Cisco - CCIP Certification

A Firebrand Training
14
Day Course

Cisco CCIP Certification - Overview

The goal of this fourteen-day accelerated program for Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) Certification is to provide students working in service provider and enterprise companies with the skills to understand, configure, and troubleshoot large-scale IP networking solutions. CCIP professionals will have detailed understanding of networking technologies commonly used in service provider and enterprise companies, including complex IP interior and exterior gateway routing (OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, and BGP), QoS, and MPLS.

Interconnecting companies to ISPs has always been a concern to enterprise organizations. As organizations expand their networks and interconnect to the Internet, extranet partners, and other company locations, the emphasis on providing connectivity, security, and data, voice, and video services efficiently and effectively has moved to the forefront. The market for skilled internetworking professionals like the CCIP has never been better.

Overall, Cisco certification validates an individual’s achievement, increasing the holder’s professional credibility by ensuring high standards of technical expertise. In particular, the Cisco CCIP certification indicates knowledge of Cisco internetworking products and technologies like routing, switching, security, QoS, and MPLS, as well as the ability to use them to build integrated, scalable, and flexible network solutions. CCIP certification indicates that the holder can:

Implement interior gateway routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, and IS-IS in a corporate office network of any size
Connect to ISPs using BGP
Design and manage BGP networks for large corporations and ISPs
Understand MPLS and how customers and ISPs implement the technology
Using QoS to effectively deliver traffic through a corporate office or ISP network to deal with congestion issues and meet service level agreements (SLAs)
Monitor, detect, and fix routing and QoS issues

Cisco CCIP Certification - Benefits

Cisco certifications also afford you special membership benefits:

A certificate of accomplishment
A wallet card, logo and designation for your personal promotion to clients or potential employers
Access to the secure Cisco on-line tracking system so you can download logos, and track your Cisco certification progress throughout your career

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need, including

Intensive group instruction
One-on-one instruction attention
Hands-on labs
Lab partner and group exercises
Question and answer drills
Independent study

This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes. Firebrand Training provides a guarantee of obtaining certification at the camp, but does not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification.

Cisco CCIP Certification - Curriculum

Students that successfully complete this certification program will be able to secure and manage network infrastructures to protect a company’s productivity and reduce costs. The program emphasizes topics such as scaling a network to a large number of routers, handling inter-company and Internet routing issues, connecting to an ISP using MPLS, and providing QoS to effectively deal with different traffic types, as well as how to combine these technologies in a single, integrated and cohesive network solution.

Each training day is segmented into Lecture, Lab, and Review components that cater to a student's multiple learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic-tactual).

We have an aggressive educational schedule that thoroughly covers all essential elements necessary to become CCIP certified.

Our program covers the following material:

BCSI/Testing
BGP/Testing
QOS/Testing
MPLS/Testing

The BCSI portion of the course covers these topics:

The EIGRP routing protocol: understanding how EIGRP operates; configuring EIGRP for large networks; and verifying and troubleshooting EIGRP
The OSPF routing protocol: understanding how OSPF operates using multiple areas; configuring OSPF in a multi-area environment; and verifying and troubleshooting OSPF
The IS-IS routing protocol: understanding how IS-IS operates; configuring IS-IS; and verifying and troubleshooting IS-IS
Routing between interior gateway protocols (IGPs): redistributing and filtering routes between IGPs
The BGP routing protocol: understanding how BGP operates for a small network; configuring BGP and controlling path selection; and verifying and troubleshooting BGP (this course only introduces BGP, while the BGP portion of the course fully explores BGP)
IP Multicasts: understanding the use of multicasts and the IGMP discovery protocol; and configuring and verifying multicast routing using PIM
IPv6: understanding IPv6 addressing; understanding how IPv6 and IPv4 can interoperate; and configuring and verifying OSPF routing using IPv6

The BGP portion of the course covers these topics:

