addressing and subnetting

Layer 3 multicast

• Troubleshoot reverse path forwarding

• Implement and troubleshoot multicast source discovery protocol

• Describe IPv6 multicast

Fundamental routing concepts

• Implement and troubleshoot static routing

• Implement and troubleshoot default routing

• Compare routing protocol types

• Implement, optimize and troubleshoot administrative distance

• Implement and troubleshoot passive interface

• Implement and troubleshoot VRF lite

• Implement, optimize and troubleshoot filtering with any routing protocol

• Implement, optimize and troubleshoot redistribution between any routing protocols

• Implement, optimize and troubleshoot manual and auto summarization with any routing protocol

• Implement, optimize and troubleshoot policy-based routing

• Identify and troubleshoot sub-optimal routing

• Implement and troubleshoot bidirectional forwarding detection

• Implement and troubleshoot loop prevention mechanisms

• Implement and troubleshoot routing protocol authentication

RIP [v2 and v6]

• Implement and troubleshoot RIPv2

• Describe RIPv6 [RIPng]

EIGRP [for IPv4 and IPv6]

• Describe packet types

• Implement and troubleshoot neighbor relationship

• Implement and troubleshoot loop free path selection

• Implement and troubleshoot operations

• Implement and troubleshoot EIGRP stub

• Implement and troubleshoot load-balancing

• Implement EIGRP [multi-address] named mode

• Implement, troubleshoot and optimize EIGRP convergence and scalability

OSPF [v2 and v3]

• Describe packet types

• Implement and troubleshoot neighbor relationship

• Implement and troubleshoot OSPFv3 address-family support

• Implement and troubleshoot network types, area types and router types

• Implement and troubleshoot path preference

• Implement and troubleshoot operations

• Implement, troubleshoot and optimize OSPF convergence and scalability

BGP

• Describe, implement and troubleshoot peer relationships

• Implement and troubleshoot IBGP and EBGP

• Explain attributes and best-path selection

• Implement, optimize and troubleshoot routing policies

• Implement and troubleshoot scalability

• Implement and troubleshoot multiproctocol BGP

• Implement and troubleshoot AS path manipulations

• Implement and troubleshoot other features

• Describe BGP fast convergence features

ISIS [for IPv4 and IPv6]

• Describe basic ISIS network

• Describe neighbor relationship

• Describe network types, levels and router types

• Describe operations

• Describe optimization features

4. Tunneling

• Implement and troubleshoot MPLS operations

• Implement and troubleshoot basic MPLS L3VPN

• Implement and troubleshoot encapsulation

• Implement and troubleshoot DMVPN [single hub]

• Describe IPv6 tunneling techniques

• Describe basic layer 2 VPN —wireline

• Describe basic L2VPN — LAN services

Encryption

• Implement and troubleshoot IPsec with preshared key

• Describe GET VPN

5. Device security

• Implement and troubleshoot IOS AAA using local database

• Implement and troubleshoot device access control

• Implement and troubleshoot control plane policing

• Describe device security using IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS

Network security

• Implement and troubleshoot switch security features

• Implement and troubleshoot router security features

• Implement and troubleshoot IPv6 first hop security

• Describe 802.1x

6. System management

• Implement and troubleshoot device management

• Implement and troubleshoot SNMP

• Implement and troubleshoot logging

Quality of service

• Implement and troubleshoot end-to-end QoS

• Implement, optimize and troubleshoot QoS using MQC

• Describe layer 2 QoS

Network services

• Implement and troubleshoot first-hop redundancy protocols

• Implement and troubleshoot network time protocol

• Implement and troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP

• Implement and troubleshoot IPv4 network address translation

• Describe IPv6 network address translation

Network optimization

• Implement and troubleshoot IP SLA

• Implement and troubleshoot tracking object

• Implement and troubleshoot netflow

• Implement and troubleshoot embedded event manager

• Identify performance routing [PfR]