Choosing a right CCIE Enterprise Training Vendor

We have been seeing many companies advertising their training offering for Cisco’s CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure v1.0 exam. Most of these companies have zero network design experience and do not have any Network Automation background.

Cisco’s CCIE Enterprise exam is the new and much more enhanced version of the old, CCIE Routing and Switching exam, which mainly covers traditional technologies.

If you are good at OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, Multicast, QoS, MPLS, etc. you were able to pass the exam.

Things changed and there are many new technologies and architecture in the CCIE Enterprise exam. Thus, the most important thing that you should expect from ccie enterprise infrastructure training is those new technologies and the protocols. Let’s look at what those new things are.

CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Exam will come with a Network Design

CCE Enterprise Infrastructure exam is focusing on the Network Design anymore. 30% of the exam is dedicated to Network Design. You need to understand ‘Why’ when it comes to technologies if network design is concerned.

So far CCIE Exams used to cover only the ‘ How ‘ part for the technologies. But it is not enough. If you don’t understand what you are doing and why you are doing it, then the solution might be wrong, alternative solutions could be better, and so on.

Network Design is very heavy for the exam and there are only very few companies that come with extensive Network Design knowledge and experience.

You should not just understand the theory but also real-life design and deployments when it comes to the traditional and evolving technologies.

CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Exam needs extensive Network Automation skills

A lot of new topics when it comes to Network Automation for the CCIE Enterprise exam need to be covered.

Below are the Network Automation Part of the CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Exam and please ask the training vendor whether they cover all the topics of CCIE Enterprise Blueprint, as many of the well-known training vendors don’t have almost anything when it comes to Network Automation.

Data encoding formats

• JSON
• XML

Automation and scripting

• EEM applets
• Guest shell
• Linux environment
• CLI Python module
• EEM Python module

Programmability

• Interaction with vManage API
• Python requests library and Postman
• Monitoring endpoints
• Configuration endpoints
• Interaction with Cisco DNA Center API
• HTTP request (GET, PUT, POST) via Python requests library and Postman
• Interaction with Cisco IOS XE API
• Via NETCONF/YANG using Python ncclient library
• Via RESTCONF/YANG using Python requests library and Postman
• Deploy and verify model-driven telemetry
• Configure on-change subscription using gRPC