Goals

Our goal in this book is not to instruct you on how to pass the CCIE practical exam, but rather to guide the engineer through the process of deploying and modeling different WAN and LAN technologies in laboratory environments ”in essence, the same principles that the CCIE exam is measuring. It is our hope that you will use this book not only for your studies but also has a reference in the field.

When we began crafting this book, we originally wanted to include every topic that we could find on the CCIE test. Our first outline had BGP, IPX, AppleTalk, DECnet, and so on, but soon we realized that we simply could not cover all the possible topics on the CCIE practical exam in a single book. Topics such as BGP require more than a hundred pages to cover properly at the CCIE level. We did not want to include these topics just for the sake of having them. Therefore, we have already begun work on CCIE Practical Studies, Volume II. This book will cover many of the topics that we simply could not fit into the first volume. These topics include BGP, IPX, multicast, and VPN, among others.