CCIE

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert

Expert Level Knowledge and Experience Cisco CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE®) is the highest level of technical networking certification offered by Cisco. Put your knowledge and experience to the test. Achieve Cisco CCIE certification and accelerate your career.

The Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification is accepted worldwide as the most prestigious networking certification in the industry. Network Engineers holding an active Cisco CCIE certification are recognized for their expert network engineering skills and mastery of Cisco products and solutions. The CCIE community has established a reputation of leading the networking industry in deep technical networking knowledge and are deployed into the most technically challenging network assignments. The program continually updates and revises its testing tools and methodologies to ensure unparalleled program quality, relevance and value. Through a rigorous written exam and a performance based lab, the CCIE program sets the standard for internetworking expertise. Cisco introduced the CCIE certification in 1993 to assist the industry in distinguishing the top echelon of internetworking experts worldwide. Today , CCIE certification holders represent less than 3% of all certified Cisco professionals and less than 1% of the networking professionals worldwide. Cisco Announces New Service Provider Operations Track Built on the growing demand for dedicated professionals who can manage, maintain and troubleshoot complex service provider IP NGN core network infrastructures, Cisco is introducing a new Service Provider (SP) Operations track. This new track is focused on developing associate, professional and expert-level capabilities to operate large, complex SP networks. Learn more. Cisco 360 Learning Program The Cisco 360 Learning Program is the smart way to ensure that you and your staff are equipped with expert-level skills, knowledge, and training to support your customers and maintain the Cisco CCIE® requirement for your organization. As the only CCIE training program authorized by Cisco, the program is designed to accelerate expert-level competency and provide the skills and training that are needed to prepare candidates for the rigorous CCIE R&S and Voice lab exams. Program Overview Cisco Lab Safe Core Knowledge Removed for CCIE R&S and Voice Beginning on May 10, 2010, CCIE R&S and CCIE Voice Lab Exams, in all global locations, will no longer include the four, open-ended Core Knowledge questions. Learn more. New! CCIE Dubai Lab Location The CCIE lab in Dubai has relocated to a new facility. Effective November 22, 2009, CCIE lab candidates testing in the Dubai test center should report to the new facility located at: Cisco Systems Dubai Plot No.- A004 - 024, Al Safouh-2 P.O.Box 500321 Knowledge Village, Dubai UAE New! CCIE R&S Certification v 4.0 Exams Now Available Effective October 19, 2009 Cisco CCIE® Routing and Switching v4.0 certification exams are available in all testing locations worldwide. The competencies required for CCIE R&S v4.0 certification can be found on the Cisco Learning Network under CCIE R&S v4.0 written exam topics and CCIE R&S v4.0 lab exam topics in the CCIE R&S section of the site. Both the written and lab exams have been refreshed with new questions covering MPLS and VPN networking. The written exam includes new scenario-based questions. The lab exam now requires hands-on troubleshooting of preconfigured networks, in addition to configuration. Exam duration and pricing will remain the same, with the two-hour written exam at USD $350 and the eight-hour lab at USD $1400. Introducing Cisco Lab Safe, a Training Investment Assurance Promotion Together, the Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE Routing and Switching and the Cisco Lab Safe promotion provide added assurance in the quality and value of your CCIE training investment. Learn more. Refresh of CCIE Security Lab Exam is Now Live Effective April 20, 2009, important content changes have been implemented in the CCIE Security Lab exam. Candidates should prepare using the v3.0 Lab Equipment and Software versions and v3.0 Blueprint. After April 20, 2009, students should no longer use the v2.0 Lab Equipment and Software versions and v2.0 blueprint as they have formally reached end of life. Updates to the CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and Scoring Effective February 1, 2009, Cisco will introduce a new type of question format to CCIE Routing and Switching lab exams. In addition to the live configuration scenarios, candidates will be asked a series of four or five open-ended questions, on the computer screen, drawn from a pool of questions based on the material covered on the lab blueprint. No new topics are being added. Candidates will also see two other changes to the CCIE written exams. Effective February 17th, 2009, candidates will be required to answer each question before moving on to the next question. In other words, candidates will no longer be allowed to skip a question and come back to it at a later time. Finally, there will be an update to the overall score report. The overall exam score and the exam passing score will now be reported on a scale from 300-1000. To find out more information regarding updates to the CCIE Lab and scoring format, access the CCIE Q&A session in the link below. Click Here for More Information! Introducing the Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE Routing and Switching Designed with high-potential network professionals in mind, the Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE Routing and Switching is a comprehensive, blended learning program designed to accelerate expert-level competency and provide the skills and training needed to prepare candidates for the rigorous CCIE Routing and Switching exam. Find out more about the Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE Routing and Switching. Test Preparation Tools The Cisco Learning Network is the official online community for Cisco customers seeking training and exam preparation tools as they enhance their careers through Cisco certifications. Click here to be a part of the Cisco Learning Network and gain access to certification practice questions, learning games, quick learning modules, videos, discussion forums, professional networking and more. Accessing premium content and participating in the social learning activities requires a Cisco Learning Network registration. Those who already have a Cisco.com account will need to use the same user ID and email address when registering on the Cisco Learning Network site. News & Announcements Core Knowledge Removed for CCIE R&S and Voice 10 May 2010 Beginning May 10, 2010, CCIE R&S and CCIE Voice lab exams in all global locations will no longer include the four, open-ended Core Knowledge questions. New CCIE Exam Preparation Checklists 05 April 2010 Additional tools to help you prepare for your lab exam. Additional CCIE Training Options and Core Knowledge Waiver 16 March 2010 Beginning April 1, 2010, students who attend a Cisco 360 Learning Program workshop may request a waiver for the Core Knowledge section of the CCIE R&S or the CCIE Voice lab exam. Cisco Introduces New CCNP Wireless Certification 30 June 2009 CCNP Wireless certification recognizes the critical importance of professionals who support and manage Cisco wireless LANs and networks. CCIE Voice Lab Exam Adding Short Answer Questions 15 June 2009 Effective July 16, 2009, the new CCIE Voice Lab Exam v3.0 will be live for test candidates. Also effective July 16, 2009, the Cisco CCIE Voice Lab Exam will feature a new type of question format in a section called Core Knowledge. CCIE Security Lab Exam Adding Short Answer Questions 15 May 2009 Effective June 15, 2009, the Cisco CCIE Security lab exam will feature a new type of question format in a section called Core Knowledge. Cisco Revising CCIE R&S Certification 05 May 2009 Cisco has revised the certification requirements for CCIE R&S and published the new v4.0 standards (formerly known as blueprints) on the Cisco Learning Network. Refresh of CCIE Security Lab Exam is Now Live 20 Apr 2009 Effective April 20, 2009, important content changes have been implemented in the CCIE Security Lab exams. Candidates for lab exams scheduled April 20, 2009 or later should prepare using the v3.0 Lab Equipment and Software versions. Cisco Refreshes Lab Portion of its Popular CCIE Voice Exam 12 Mar 2009 To meet the needs of today's expert-level voice services professionals, Cisco has refreshed the lab portion of its popular CCIE Voice certification. Policy Change to Payment for CCIE Labs 29 Aug 2008 In effort to improve the availability of CCIE lab exams Cisco has updated the CCIE lab payment process. CCIE labs changing from UniversCD to Cisco Documentation 22 Aug 2008 On Sept 24 2008 CCIE labs will no longer support using the UniversCD documentation for the lab exam. CCIE Storage written exam beta available April 3 03 Mar 2008 Beginning April 3, 2008, a beta version of the new CCIE Storage qualification exam will be available at all testing centers for a reduced price. > View All Announcements