BGP overview: understanding BGP’s use and limitations, the concept of BGP neighbors and peering relationships, inter-domain routing and how BGP routes are propagated; and understanding how a BGP router selects paths to destinations
Basic BGP configuration: configuring, verifying, and troubleshooting basic BGP routing between multiple autonomous systems (AS)
BGP route selection and policy controls: understanding the need for influencing BGP route selection and configuring route selection using AS path filters, prefix list filters, and route maps; using route filtering to reduce the impact of BGP processing on a router; and configuring the route-refresh feature to reduce the impact of speeding up BGP routing updates
BGP route selection and attributes: understanding the BGP path attributes and their influence on choosing routes and configuring the weight, local preference, multi-exit discriminator (MED), community attributes to influence route selection of BGP paths
BGP connections between customers and ISPs: understanding the requirements for customer/ISP connections; using static routing for customer/ISP connections, and using BGP to create multiple BGP peering relationships to the same or different ISPs (multi-homing)
BGP transit routing: understanding external BGP (EBGP) and internal BGP (IBGP) interactions and attributes that affect it; understanding how an IGP is used to forward packets through an AS; and configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting an AS acting as a transit backbone
BGP route reflectors: understanding the function and operating of route reflectors; using route reflectors in a hierarchical design; and configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting a route reflector configuration
Advanced BGP configuration tasks: limiting the number of prefixes (routes) accepted from a BGP neighbor; pre-pending AS path values to influence path selection through multiple neighboring autonomous systems; creating BGP peer groups to share common parameters; and implementing route flap dampening to minimize the impact of route changes on BGP processing on routers
BGP scalability for ISPs: understanding concerns for an ISP network; implementing OSPF or IS-IS for IGP connectivity; and understanding scalability issues ISPs will experience when using BGP and common solutions to deal with these issues

The QOS portion of the course covers these topics:

Quality of service (QoS) overview: understanding issues that can create problems for networks with mixed traffic types and understanding available solutions and their implementations
QoS components: understanding the QoS models available, including DiffServer; understanding DSCP and how it interoperates with IP-precedence-based devices; and understanding common mechanisms used for implementing QoS
Modular QoS CLI (MQC) and Auto-QoS: implementing QoS policies using MQC and understanding how Auto-QoS is used and its implementation
Classification and Marking: understanding how data link and network layer packet markings are used to define service classes for different applications; understanding how to classify packets correctly using MQC; understanding how to use class-based marking to assign traffic to a service class; understanding Cisco’s network-based application recognition (NBAR) feature; understanding why pre-classifying traffic in a VPN-based network is important; understanding how QoS trust boundaries can impact the classification and marking of traffic; and defining the different classification and marking options supported by Cisco IOS layer 2 and layer 3 devices
Congestion management methods: comparing and contrasting the different queuing algorithms; understanding the hardware and software queuing solutions (WFQ, CBWFQ, and LLQ) on Cisco routers and how they can be affected by congestion and tuning; configuring queuing solutions on Cisco routers; and comparing queuing solutions on Cisco routers to the Catalyst 2950 switches
Congestion avoidance methods: understanding the issues of tail dropping as a congestion control mechanism; understanding the elements of RED traffic profiling and how weighted random early detection (WRED) can be used to prevent congestion; understanding how ECN interacts with WRED on Cisco devices; and configuring and monitoring DSCP-based CB-WRED
Traffic policing and shaping: understanding how traffic condition uses traffic policing and shaping and their differences; understanding how devices measure traffic rates using single- or dual-rate token bucket models; configuring and monitoring single- and dual-rate CB-policing, understanding how average and peak rate can be used to rate limit traffic; and configuring and monitoring CB-shaping and adaptive CB-shaping in Frame Relay
Link-efficiency mechanisms: comparing and contrasting link efficiency mechanisms; configuring and monitoring CB header compression; determining proper fragment sizes based on link speed and traffic delay requirements; configuring and monitoring multilink PPP with interleaving and FRF.12 on Cisco routers.
QoS best practices: understanding the QoS requirements for many different applications; understanding the delay, jitter, bandwidth, and packet loss requirements for various types of traffic; and knowing the best practices for QoS solutions in LAN and WAN environments

The MPLS portion of the course covers these topics:

MPLS overview: understanding the technology and concepts of MPLS, including labels and label stacking, as well as identifying MPLS-based applications
MPLS operation: understanding the concepts and behaviors in MPLS networks of Label Distribution in Frame-mode, LC-ATM interfaces, and VC merge; understanding MPLS label allocation, distribution, and retention modes; and understanding the LDP neighbor discovery process
Frame-Mode and Cell-Mode MPLS implementations: understanding CEF switching; configuring and monitoring frame-mode MPLS on Cisco devices; configuring and monitoring, label-controlled ATM MPLS; and configuring and monitoring LC-ATM MPLS over ATM virtual paths
MPLS and VPNs: understanding an overview of VPN technologies; using overlay with peer-to-peer VPNs; understanding the MPLS VPN categorization, architecture, and routing models; being familiar with the MPLS VPN features of Cisco devices; configuring and monitoring MPLS VPNs on Cisco devices using VRF tables, MP-BGP sessions, small scale routing protocols; using the VRF import and export features; understanding overlapping VPNs, central service VPNs, and managed CE router services; and understanding internet access from a VPN, including Internet access topologies and implementation methods

Cisco CCIP Certification - Exam Track

The CCIP certification indicates advanced knowledge internetwork with Cisco router and switch technologies. With a CCIP, a network professional can implement large-scale company and ISP networks and provide connectivity to external companies effectively. The content emphasizes topics such as advanced routing and QoS, Internet routing, a company’s connection to an ISP, and handling IP traffic in an ISP network as well as how to combine these technologies in a single, integrated network solution.

