More Information on the Official Cisco CCIE Practice Labs!

Here is a lot more information we have for students regarding these Practice Labs – enjoy!

• Each practice lab costs $50
• You can get registered and pay here: https://ccie-practice.cisco.com/
• Each practice lab is 4 hours total in length
• You must have taken and passed at least one written qualification exam
• The equipment is that of the actual lab; you will have the same set of devices, the same software set, and a topology that is representative of the topology used in the CCIE lab exam
• Practice labs come with scenarios that focus on specific technology solutions
• You are not required to follow the practice lab scenario – you can do whatever you want with the equipment during your four hour session
• There are currently practice labs written for the Enterprise Infrastrucutre and Security CCIE domains; Cisco is promising to grow this concept to the other tracks
• The actual lab titles you can choose from currently are:
  • SD-WAN Basic Routing Lab
  • SD-WAN Intermediate Routing 
  • SD-WAN Intermesiate Routing and Security 
  • SDA (Software-Defined Access) Basic Provisioning 
  • SDA Inter-VN Connectivity Including Fusion
  • AMP
  • WSA (Web Security Applicance) 
  • ESA (Email Security Appliance) 
  • DNAC
  • Remote Access VPNs
  • Site-to-Site VPNs
• All you require to experience the practice labs are a PC, Mac, or Linux machine with an Internet connection and the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client
• You are permitted one scheduled lab session at a time
• You may schedule a new session immediately upon completion of your current session
• Labs may be repeated as many times as you like (or can afford)
• You must have passed the written qualification exam (and Cisco checks!)
• It can take as long as two weeks before your written exam results can be used for verification in the Practice Lab system
• Cisco does not provide refunds or cancelations for any reason
• Cisco has a very detailed and aggressive anti-sharing policy for the Practice Labs – it is almost as harshly stated as the actual lab exam itself ; do not even think about sharing or videoing the contents of the practice lab – I bet you would receive a very stern letter from Cisco (as a first step)
• You can schedule the practice labs as far as four months out
• The practice exam pods cannot be refreshed or reset during the four hour lab session
• The practice lab exams do not come with solutions or verifications
• Your confirations are destroyed when the lab ends