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	First attempt - impressions Latest post by robertccie , 05-20-2010 11:56 AM	7
	CCIE R&S # 25869 - My Success Story Latest post by cisconew , 05-19-2010 9:59 PM 1, 2	17
	CCIE SP Latest post by scrlk , 05-19-2010 11:10 AM	2
	CCIE Security # 26041 Latest post by Anthony Sequeira , 05-07-2010 2:43 AM	4
	Pwned no more, #25963 Latest post by Danyal , 03-29-2010 8:20 PM	11
	Success Latest post by wp- , 03-13-2010 11:23 PM	7
	My Success Story - Peter Lee Latest post by Brandon_Unger , 02-21-2010 10:13 PM	11
	CCIE SP #24803 (Long Post) Latest post by Brandon_Unger , 02-16-2010 7:39 PM	7
	Another One Bites the Dust Latest post by Brandon_Unger , 02-13-2010 12:18 PM	8
	CCIE #17275 (R&S, Voice, Security and now SP) Latest post by certiscisco , 01-28-2010 12:19 PM	9
	CCIE# 25793 Passed R&S v4!!! wooohooooo!!! Latest post by wp- , 01-18-2010 12:10 PM 1, 2	16
	CCIE Security 25719 Latest post by mdkmal , 12-04-2009 3:17 PM	12
	CCIE# 25655 (R&S) Latest post by Rizzo , 11-17-2009 4:00 AM 1, 2	20
	RS #25613 Latest post by Engr. Roy L. Pamitalan , 11-13-2009 11:43 AM	13
	passed ccie security Latest post by Rizzo , 10-15-2009 12:05 AM	2
	#25628 (R&S) Latest post by bowlersp , 10-09-2009 7:36 PM 1, 2	15
	Passed R&S Latest post by jpsenior , 10-07-2009 10:35 PM	11
	Passed in Brussels! Latest post by DarrellEscola , 10-01-2009 6:43 PM	6
	CCIE #25567 Latest post by wp- , 09-30-2009 11:30 AM	4
	passed CCIE-Security Lab. Latest post by prasadsks , 09-29-2009 8:10 PM	5

