CCIE Written V3.0

The CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam v3.0 (350-001) will be available at all worldwide, Cisco-authorized testing centers beginning June 19th, 2007. The exam has 100 multiple-choice questions and is two hours in duration. Candidates preparing for the exam after June 18th should refer to the CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam 3.0 Blueprint (below) for an outline of topics that will be covered. Candidates planning take the exam BEFORE June 19th, should continue to refer to this blueprint.

General Networguide Theory
General Routing Concepts
Link State and Distance Vector Protocols
Split Horizon
Summarization
Classful and a Classless routing protocol
Routing decision criteria
Routing Information Base (RIB) and Routing Protocols Interaction
Administrative Distance
Routing Table
RIB and Forwarding Information Base interaction
Redistribution
Redistribution between routing
Troubleshooting routing loop

Bridging and LAN Switching
Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
802.1d
802.1w
802.1s
Loopguard
Rootguard
Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard
Storm Control
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
Unicast flooding
STP port roles, failure propagation and loopguard operation
LAN Switching
Trunks
VLAN Trunguide Protocol (VTP) administrative functions
Ethernet
Speed
Duplex
Ethernet
Fast Ethernet
Gigabit Ethernet

IP
Addressing
Subnetting
Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)
Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Network Address Translation (NAT)
Services
Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)
Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)
Network Management
Logging and Syslog

IP Routing
OSPF
Standard OSPF area
Stub area
Totally stub area
Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
Totally NSSA
Link State Advertisement (LSA) types
Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access (broadcast)
OSPF graceful restart
Troubleshooting failing adjacency formation to fail
Troubleshooting of external route installation in the RIB
BGP
Protocol on which BGP peers communicate
Next Hop
Peering
Troubleshooting of BGP route that will not install in the routing table
EIGRP
Best path
Loop free paths
EIGRP operations when alternate loop free paths are available and when it is not available
EIGRP queries
Manual summarization
Auto-summarization
EIGRP Stubs
Troubleshooting of EIGRP neighbor adjacencies
Policy Routing
Concept of policy routing

QoS
Modular QoS command-line (MQC) applied to:
Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
Class-based weighted fair queueing (CBWFQ) / Modified Deficit Round Robin (MDRR)
Policing
Shaping
Marguide
Random Early Detection (RED)

WAN
Frame Relay
Local Management Interface (LMI)
Traffic Shaping
HUB and Spoke routers
Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
DE

IP Multicast
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v2
Group addresses
Shared Trees
Source Trees
Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Mechanic
PIM Sparse Mode
Auto-RP
Anycast RP

Security
Extended IP access lists
Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
IP Source Guard
Context Based Access Control (CBAC)

MPLS (New)
Label Switching Router (LSR)
Label Switched Path (LSP)
Route Descriptor
Label Format
Label imposition/disposition
Label Distribution

IPv6 (New)
IPv6 Addressing and types
IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
Basic IPv6 functionality protocols
IPv6 Multicast and related Multicast protocols
Tunneling Techniques
OSPFv3
EIGRPv6