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CCIE Routing & Switching Written Study Group
Contact Esosa Eguavoen:  Visionee@TX.RR.COM (469) 471-5586
When Saturdays  10:00AM - 1:00PM
Where TBD (To Be Determined)
Prerequisite Prefer CCNP, but not required
Description The objective of this study group is to pass the CCIE Written exam.  We will meet once a week every Saturday for the next several months.
Schedule
Day Date Description
Wednesday May 2, 2007 New members meet at the CUG meeting.
Saturday May 12, 2007 First meeting 10:00am
Required Materials CCIE™ Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide - ISBN: 1-58720-141-0 by Wendell Odom, Jim Geier and Naren Mehta.
Optional Materials

The group will decide if more resources are needed to master the core topics on the CCIE R&S Written Exam.

Additional materials are needed to fully master the topics of the written exam. Each member will determine what additional materials are needed for his/her own person study. The Cisco web site also has much material that can be used. The list below contains many but not all of the sources available. If you have something different bring it with you and we can all look at it and discuss its relevance.

Recommended Booklist:

Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition)

Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol.1: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture (4th Edition)

The Protocols (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1)

Routing and Switching: Time of Convergence?

IPv6 : Theory, Protocol, and Practice, 2nd Edition (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

Routing TCP/IP Volume I (CCIE Professional Development)

Routing TCP/IP, Volume II (CCIE Professional Development)

Cisco LAN Switching (CCIE Professional Development series)

Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition)

Developing IP Multicast Networks: The Definitive Guide to Designing and Deploying CISCO IP Multi-Cast Networks

Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide (IP Telephony Self-Study) (2nd Edition)

Cisco Self-Study: Implementing Cisco IPv6 Networks (IPV6)

Network Design and Case Studies (CCIE Fundamentals) (2nd Edition)

Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture (CCIE Professional Development)

Outline

We plan to take the written around November.  We will meet once a week on Saturdays, except for major holidays.   Each week, one member will research and present one major topic from the CCIE™ Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide which closely follows the CCIE R&S blueprint. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/learning/le3/ccie/rs/wr_exam_blueprint.html

Day

Date

Description

1

5/12/2007

Chapters 1and 2 – Ethernet Basics/ Virtual LANs and VLAN Trunking

2

5/19/2007

Chapter 3 – Spanning Tree Protocol

3

5/26/2007

No Meeting.  Memorial Day Weekend

4

6/2/2007

Chapter 4 – IP Addressing

5

6/9/2007

Chapter 5 – IP Services

6

6/16/2007

Chapter 6 – TCP/IP Transport and Application Services

7

6/23/2007

Chapter 7 – IP Forwarding (Routing)

8

6/30/2007

Chapter 8 – RIP Version 2

9

7/7/2007

No meeting.  4th of July Weekend

10

7/14/2007

Chapter 9 - EIGRP

11

7/21/2007

Chapter 10 - OSPF

 12

7/28/2007

Chapter 11 – IGP Route Redistribution, Route Summarization, and Default Routing

13

8/4/2007

Chapter 12 – Fundamental BGP Operations

14

8/11/2007

Chapter 13 – BGP Routing Policies

15

8/18/2007

Chapter 14 – Classification and Marking

16

8/25/2007

Chapter 15 – Congestion Management and Avoidance

17

9/1/2007

No meeting.  Labor Day Weekend

18

9/8/2007

Chapter 16 – Shaping and Policing

19

9/15/2007

Chapter 17 – Synchronous Serial Links and Protocols

20

9/22/2007

Chapter 18 – Frame Relay

21

9/29/2007

Chapter 19 – Introduction to IP Multicasting

22

10/6/2007

Chapter 20 – IP Multicasting Routing

23

10/13/2007

Chapter 21 - Security

24

10/20/2007

Chapter 22 – IEEE 802.11 Fundamentals

25

10/27/2007

Chapter 23 – Wireless LAN Solutions

26

11/3/2007

Chapter 24 – Miscellaneous Networking Theory and Practices/Review .  Take and pass the exam

27

11/10/2007

No meeting.  Veterans Day

Comments  We are looking for a meeting location, preferably with whiteboard, projector, and Internet access.
Notes Please contact the study group coordinator listed above to be added to the CCIE Routing & Switching Written Study Group.