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Written Exam (120hrs)

The comprehensive Service Provider written exam (#350-029) has 100 multiple-choice questions and is two hours in duration. The topic areas listed are general guidelines for the type of content that is likely to appear on the exam. Please note, however, that other relevant or related topic areas may also appear.

Service Provider Network General

* SP Network Structure and Components
* Service Provisioning
* Organizations and Standards
* ISP design principle, RFC3439

Layer 2 technology

* ATM
* POS
* DPT/RPR
* PPP
* Frame Relay
* Ethernet

IP

* IPv4, IPv6
* Multi-protocol BGP
* ISIS
* OSPF
* RIP, EIGRP, Static
* Multicast Addressing
* IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM, Bir PIM
* Rendezvous Points
* Inter domain Multicast
* Multicast VPN

MPLS

* FEC, Label
* Frame mode and Cell mode
* Label distribution Protocol
* Traffic Engineering
* GMPLS

VPN

* Intra AS MPLS VPN
* Inter AS MPLS VPN
* Carrier Supporting Carrier
* AToM
* Metro Ethernet
* L2TPv3
* GRE
* 802.1QinQ

Security

* IP spoofing, Denial of Service (DoS), DDoS, Worm
* Data Plane Security
* Control Plane security
* Management Plane Security
* Intrusion/Anomaly detection
* Attack mitigation
* Best Common Practices (BCP)

Quality of Service

* Service level agreement
* Classification
* Marking
* Policing
* Shaping
* Queuing
* Congestion management
* MPLS VPN QOS

High Availability

* NSF/SSO
* Sonet APS, RPR, 802.1w
* Graceful Restart, VRRP, GLBP, IP Event Dampening
* Fast reroute, Link/Node protection
* Global Server Load Balancing

High End Product

* CRS-1
* GSR 12000
* IOS-XR

Lab Exam (120hrs)

The blueprint is a detailed outline of the topics likely to appear on the lab exam. Knowledge of troubleshooting is an important skill and candidates are expected to diagnose and solve issues as part of the CCIE lab exam. The topics listed are guidelines and other relevant or related topics may also appear. In general, new product features become eligible for testing on CCIE lab exams six months after general release.

Bridging and Switching

* VTP, VLAN, Trunk, Spanning tree
* Frame Relay, DLCI, FR multilink
* ATM PVC, SVC, FR/ATM interworking
* PPPoE

IGP Routing

* IS-IS, Level 1/2, Metric
* OSPF, LSA, Area
* Redistribution, Summarization, Filtering
* Policy routing

EGP Routing

* IBGP, EBGP
* BGP attributes
* Confederation, Route reflector
* Synchronization, Aggregation, Stability
* Redistribution, Filtering
* Multipath

SP Multicast

* PIM-SM, PIM-DM, SSM, PIM-BIDIR, IGMP
* Auto RP, Static RP, BSR, Anycast RP
* MP-BGP for multicast, MSDP

MPLS

* Label distribution, LDP/ TDP
* Label filtering, Label merging, Multipath
* MPLS COS
* MPLS Netflow
* MPLS over ATM
* MPLS Traffic Engineering

L3/L2 VPN

* MPLS VPN, MP-iBGP
* PE-CE routing, RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, Static, ISIS, EBGP
* BGP Extended Community
* Inter AS MPLS VPN
* Carrier Supporting Carrier
* VRF-Lite, VRF Select
* Multicast MPLS VPN
* GRE, multipoint GRE
* AToM, L2TPv3
* 802.QinQ

SP QoS and Security

* DSCP/EXP, TOS, NBAR
* Marking, Shaping, Policing
* CAR, FRTS
* WRQ, CBWFQ, LLQ, PQ, CQ
* RED, WRED
* LFI, cRTP
* RSVP
* ACL, RPF, Filtering
* Routing update security
* Common attacks

High Availability

* NSF, GLBP
* Fast reroute, Link/Node protection
* HSRP, VRRP

Management

* SNMP, SYSLOG, RMON
* Accounting
* Netflow
* NTP