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The Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE® Routing and Switching provides network engineers who have three to five years of experience with an effective, job-relevant, and proven program to build expert-level skills and prepare for the rigorous Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching certification exams.

In as little as six months to one year, program participants will elevate their command of technical topics and develop skills for tackling the challenges that appear in real-life networks and in the CCIE lab exams. Authorized by Cisco, this unique program combines an expert-level curriculum with current, realistic lab scenarios, and a 360-degree learning approach. Learners can study while on the job and maximize their development of expert-level skills and knowledge in a prescriptive, methodical manner.

A Choice of Training SolutionsThe Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE R&S tailors preparation for the CCIE exams by allowing candidates to choose training products and services individually or in preassembled product bundles (Essentials, Preferred, and Premium) from specially authorized Cisco Learning Partners.

Key FeaturesExpert curriculum authorized by Cisco: • The cur-riculum was developed by Cisco and is aligned with CCIE certification.

Blended learning:• The program is flexible and serves learners with various learning styles and on-the-job responsibilities. The Cisco 360 Learning Program approach includes live instruction, self-paced instruction, text, video, and real-time collab-orative learning opportunities.

Intensive hands-on lab format:• Over 300 hours of hands-on, practical lab scenarios are offered employing a standardized topology. The program includes two- and four-hour focused technology labs and nine-hour comprehensive labs designed to be as complex as the CCIE certification lab.

Online learning management system:• The Learning Management System (LMS) is accessible twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, and tracks, scores, and drives progress for learners and reporting for management.

Assessment-driven format: • Assessments are replete with quiz-style learning checks and graded practical labs, and include answer keys, opportuni-ties for the participant to retake the assessment, and prescriptive feedback for additional learning.

Standards-based program:• The curriculum is developed and maintained by Cisco CCIE cur-riculum developers and instructional designers to meet or exceed the standards set by the industry recognized certification.

Learning Management System DrivenAll products offer the full benefit of the program’s blended learning approach through the Cisco 360 Learning Program LMS. The LMS is a learning portal that provides access to the products and services available to learners. The LMS keeps track of all learner activities, logs learner and mentor comments, hosts lessons, labs, and a library, and offers access to the mentor guide. The LMS enables learners to track and trend their progress over an extended time period, work with a designated mentor.

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Cisco 360 Learning Program Brief DescriptionProduct Guide


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CIERS-1 Workshop 1 x A 5-day workshop that includes more than 30 hours of live instructor-led training and 16 hours of assessment labs, including instructor time and feedback to provide learner mentoring and support. This course covers foundational routing and switching technologies and introduces the “issue spotting/options analysis” problem-solving approach. This course is designed for CCIE candidates who are in the intermediate phase of CCIE preparation.

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CIERS-2 Workshop 2 x A 5-day workshop that includes more than 16 hours of live instructor-led training and 32 hours of assessment learning labs, including instructor time and feedback to provide learner mentoring and support. In this course, learners perform five performance assessment labs, one each day. After each lab, the instructor will review each lab with the learners. This course is designed for CCIE candidates who are in their final phase of CCIE preparation.

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CIERS Reference Library

x x x A 2000-page searchable-text library of advanced networking technical documentation, options analysis, and best practices for professional network engineers preparing for their CCIE R&S certification.

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CIERS Practice Lab Workbook

x x x The workbook includes 30 advanced networking scenarios that enable learners to practice networking configurations in a learning environment. Includes color-coded answer key and the mentoring tools, which enable learners to match their configurations in detail with correct configurations. Five labs have been added with a 25-point troubleshooting section and a 75-point configuration section to reflect the recent changes in the CCIE Routing and Switching Lab v4.0.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson IPv6

x x x A concentrated and downloadable focused lesson on the topic of IPv6. Specifically configuring IPv6 over link layer technologies, IPv6 unicast routing, and IPv4 to IPv6 migration. Includes 7 hours of video on demand instruction accompanied by supplementary quizzes as learning reviews, and 4 focused, hands-on labs on configuring IPv6.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson Frame Relay

