Archive for 2009

Cisco Certified Architect Exam blueprint has been released

Cisco announced through their LearningNetwork webpage that the topics (blueprint) for the Cisco Certified Architect have been released. The exam is scheduled to be available February 2010 and qualified candidates will be provided the information as it becomes available.

It will be quite a challenge among these level engineers to be the first one to achieve such certification Above holding a valid CCDE certification there are a lot of other requirements just to qualify to take this exam.

If you are interested in you can download the PDF blueprint or have a look on the official Cisco LearningNetwork homepage for more details.

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Core Knowledge Questions for All CCIE Labs

Important change in all CCIE labs exams. Finally the attendees for CCIE RS Lab will now feel discriminated by the Core Knowledge Questions, as starting with next year, this will become mandatory for all CCIE Lab exams.

Interesting is that they say for all CCIE Labs exam, but below the Security and Voice exams are not specified…

See below the official announcement:

Effective January 4, 2010, the Cisco CCIE® Service Provider, Storage, and Wireless lab exams will add a new type of question format in a section called Core Knowledge. In this new section, candidates will be asked a series of four open-ended questions that require a short written response to be entered into the computer, typically several words. The questions will be randomly drawn from a pool of questions on topics eligible for testing. Candidates can review the topics by visiting the CCIE track information on Cisco.com or the Cisco Learning Network. No new topics are being added as a result of this change.

Candidates will have up to 30 minutes to complete the Core Knowledge section and may not return to it once they have moved on. A passing score on the Core Knowledge section is required to achieve certification. Core Knowledge questions were implemented on Routing and Switching labs in February 2009 and Security labs in June 2009, and allow Cisco to maintain strong exam security and ensure that only qualified candidates are awarded CCIE certification. Candidates with exam dates on January 4, 2010 or later should expect to see the new question format on their lab exam.

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Cisco IP Routing overview – Part I

I have found this great video material from RouteHub Group regarding IP routing overview. It contains basic about IP routing, why it is needed, how to implement and so on. This material will be really apreciated by the beginners in this area as the explanation is straight forward without using fancy explanation where is not needed. For today you have part 1 from this 4 episodes series.

All this material is produced by RouteHub Group consultants, so all the copyrights and greetings have to be directed to them. If was free shared on the Internet so, I hope that I’m not breaking any copyright rules here. All that i want is to make this material more visible on the Internet. This is true also for the more to come materials from them.

If you are curious who is RouteHub Group, I have found this simple explanation on their site: RouteHub Group is a Premium Cisco Consulting provider of Cisco Products, Solutions, Training, and Professional Services for small, medium, and large-sized businesses.

[flv w=640 h=505]http://www.firstdigest.com/vid/routehub/Cisco-IP-Routing-part1.flv[/flv]

Please find below:

- 2nd part

- 3rd part

- 4th part

of this presentation

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Ivan Pepelnjak, CCIE#1354, proposed some reduced budget training

Ivan Pepelnjak, proposed on his blog, some reduced budget training. For now, the prices on his blog shows:

€30 ($45)/hour/participant (two attendees @ 2-hour presentation = € 120);

€200 ($300)/hour for a private on-line workshop (up to 10 participants).

According to his statement this training will be WebEx-delivered workshops or, depending from case to case training, can also arrange on-site events.
For more information please visit his blog, or get in contact with him.

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