Basic Package
Cisco 360 Learning Program for CCIE Routing and Switching - Package that includes Assessment Labs, Lessons(VODs, Quizzes and Practice Labs), Exercise Workbook, and Reference Library.
The BASIC Package is comprised of Self-Paced eLearning offerings that were developed by Cisco and Cisco Learning Partners to cover the BASICS of expert training and preparation. The BASIC package is the foundation of the 360 Program and is a pre-requisite for advanced material.
Exercise Workbook
Expertise can only be attained through constant on-going practice. The Exercise Workbook provides a series of challenging hands-on practice labs to allow learners to develop a solid level of expertise. Each exercise comes with a detailed answer key and support from the interactive Mentor Guide.
Once you have attained a basic understanding of internetworking technologies, you need to re-enforce and enhance your understanding by performing multiple hands-on practice labs that are comprised of challenging expert level tasks. The Cisco 360 Exercise Workbook provides this resource! This Workbook includes 25 challenging full-length scenarios. Each scenario is accompanied with a detailed Answer Key complete with useful diagrams and tables as well as a repository of Cisco 360 Mentor Guide output.
With the Cisco 360 Mentor Guide, a user can access a web-based interface and enter in an IOS show command as if they were on an actual rack of routers. This will allow each student to compare the results of their final configuration with the output generated by the Cisco 360 Mentor Guide.
Assessment Labs
As perform all of the learning activities in this program, you want to know what degree of progress you are making. The Assessment Labs allow you to perform this measurement. Furthermore, the Assessment Labs allow you to maximize your learning experience with each assessment you perform by providing detailed score reports that are linked to answer key and access to the interactive Mentor Guide.
The CCIE preparation process is a multi-stage endeavor. As you perform each of the learning activities in this program and complete each stage of learning, you want to know what degree of progress you are making. The Graded Assessment Labs allow you to perform this measurement. Not only to the Graded Assessment Labs provide you with a measurement of your progress, Furthermore, the Assessment Labs allow you to maximize your learning experience with each assessment you perform by providing detailed score reports that are linked to detailed answer keys and access to the interactive Mentor Guide. When the interactive Mentor Guide is applied to Graded Assessment Labs, you are able to compare the IOS output of your final configuration with the master final configuration as if you were still logged on to a set of routers and switches!
Once you have taken a series of Assessment Labs, you will establish a trend of performance. Using the Cisco 360 tracking and trending tools, you can identify what your strengths and weaknesses are in a series of Assessment Labs. This information can help direct your future study activities.
Reference Library
The Reference Library is designed to provide supplemental resources to a learners study effort. While a range of topics are covered in the Reference Library, a consistent presentation approach is used that involves options analysis and issue spotting. To further support this, the Reference Library is heavily populated with Decision Trees (Options Analysis Diagrams).
The Reference Library is presented in a ten step roadmap format that helps guide the student through a structured learning approach.
Lessons: Link Layer, Frame Relay, IGP, BGP, IPv6, Cisco Catalyst QoS
One of the required steps in developing expertise in internetworking technologies is developing a thorough understanding of each technology. The Video presentations contained in the Lessons provide an effective and flexible method to attain a solid understanding. The Lessons are grouped by technology: "Link Layer", "Frame Relay", "Interior Gateway Protocols", "Border Gateway Protocol", "IPv6", "Cisco Catalyst QoS," and others.
Within each group of VoDs, the average VoD length is 15 minutes, which makes the VoD viewing experience more manageable. Each Block of VoDs is supplemented with a "Spot-the-Issues" quiz to re-enforce a learners's understanding of the topics presented. Finally, hands-on technology-focused exercises are also supplied with each Lesson to further re-enforce a learner's understanding of a specific technology from a hands-on perspective.
Also, it must be stressed that while there are a range of topics covered in each specific Lesson, there is a single consistent problem solving approach applied to all lessons. This problem solving approach is called the "options analysis" or "issue spotting" problem solving approach. By viewing all the Lessons in this section, the student will be immersed in this effective problem solving approach.