Cisco Enterprise Wireless (CCIE)

This accelerated CCIE Enterprise Wireless certification assesses and validates wireless expertise.

Achieving the CCIE Enterprise Wireless certification proves your skills with complex enterprise wireless solutions. To earn CCIE Enterprise Wireless certification, you pass two exams: a qualifying exam that covers core enterprise technologies, and a hands-on lab exam that covers enterprise wireless networks through entire network lifecycle, from designing and deploying to operating and optimizing.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the Cisco exam, and achieve your CCIE Enterprise Wireless certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Module 1: Dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) architecture

• Explain the different design principles used in an enterprise network
  • Enterprise network design such as Tier 2, Tier 3, and Fabric Capacity planning
  • High availability techniques such as redundancy, FHRP, and SSO
• Analyse design principles of a WLAN deployment
• Wireless deployment models (centralized, distributed, controller-less, controller based, cloud, remote branch)
  • Location services in a WLAN design
• Differentiate between on-premises and cloud infrastructure deployments
• Explain the working principles of the Cisco SD-WAN solution
• SD-WAN control and data planes elements
• Traditional WAN and SD-WAN solutions
• Explain the working principles of the Cisco SD-Access solution
  • SD-Access control and data planes elements
  • Traditional campus interoperating with SD-Access
• Describe concepts of wired and wireless QoS
• QoS components
  • QoS policy
• Differentiate hardware and software switching mechanisms
  • Process and CEF
  • MAC address table and TCAM
  • FIB vs. RIB

Module 2: Virtualization

• Describe device virtualization technologies
  • Hypervisor type 1 and 2
  • Virtual machine
  • Virtual switching
• Configure and verify data path virtualization technologies
• VRF
  • GRE and IPsec tunneling
• Describe network virtualization concepts
  • LISP
  • VXLAN

Module 3: Infrastructure

• Layer 2
  • Troubleshoot static and dynamic 802.1q trunking protocols
  • Troubleshoot static and dynamic EtherChannels
  • Configure and verify common Spanning Tree Protocols (RSTP and MST)
• Layer 3
• Compare routing concepts of EIGRP and OSPF (advanced distance vector vs. linked state, load balancing, path selection, path operations, metrics)
  • Configure and verify simple OSPF environments, including multiple normal areas, summarization, and filtering (neighbour adjacency, point-to-point and broadcast network types, and passive interface)
  • Configure and verify eBGP between directly connected neighbours (best path selection algorithm and neighbour relationships)
• Wireless
  • Describe Layer 1 concepts, such as RF power, RSSI, SNR, interference noise, band and channels, and wireless client devices capabilities
  • Describe AP modes and antenna types
  • Describe access point discovery and join process (discovery algorithms, WLC selection process)
  • Describe the main principles and use cases for Layer 2 and Layer 3 roaming
  • Troubleshoot WLAN configuration and wireless client connectivity issues
• IP Services
• Describe Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • Configure and verify NAT/PAT
  • Configure first hop redundancy protocols, such as HSRP and VRRP
  • Describe multicast protocols, such as PIM and IGMP v2/v3

Module 4: Network assurance

• Diagnose network problems using tools such as debugs, conditional debugs, trace route, ping, SNMP, and syslog
• Configure and verify device monitoring using syslog for remote logging
• Configure and verify NetFlow and Flexible NetFlow
• Configure and verify SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN
• Configure and verify IPSLA
• Describe Cisco DNA Center workflows to apply network configuration, monitoring, and management
• Configure and verify NETCONF and RESTCONF

Module 5: Security

• Configure and verify device access control
  • Lines and password protection
  • Authentication and authorization using AAA
• Configure and verify infrastructure security features
• ACLs
  • CoPP
• Describe REST API security
• Configure and verify wireless security features
• EAP
  • WebAuth
  • PSK
• Describe the components of network security design
  • Threat defense
  • Endpoint security
  • Next-generation firewall
  • TrustSec, MACsec
  • Network access control with 802.1X, MAB, and WebAuth

Module 6: Automation

• Interpret basic Python components and scripts
• Construct valid JSON encoded file
• Describe the high-level principles and benefits of a data modeling language, such as YANG
• Describe APIs for Cisco DNA Center and vManage
• Interpret REST API response codes and results in payload using Cisco DNA Center and RESTCONF
• Construct EEM applet to automate configuration, troubleshooting, or data collection
• Compare agent vs. agentless orchestration tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack

There are no prerequisites for this accelerated course but CCIE candidates are recommended to have five to seven years of experience with designing, deploying, operating and optimizing enterprise wireless technologies and solutions prior to taking the exam.

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered Certification Guarantee:

CCIE Enterprise Wireless Exam

The CCIE Enterprise Wireless certification program validates your expertise with the latest technologies for today’s enterprise wireless job roles. To earn CCIE Enterprise Wireless, you complete two exams:

Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (350-401 ENCOR) Exam

This exam focuses on your knowledge of enterprise infrastructure including dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) architecture, virtualization, infrastructure, network assurance, security, and automation

• Duration: 120 minutes
• Domains:
  • Dual stack (IPv4 and IPv6) architecture 15%
  • Virtualization 10%
  • Infrastructure 30%
  • Network assurance 10%
  • Security 20%
  • Automation 15%

CCIE Enterprise Wireless v1.0 Labs Exam

The 8-hour, hands-on lab exam, CCIE Enterprise Wireless v1.0, covers the end-to-end lifecycle of complex enterprise wireless technologies from designing and deploying, to operating and optimizing