During this program for Cisco CCIP Certification, the student will take a total of four (4) examinations as outlined below.

Exam Number: 642-901 BSCI
Associated Certifications: CCIP
Duration: 90 minutes (60-70 questions)

The BSCI 642-901 is a qualifying exam for the CCIP certification. It tests a candidate’s knowledge and skills necessary to use advanced IP addressing and routing in implementing scalable layer 3 networks using Cisco routers. The exam covers topics include advanced IP addressing, basic and advanced routing principles, multicast routing, IPv6, manipulating and controlling routing updates, configuring basic BGP, and configuring EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS interior gateway protocols.

Exam Number: 642-661 BGP
Associated Certifications: CCIP
Duration: 90 minutes (60-70 questions)

The BGP 642-661 exam is a qualifying exam for the CCIP certification. It tests a candidate's understanding of the theory of BGP, how to configure and manage BGP on Cisco IOS routers, and troubleshooting on BGP. The focus of BGP on this exam is its use in enterprise and ISP environments.

Exam Number: 642-642 QOS
Associated Certifications: CCIP
Duration: 90 minutes (60-70 questions)

The QOS 642-642 exam is a qualifying exam for the CCIP certification. It tests a candidate’s knowledge and skills necessary to configure and troubleshoot Cisco IOS routers running Quality of Service protocols in enterprise and ISP and enterprise organizations. The exam covers topics on IP QoS include classification and marking mechanisms, queuing mechanisms, traffic shaping and policing mechanisms, congestion avoidance mechanisms, link efficiency mechanisms, the modular QoS command line interface, and QoS best recommendations and practices.

Exam Number: 642-611 MPLS
Associated Certifications: CCIP
Duration: 90 minutes (60-70 questions)

The MPLS 642-611 exam is a qualifying exam for the CCIP certification. It tests a candidate’s knowledge and skills necessary to implement and maintain a network using or interface with MPLS, including traffic engineering, fast rerouting, and using MPLS as a transport. The exam covers topics on MPLS concepts, MPLS label assignment and distribution, frame-mode/cell-mode MPLS implementation on Cisco IOS devices, and MPLS VPN technology and implementation.

Cisco CCIP Certification - What's Included

The following is included:

Customized courseware books for each exam
Corresponding lab books

Firebrand Training offers top-quality technical education and certification training in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so our students can focus solely on their studies and certification goals.

Our Certification Programs includes

Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)^TM Delivery
Comprehensive Study Materials, Program Courseware and Self-Testing Software
Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access
Examination vouchers *
On site testing **
Accommodation, All Meals, Beverages, and Snacks
Transportation to/from designated local railway stations
Examination Passing Policy

Please note

* Exam vouchers for our (ISC)2 certifications need to be purchased directly from (ISC)2
** On site testing is not included in our ISACA, or ITIL Managers and Revision Certifications

Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.

Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.

Examination Passing Policy

Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year. Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.

Cisco CCIP Certification - Prerequisites

Students who are successful in CCIP certification preparation training may possess:

Strong hands-on TCP/IP, subnetting, and OSI model knowledge and skills
Basic understanding of routing concepts
A valid CCNA certification

Cisco CCNA certification is a prerequisite for registering for the Cisco CCIP certification examinations.

Firebrand Training staff interview all potential students regarding their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and personal fortitude. This screening process ensures a successful match between the customer and Firebrand Training toward accelerated training and certification.

Firebrand Training is an aggressive training environment. You must have an attitude aimed for success. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.

CCIP Certification Testimonials

"Was a very intense experience, and half way through was not sure that it was going to be of benefit. But reaching the end successfully completing both exams and now have a greater breath of knowledge than I thought I could achieve, two days in!"
Sandra Campbell, Instalec Networking Ltd.

"This seriously is the best training course I have ever been on. Great teacher, great food and one excellent location. 5 stars."
James Gardiner, SystemC.

