CCIE Service Provider Certification

Summary: This one-week course is designed to prepare CCIE Candidates for the one-day CCIE Service Provider practical Lab exam. The delegates will work on a broad range of Telephony equipment, which Cisco will include in the practical lab.
This week is very intensive and covers all topics tested in CCIE Service Provider Lab including Advanced BGP, MPLS/VPN, Traffic Engineering, QOS, Multicast, ATM tag switching and Catalyst 3550 LAN Switching. The course is based solely on hands-on labs. Please be aware that these courses do not run to normal course times, all delegates may be required to work late in order to complete the lab exercises. Typical course timings 09.00 to 21.00 Monday to Thursday, 09.00 to afternoon on Friday.

• Pre-requisites

There are no formal prerequisites for CCIE certification; other professional certifications or training courses are not required. Instead, candidates must first pass a written qualification exam and then the corresponding hands-on lab exam. You are expected to have an in-depth understanding of the topics in the exam blueprints and strongly encouraged to have three to five years of job experience before attempting certification.

Step One: CCIE Service Provider Written Exam

You must pass the two-hour, written qualification exam covering concepts and equipment commands related to packet-based networking infrastructure, before you are eligible to schedule the lab exam.

• Written Exam Information
• Schedule and Pay for Written Exam

Step Two: CCIE Service Provider Lab Exam

The eight-hour lab exam tests your ability to configure actual equipment and get a service provider network running in a timed test situation. You must pass the lab within three years of passing the written to achieve certification. Your first lab attempt must be made within 18 months.

• Lab Exam Information
• Schedule and Pay for Lab Exam