From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Wed Aug 13 2003 - 02:02:09 GMT-3
On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Alec wrote:
> according to your logic, MPLS is a possible testing topic!
Possible.
> so as other rare topics like H.323, SIP, IPSec and others....
It's not *my* logic. It's the CCIE program's logic.
Directly from
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/certifications/routing.html
Exam Content
The Routing and Switching Lab exam tests any feature that can be
configured on the equipment in the Equipment List, except as noted below.
The following topics have been removed from the lab exam content:
* LAT
* DECnet
* Apollo
* Banyan VINES
* ISO CLNS
* XNS
* ATM LANE
* X.25
* Appletalk
* IGRP
* Token Ring
* Token Ring Switching
* IPX
[end quoted material]
So, yes, the topics you listed *could* be on the lab. And I wouldn't be
surprised to find one or two them there. Probably not extensively with a
lot of quirks or with large point values.
I would expect to see at least one "way out of left field" topic on every
CCIE lab exam. Not necessarily that the exam designers expect for most of
the candidates to get it. In addition to testing your ability to make the
packets get from point A to point B, the exam tests your ability to:
* Determine what is important to accomplish in a limited time, when to
hold 'em and when to fold 'em.
* Find the answer in the documentation. (Can you RTFM? How good are
you at RTFM quickly and effectively?)
* Determine which items depend on others and in what sequence to perform
tasks.
* Not panic or mental-block when presented with a problem that you haven't
seen before or seen in detail.
Think of these oddball items as part of the 20-point "cushion". I would
not advise memorizing every sub-command of MPLS before those of BGP for
example. But it might not hurt to play with it a bit. If there's a two-
point basic MPLS question and you're at 79 without it, it's huge.
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