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Fedora 13 Spotlight Feature: NetworkManager Gets Even More Connected

April 20th, 2010

by Fedora Team

As with previous Fedora releases, we’ll once again be highlighting some of the new and improved features in a series of blogs leading up to our latest release, Fedora 13, anticipated in mid-May. First up on our list is NetworkManager.

NetworkManager is used by most modern Linux distributions – not just Fedora – to help users get online quickly and easily. But did you know that NetworkManager was created by a Red Hat engineer? And that it got its start in Fedora?

NetworkManager started in 2005 as the brainchild of Red Hat developer Dan Williams, as his answer to the challenge of making networking in Linux simple and painless for users. NetworkManager rapidly grew from primarily being a wireless helper into a full-featured solution that was still simple and elegant enough to meet the needs of desktop users. This evolution happened as a result of the Fedora community embracing this new idea and helping to nurture it through a process of testing and refinement. Fedora’s success as a community-powered R&D lab for new ideas has resulted in many technologies that are essential parts of the modern Linux desktop, NetworkManager being just one example.

As a result of these rapid iterations and resulting momentum, NetworkManager is used in most major distributions today, including Fedora. Users of Fedora 13 will be able to experience some of the newest features in NetworkManager 0.8.1, including:

• Bluetooth dial-up networking (DUN), which allows connections through older style Bluetooth phones that don’t support newer personal area networking (PAN)
• Mobile broadband status, which gives users a readout of signal strength and roaming before they connect

You can read much more about NetworkManager and its creator here on the Fedora wiki. And to see these features in action, you can try out the Fedora 13 Beta pre-release, which is available here. The final release of Fedora 13 is scheduled for mid-May. Keep your eyes peeled for additional blogs highlighting other cool features slated for Fedora 13.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Beta Available Today for Public Download

April 21st, 2010

by Red Hat Enterprise Linux Team

We are excited to share with you news of our first public step toward our next major Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform release with today’s Beta availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Beginning today, we are inviting our customers, partners and members of the public to install, test and provide feedback for what we expect will be one of our most ambitious and important operating platform releases to date. This blog is the first in a series of upcoming posts that will cover different aspects of the new platform.

It has been almost eight years since the first release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Since then, the product has established itself as one of the leading enterprise-caliber, open source operating systems. With installed systems in use from laptops to mainframes, it has helped set standards for quality, certified infrastructure, long-haul stability, performance and security. From Main Street to Wall Street, Red Hat Enterprise Linux touches almost every industry.

As Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 enters Beta today, the currently supported release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, continues to be the cornerstone of Red Hat’s software product portfolio. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was first released in March 2007, and has received regular updates since that time. Just last month, we delivered the fifth update to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform with new features and hardware support. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 platform will continue to be supported by Red Hat and its ISV and OEM partners until 2014.

Looking to the future, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 blurs the lines between virtual, physical and cloud computing to address shifts taking place in the modern IT environment. Featuring updated core technology, from the kernel to the application infrastructure to the development toolchain, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is designed to meet the needs of the coming generations of hardware and software technologies.

