Q. When doe this course start?

A. Thursday, June 7, 2012, 8:00 – 10:30 PM EDT

Q. Who should attend this course?

A. This course assumes the student has already been through at least one practice lab on their own and that they are at least familiar with the technologies on the CCIE Voice Lab blueprint.

Q. What is the basis for the course content?

A. This live on-line boot camp walks the student through a new mock lab (that Kevin Wallace created) over a series of eight sessions.

Q. What distinguishes this boot camp from a tradition boot camp?

A. The biggest difference (huge!) is its focus on lab strategy. There are 12 strategies outlined in what Kevin Wallace calls his “CCIE Voice Alchemy” process, which helps the student “turn their lab day into gold.” This boot camp demonstrates these 12 strategies while working through the new mock lab (in a non-linear fashion).

Q. What is the goal of this bootcamp?

A. The goal is for the student to complete this boot camp with a much deeper understanding of the technologies on the lab, and (maybe even more importantly) have a set of strategies that they can use on lab day to make the most effective use of their time.

Q. Who is this Kevin Wallace guy?

A. Kevin Wallace is a CCIE R&S and Voice. With Cisco experience dating back to 1989 (on a Cisco AGS+ router running Cisco IOS 7.x), Kevin has been a network design specialist for the Walt Disney World Resort, a Senior Technical Instructor for SkillSoft, and a network manager for Eastern Kentucky University. Kevin holds a bachelor’s of science degree in electrical engineering (focusing on digital communications) from the University of Kentucky, and has also authored or co-authored multiple books for Cisco Press, including: Voice over IP First-Step,Cvoice Foundation Learning Guide, TSHOOT Cert Kit, TSHOOT Official Certification Guide, and ROUTE Cert Kit. Kevin’s website is1ExamAMonth.com.

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The following blog post is sample content from the upcoming CCIE R&S Online Troubleshooting Bootcamp.

What might cause an EIGRP neighborship to flap? According to Cisco, many reasons. Here is a summarized list:

• Underlying link flaps.
• Misconfigured hello and hold intervals. The EIGRP hold interval can be set independently of the hello interval if you issue the ip hold-time eigrp command. If you set a hold interval smaller than the hello interval, it results in the neighbors flapping continuously. Cisco recommends that the hold time be at least three times the hello interval. If the value is set less than 3 times the hello interval, there is the chance for link flapping or neighborship flapping.
• Loss of Hello packets: Hello packets can be lost on overly congested links or error-prone links (CRC errors, Frame errors, or excessive collisions).
• Existence of unidirectional links.
• Route goes stuck-in-active. When a router enters the stuck-in-active state, the neighbors from which the reply was expected are reinitialized, and the router goes active on all routes learned from those neighbors.
• Provision of insufficient bandwidth for the EIGRP process. When sufficient bandwidth is not available, packets can be lost, which causes neighbors to go down.
• Bad serial lines.
• Improperly set bandwidth statements.
• One-way multicast traffic.
• Query storms.

In this post, let us examine the second bullet point in great detail at the command line.

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Lagos, Nigeria -  April 30–May 4, 2012

Moscow, Russia – May 14–18, 2012

Johannesburg, South Africa – May 28–June 1, 2012

Cisco Live San Diego, USA – June 9-10, 2012

Click here for more information.

Also, be aware – there is a new Tokyo location for lab exams. For the new address and nearby hotel information – click here.

Anthony Sequeira CCIE, CCSI
Twitter: @compsolv
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This article assumes that you have read and understand the previous article concerning the Cisco Nexus 1000V Architecture. These posts are excerpts from the material covered in the upcoming IPexpert CCIE Data Center Written bootcamp.

Preparing the ESX Servers

In order to run the Nexus 1000V Virtual Ethernet Module (VEM) on a VMware ESX server, you must install the VMware Enterprise Plus license.

The Virtual Supervisor Module (VSM) can run in a VMware Virtual Machine (VM). The VSM VM must possess 4 GB of memory, 2 Network Interface Cards (NICs) – one for management traffic and one for data traffic, and a 64-bit CPU.

The upstream switches must be configured to trunk the VLANs that you intend to use for control, management, packet, vMotion, and VM traffic.

Finally, ensure that a data-center object is created to contain your ESX servers in vCenter.
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Do you still have doubts or fears regarding the much discussed Troubleshooting section of the CCIE R&S practical lab exam? Are you trying to prepare for this section in a vacuum without expert guidance?

The answers are simple. It is time to enroll in our upcoming 8-week Online Operation and Troubleshooting Bootcamp Course. This course is a fraction of the cost of competing products and requires no travel! But the best part? It was painstakingly designed from the ground up by our team of Expert-level instructors here at IPexpert.com to lay all of your doubts and fears to rest – permanently.

Learn both the strategies and the technologies required to pass. It is that simple. Come and get ALL of your questions answered – like these:

• Can I pass with less than 8 tickets solved?
• Are the tickets going to be worded strangely?
• Are any trouble tickets inter-related?
• Can I skip tickets?
• Can I remove features?
• Can I rewrite filters?
• What is the best way to correct an issue?
• What if I solve the problem in a way the grading script isn’t configured to accept?
• How long does it take to read the guidelines?
• Where are the guidelines provided in the user interface?
• Are there more than one issue in a given ticket?
• Will the trouble ticket tell me if there are more than one issue in a ticket?
• Will there be issues that require configuration to be removed?
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