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The comprehensive Service Provider written exam (CCIE ) has 100 multiple-choice questions and is two hours in duration. The topic areas listed are general guidelines for the type of content that is likely to appear on the CCIE ; exam. Please note, however, that other relevant or related topic areas may also appear.

Service Provider Network General
SP Network Structure and Components
Service Provisioning
Organizations and Standards
ISP design principle, RFC3439
Layer 2 technology
ATM
POS
DPT/RPR
PPP
Frame Relay
Ethernet

IP
IPv4, IPv6
Multi-protocol BGP
ISIS
OSPF
RIP, EIGRP, Static
Multicast Addressing
IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM, Bir PIM
Rendezvous Points
Inter domain Multicast
Multicast VPN

MPLS
FEC, Label
Frame mode and Cell mode
Label distribution Protocol
Traffic Engineering
GMPLS

VPN
Intra AS MPLS VPN
Inter AS MPLS VPN
Carrier Supporting Carrier
AToM
Metro Ethernet
L2TPv3
GRE
802.1QinQ

Security
IP spoofing, Denial of Service (DoS), DDoS, Worm
Data Plane Security
Control Plane security
Management Plane Security
Intrusion/Anomaly detection
Attack mitigation
Best Common Practices (BCP)

Quality of Service
Service level agreement
Classification
Marking
Policing
Shaping
Queuing
Congestion management
MPLS VPN QOS

High Availability
NSF/SSO
Sonet APS, RPR, 802.1w
Graceful Restart, VRRP, GLBP, IP Event Dampening
Fast reroute, Link/Node protection
Global Server Load Balancing

High End Product
CRS-1
GSR 12000
IOS-XR