CCIE STORAGE NETWORKING TRACK

The Storage Networking written exam (#350-040) 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 topics may also appear.

1. Cisco Device Operation
   1. Commands (show, configuration and debug)
   2. System Level (bootflash, file system, install/upgrade)
   3. Operations (file transfers, SNMP, accessing the device, license)
   
   
2. General Fibre Channel Protocol
   1. Standards
   2. Physical interface (FC-0)
   3. Encoding and decoding (FC-1)
   4. Link initialization (FC-1)
   5. Framing protocol (FC-2)
   6. Link and login session management
   7. Fibre Channel names and addressing
   8. Fibre Channel services
   9. Fibre Channel mapping
   10. Topologies (E, F, FL, TL, TE, etc.)
   11. Switch-to-Switch
       1. FSPF
       2. Zoning
       3. Buffer-to-Buffer credit
       4. Principal switch selection
       5. ISL init
3. Cisco Advanced Fibre Channel Features
   1. Port Channel
   2. VSAN
   3. IPFC
   4. Zoning (Read only, LUN)
   5. Fabric security
   6. High availability
   7. Inter VSAN routing
   8. Congestion control
   9. Traffic engineering
   10. Switch interoperability
   11. AAA
   
   
4. Storage Networking Extension
   1. iSCSI
   2. FCIP
   3. Optical extension
   
   
5. TCP/IP Protocol Stack
   1. LAN/WAN performance
   2. VLAN
   3. IP performance
   4. TCP performance
   5. VRRP
   6. Access control
   
   
6. SCSI
   1. Terminology
   2. Operation
   3. Error Recovery
   
   
7. FICON
   1. Debug
   2. SPAN
   3. FCAnalyzer
   4. Logging
   
   
8. Storage Networking Application
   1. Backup and recovery
   2. Business continuation (disaster recovery)
   3. Virtualization
   4. Storage consolidation
   5. Terminology
   6. Storage and HBA
   7. OS concepts, persistence building, HW path and FC_ID
   
   
9. Advanced Management
   1. Call home
   2. Fabric manager server
   3. Device manager
   4. Performance manager
   5. Security
   6. RBAC
   
   
10. Storage Networking Design
    1. Topology
    2. Over subscription
    3. Scalability
    4. Performance