Before you take your CCIE lab exam,wouldn't it be great to have time to practice and increase your chances of passing or raising your score?|?YouTube That's the purpose behind CCIE Practice Labs. You can rent time on a pod in a special online environment that mimics the actual CCIE environment you'll use during your CCIE lab exam.
TheCCIE Service Provider Practice Labsoffer a real exam-like platform that lets you perfect your skills in a controlled setting. You'll get hands-on experience with networking devices and protocols. These scenarios will test certain skills and a range of knowledge fields.
When you incorporate CCIE Practice Labs into your CCIE Service Provider study plan,you'll reap the rewards in more ways than one. Here are a few:
All CCIE Service Provider Practice Labs share the following topology, which always contains all devices that appear in this diagram:
Yet depending on the Practice Lab, the initial configuration of separate devices might differ. Each scenario focuses on a subgroup of devices, but you'll have access to all devices in any given scenario.
The topology encompasses two service providers, Emerald and Garnet, connected through eBGP links. Emerald is an SDN-based service provider, with a converged SDN transport solution. Garnet is a legacy-based service provider that starts with LDP and RSVP-TE but would need to migrate to SRv6. Emerald has acquired Garnet and runs L3VPN services on both service provider infrastructures.
In all labs, you'll focus mainly on IOS-XR devices and some IOS-XE devices. Garnet has customer edge (CE) and route-reflectors (RR) serving as IOS-XE devices. In the automation and assurance lab, you'll also work on NSO. Required network element drivers (NED) for NSO come pre-installed, and you can reach all the devices through the management network. In all labs, you'll work on virtual ASR9000 and CSR1000 platforms.
Objective: Build an optimized network architecture, with reduced layers, converged networks, and intelligent data-driven optimized routing, peering, and function placement. Tasks include implementing IS-IS as IGP, segment routing, SRv6, BGP-LU, SR-TE using SR-PCE, SR-ODN, and Flex-Algorithm in Emerald and Garnet.
Objective: Deploy network service capabilities (information and control) to the end-user services layer and thus enable alignment of the service and/or application with the most suitable end-to-end traffic treatment. Tasks include implementing EVPN-VPWS, L3VPN, QoS, and internet services across Emerald and Garnet.
Objective:Concentrate on the control plane, management plane, and infrastructure security on Emerald and Garnet service provider networks. Tasks include implementing a network baseline in Emerald and Garnet as well as implementing IS-IS and BGP authentication, BGP Flowspec, route and prefix filtering, RTBH, and BGP RPKI.
Objective: Concentrate on Multicast VPN on Emerald and Garnet service provider networks. Tasks include implementing relevant MVPN profiles across Emerald and Garnet as well as implementing the following profiles:
Objective:Concentrate on network assurance and automation on Emerald and Garnet service provider networks. Tasks include implementing an automated provisioning solution using NSO in Emerald and Garnet, automating L3VPN services, and implementing features such as BFD, IGP convergence, ACL, and SRv6 policies.
To fully benefit from CCIE Practice Labs, consider these tips:
Prep tips for best results:
Remember, the CCIE practice labs are here to help you do your best on exam day. Take advantage of them. You won't regret it, and it could significantly increase your chance of achieving your CCIE SP certification.
Good luck!
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