which many people fail two or more times. (Some never make it
through!) Also, you might just need to add travel costs to that $1,000
because you can currently take the exam only in San Jose, California;
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina; Sydney, Australia; Halifax,
Nova Scotia; Tokyo, Japan; or Brussels, Belgium. Cisco is adding new
sites for the CCIE lab; it is best to check the Cisco Web site for the
most up-to-date information.
skills that are required to maintain optimum network performance and reli-
ability, as well as advanced skills in supporting diverse networks that use dis-
parate technologies. CCIEs just don't have problems getting jobs; 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 manda-
tory for Cisco's CCIE. For example, a CCIE must have the following skills
down pat:
routed LAN, routed WAN, switched LAN, and ATM LANE net-
works, along with 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
major services provided by Desktop, WAN, and Internet groups--as
well as the functions, addressing structures, and routing, switching,
and bridging implications of each of their protocols