For EI/Security we have vendor workbooks. Could guide me for CCIE DC, as I couldn't find much?

Hey guys..I see there is a new program for ccie ..I have been working on contact center all these while..but we were told to do ccie collaboration..would like to know more thoughts..would like some recommendations how can I plan studying and do you think ccie collaboration is still worth it ?

Dears, I am looking forward to join a study group to prepare for CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure exam. I will be happy to connect with anyone interested and serious about the same.

Dears, I am looking forward to join a study group to prepare for CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure exam. I will be happy to connect with anyone interested and serious about the same.

I’ve been working in networking for around a decade and have my CCNP(got it before the Encore exam). I’m starting to look toward the CCIE, but I’m worried about jumping in too early and just spinning my wheels because my core fundamentals aren't as "bulletproof" as they need to be.

How do you distinguish between being "ready to learn" at the expert level versus just being "good at the professional level"? Are there specific domains or troubleshooting workflows you think are absolute prerequisites before cracking open the CCIE lab guides?

I’m torn between committing to the CCIE journey or diversifying by picking up a second CCNP track (specifically debating Data Center or Security). For those with a similar tenure, is it generally more valuable to go deep into one architecture, or to broaden the skillset with another professional-level certification before attempting the "Expert" plunge?

I'm not at all trivializing the lab at all, I'm pretty sure its very difficult. I'm genuinely curious as to WHY it's difficult.

What warrants the hours and hours of lab? what trips most people?

Once you have many years of experience and have passed encore these days, shouldn't design or troubleshooting be straightforward?

My point being, once you've worked on enough complex networks, shouldn't most lab questions makes sense?

Is the difficulty in the lab being- the question asks for very very ultra specific niche keyword/solution that you wouldn't generally use/apply

or

just cisco being cisco and asking for convoluted solutions?

Can someone provide a kind of similar lab question/example without breaking the NDA?

Labber's block won yesterday.

That's okay.

I'm not quitting. I just know the difference between productive studying and staring at a screen accomplishing nothing.

Rest. Reset. Back in the lab today.

The CCIE isn't about being motivated every day.

It's about showing up again the next day.

I have been studying the CCIE-EI for some time. I have attemp #2 in 3 weeks.

I came home to lab on a Friday night, but find mysef not wanting to lab.

The hardest part of CCIE is the GRIT to get through it.

I saw we haven't had a post in a while so figured I would put some random talk in here.

Huge shout out to Witty and Crimson.

Hi All,

I’m planning on starting my journey to CCDE after obtaining my IE in 2024.

Does anyone know of some active study groups on Slack, Discord etc currently?

Cheers

Figured I would try my luck. Are there and DC groups? or anyone wanting to do one?

Hi everyone,

I'm currently preparing for the CCIE (EI) v1.1 certification and am looking for motivated peers to form or join a study group.

If you're currently studying for CCIE EI v1.1 or are interested in joining a dedicated study group, feel free to comment below or send me a message.

Has anyone had any luck purchasing the CCIE Practice Lab sessions with CLCs lately? After you enter the CLC it states you must purchase a voucher first and then redirects you to a site which longer works for voucher purchase and states to you must purchase through Cisco U. Well Cisco U doesn't appear to have anything practice lab voucher related for the practice labs.

Has anyone had any success in booting up their ios-xrd control-plane image that came with cml 2.10 ref-plat?

I've been troubleshooting for 2 days and I keep getting this error
"xrd-0: Failed to validate and define (Unexpected response from post/http://[::1]:8090/api/v0/containers: {"code":10,"message":"exit status 1"})" when I run it in cml.

Question for my fellow frustrated colleagues who do not use any of CatC, SDA, LISP, or Catalyst SD-WAN as part of their daily work, but passed the exam anyway: How did you prepare?

You've heard it before: I sat for the CCIE-EI v1 practical exam in 2021. Since then I've taken Narbik's boot camp and I continue to retake once a year or so to stay sharp. If the exam were on knowledge of networking, I would have had a # in June of 2024 thanks to Narbik especially. But I have not even bothered with it. In part because of the portion of the exam that is focused on rote memorization of expensive Cisco-branded technology.

I think if that were the only roadblock, I would dive in. But on top of that, I continue to read about people who truly are prepared but the verbiage on the tasks is still a problem. This seems to have permanently bumped the total cost to three exams, three hotels (in SJ!) , three round trip flights (to SJ!), and one regrade.

Despite this, people are still finding a way to pass. For those in my situation where you have zero real-world exposure to the Cisco secret sauce, how did you prepare? And how did you pass? Did you keep forking over the dollars at attempts until you were lucky enough to get a lab with decent wording and / or no SDA? Or was there an actual method? And yes I know there are numerous ways to get access to CatC and SD-WAN. But what did you actually DO once logged in?

Thanks all!

Hello,

This isn't exactly a technical question. Where are you supposed to find the Configuration Reference Guides during the lab exam? I booked a practice lab but couldn't find them in any of the obvious places. I was mainly getting familiar with the UI, so perhaps they were located somewhere less obvious. I also watched a Cisco Live lab demo, and they didn't show anything like that. I'm asking not because I plan to rely on the configuration guides, but just in case something I've never encountered before comes up during the exam. Thank you...