Exact equipment and IOS used in CCIE R&S exam

Also found the official equipment list:

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/ccie/rs/lab_equipment.html

Beginning October 18, 2009, v4.0 exams will feature: Cisco 1841 Integrated Service Router, running IOS 12.4(T) Advanced Enterprise Services Cisco 3825 Integrated Service Router, running IOS 12.4(T) Advanced Enterprise Services Cisco Catalyst 3560 switch, running IOS 12.2 Advanced IP Services

Again, in GNS3 that will probably mean running 3725 for both the larger router and the switches (NM-16ESW), and possibly the 1760 for smaller ones.

If anyone is actually ever finding this blog..., you may notice that it is almost a bookmark list towards CCIE. At this stage collecting info to get started towards the exam. I spend quite some time googling up this info, so I thought I'd blog it up here. Both to save someone else time, but also as a record for myself.

FYI, the stage I am at now is: I have about 9 years of Cisco experience in the Service Provider world, but the only certification is a since long expired CCNA. Also, in the last few months I have read through the Cisco Press exam guide for the CCIE R&S written exam. The only thing in it I have no experience of is multi-casting - but even that is no rocket science... Still, it is time to focus, try, practice, ...

CCIE Routing and Switching Lab Exam Checklist

This is pretty useful - a 7 page more detailed list of the exam blue print.

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-6864

Will just lab through those on GNS3 now..., which by the way is pretty amazing. With a small laptop, core i5, 4GB and 64 bit Windows 7 it is almost a whole CCIE lab. Which I' had that 10 years ago...

putty instead of SecureCRT in the CCIE lab

I knew staying with putty would pay out in the end.

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/thread/11732

Cisco DOC-CD in the CCIE R&S Lab exam

I have probably learned more than half of my IP networking knowledge from the Cisco web site (and most of the rest from Cisco Press books). In the CCIE R&S exam one does have access to some Cisco Documentation, but it is somewhat confusing to figure out which parts.

This free video lesson (Mastering the DOC-CD) from INE is great in explaining which parts are accessible from The Lab. A great video, if you skip the first 10 minutes of "advertising"... 

The whole thing is over an hour but could probably been compressed into 20 minutes - so it is a good opportunity to catch up with Mafia Wars.