CCIE Written Changes

Just when you thought you were prepared for your CCIE written exam, think again! Cisco has announced that as of July 25th 2016 they will be adding the section called “Evolving Technologies” to all written exams. If you are scheduled to take your written, in any track, before July25th than not to worry, these changes will not affect you in anyway according to Cisco.

This new section is going to account for 10% of your overall score on the exam with the original topics in your blueprint coming out to 90%. The most interesting point that we need to focus on is that the subdomains of this new section are subject to change as “new and emerging technologies are developed and adopted by the industry”.

Now I know what you’re thinking, “how am I supposed to study for this?”. It’s not all that bad! Cisco has at least given us some resources that we can use to begin preparing for these new topics on our written exam. Here at iPexpert, we’ll be adding these topics to new Written VOD products accordingly, and releasing updates over the next few months.

The last big update to the CCIE blueprints that I Continue reading

Frequent CCIE R&S V5 Questions!

While teaching a CCIE R&S Bootcamp the other day, I realized that I get a lot of the same questions pertaining to the CCIE R&S V5 Lab pretty frequently, so I decided to put together a video series that addresses these questions. I’ve mapped out 4 videos – each of which cover the 3 section in the lab, and an introduction to the general lab concepts and theory. Enjoy, and if there’s anything I can help you with please feel free to email me at [email protected].

JP Cedeno, CCIE R&S V5 (CCIE #47408)
iPexpert’s Sr. CCIE R&S Instructor

MPBGP Configuration

Hi everyone, JP here. You know as CCIE candidates, we are faced with one of the most difficult, and grueling, exams the networking world has to offer – the CCIE lab exam. As you may or may not be aware, Frame-Relay was replaced with L3VPN and DMVPN in the R&S Version 5 blueprint update. This means not only will we need to understand our IGP’s, MPLS, and VRF Lite, but we will need to fully understand how to configure MPBGP in order to transport our VPN labels and prefixes across the service provider’s network.

Using a topology from one of our mock labs, let’s have a look into the configuration of MP-BGP and make sure we understand it. Preview the diagram in HD here.

In a Layer 3 VPN we are driven by the need to advertise customer prefixes across a service provider network, while keeping these customers isolated from one another. To do this using L3VPN, we need to carry more than just the IPv4 unicast address, which is all standard BGP is capable of. Additional information like the MPLS label, VPN label, and route-distinguisher need to be carried from one point of the network to the other. Let’s Continue reading