CCIE Qualification Exam Test Format

The CCIE Routing and Switching qualification exam uses the typical certification test format with multiple-choice questions that have one or more correct answers per question. What makes some of questions more difficult on the exam is that more than five answer choices are listed for all or most questions. This reduces the effectiveness of eliminating obviously incorrect answers and choosing from the remaining answers.

The topics tested include the following:

  • Cisco device operation

  • General networking theory

  • Bridging and LAN switching

  • Internet Protocol

  • IP routing protocols

  • Desktop protocols

  • Performance management

  • WAN (addressing, signaling, framing, and so on)

  • LAN

  • Security

  • Multiservice

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