CollabCert would like to congratulate and recognize the following customers who recently passed their Collaboration Lab exam:
Here is what these guys had to say:
For the remainder of the year candidates who fail a CCIE Lab Exam can re-sit every 30 days. The current policy of waiting 90 days after the first 2 attempts has been waived until Dec 31 2015.
The exact text given by Cisco, which you can find here, is as follows:
“For a limited time, we will waive the current lab retake policy so that all lab candidates will be able to retest for their lab exam with only a 30-day wait period. We’re offering this opportunity in response to your feedback about the challenges faced with longer wait times and difficulty getting a lab seat for retesting. We hear you and we understand your concerns, so we would like to take time to look at the data and evaluate our lab retake policy.
While we do our research, if you register for any CCIE lab exam between now and December 31, 2015, you will have the option of retaking the exam with only a 30-day wait regardless of the number of attempts you may have already made. Get ready to take the next step in your career: register by December 31, 2015.”
Good news for folks who have sat the lab twice and need to wait 90 days for a third attempt.
Happy Independence Day to everybody in the US!
The blue print that can be found on the Cisco website here reveals that the exam is divided up into 7 sections. I would consider Sections 1-3 as being the foundational core of the test. In sections 4-7 we build upon the foundations we set up in the first three sections. It’s also worth pointing out that sections 1-3 comprise 70% of the exam. In this article the lab exam is broken down into 5 distinct p
In addition to a 30 minute lunch break, there are 8 hours of time allocated for each candidate to complete the assigned tasks. The cost to sit the exam is $1600 (not including taxes that need to be paid in some testing centers). That equates to $3.33 per minute. For every minute you waste being idle, that is over $3 down the drain. Unless you like throwing money away then try and maximize productivity especially at the beginning of the day. This will have a big bearing on how well you are going to score.
Continue reading 5-phase approach strategy for the CCIE Collaboration Lab Exam
CollabCert would like to congratulate the following successful engineers who have recently passed the CCIE Collaboration Lab Exam.
Amy said:
What an amazing journey! I have gone from not knowing anything about voice to CCIE. All due to Vik Malhi and his style of in depth training. He brings so much synergy and fun into the class, I began to love learning about buckets and cubes while creating valuable bonds with my fellow classmates. We continued to help each other even after the 10 day bootcamp. And surprisingly Vik too remained a valuable resource as I continue to prepare. Other companies are way too corporate to care. I can’t express enough gratitude for all the work he put into creating labs that contained relevant topics and the key to me passing.
Would you like to be added to this prestigious list? Vik’s years of experience and proven methods have helped hundreds pass the CCIE lab exam. If you’d like your hands on the best self-study products or attend one of Vik’s popular boot camps, please email me!
Congratulations again everyone!!!
Mike Down
Director of Business Development
mike@collabcert.com
408.800.4086
The CCIE Collaboration Written should not be under-estimated as it is a very tricky exam (if one avoids the easy options that are available having performed a quick google search). One of the challenges is that very few, if any, companies offer a quality training for this particular test.
Cisco have provided information about the exam topics here.
The suggested training material can be found here.
Having taken a quick look at the suggested training material you should realize that it will take you an entire lifetime to go and read/watch everything suggested. No criticism intended but the list is somewhat exhaustive and it would be very difficult to read the thousands of pages suggested and be able to digest everything. In this article I have tried to provide a little more focus on where candidates should channel their energy. By no means is this a comprehensive list of the entire blueprint but I think somebody with experience with Cisco Collaboration technologies will find the information here will complement their existing knowledge and help prepare for the Written exam.
Continue reading CCIE Collab Written – suggested reading materials
In this example we want to apply a policer to each individual phone at a branch office so that each phone can only produce enough bandwidth for 1 g711/g722 audio call. Non-conforming voice traffic (RTP packets above the 93Kbps used for that single g711/g722 audio call) will be dropped. The idea here is there must be something sinister going on if a phone is producing more than 1 calls worth of traffic and we want to protect our network by dropping this sinister traffic at the source. The other requirements are that video traffic from each individual phone is policed to 1Mbps and signaling is policed to 24kbps. In both of these cases we won’t drop the non-conforming traffic but instead mark down the layer 3 DSCP Per Hop Behavior to a lower priority (CS1 or DSCP 8).
If you have a CCIE Voice certification and have not converted to CCIE Collaboration- well you have a year to figure it out because on Fed 13 2016 your time is up.
As a reminder you have 3 options:
(1) Pass the CCIE Collaboration Lab exam. You will then hold 2 separate CCIE certifications (Voice and Collab) plus any others you have.
(2) Pass the CCIE Collaboration Written exam and then permanently convert your CCIE Voice to CCIE Collab by raising a support case here: https://ciscocert.force.com/english
(3) Keep your CCIE Voice as it is and hope that this Collaboration thing doesn’t take off.
I know there are lots of folks in the first category- better get moving!
What a way to start off 2015. With all the craziness the holiday season brings, we’ve had several engineers push through it, study hard and reach the top of the mountain!
CollabCert would like to congratulate the following successful engineers who have recently passed the CCIE Collaboration Lab Exam.
We are pleased to announce that we have added a two week bootcamp in London to our 2015 calendar. The class will be held in City of London (Financial District).
You can either sign up for either the ILT which runs from March 23-27 2015, the Workshop which runs from March 30-Apr 3 2015 or the combo by doing both weeks of class.
I am have spent the past few days in London finalizing our London venue having been eager to avoid hosting the class inside a hotel. It is also very exciting from a personal point of view having lived in London for such a large part of my life.
The question of how much bandwidth does a call consume is something that has occupied the minds of many “collaboration” engineers over the years and specifically is something that you should be aware of if you plan on sitting the CCIE Collaboration lab exam. I’m going to tell you how to do it without referencing any resources.
To set the scene, I want to police Voice/RTP traffic from a phone in my Headquarters office. We shall call this HQ Phone 2.
The policer will be applied on the switchport of HQ Phone 2 (ingress). I am using a 3560X switch.
The details of the policer are as follows: we will assume that conforming packets are all RTP packets for 1 g722 call. Any traffic above and beyond what is needed by 1 call is going to be non-conforming and is subject to an “exceed” action within the policer. The conforming action of the policer is to set the DSCP to the PHB of Expedited Forwarding (EF) and transmit. The exceed action of the policer is to drop packets.
Let’s look at our configuration:
Continue reading Per Call bandwidth Consumption over Ethernet+802.1Q
