before taking the actual lab.
center and pony up around $15,000$20,000, depending on your cor-
porate discount.
pass it the first time).
which many people fail two or more times. (Some never make it
through!) Also, because you can take the exam only in San Jose,
California; Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Sydney, Aus-
tralia; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Tokyo, Japan; or Brussels, Belgium,
you might just need to add travel costs to that $1,000. Cisco has
added new sites lately for the CCIE lab; it is best to check the Cisco
web site for the most current information.
that are required to maintain optimum network performance and reliability,
as well as advanced skills in supporting diverse networks that use disparate
technologies. CCIEs just don't have problems getting a job. These experts
are basically inundated with offers to work for six-figure salaries! But that's
because it isn't easy to attain the level of capability that is mandatory for
Cisco's CCIE. For example, a CCIE will have the following skills down pat:
routed LAN, routed WAN, switched LAN, and ATM LANE net-
works, and Dial-Access Services.
and layering; windowing and flow control, and their relation to delay;
error detection and recovery; link-state, distance vector, and switching
algorithms; management, monitoring, and fault isolation.