Practice intelligently – Don’t just work on features in a vacuum, i.e. So, master the technologies explicitly listed as well as the foundational technologies that the DC topics are built on.ģ. Anything on the CCIE Data Center Blueprint is fair game. DO NOT neglect the networking fundamentals. So, I opted to go straight for the Expert-level exam.Ģ.
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I have almost 2 years of UCS Professional Services experience and significant hands-on with Nexus and Storage technologies. Depending on your experience level with Cisco Data Center Tech, you may be ready to skip CCNA & CCNP Data Center and to go straight to the CCIE level. With that out of the way, here are a few observations\tips to help you in your own CCIE Data Center Journey.ġ. Cisco is very particular about its NDA requirements, and I would prefer not be banned from their Certification Programs. So, let me get the obvious out the way for the folks looking for detailed reports of the exam content: No, I will not be revealing any of the questions from the exam either here or via e-mail to any degree. This is an exam that will really test not just the advanced Cisco Data Center technologies, but your knowledge of the fundamentals as well. As prepared as I thought I was (hey, I can configure OTV in my sleep: both Inline and OTV-on-a-Stick variants), I still failed. A couple of weeks ago, I took the CCIE Data Center Lab Exam.