Noting that i rescheduled my exam , i had to make an analysis to where i stand. So i used the blueprint topics as usual to analyze my current status using the traffic light pattern. Red-Yellow-Green

The topics in Red will get my focus and most probably will be making dedicated blog posts for them to stick them in my head.

Exam Sections and Sub-task Objectives

1.00 Implement Layer 2 Technologies √

1.10 Implement Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

(a) 802.1d

(b) 802.1w

(c) 801.1s

(d) Loop guard

(e) Root guard

(f) Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) guard

(g) Storm control

(h) Unicast flooding

(i) Port roles, failure propagation, and loop guard operation

1.20 Implement VLAN and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)

1.30 Implement trunk and trunk protocols, EtherChannel, and load-balance

1.40 Implement Ethernet technologies

(a) Speed and duplex

(b) Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet

(c) PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)

1.50 Implement Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN), and flow control

1.60 Implement Frame Relay

(a) Local Management Interface (LMI)

(b) Traffic shaping

(c) Full mesh

(d) Hub and spoke

(e) Discard eligible (DE)

1.70 Implement High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) and PPP

 

2.00 Implement IPv4

2.10 Implement IP version 4 (IPv4) addressing, subnetting, and variable-length subnet masking (VLSM)

2.20 Implement IPv4 tunneling and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

2.30 Implement IPv4 RIP version 2 (RIPv2)

2.40 Implement IPv4 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

(a) Standard OSPF areas

(b) Stub area

(c) Totally stubby area

(d) Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)

(e) Totally NSSA

(f) Link-state advertisement (LSA) types

(g) Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access network

(h) OSPF graceful restart

2.50 Implement IPv4 Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

(a) Best path

(b) Loop-free paths

(c) EIGRP operations when alternate loop-free paths are available, and when they are not available

(d) EIGRP queries

(e) Manual summarization and autosummarization

(f) EIGRP stubs

2.60 Implement IPv4 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

(a) Next hop

(b) Peering

(c) Internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP) and External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)

2.70 Implement policy routing

2.80 Implement Performance Routing (PfR) and Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)

2.90 Implement filtering, route redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes, and other advanced

features

3.00 Implement IPv6

3.10 Implement IP version 6 (IPv6) addressing and different addressing types

3.20 Implement IPv6 neighbor discovery

3.30 Implement basic IPv6 functionality protocols

3.40 Implement tunneling techniques

3.50 Implement OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3)

3.60 Implement EIGRP version 6 (EIGRPv6)

3.70 Implement filtering and route redistribution

 

4.00 Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

4.10 Implement Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)

4.20 Implement Layer 3 virtual private networks (VPNs) on provider edge (PE), provider (P), and customer

edge (CE) routers

4.30 Implement virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and Multi-VRF Customer Edge (VRF-Lite)

 

5.00 Implement IP Multicast

5.10 Implement Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) sparse mode

5.20 Implement Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)

5.30 Implement interdomain multicast routing

5.40 Implement PIM Auto-Rendezvous Point (Auto-RP), unicast rendezvous point (RP), and bootstrap router

(BSR)

5.50 Implement multicast tools, features, and source-specific multicast

5.60 Implement IPv6 multicast, PIM, and related multicast protocols, such as Multicast Listener Discovery

(MLD)

 

6.00 Implement Network Security

6.01 Implement access lists

6.02 Implement Zone Based Firewall

6.03 Implement Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)

6.04 Implement IP Source Guard

6.05 Implement authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) (configuring the AAA server is not

required, only the client-side (IOS) is configured)

6.06 Implement Control Plane Policing (CoPP)

6.07 Implement Cisco IOS Firewall

6.08 Implement Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)

6.09 Implement Secure Shell (SSH)

6.10 Implement 802.1x

6.11 Implement NAT

6.12 Implement routing protocol authentication

6.13 Implement device access control

6.14 Implement security features

7.00 Implement Network Services

7.10 Implement Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)

7.20 Implement Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)

7.30 Implement Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

7.40 Implement Network Time Protocol (NTP)

7.50 Implement DHCP

7.60 Implement Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)

8.00 Implement Quality of Service (QoS)

8.10 Implement Modular QoS CLI (MQC)

(a) Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)

(b) Class-based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ), modified deficit round robin (MDRR), and low latency

queuing (LLQ)

(c) Classification

(d) Policing

(e) Shaping

(f) Marking

(g) Weighted random early detection (WRED) and random early detection (RED)

(h) Compression

8.20 Implement Layer 2 QoS: weighted round robin (WRR), shaped round robin (SRR), and policies

8.30 Implement link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) for Frame Relay

8.40 Implement generic traffic shaping

8.50 Implement Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)

8.60 Implement Cisco AutoQoS

9.00 Troubleshoot a Network

9.10 Troubleshoot complex Layer 2 network issues

9.20 Troubleshoot complex Layer 3 network issues

9.30 Troubleshoot a network in response to application problems

9.40 Troubleshoot network services

9.50 Troubleshoot network security

 

10.00 Optimize the Network

10.01 Implement syslog and local logging

10.02 Implement IP Service Level Agreement SLA

10.03 Implement NetFlow

10.04 Implement SPAN, RSPAN, and router IP traffic export (RITE)

10.05 Implement Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

10.06 Implement Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)

10.07 Implement Remote Monitoring (RMON)

10.08 Implement FTP

10.09 Implement TFTP

10.10 Implement TFTP server on router

10.11 Implement Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)

10.12 Implement HTTP and HTTPS

10.13 Implement Telnet

Below is a list of topics that i hate and fear the most in the exam , My target is to focus more on those topics during the next few days. My main aim is to be efficient enough in them to carry on with my rest of study plan.

Shitty Topics :

• Implementing Layer 2 Technologies
• Implementing performance routing and Cisco optimized edge routing (PFR/OER)
• Implement IPv6  ( prefer to check it last )
• Implement Network Security
• Implement Quality of service (All topics not related to generic MQC )

I started studying for the CCIE after i passed the Written exam Dec,2012. I kicked it off with INE CCIE lab videos and by the mid year i had some delay events that made me postpone the final studying till those days. My biggest challenge was to get certified by the end of this year but since I have no time i postponed the exam till 27 Feb 2014 giving me only around 100 days to have it all sorted out.

I already finished most parts of INE VOL 1 workbook but i'm still struggling with many parts of it , so here's my plan.

First 20 days : Finish my VOL1 workbook and focus on the shitty topics this leaves me with 3 complete months , i already booked a 1 month off work duty to totally focus on the exam. 

Month 1 : Still review more of the VOL1 and topics i lack knowledge in
Month 2 : CCIE INE VOL 2
Month 3 : Rest of volume 2 + Mock Labs

To be honest am not sure if this a right plan or not but it seems quite good for me , i just hope i stick to it and i don't care if i do pass or not i just hope i get my shot at it. Today i was really thinking about quitting the whole thing but then i thought about this blog and if i make my journey useful for other people that would make it worth taking.