CCIE Course Syllabus

CCIE ROUTING AND SWITCHING TRACK

Written Exam Topics

• General Networking Theory
  • General Routing Concepts
  • Link State and Distance Vector Protocols
  • Split Horizon
  • Summarization
  • Classful and a Classless routing protocol
  • Routing decision criteria
• Routing Information Base (RIB) and Routing Protocols Interaction
  • Administrative Distance
  • Routing Table
  • RIB and Forwarding Information Base interaction
•  Redistribution
  • Redistribution between routing
  • Troubleshooting routing loop
• Bridging and LAN Switching
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
  • 802.1d
  • 802.1w
  • 802.1s
  • Loopguard
  • Rootguard
  • Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard
  • Storm Control
  • Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
  • Unicast flooding
  • STP port roles, failure propagation and loopguard operation
• LAN Switching
  • Trunks
  • VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) administrative functions
•  Ethernet
•  Speed
•  Duplex
•  Ethernet
•  Fast Ethernet
•  Gigabit Ethernet
• IP
•  Addressing
  •  Subnetting
  •  Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)
  •  Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
  •  Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
  •  Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Services
  • Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)
  • Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)
• Network Management
  •  Logging and Syslog
• IP Routing
• OSPF
  • Standard OSPF area
  • Stub area
  • Totally stub area
  • Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
  • Totally NSSA
  • Link State Advertisement (LSA) types
  • Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access (broadcast)
  • OSPF graceful restart
  • Troubleshooting failing adjacency formation to fail
  •  Troubleshooting of external route installation in the RIB CCIE Course Syllabus
• BGP
  • Protocol on which BGP peers communicate
  • Next Hop
  • Peering
  • o Troubleshooting of BGP route that will not install in the routing table
• EIGRP
  • Best path
  • Loop free paths
  • EIGRP operations when alternate loop free paths are available and when it is not available
  • EIGRP queries
  • Manual summarization
  • Auto-summarization
  • EIGRP Stubs
  • Troubleshooting of EIGRP neighbor adjacencies
• Policy Routing
  •  Concept of policy routing
• QoS
• Modular QoS command-line (MQC) applied to:
  • Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
  • Class-based weighted fair queueing (CBWFQ) / Modified Deficit Round Robin(MDRR)
  •  Policing
  • Shaping
  • Marking
  • Random Early Detection (RED)
• WAN
• Frame Relay
  • Local Management Interface (LMI)
  • Traffic Shaping
  • HUB and Spoke routers
  • Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
  • DE
• IP Multicast
• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v2
• Group addresses
• Shared Trees
• Source Trees
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Mechanic
• PIM Sparse Mode CCIE Course Syllabus
• Auto-RP
• Anycast RP
• Security
• Extended IP access lists
• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
• IP Source Guard
• Context Based Access Control (CBAC)
• MPLS (New)
• Label Switching Router (LSR)
• Label Switched Path (LSP)
• Route Descriptor
• Label Format
• Label imposition/disposition
•  Label Distribution
• Pv6 (New)
• IPv6 Addressing and types
• IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
• Basic IPv6 functionality protocols
•  IPv6 Multicast and related Multicast protocols
• Tunneling Techniques
• OSPFv3
• EIGRPv6
• Lab Exam Topics
• Bridging and Switching
• Frame relay
• Catalyst configuration: VLANs, VTP, STP, MSTP, RSTP, Trunk, Etherchannel,
• management, features, advanced configuration, Layer 3
• Tunneling
• IP IGP Routing
  • OSPF
  • EIGRP
  • RIPv2
  • IPv6: Addressing, RIPng, OSPFv3
  • GRE
  • ODR
  • Filtering, redistribution, summarization and other advanced features CCIE Course Syllabus
• BGP
  •  IBGP
  •  EBGP
  •  Filtering, redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes and other advanced features
• IP and IOS Features
  •  IP addressing
  •  DHCP
  •  HSRP
  •  IP services
  •  IOS user interfaces
  •  System management
  •  NAT
  • NTP
  •  SNMP
  •  RMON
  •  Accounting
  •  SLA
• IP Multicast
  • PIM-SM, bi-directional PIM
  • MSDP
  • Multicast tools, source specific multicast
  • DVMRP
  • Anycast
• QoS
  • Quality of service solutions
  • Classification
  • Congestion management, congestion avoidance
  • Policing and shaping
  • Signaling
  • Link efficiency mechanisms
  • Modular QoS command line
• Security
  • AAA
  • Security server protocols
  • Traffic filtering and firewalls
  • Access lists
  • Routing protocols security, catalyst security
  • CBAC
  • Other security features