Ccie Exam Paths

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CCIE Routing & Switching
Routing and Switching is by far the most popular track with 17,082 certified individuals as of May 18, 2009. The ccie

online covers a variety of networking concepts and protocols.

CCIE Security
The Security track concentrates on network security and covers subjects such as ASA, IDS, IOS security, and many others.

CCIE Service Provider
The Service Provider track focuses on networking in the service provider industry. Subjects include Optical networks, DSL, WAN switching, Voice over IP,

Content networking, Broadband Cable and Metro Ethernet.

CCIE Voice
The Voice track concentrates on voice solutions for the enterprise and includes subjects such as Quality of Service, MGCP, Call Manager (Cisco's VoIP PBX),

ccie sp online training, Unity Express and IP Contact Center

Express.

There are only 802 CCIE Voice certified people in the world as of September 9, 2008.
Most candidates pass ...
... the CCIE Voice certification after three or four lab attempts, but there have been cases in which candidates pass after more than six

attempts. The low passing rate is attributed to the difficulty of the exam questions as well as the lack of time to complete everything in the allocated

eight hours. As such, the lab exam is as much a test of time management and planning as it is a test of technical expertise.

What sets the CCIE Voice lab exam apart from typical CCIE lab exams is the widely dissimilar platforms that are used. Configurations will have to be done on

the Windows 2003 Server environment, on a CallManager web-based GUI, on the CatOS command line, on the IOS command line, as well as on the proprietary

configuration environments of telephony devices such as the ATA186 and VG248. As such, it is not an exam that involves a uniform method of configuration, and

it involves a lot of back-and-forth fine tuning between the numerous platforms.

Candidates will also see two other changes to the ccie rs online

training. Effective February 17th, 2009, candidates will be required to answer each question before moving on to the next question. In other words,

candidates will no longer be allowed to skip a question and come back to it at a later time. Finally, there will be an update to the overall score report.

The certification provider score and the exam passing score will now be reported on a scale from 300-1000.