Assessment Labs

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Assessment Labs can be scheduled on line through a learning portal. When you complete the lab, you will receive a detailed answer key and access to the Mentor Guide interactive learning tool. Using the Mentor Guide is like having access to two racks of routers: one with the your configuration and the other one with the final configuration on it. With the Mentor Guide, over 1500 Cisco show commands can be used to query the final state of a scenario's configuration as if one was actually accessing a real set of equipment.

What is a Pre-Assessment Lab?

Cisco 360 CCIE R&S Pre-Assessment Lab is a four hour on-line graded lab done on Cisco Equipment which provides you with an assessment on your grasp of the technology and configuration skills needed for core topics encountered in the Routing and Switching CCIE lab. This Pre-Assessment saves many hours of study time by identifying "if what you think you know is what you know."

What is a Graded Assessment Lab?

A Graded Assessment Lab is an online experience where you will perform a graded lab on real Cisco equipment. The labs are of similar length, level of difficulty and cover all the topologies of the CCIE lab blueprint. To reflect the recent changes to the Routing and Switching CCIE lab, Cisco 360 now offers assessment labs in the v4.0 format, where some labs contain single eight hour multi-topic configuration scenario, others are divided into two parts: a six hour configuration section and a separate three hour troubleshooting section. 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.

Why perform an Assessment Lab?

To answer the question in all CCIE candidate's minds... "Am I ready to take the lab?". Performing the Assessment Lab under time pressure and on real equipment best prepares you for situations you may encounter in the real lab setting. The difference between the real lab and the Graded Assessment Lab is that in the real lab you never know what you did right or wrong. After taking the Graded Assessment lab, you are provided a wealth of information that will help you target your study in your weaker areas.

How do I know which lab to take?

To reflect the recent changes to the Routing and Switching CCIE lab, Cisco 360 now offers assessment labs in the v4.0 format, where some labs contain a single eight hour multi-topic configuration scenario, others are divided into two parts: a six hour configuration section and a separate three hour troubleshooting section. 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.

How are the Assessment Labs delivered?

Purchase Assessment Lab and Schedule a Lab Date.
After you make your investment, our team will process your order and grant you access to the Cisco 360 Learning Portal. From that portal you will be able to schedule for your Assessment exam at any convenient time. You can always contact sales@netmasterclass.net to discuss any questions you may have.
Receive Your Assessment Exam and Equipment Access Instructions.
36 hours before your Assessment lab start time, you will receive an email with Assessment lab exam PDF and POD access instructions. We recommend that you print the lab so you have a hardcopy. Section within each Assessment Lab has certain amount of points associated with them, just as in the actual CCIE exam. You can prioritize what topics you want to perform first and which you want to perform later. You can make these decisions based upon your level of comfort with a given topic, the dependency of fulfilling the tasks of one or more topics based upon the successful configuration of another topic or set of topics, or the point values associated with a specific topic. If you want to test your timing skills and have a real lab experience, it is important that you not look at or review your Assessment lab until your scheduled exam time.
Take Your Assessment Lab on Cisco Equipment.
You will be able to access routers and switches of Cisco 360 POD using your ssh client. The initial configuration will include items such as hostnames, IP addresses, loopback interfaces. Your Frame-Relay switch will be preconfigured. Under the time pressure of the Assessment lab, you will be able to test your knowledge of internetworking topics as well as your exam time management and task management skills.

What do I receive after I complete the Graded Assessment Lab?

Within an hour of completing your Assessment Lab, you will receive an e-mail containing the lab report and answer key. These files and web-links will provide you with an extensive amount of feedback on the results of your personal performance in the recently completed Assessment Lab. After review of the answer key, report and Mentor Guide results, you can submit your questions to Cisco 360 Support Team.

Sample Parts of Assessment Lab Report:

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! This tool offers you the following controls:

Product — products that use Mentor Guide Assessment Labs, Exercise Workbook, CIERS class and Lessons-on-Demand, etc.
Scenario — choose the lab that you work on at the moment
Router/Switch — select any single device or «ALL» to run command on all devices
Command Line

Type in — any Cisco IOS command or proprietary NMC command
«?» — for dynamic help that shows you the list of supported commands
«Tab» — check what your typing options are

«Run → » Button — click it or press enter to execute command
« ↓ » Button — dynamic help that shows you the list of supported commands ( same as typing «?» in «Command Line»)

Duration

This is a self-paced learning product. However, since the Cisco 360 program is a 18-month program, students have 18 months to perform and access to the content of the Assessment Labs.

Target Audience

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. 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.

Equipment

The Assessment Labs are done on Cisco Provided equipment. To learn more please review Hardware Specifications.