CCIE Voice Lab Exam Power Workshop

Course Overview

This bootcamp is designed to prepare students for the CCIE Voice Lab exam. Over the 10 days candidates refresh their existing knowledge, gather detailed aspects of advanced technology they need to practice and gain vital test taking strategies. The course focuses entirely on practical experience. The students are exposed to full-scale labs that resemble the complexity of the CCIE Voice practical lab. The power workshop is delivered by an experienced CCIE instructor, who will grade and comment on the lab work of the students, provide hints and explain the issues in wrap-up discussions.

Please be aware that these courses do not run to normal course times, all delegates may be required to work late in order to complete the lab exercises. Typical course timings 09.00 to 21.00 Monday to Thursday, 09.00 to afternoon on Friday.

In addition to the lab work that is completed during the 5 day event with the instructor, the delegates will also receive:

• Dedicated equipment rack per student for 24 hours a day (120 hours total) during the boot camp
• 96 hours of additional rack time before or after the lab boot camp
• Boot Camp labs are different to the Lab Workbook labs for additional exposure
• Access to "Customers Only Boot Camp Technical Message Boards".

Audience

This course is aimed at CCIE Voice candidates. The course is of utmost importance for all experienced network engineers who are planning to take the CCIE Voice Exam and would like to quickly refresh their theoretical knowledge and to gain an additional practical experience in deploying advanced voice network solutions.

Skills Gained

Objectives:

• Take the CCIE Voice Lab Exam
• Configure and troubleshoot advanced voice network solution

Examinations

Recommended as preparation for exam(s):

CCIE Voice Lab Exam

Prerequisites

The students should possess an expert level knowledge in the field of Voice and IP Telephony. The class does not cover introductory material and candidates are expected to have a solid level of knowledge of the topics covered in order to receive the full benefit of the class.

Taking the following courses is highly recommended:

• CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP)
• CIPT 1(Cisco IP Telephony Part 1)
• CIPT 2 (Cisco IP Telephony Part 2)
• GWGK (Implementing Cisco Voice Gateways and Gatekeepers)
• TUC (Troubleshooting Unified Communications Manager)
• QOS (Implementing Cisco QOS)
• UCSE (Cisco Unified Communications Systems Engineer)

Course Outline

Day 1-7: Over the first seven days the course covers all practical skills and knowledge required for the CCIE Voice Lab Exam

Day 8: Students develop an individual test taking strategy and improve their speed

Day 9-10: The candidates are exposed to two fullscale labs

Basic Campus Design

• DHCP, TFTP
• Catalyst voice and data VLAN configuration

Cisco CallManager Configuration

• Cisco CallManager groups, redundancies
• Device pools
• Phone registration
• Phone configuration
• Partitions and calling search xpaces
• Pickup, Meetme and adhoc conference

Call Manager Express / SRST

• Basic configuration
• Interaction with Cisco CallManager
• Single-line, Dual-line, Shared-line and Overlay-line
• Call-Blocking, Call-Restrictions
• Configuring directories
• Caller ID blocking
• Paging
• Voicemail integration
• Auto attendant

Voice Gateway and Signaling

• Analog and digital voice protocols: analog FXS, E1, PRI, R2
• VoIP protocols: H323, MGCP, SCCP, RAS
• IOS gateway with NM-HDV
• Catalyst 6500 Gateway with
• WS-X6608-E1OS Gateways with voice translation rules

Call Routing

• CCM route patterns
• CCM route preference and redundancy
• CCM translation patterns
• Cisco CallManager and Gatekeeper configuration
• OS dial peers
• Digit manipulation and translation

Voice CODEC

• Regions
• G711ulaw, G729

Call Admission Control

• Location-based
• RAS-based

High Availability Features

• SRST
• AAR
• Media Resource Management
• Media Resource Groups and Lists
• Conference bridge software and hardware (NM-HDV and WS-X6608-E1)
• Transcoder (NM-HDV and WS-X6608-E1)
• MTP
• MOH

QoS and WAN Considerations

• L2/L3 classifications and policing
• Queuing mechanisms
• LFI
• Catalyst switch QoS
• Multilink over FrameRelay-ATM

Unified Messaging

• Unity voicemail integration
• Unity administration
• Unity Express Voicemail integration
• Unity Express Administration
• CRS/IPCC Express Application
• Default script configuration and integration
• Custom script configuration and integration

Call Manager Voice Applications

Any native applications to Call Manager, examples are extension mobility, attendant console, IPMA

Fax

• Fax pass-through
• Fax relay