CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure How to Prepare

hey everyone in this video I wanted to go over how to prepare for the CCIE enterprise infrastructure lab exam I'm not saying this is the only way to prepare but this is the way that I've been doing it so far and after watching Cisco's webinars recently on the lab exam I think I've solidified a pretty good process and a bunch of tools that I think will be really helpful most of which are free now the first thing you're gonna want to do is obviously on Cisco's website go to the lab exam topics and bookmark this page this is the blueprint this is our Bible you're gonna want to stick to the topics here there could be more stuff on the exam but the topic scope is pretty huge I think this is a great way to really focus in on what's important so for example you know start with switching go through these topics make sure you know them then go to routing Vig RP OSPF bgp multicast and then you know once you have that down you know start going through to Software Defined stuff etc etc etc I don't need to go through the whole blueprint right here but this is you know our source of truth for the exam or really want to focus on the blueprint so how do we go about you know learning all this stuff well my mind there's three really good ways which are books or / reading videos and labs so I'll cover all three and don't worry I will get to I know everyone's always curious about how to do SD access and SEO and I'll get to that but first let's just go over Jenner in a general sense how to get books so the reading list for the CCI you lab exam is gonna be massive you you could buy all of them if you want but I personally think that's a waste of time and money I think the best way to do it would be to go to O'Reilly online books so what we have here is we could search for whatever we want like let's say we want the edge ERP search for ERG RB and we're gonna get videos from Russ white which is obviously always a great resource we have books more books we have Cisco press guides we even have the Encore guide you know every Cisco press book plus more is on here and one of the cool things is if you you know people do share playlists you can create your own playlists so I have you know an automation playlist CCIE network design programming all these different playlists and if I click into my CCIE playlist here's all the books that I think you know maybe I've read already or I'm planning on reading or at least referencing for the CCIE so you can see I have ipv6 I have BGP videos routing design even TC IP IP tcp/ip Illustrated vol 1 which we know was a great book and 2 n qo s guides a vendor-independent QoS guide multicast etc etc all these books tcp/ip vol 1 going to all this stuff and these are a lot of books so if you if I spend all the money on this it would be tons of money and the nice thing too is that I don't I don't know sometimes I feel like if I buy a book I feel the need to read it cover-to-cover the next thing about safaris you really don't need to read things covered and cover so for example like this enterprise book for the new enterprise exam let's say I'm just working on QoS and I just want to take a quick you know maybe you'll read the quick chapter chapter about QoS I could jump in here and start you know start coming in and learning about all these QoS mechanisms which are in this chapter somewhere maybe I picked a bad chapter but anyway now here we go qo strategies so I could just read this and then I can go on to a different booklet maybe enter the QoS design and read that now Safari I believe is about $400 a year but we can get that a lot cheaper and the way we do that is through ACM this is the Association for Computing Machinery if you join this it's actually only a hundred bucks a year and through this I bookmark the Learning Center I think I could have joined here but anyway once you have once you have an ACM membership you can go to their Learning Center and they provide you a link where you could actually go right to Safari and you know I could sign in and here's Safari so I'm or I keep saying Safari it's now O'Reilly I have access to it through my ACM membership for only $100 so for reading books I highly recommend this you could take notes in the books you know you things like that but this has a tons of books and not just Cisco press books I mean I'm talking tons and tons of technical resources the other thing I recommend for reading is obviously getting to know the Cisco documentation just coming into the product support you know we can go into routers we can we can get products for here we can go into iOS I'm not gonna jump through everything although I don't know why this sites being weird for me but get to get to know the Cisco documentation it's gonna be available to us on the lab but all the really nitty-gritty stuff is gonna be in the documentation the other thing I recommend for reading is and I'll post these in the the description below but there is an ST LAN design guide which obviously is gonna be important to us this is a free book that Cisco gives there also is an SD when deployment guide which again you know I mean I don't think we have to do necessarily employ any man in the in the lab but we do need to know how to configure it how to spin up sites we need to know how to design it cetera so this is another one that up later it's a pretty large PDF actually so there's also a SD win book that they kind of gave out again it's another free book so I'll put all these in the description you don't need to watch we're at load but again for for reading in books recommend O'Reilly looking at the design guides looking at the Cisco documentation and I'll put the SD Lam books in the description below so now we can go away from books and reading and let's go over to videos I have an ine subscription and even though things have been a little bit different over the past six months with them being acquired by a private investment or private equity firm I believe Bryan's CCIE routing to switching advanced technologies course for V 5.1 I believe is still the best video source for 60% of the topics again go through the blueprint and view videos based on the blueprint he'll he'll give you and when I say 60% this entire first section of routing switching which is 30% MPLS and dmvpn will be on there so that's another 15% and then this infrastructure security and services which is you know all our network security QoS first opportunity protocols that kind of stuff that stuff is all taken from the old are des exam so that makes up you know 15 15 30 that makes up 16% or 60% of the exam so I would view 60% of videos right here through Bryan's course I I don't think there's a better video course right now for this exam that being said there still is the programmability part and the Software Defined part which makes up the other 40% of the exam for those Cisco live Cisco live on-demand library is gonna be the way to go this is a huge resource of just free videos from all the Cisco lives from the past and all the different sessions I've bookmarked a few that I think are really great for example this one here from Nick Russo the troubleshooting OSPF fantastic I think this is one of the best ways to learn OSPF you could provide the whole session video and read the presentation