x x x A downloadable focused lesson on the topic of Frame Relay. Specifically covers Frame Relay link-level issues, routing over Frame Relay, Frame Relay QoS, and the features of Frame Relay. Includes 5 hours of video on demand instruction, accompanied by supplementary quizzes as learning reviews, and 4 hands-on labs focused on the subject of configuring Frame Relay.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson Cat QoS

x x x A downloadable focused lesson on the topic of Catalyst QoS. Specifically covers Catalyst 3560 QoS trust and marking issues, Catalyst 3560 policing, and shaped and shared round-robin queuing with the Catalyst 3560. Included are 2 video on demand instruction lessons on Catalyst QoS, accompanied by supple-mentary quizzes as learning reviews.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson Link Layer

x x x A downloadable focused lesson on the topic of link layer. Specifically covers configuring a GRE/IP in IP tunnel, provisioning a Catalyst port, configuring all varia-tions of trunking, configuring EtherChannel, and configuring variations of spanning tree. Included are 7 hours of video on demand instruction on link layer tech-nologies accompanied by supplementary quizzes as learning reviews, and 2 hands-on focused labs on the subject of configuring link layer technologies.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson IGP

x x x A downloadable focused lesson on the topic of IGP. Specifically covers OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv2, and redistribution. Included are approximately 7 hours of video on demand instruction on IGP routing protocols accompanied by supplementary quizzes as learning reviews, and 2 hands-on labs focused on the subject of configuring IGP routing protocols.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson BGP

x x x A downloadable focused lesson on the topic of BGP. Specifically covers forming all types of BGP neighbor relationships, originating BGP updates, filtering BGP updates, aggregating BGP updates, and manipulating BGP path selection. Includes over 7 hours of video on demand instruction on BGP accompanied by supplementary quizzes as learning reviews, and 2 hands-on labs focused on the subject of configuring BGP.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson MPLS

x x x A downloadable focused lesson on the topic of MPLS, with emphasis on MPLS Layer 3 VPNs. Included are 7 videos comprising approximately 1.75 hours of viewing time, including the following topics: MPLS fundamentals, MP-BGP, deploying OSPF and EIGRP with MPLS Layer 3 VPNs, and deploying VRF-Lite.

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CIERS Self-Paced Lesson Troubleshooting

x x x A downloadable focused lesson on the topic of troubleshooting. Specifically covers troubleshooting principles and tools, troubleshooting link layer issues, troubleshooting routing issues (both unicast and multicast), and troubleshooting IP services. Includes approximately 7 hours of video on demand instruction accompanied by supplementary quizzes as learning reviews, and 2 hands-on labs focused on the subject of troubleshooting.

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CIERS Preassessment Lab

x x x This lab provides an assessment of the baseline skills for performing minimal hands-on expert-level tasks under time pressure. To move forward in CCIE prepa-ration activities, a CCIE candidate must possess a verifiable minimum threshold of hands-on configuration skills with Cisco routers and switches. The purpose of this lab is to validate that a CCIE candidate possesses these minimum requirements.

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CIERS-1 Performance Assessment 1

x x This performance assessment lab consists of 7 sections. It is intended as an assessment of the CCIE candidate's foundational knowledge of R&S topics such as Frame Relay, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, BGP, and redistribution. This lab is also included in the Cisco 360 CCIE Routing and Switching Advanced Workshop 1 curriculum.

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x x This performance assessment lab consists of 2 sections—a troubleshooting section and a configuration section. It is intended as an assessment of the founda-tional R&S topics: data link layer technologies, IGP, route redistribution, and BGP.

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x x This challenging learning lab consists of 15 sections, and is intended as an assessment for learners who are learning the advanced topics in the CCIE curricu-lum. It includes ODR configuration, IPv6 routing, QoS, multicast, address administration, and SNMP. This lab is also included in the Cisco 360 CCIE Routing and Switching Advanced Workshop 2 curriculum.

