Passed CCIE Writtem Exam v4.0

During the exam, at question 12-13 after hard multicast and Cisco IOS Firewall, i thought that could be hard. But as closer to the end, i had a good feeling :) and finally got ->

Score 921/1000


Had 77 questions. It was really mixed, every thing was asked. From QoS, over Multicast with MSDP, a few and very easy Spanning-Tree questions,easy BGP ones,hard Cisco IOS Firewall questions (never done this), Routing-Scenarios are doable. Almost everything from the blueprint mixed-up. In September 09 i tried the CCIE R&S 4.0 beta but failed. 80 % of the questions were about Spanning-Tree in CCIE v4 beta. Really though questions about BPDU packets and things like that. I was very frigthened for Spanning-Tree today, but the questions were CCNA-level ones.

What i used for preparation ->

- Routing TCP/IP Vol1 and Vol2 as refresher - the compendium
- MPLS VPN Architectures - Peplnjak - the best MPLS VPN book - learn MPLS VPN in a day
- Deploying IPv6 Networks - ISBN 1-58705-210-5 - the IPv6 book, not like the normal ones "IPv6 has a greater address space" i can't hear it anymore
- Internet Routing Architectures - Sam Halabi - (best BGP book)-(2nd Edition) (ISBN 9781578702336)

- Cisco Documnetation
- Work experience -> 8 years -> 3 years as CCNP -> 2 years as CCIP
- BCMSN,MCAST,BSCI,ONT,ISCW materials from Gl*b*l kno*l*dge

Review befor written exam
- CCIE Routing and Swichting Exam Certification Guide, Third Edition - ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-196-7
- CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam Blueprint -> Cisco Documentations and Configuration Guides


Just a perfect day ...