From: James MacDonald (j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca)
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 12:26:05 ART
Not sure on the policy ... but here is the last announcement made:
Change to
CCIE R&S Lab Equipment and IOS
13 JUL 2006: Effective November 13, 2006,
CCIE Routing and Switching labs will begin replacing the
Catalyst 3550 by
introducing the Cisco Catalyst 3560 Series enterprise-class switches.
All
CCIE R&S candidates taking exams on or after that date should be familiar with
the new switches
and associated IOS, although installation of the new
equipment will take place over several
months and some candidates may not see
the new equipment in their exams right away. No
changes are being made to the
lab exam blueprint at this time and candidates should continue
to refer to
the existing
CCIE R&S Lab Exam Blueprint for exam topics.
For additional
details, see
R&S Lab Equipment and IOS Versions on the CCIE website.
... so
forget 3550 and make sure you know 3560 i guess. For general switching
(802.1q, VTP, DTP, etherchannel, PVST, etc) I would say the 3550 should do
just fine for prep purposes ... the obvious exception is the etherchannel
load-balancing options (3550 is just based on src or dst mac ... the 3560
expands that to ip based as well i believe).
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Jim MacDonald
j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca
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From: jcounter <jcounter@gmail.com>
To: James MacDonald
<j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca>; Marc La Porte <marc.a.laporte@gmail.com>; Cisco
certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007
11:13:57 AM
Subject: Re: R&S Lab Changes per 01/01/2008?
Last I recall
hearing they give 6 months notice prior to any changes.
Could be wrong
though.
> From: James MacDonald <j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca>
> Reply-To: James
MacDonald <j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca>
> Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:03:43 -0700 (PDT)
>
To: Marc La Porte <marc.a.laporte@gmail.com>, Cisco certification
>
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: R&S Lab Changes per 01/01/2008?
>
>
i'd be interested as well in knowing ... i had to move my date from Oct this
>
year to Jan 31st 08 ... so if there is anything i need to add to my schedule
>
i'd like to know early.
>
> Thanks
>
> ------------------------------
> Jim
MacDonald
> j4m3sm63@yahoo.ca
> ------------------------------
>
> -----
Original Message ----
> From: Marc La Porte <marc.a.laporte@gmail.com>
> To:
Cisco certification
> <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, September 6,
2007 9:52:15 AM
> Subject:
> R&S Lab Changes per 01/01/2008?
>
> Hey guys,
>
> Anyone heard if there's going to
> be any R&S lab blueprint changes per
>
01/01/2008?
>
> I'm thinking of things like:
> - no more 3550s
> - mpls
instead of frame relay
> - etc
>
> Marc
>
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