IMHO, I feel you should be familiar with RFCs. Regardless if the exam asks questions about them or not. In order to understand the intended use and possible vendor interoperability issues of implementation, you should have atleast scanned several of them. What's better, if you find the RFCs a bit hard at first, then read books such as John T. Moy's OSPF Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol. Since Moy is given great credit for contributions to OSPF, his book helped me understand what they did and why. It's a nice precursor into reading the RFC. Similarly, I like Halabi's Internet Routing Architectures and John W. Stewart's BGP4 Inter-Domain Routing in the Internet. Both of these help with clarifying BGP.
Nothing helps understanding a routing protocol and it's behaviors more than trying to equipment from 2 different vendors to talk the way you intend them to. Although your question was in regards to the IE written exam, think bigger. Trying to see a bigger picture helped me to understand how Cisco did things. -chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" To: Sent: Friday, December 27, 2002 12:23 PM Subject: Re: CCIE Written ..plz help [7:59829] > At 11:31 AM +0000 12/27/02, irfan siddiqui wrote: > >Hi, does anyone know if we have to memorize RFC's for the CCIE written exam. > >Do they ask things like RFC's. Also if anyone has attempted the exam > >recently can they give any advice about wat u need to know and wat stuff to > >memorize if any.I am scheduled to give the exam next week and i still feel > >shaky. Thanks in advance . Irfan > > I've WRITTEN RFCs and don't have them memorized. That being said, > UNDERSTANDING key RFCs is important. If you can't easily read a > protocol RFC at the general, not developer level, you may not be > ready for the written. Yes, I agree that finite state machines won't > be explicitly tested on the written, but I think it's very hard to > understand protocol behavior without a sense of FSMs, TLVs, etc. > > Memorizing the numbers of RFCs? Maybe, although it's foolish if > Cisco expects that. There even can be subtleties -- people usually > say the first RFC describing IPv4 was RFC791, but that was the first > practical one -- RFC760 came a little earlier. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=59842&t=59829 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
