What is CCIE

Be A Professional With CCIE

The age old question of what is better experience or certificate gets a lot of views and debates in management circles. Recruitment is often a mixture of the two. Ask a professional who is out working in the

field whether it is worth the time and money to pursue after certifications. The response you evoke may be mixed. Some certifications make it more important than experience and CCIE is one of those genres.

Cisco CCIE is the highest level of Technical Expertise in the industry and it is a grueling exam to take. The objective of Cisco CCIE is to find Internet work experts in a vendor neutral domain. The candidates have to be experts in the field of interconnecting networks and end-to-end networks. There tracks of CCIE are

Routing and Switching
Security
Service Provider
Storage Networking
Voice

Who Needs CCIE?

CCIE is for all those professionals who would like to establish themselves as experts in the networking domain. Cisco Certified Internet work Expert does not have any pre-requisites in certification. Currently there are a few thousand people all over the world that possess a CCIE certification; the reason being that it is hard to pass the exam.

Exam Description

CCIE certification requires you to pass two exams; a written qualification exam and corresponding lab exam. Recertification ensures that you retain a meaningful technical expertise. Recertification requires you to take written examinations.

Written Exams

350-001 CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam is a two hour exam with 100 multiple choice questions.
350-018 CCIE Security exam is a two hour multiple choice (100 questions) examination of two hours duration.
Service provider’s exam is of two hours and contains 100 multiple choice questions. It is taken in various categories and depends on the candidates chosen service area.

350-021   Cable

350-022    DSL

350-024   IP Telephony

350-020    Optical

350-023   WAN Switching

350-025    Dial

350-026    Content Networking

350-027    Metro Ethernet

350-040 Storage Networking exam is a two hour with 100 multiple choice questions as is of two hours duration.
350-030 Voice examination is a two hour exam with 100 multiple choice questions.

Lab Exam

CCIE exam for the lab is what makes CCIE different. Cisco CCIE lab is a full-day, hands-on exam tests ability to configure and troubleshoot equipment. Details of the exam blue print can be found on Cisco’s website at the web page for CCIE track details.

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/track_comparison/index.html

The CCIE lab exam is not available at all Pearson VUE or Prometric Testing centers for details look up the Cisco web page.

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/exam/locations.html

Routing and Switching lab is of 8 hours duration
Security
Service Providers
Storage Networking
Voice

CCIE Recertification

Recertification exams are many and are limited to only written format.

350-001-CCIE Routing & Switching Written Exam
350-018-CCIE Security Written Exam
CCIE Service Provider Written Exam options:

350-020-Service Provider, Optical

350-021-Service Provider, Cable

350-022-Service Provider, DSL

350-023-Service Provider, WAN Switching

350-024-Service Provider, IP Telephony

350-025-Service Provider, Dial

350-026-Service Provider, Content Networking

350-027-Service Provider, Metro Ethernet

350-040-CCIE Storage Networking Written Exam

350-030-CCIE Voice Written Exam

Expiration

The initial CCIE exam for the lab must be taken within 18 months of passing the CCIE written exam
Those who fail the lab exam must reattempt the lab exam within 12 months for their written exam to be valid.
In case the candidate reattempts the lab exam but fails to pass the lab exam within three years the written exam expires and the candidate must appear and pass the written exam to take up the lab exam.
CCIE’s are required to pass a written recertification exam every two years failing which their CCIE certification Status remains suspended in the Cisco database.

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