In March of this year, I passed my CCIE Voice lab, on my second attempt. To give you a bit of history, I learned on my first attempt that time management was a critical skill for the lab. In fact, after my first attempt, I told the proctor that I could have finished given another three hours. Obviously, I poorly managed my time.

Part of my poor time management was spending too much time on troubleshooting tasks. Part of it was spending too much time verifying my work, and part of it time was spent performing tasks inefficiently.

So, while gearing up for my second attempt, I developed a set of strategies that served me well. In this blog posting, I’d like to share those strategies with you at a high level.
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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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In this post we are going to consider a complex fictitious customer requirement that needs to be solved.

You have been asked to provide a response to a customer that requires the barge feature to work between two phones that are provisioned with a shared line. The barge feature should give the capability of a user of one of the phones to barge into an active call that is present on the other instance of the shared line – the “result” of the barge will be a three way conference call that includes the two phones with the shared line and a third party such as a caller from the PSTN. In addition users should also be given the option to press a button on the phone to make a call private and hence disable the barge feature. The final requirement is that this feature needs to work if there is a WAN outage.
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In this blog we will discuss some of the problems CFUR causes with respect to call routing. I’m hoping to make this an interactive blog so please document any further questions and your solutions in the comments section at the end.

Background Information

We have an enterprise with phones and gateways at three sites, which are known as Site-A, Site-B and Site-C. The UCM cluster is located at Site-A. Site-B and Site-C are remote sites that have devices registered to the UCM cluster at Site-A.
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