CCIE SERVICE PROVIDER TRACK

The comprehensive Service Provider written exam (#350-029) 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 topic areas may also appear.

1. Service Provider Network General
   1. SP Network Structure and Components
   2. Service Provisioning
   3. Organizations and Standards
   4. ISP design principle, RFC3439
   
   
   

2. Layer 2 technology
   1. ATM
   2. POS
   3. DPT/RPR
   4. PPP
   5. Frame Relay
   6. Ethernet
   
   
   

3. IP
   1. IPv4, IPv6
   2. Multi-protocol BGP
   3. ISIS
   4. OSPF
   5. RIP, EIGRP, Static
   6. Multicast Addressing
   7. IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM, Bir PIM
   8. Rendezvous Points
   9. Inter domain Multicast
   10. Multicast VPN
   
   
   

4. MPLS
   1. FEC, Label
   2. Frame mode and Cell mode
   3. Label distribution Protocol
   4. Traffic Engineering
   5. GMPLS
   
   
   

5. VPN
   1. Intra AS MPLS VPN
   2. Inter AS MPLS VPN
   3. Carrier Supporting Carrier
   4. AToM
   5. Metro Ethernet
   6. L2TPv3
   7. GRE
   8. 802.1QinQ
   
   
   

6. Security
   1. IP spoofing, Denial of Service (DoS), DDoS, Worm
   2. Data Plane Security
   3. Control Plane security
   4. Management Plane Security
   5. Intrusion/Anomaly detection
   6. Attack mitigation
   7. Best Common Practices (BCP)
   
   
   

7. Quality of Service
   1. Service level agreement
   2. Classification
   3. Marking
   4. Policing
   5. Shaping
   6. Queuing
   7. Congestion management
   8. MPLS VPN QOS
   
   
   

8. High Availability
   1. NSF/SSO
   2. Sonet APS, RPR, 802.1w
   3. Graceful Restart, VRRP, GLBP, IP Event Dampening
   4. Fast reroute, Link/Node protection
   5. Global Server Load Balancing
   
   
   

9. High End Product
   1. CRS-1
   2. GSR 12000
   3. IOS-XR