The major themes of the release include pervasive virtualization, improved scalability and availability, increased power efficiency, and delivery of some of the latest software technologies. In line with today’s Beta availability, we’ll briefly highlight a few of the new and noteworthy improvements:

• Comprehensive power management capabilities
  Time-keeping improvements within the kernel allow the system to transition processors that do not have active tasks into the idle state more frequently. This leads to cooler CPUs and greater power savings compared to previous releases. New monitoring tools like powertop are designed to help pin-point power consumption issues that can be resolved in order to further reduce power consumption. New tuning tools like “tuned,” which is an adaptive system tuning daemon, allow the system to adjust power consumption based on analysis of service usage patterns.
• Performance enhancements
  Red Hat engineers have played key roles in the upstream development of a wide range of kernel performance enhancements that we plan to feature in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This includes a complete rewrite of the process scheduler so that it more fairly shares compute cycles among processes and provides more determinism by enabling higher-priority processes to run with minimal interference from lower-priority processes. Additionally, there are a substantial range of multi-processor lock synchronization enhancements. For example, elimination of unnecessary locking occurrences, replacement of many spin locks with sleep locks and implementation of more efficient locking primitives. These foundational changes impact a number of kernel subsystems.
• Scalability enhancements
  Recent hardware launches have resulted in significant growth in commodity computing platforms. For example it is now possible to have 64 CPUs and 2TB of memory in a 5U rackmount form factor. These systems and their successors are approaching the scalability limits of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. A primary feature of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is that it is designed to provide the scalability to handle systems well into the future. Capabilities range from optimized support for large CPU counts and memory configurations to the ability to handle an increased number of system-interconnect buses and peripherals. These capabilities are appropriate for both bare metal and virtualized environments as virtualization becomes as pervasive as bare metal deployments.
• New security features
  A new service called the System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) provides central management of identities. It also has the ability to cache credentials for offline use. The new SELinux sandbox feature allows execution of untrusted content in an isolated environment designed not to impact the rest of the system. This includes the ability to isolate any virtualized guest running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
• Resource management
  Fine-grained control, allocation and management of hardware resources is available with the help of a new framework called Control Groups or cgroups. cgroups work at the process group level and can be used to manage resources ranging from CPU, memory, network and disk I/O for applications. This framework is also used to manage virtual guests.
• Virtualization
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 builds on the integrated KVM-based virtualization provided by earlier Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. Incorporating numerous performance, scheduler and hardware support enhancements, it offers improved flexibility and control regardless of the deployment model.
• Storage
  Support for network block storage via FCoE and iSCSI protocols make it possible to perform online re-size of mirrored and multipath volumes using LVM/DM.
• File system
  This release includes the ext4 file system. As the next generation of the extended filesystem family, it includes support for larger file sizes, more efficient allocation of disk space, better file system checking and more robust journaling. In addition to ext4, the XFS® filesystem is also expected to be available. XFS® is well suited for extremely large file and directory sizes and includes features such as the ability to defragment and re-size the filesystem while active. NFS has been updated to version 4, which includes support for IPv6.
• Reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS)
  This release leverages new hardware capabilities to offer features such as hot-add of devices and memory, and enhanced error checking for PCIe devices via AER. It also is expected to include advanced data integrity features (DIF/DIX) that validate data from application to platter via hardware checksums. The introduction of ABRT (Automated Bug Reporting Tool) provides a more consistent way to identify and report system exception conditions like kernel failures (kernel oops) and userspace application crashes.
• Compiler and tools
  The GCC compiler has been updated to version 4.4. This version complies with the C++ 0x standard draft. It also conforms to OpenMP 3.0 and includes many debugging capabilities. SystemTap improvements include better support for user-space probing, a more secure script-compile server and a new unprivileged mode that allows non-root users to access SystemTap. Additionally, there are many other libraries that have been updated to the latest versions, as well as additional languages and runtime environments, including the complete LAMP stack and OpenJDK.
• Desktop
  This release introduces automatic detection of display types and support for multiple displays. We have also included updated nouveau drivers to support NVIDIA graphics devices. Of course, no release would be complete without significant updates to the GNOME and KDE desktops.

The portfolio of technologies in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be offered along with expanded support for key hardware platforms, which we believe makes the release a compelling choice for new and existing customers alike. As always, part of the value of the subscription lies within our enterprise certifications. Currently, thousands applications are certified to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, whether it’s on “bare metal,” virtualized or within cloud deployments. This makes Red Hat Enterprise Linux an operating system of choice for customers and partners.

If you are interested in trying the Beta, we encourage you to download and install it and share your feedback with us. Please visit here to access the Beta.

In keeping with Red Hat’s open source roots, we would like to recognize and thank our many partners and upstream community members who have been working closely with us for many months to make this release truly ground-breaking.

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