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x x This performance assessment lab consists of two sections—a troubleshooting section and a configuration section. It is intended as an assessment for students who are learning the advanced topics in the CCIE curriculum. It includes IPv4 routing, IPv6 routing, QoS, Multicast, Address Administration, First Hop Routing Protocol Redundancy, Network Security, VRF Lite, NTP Configuration and NAT. This lab is also included in the CIERS-2 Workshop curriculum.

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x x This difficult learning lab consists of 14 sections, and is intended as an assessment for learners who are mastering the advanced topics in the CCIE curriculum. It includes BGP, IP services, IPv6 connectivity, IPv6 RIP, IPv6 OSPF, QoS, multicast, and Cisco IOS Software features. This lab is also included in the Cisco 360 CCIE Routing and Switching Advanced Workshop 2 curriculum.

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C!ERS-2 Performance Assessment 4

x x This challenging learning lab consists of 15 sections, and is intended as an assessment for learners who are learning the advanced topics in the CCIE curricu-lum. It includes VPNs, OSPF, IPv6 routing, QoS, multicast, traffic administration, BGP, and security. This lab is also included in the Cisco 360 CCIE Routing and Switching Advanced Workshop 2 curriculum.

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x x This learning lab consists of 10 sections. It is intended as an assessment of the foundational R&S topics including Catalyst switch configuration, OSPF, ODR, RIP, multicast, BGP, EIGRP, IGP, and route redistribution.

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CIERS Performance Assessment 1

x x x This performance assessment lab consists of two sections—a troubleshooting section and a configuration section. It is intended as an assessment for students who are mastering the advanced topics in the CCIE curriculum. It includes Frame Relay, Cisco Catalyst switch configuration, IPv4 Routing, IPv6 Routing, BGP, MP BGP, MPLS.VPN, traffic control , RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, QoS, Multicast, Network Security, Network Services and Gateway Redundancy. This lab is not included in any workshop.

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x x x This difficult assessment lab consists of 14 sections, and is intended as an assessment for learners who are mastering the advanced topics in the CCIE curricu-lum. It includes Frame Relay, switch configuration, OSPF, BGP, traffic control, IPv6 routing, RIP, QoS, multicast, and EIGRP. This lab is not included in any workshop.

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x x x This difficult assessment lab consists of 15 sections, and is intended as an assessment for learners who are mastering the advanced topics in the CCIE curricu-lum. It includes Frame Relay, switch configuration, OSPF, BGP, traffic control, IPv6 routing, RIP, QoS, multicast, and EIGRP. This lab is not included in any workshop.

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x x x This difficult assessment lab consists of 11 sections, and is intended as an assessment for learners who are mastering the advanced topics in the CCIE curricu-lum. It includes Frame Relay, switch configuration, OSPF, BGP, traffic control, IPv6 routing, RIP, QoS, multicast, NTP, network management, and EIGRP. This lab is not included in any workshop.

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Cisco 360 Learning Program Brief Description

Service and Support: Delivered Only by Specially Selected Cisco Learning PartnersOnly authorized Cisco Learning Partners can offer the Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE Routing and Switching. These partners are selected by Cisco for their ability to deliver expert-level training through their CCIE and Certified Cisco Systems Instructors. Select Cisco Learning Partners also offer optional program elements such as mentor services, equipment access and rental services for lab practice, or prepaid vouchers for CCIE lab exam registration. Utilizing the services of your locally authorized Cisco Learning Partners guarantees that you are receiving the most current and proficient training, fully supported and authorized by Cisco. In addition, most Cisco Learning Partners accept Cisco Learning Credits, which offer a valuable way to budget and procure your Cisco training.

Why Cisco?Cisco has defined the role of an expert network engineer through the highly regarded CCIE certification, which has also set the standard for performance-based skills assessment.

For More InformationFor more information about the Cisco 360 Learning Program packages and resources, including custom training options, visit: www.cisco.com/go/360.

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Figure 2 Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE R&S Recommended Learning Plan

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