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CCIE Voice Lab Opens to Test Takers
09/15/03 ¡ª As it announced it would do last June, Cisco
Systems has launched a lab exam for its Voice CCIE credential.
The Voice over IP written exam costs $300 and lasts two hours.
Topics encompassed in the test include these: campus design, quality
of service, architecture and protocols, SMDI (Simplified Message
Desk Integration), security, capacity planning (voice gateway and
network as well as at the application level), dial plan, high availability,
video, echo theory, fault diagnosis, SIP proxy, coexistence and
migration, unified messaging, call processing, manageability considerations
and 911/E911 considerations. You can read the complete blueprint
of topics for the written exam here.
To achieve the title, a candidate must first pass a written exam
and then tackle the lab -- a hands-on exam that gauges the person's
ability to get the VoIP solution operating in a timed test situation.
Cisco said more than 800 candidates took the written exam during
its beta.
The lab exam, which takes place in San Jose, Calif., lasts eight
hours and costs $1,250. Although basic network connectivity is provided
for the lab, according to Cisco, the candidate must configure the
parameters of the network, such as quality of service, vLANs, gateways,
gatekeepers and so on. Cisco did not say when the lab might expand
to other locations.
An introduction to voice over IP is available on Cisco's site.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk652/tk701/tech_protocol_family_home.html
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