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I passed the CCIE Lab exam in August 2015, receiving my CCIE Plaque through the post was the end to a very long journey to become CCIE #50038
You can read my entire CCIE Journey here: My CCIE Journey
My all time top post was: How to build CCIE V5 Lab with CSR100V routers
Other popular posts were:
How Many CCIES are there in the world?
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Remember, the only way to achieve CCIE is “Relentless Pursuit” – Don’t give up!
I am now focused on Network Automation mainly Ansible and Python. If you have not heard of Ansible before check out this post first.
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Now available to hire as a Cisco Network Consultant
All the posts below are in chronological order from when I passed the CCIE Lab
CCIE Blog covering CCIE Jobs, CCIE Salary and my journey to passing the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching v5 – Reviews on CCIE Training and Bootcamps
The Cisco Continuing Education Program is a brilliant initiative from Cisco. It is not widely known about but Cisco recently announced a new program to help you re-certify your CCIE without taking the written exam. Continuing Education Program – How does it work? The concept is very simple, you have to obtain 100 credits by …
This text is taken from chapter 1 of my eBook the CCIE Blueprint It covers my journey from Desktop support engineer to CCIE #50038. It was a long journey which took me 5 attempts over 2 CCIE versions and hopefully after reading it you can find things that you can do better and shorten your journey. …
The Cisco CCIE Lab Builder allows you to run your R&S topologies in the actual CCIE Routing & Switching virtual environment. To access the CCIE Lab Builder you purchase a subscription package from Cisco of either a 100 or 500 hour subscription. You subscription time does not start counting down until you activate your lab. …
After passing the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing & Switching v5 on August 27th 2015 my CCIE Plaque has finally arrived. After all the late nights and weekends of studying and the cost of the training, bootcamps, travel and the lab exam fee, what do you get for passing? Well apart from your digits which …
INE have trained over 3,800 CCIE’s more than all the other training companies combined. Once you have submitted your passing story to them, they will feature you on the CCIE Wall of Success. I have made it on there – Still can’t believe it!
For a live listing of CCIE jobs visit the CWjobs website here http://www.cwjobs.co.uk/JobSeeking/CCIE Or other live listings on Technojobs http://www.technojobs.co.uk/jobs/ccie This site is not affiliated in any way to the above websites the links are placed here purely for informational purposes.
The is the CCIE V5 expanded blueprint from INE – I will be linking from this blueprint to separate blog posts on each topic as my studies progress. The CCIE V5 blueprint from Cisco does not contain all this detail RSv5 Expanded Blueprint 1.5.1. L2 Protocol Tunneling 1.5.2. Layer 2 MTU 1.6. Miscellaneous 1.6.1. CDP …
During my CCIE journey I have used many online resources from paid to free, the list below shows my top 10 ccie related websites that I used on a regular basis to to get information and study material. These range from Cisco to training providers and personal blogs. All which provided benefits to my study. …
Now that I have passed the CCIE Lab exam people are asking me “What are the CCIE benefits?” As for tangible benefits to me personally they are in no particular order: I can now go to the CCIE Apparel store and purchase my CCIE Leather Jacket and other clothing with my CCIE digits on them …
Well the post that I have been dreaming of writing since the start of this blog is actually being written. I passed the CCIE Lab Exam in Routing and Switching v5 in Brussels last week and am now CCIE #50038 It has been a journey and as readers of this blog will know it is …
[podcast title=”CCIE Podcast – Pilot Episode 1″]https://www.rogerperkin.co.uk/podcast/The-CCIE-Podcast-Pilot-Episode-1.m4a[/podcast] This is the pilot episode of the CCIE Podcast, a project I started in April 2015 and never completed, but I am now going to test the water. Please note this episode was recorded in April 2015 before my attempt at the exam in May 2015. This pilot …
The spanning-tree portfast command is a very simple feature but often mis-understood. In this short post I will explore how this feature behaves, how it works and how to configure it on a cisco switch. Portfast is a Cisco Propietary feature that was originally developed to overcome an issue when a PC was trying to …
Software defined networking (SDN) is an approach to computer networking that allows network administrators to manage network services through abstraction of lower level functionality. This is done by decoupling the system that makes decisions about where traffic is sent (the control plane) from the underlying systems that forward traffic to the selected destination (the data …
In computer network engineering, a Request for Comments (RFC) is a memorandum published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations applicable to the working of the Internet and Internet-connected systems. The list below details all RFC’s relevant to the CCIE Routing and Switching track. CCIE RFC List OSPF RFC …
If you are looking for an MPLS Tutorial or step by step mpls configuration examples, this basic MPLS VPN configuration example will guide you from configuring the first router to a 3 router MPLS core with 2 external sites. If are you looking for an explanation of MPLS then I would advise you read the …
How to build CCIE V5 Lab using ESXi and CSR1000v Cloud Services Router This post will detail how to build a CCIE v5 lab using Vmware and the Cisco CSR1000v cloud services routers. It will detail the issues I faced which should hopefully help you make this build a lot easier. The basis of this topology is …
With the new ccie version 5 blueprint there are a lot of version 4 students who are trying to work out what has changed, what is new and what has gone. For new students to Version 5 it is probably just as confusing. One of the changes is the jump to 15 code and the …
I do not know anything about Alexandre Vasseur except for the fact that he has passed his CCIE Lab exam and has made this amazing video to celebrate that fact. We all need small things to keep us motivated along the journey and this video is one of those. Watch the video and feel empowered …
Well I am sad to say that I did not get my digits at my last attempt at the CCIE Lab exam. Everything was in place I had prepared well, I went to the NH Airport Hotel a day early so had an extra nights sleep. But on the day the TS got me again …
I get a lot of emails from people who read my blog asking my how I study. For most people they think I can tell them a magic formula, but the truth of the matter is that there isn’t one. You can also check out my Top 10 Study Tips You need to try all …
If you missed the presentation at Cisco Live 2014 in Milan the long awaited presentation is now available to watch on ciscolive365.com Just search for CCIE Milan – you will need a login to watch the video but registration is simple. https://www.ciscolive.com/online/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=76613&backBtn=true If you want to find out what is in the new CCIE Version …
A lot of people ask me how much does it cost to get a CCIE. The short answer to that is a lot of money. The average cost is between £10000-£15000. The CCIE lab exam cost alone is $1936 if you sit in Brussels. Before that you need to pass the ccie written exam which costs …
If you are trying to find out how many CCIEs there are in the world, you might find that these statistics are not readily available. Now why would Cisco want to stop publishing the figures for how many people are passing the CCIE? I am not sure but there are many theories, are there not …
Well I am sad to say that I did not make it as a CCIE yet. My second attempt at the CCIE Lab Exam in London ended with a fail. Mobile Lab Experience I will first describe my mobile lab experience and then go through some of the things that I think went wrong and …