"Attended with a rudementary understanding of Sharepoint and left feeling confident that I could implement a suitable business solution for my organisation."
Craig Law, MOD.

"Found training helpful, lots of areas to cover in a long week."
Razwan Qureshi, Cable and wireless.

"The training that you get at Firebrand is first class with the instuctors helping anyway possible. Although there is only one choice of meal at dinner if you approach the chefs they will do there best to accomidate you if possible. I would reccomend anyone that is thinking of coming for a CCNA course to get the cram book for the course and read it before attending. Come with no knowledge and you will struggle. Last of all be prepared for long days drifting off into long nights. "
Christopher Spence, Fluor Ltd.

"Efficient, no frills training which concentrated on delivery."
Adrian Farruga, Royal Bank of Scotland.

"The content of this course was perfect for the purpose but also as a risk management/info security management training course for new people in the role. "
Cathie Connell, Atmel Smartcard ISC.

"Good all round instruction, good facilities and exceptional food."
Carl Kendell, Kendell-consulting ltd.

"The training course with Firebrand was excellent, I do not believe I could have acheived my results in another setting or with another style of teaching."
Nathan Lee Cartwright, Contoso.com, its all I can think of! Seriously though, its SafeCom.

"I came on this course expecting to work hard but, I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did. Thanks to my instructor and other attendees this was a well woth while experience for me and one I am likely to repeat in the future."
Shona Gunn, Stirling University.

"Without a doubt, the 3 day residential gave me the opportunity to focus on the subject and to understand how the exam process works. "
John Adegoke, GroupM.

"Excellent Experience, would higly recommend."
Craig Hawes, The Blue Coat School.

"Excellent instructor and methods. The instructor really knows his stuff."
Neil Grant, Artesia - opentext.

"It was overall a nice experience and I will not hesitiate to return or recommend a friend. "
Nonso Okechukwu, Bureau of Public Ent.Nigeria.

"Firebrand Training is intensive, but the rewards are overwhelming when you consider how much is covered in the space of time, and the knowledge you gain."
Robert Macnair, Mourant Limited.

"The (6 day) CCNA course was extremely intensive although the instructors will give as much support and help as you need. If you are willing to put in the effort, you will get a lot out of the courses, I would definitely train with Firebrand Training again. "
James Rose, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust.

"The course was very intense with long hours, but we learnt so much and developed a great sense of comaradery between both the other delegates and the instructor."
Tim Manders, Purpose Software.

"Hard graft and definitely not for the week willed or faint hearted - but worthwhile, no question. Pre-reading is a big must."
Mike Crowe, Self Employed.

"It was one of the hardest weeks in my life, but allowed me to achieve qualification in a really short time."
FM, Salmon Limited.

"Found training helpful, lots of areas to cover in a long week."
Razwan Qureshi, Cable and wireless.

"Great fun, very intense and covered exactly what I needed to pass. Overall the course offered more than I hoped for and completely justified the price."
Ian Hiddleton, Myself.

"Excellent place to study and learn."
Kevin Cracknell, Anglia Business Solutions.

"Very quick paced course, hard work but well run and very well delivered."
Chris Acton, Sourcewrite Limited.

"A FULL ON LEARNING EXPERIENCE - YOU LOSE TRACK OF THE REAL WORLD. THE PLACE TO BE TO PASS EXAMS."
JASON WARNER, PROFILE.

"Excellent instructor and methods. The instructor really knows his stuff."
Neil Grant, Artesia - opentext.

"Enjoyed the course but you really need to be prepared to put in some long hours !!"
GB, LXE .

"Whether you are a working proffesional or university graduate, the course structure along with the professional training will ensure you learn as you go along the 5 days. Having a ISC2 professional teaching, definitely has its benefits, that other institutions might not be able to offer. "
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"Many thanks to Firebrand Training and especially the instructor, as I would have never got through the material and taken the exams. Now I am a qualified MCTS in ASP.NET 3.5, and ADO.NET 3.5. One thing to note - this is not a picnic, be prepared to work hard and put the hours in."
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"i thoroughly recommend Firebrand Training whether for taking exams or furthering your knowledge - the staff are extremely knowledgeable and caring - the facilities are great and the overall experience is a very positive and encouraging one - recommended to all without a doubt."
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CCIP Certification Course Dates

Start	End	Availability	Register
2/3/2009	15/3/2009	Seats open	Register
20/4/2009	3/5/2009	Seats open	Register
22/6/2009	5/7/2009	Seats open	Register

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