along with it another video that I thought was really great is the intro to IP multicast I had a hard time with you know Brian from ING his multicast videos are good but they're really not great for beginners I think Tim's IP multicast video here is awesome from to learn it from scratch so if you don't have any multicast experience you know check out this video and again it's free and as far as SEO and stuff goes did I bookmark one I did so there's SDY and deep dive which is a Cisco live one there's an SD win policies which this is really the bread and butter of SD WAM is learning how to use policies and there's also Cisco live SD access which this is a look under the hood at Cisco SD access so again these resources are freely available to us for Cisco live on demand now another free resource that we get from Cisco and don't worry I'll put out all these links below is the platinum library limited this is again is another free resource you do have to have a Cisco login it is a free resource that we can get some courses and interesting to us is there is this SD LAN mastery collection so if you really want to learn SD weigh in for free you know you can go through these course I did find them a little bit dry but if they still go into detail I personally would skim over some sections but they do have this whole course here they also have Cisco DNA Center courses again for free so SD access planning and deploying STI so let's say that's when playing in it and deploying as the access this is a fundamental course and I could launch it which I don't know if I logged in or not I must have but again it's free and now we have this whole course in here of the overview installing it bringing up the fabric bringing up the underlay deploying se so all this is free so for those of you who are really worried about learning SD access and SD when we have the resources so that that takes us through videos the other thing I would do or the next part is going to be labs so there's two kind of different components to labs one is how do I lab and the other one is where do I get you know maybe some lab work books or things to do so the first one I'll say is going back to IME really quick not bookmark sorry I meant to hit workbooks you do get a bunch of workbooks if you have an IME subscription and you don't just get routing and quitting you do get routing and quitting routing and switching and get service provider security data center in collab the data center is beta but regardless some of these like if I want to dig deeper into MPLS maybe I'll go to the service provider one or if I want to look into dmvpn and IP sec a little bit more I can come to the security v4 lab but if I go to the routing and switching v5 lab workbook I still have my switching I still have you know routing I could skip over rip because that's not on our exam anymore I have AI GRP OSPF redistribution bgp MPLS dmvpn multicast you know ipv6 QoS etc etc this is still 60% of our exam you know so yeah I&E doesn't have labs for SD 1 or SD access but we still have labs here for 60% of the exam for SD 1 and SD access I would say the best spot to start now is definite definite obviously is gonna cover our program programmability ports of it but we also do have SD wound stuff so i can search for SD when and you know i can start working through some of these labs so some of some of them are obviously gonna be things that we don't need like we don't need to know SD way and ansible pipelines but st way on api's that's on the the blab blueprint so we do need to know how to use api to the SD way so this is a good spot to get some some practice the other thing besides dev net is using the d cloud with d cloud and I don't know if I believe that vlog in but with D cloud this is a place that Cisco does have some sand boxes that we can you know reserve and get into to actually get some hands-on with Cisco equipment again totally free the last thing I would say for labs is there are some here so let's say I do I think it was CCIE foundations yeah by Narvik this is basically again it's for the RNs but this is labs for again 60% of the topics so yeah I mean the sd1 and SDA you might be a little bit harder but we still can do 60% of it for you know the stuff we already have for SD Wham I would go with dev net another thing I would do is if you have a Cisco se I would get them to give you a Nutella serial file so you can play with it you can install SD wanne on gns3 you can stall it even G you can stall it on ESXi I actually do have a video series if you look through my videos about how to setup SD one on gns3 I think that's pretty available pretty easy SD access unfortunately that's the tough one for right now we're pretty much waiting on someone to give us rack rentals Cisco said that they're trying to come up with a way where we can have rack rentals or buy something where we can you know do as the access but it's not it's not the end of the world for now I think I feel like in a few months someone's gonna come out I know core but has course coming out soon and I believe he's gonna start offering rack rentals but in all honesty if we look 25% half of it is SD win and half it's that's the access so you're really only looking at 12% of the exam I wouldn't get bogged down with SD access to start I would go through the rest of the 60% rest I mean you could do 88% of the exam right now and then just have to worry about that 12% when you get to it but I wouldn't let the SD access intimidate you or bog you down the last thing I want to say is to use an emulator even G you could download you've ng for free a great way to lab virtually spin up things gns3 as well Cisco's new C CMP personal is their viral 2.0 and then the thing that I'm actually using right now is ESXi and I think in my next video I'm going to show you how to create and a not an SD way I have a CC IU lab with ESXi but I feel like I covered everything the one other thing I did want to mention is this book and it's called your CCIE lab success strategy the non-technical guidebook this book isn't going to be you know it's not gonna walk you through the CCIE Enterprise as obviously that didn't exist when this book was written but this is a great way to get your mind right to get a strategy and to learn how to go through and what I did should do actually I should check to see if this is on Safari I don't think I actually have ever looked your CCIE lab success strategy it is not on Safari but that's okay it's it's 25 bucks I think it's well worth it this is a fantastic book to kind of get your mind right and it's great advice to go through the CCIE I oh I also want to mention mention one other thing there is an SD access book that's coming out it is from Cisco press it will be on Safari there's also an official Cisco press that's the land book coming out will be on Safari and I think that's it on the next video I'll go through how to set up a VMware ESXi lab but if you guys have any questions let me know I'll leave as many links as possible in the description so if you're going for the CCIE good luck

Channel: Michael O'Brien's CCIE Journey

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Keywords: CCIE, Cisco, SD-WAN, SD-Access, Study

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Length: 20min 4sec (1204 seconds)

Published: Sat May 30 2020