Progress 04-Nov-2007

I have bought some CCIE books and i'm reading their chapters according to to the CCIE Lab Exam Blueprint.

Until now i have covered the following topics :

1. Bridging and Switching
   1. Frame relay
   2. Catalyst configuration: VLANs, VTP, STP, MSTP, RSTP, Trunk, Etherchannel, management, features, advanced configuration, Layer 3
   3. Tunneling
   
   
2. IP IGP Routing
   1. OSPF
   2. EIGRP
   3. RIPv2
   4. IPv6: Addressing, RIPng, OSPFv3
   5. GRE
   6. ODR
   7. Filtering, redistribution, summarization and other advanced features
   
   
3. BGP
   1. IBGP
   2. EBGP
   3. Filtering, redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes and other advanced features
   
   
4. IP and IOS Features
   1. IP addressing
   2. DHCP
   3. HSRP
   4. IP services
   5. IOS user interfaces
   6. System management
   7. NAT
   8. NTP
   9. SNMP
   10. RMON
   11. Accounting
   12. SLA
   
   
5. IP Multicast
   1. PIM, bi-directional PIM
   2. MSDP
   3. Multicast tools, source specific multicast
   4. DVMRP
   5. Anycast
   
   
6. QoS
   1. Quality of service solutions
   2. Classification
   3. Congestion management, congestion avoidance
   4. Policing and shaping
   5. Signaling
   6. Link efficiency mechanisms
   7. Modular QoS command line
   
   
7. Security
   1. AAA
   2. Security server protocols
   3. Traffic filtering and firewalls
   4. Access lists
   5. Routing protocols security, catalyst security
   6. CBAC
   7. Other security features

I hope i can move faster by the end of next week, when i'll have more free time. Surely there are a lot of topics that i haven't covered yet, but i already know a few things about some of them from my work experience. So i hope i'll move quickly over them, when their time comes.

In the meantime i have booked 2 Mock Labs for the end of November. I know i won't be ready by then, but i need to find out if i have understood the topics i have already read and to experience the difficulty of a real lab, since all these Mock Labs are said to resemble the real CCIE lab. If i get something above 50%, i'll be quite satisfied.