CCIE Warm-Up: Advice and Learning Labs

A CCIE offers advice on CCIE Lab preparation, and five complex, intermediate-to-advanced level practice Lab scenarios with solution configurations and task-by-task explanations. This workbook covers many of the crucial lessons that CCIE candidates have struggled to learn for several years. It is not "cutting-edge," though, and does not cover IPv6. It also covers ISDN, DLSW+, and IS-IS, which Cisco has announced will soon be removed from the Lab. The complex redistribution task in Scenario One is arguably worth the price of the book. The five scenarios can be done on a relatively inexpensive lab, but could be difficult to adapt to the expensive on-line rental racks, because my lab topology incorporated a four-port "frame-relay switch" router, while leading vendors tend to use an eight-port "frame-relay switch" router.