IE’s CCIE SP Detailed Blue Print

Petr at IE Blog posted a nice outline for anyone who is going for CCIE SP. I have used their R&S Outline for my studies and I think it's a great thing to see the SP outline.

• Bridging and Switching
  • Ethernet
    • VLANs & VTP
      • VTP Modes & Pruning
    • Trunks
      • DTP
      • ISL & 802.1q
      • Allowed VLANs
      • Native VLAN & Tag Native
    • SVIs & L3 Ports
    • STP
      • Root Bridge Election
      • Features (Portfast, UplinkFast etc)
      • Redundancy
      • RSTP & MSTP
    • Etherchannels
      • LACP & PaGP
      • Load-Balancing Methods
    • QinQ
      • MTU Issues
      • L2 Protocol Tunneling
  • Frame-Relay
    • Interface Types (DCE/DTE/NNI)
    • Subinterfaces, DLCIs & PVCs
    • LMI
    • Inverse-ARP & Static Mappings
    • FR Switching
    • Multilink Frame-Relay (FRF.16)
  • ATM
    • Subinterfaces & VC Mapping
    • PVC
    • SVC
      • NSAP Address
      • NSAP Prefix Learning and ESI
      • Signaling and Q.2931 (QSAAL) PVC
      • CLIP
    • ILMI
    • ATM VC Encapsulations
    • Inverse-ARP and Protocol Address Mapping
    • Frame-Relay Interworking (FRF.5 & FRF.8)
  • PPPoE
    • PPP IP Address Allocation (IPCP, DHCP)
• IGP Core Routing
  • Intergrated IS-IS ***
    • Level-1/2 and Areas
    • Network Types
      • Point2Point
      • Broadcast
    • Mesh Groups
    • Route-Leaking
    • Metric-Style & Metric-Types
    • Redistribution & Filtering
    • Tuning Timers
      • Hello/Dead
      • LSA Generation/Throttling
      • PRC/SPF Throttling
  • OSPF
    • Area Types
    • Network Types
    • NSSA Area
    • Filtering (Inter-Area filters, Database, Dist-Lists)
    • Redistribution
    • Summarization (External/Inter-Area)
    • Virtual-Links
    • OSPF Timers
      • LSA Flooding & Pacing
      • SPF Throttle
  • Policy Based Routing
• BGP
  • iBGP & eBGP
  • BGP Timers & Convergence Tuning
    • Advertisement interval (neighbor advertisement-interval)
    • VPNv4 Import Scan interval (bgp scan-time import)
    • General Scan interval (bgp scan-time)
    • BGP Next-Hop Trigger
    • Fast Fallover
    • Keepalive & Holdtime
  • BGP Scalability
    • Route-Reflectors & Clusters
    • Confederations
    • Synchronization
  • Redistribution & Filtering
  • Outbound Route Filtering
  • Route Aggregation & Attributes
  • Conditional Route Injection & Advertisement
  • Route Dampening
  • Communities, Coloring & Signaling
  • BGP Attributes & Best-Path Selection
  • Backdoors
  • BGP Multipath (iBGP/eBGP, DMZ Link BW)
• SP Multicast
  • PIM-SM/DM
  • PIM-Bidir
  • PIM-SSM & IGMPv3/UDR
  • RPF failure and static mroutes
  • IGMP
    • Versions
    • Timers
    • Filtering
  • Static-RP/Auto-RP/BSR
  • MSDP and Inter-AS Multicast
  • MP-BGP Extension for Multicast
  • Anycast-RP
  • IGMP Snooping
  • Stub Multicast Routing
  • 3550
    • IGMP Profiles
    • MVR
• MPLS
  • Label Distribution
    • LDP/TDP,
      • Directed Sessions
      • Authentication
    • BGP Send-Label
    • Advertising Labels
    • Label Filtering
      • LDP and ACLs
      • BGP and route-maps
  • Cell-Mode MPLS & Label Merging
    • ATM Control-VC
  • MPLS TE
    • IGP Configuration
    • RSVP Settings
    • Attributes & Affinity Bits
    • Holding & Setup Priority
    • Path Options
    • Explicit/Dynamic Route
    • Routint Options: PBR, Static route, Autoroute
    • Cisco Forwarding Adjacency over TE tunnel
    • Inter-Area TE
    • MPLS TE with L3/L2 VPN
      • PE-PE Tunnels
      • PE-P, P-P Tunnels & LSP recovery
    • Unequal-Cost Load-Balancing
• L3/L2 VPN
  • L3 VPN
    • VRF & RD
      • Controlling Route Import/Export
      • VRF Lite
      • VRF Select & Route-Map VRF selection
    • MP-BGP
      • VPNv4 AF
      • Extended Communities
      • Route-Target
      • Filtering
      • RRs & Scalability Issues
        • ORF
        • Communities & Partitioning
        • BGP RR-Group & Partitioning
    • PE-CE Routing
      • OSPF
        • Super-Backbone and Extended Communities
        • Domain-ID
        • Sham-Links
        • VRF Lite Capability
        • Down Bit and VPN Tag
      • EIGRP
        • SoO Attribute
        • BGP Cost Community
      • RIP
        • Transparent Metric
      • eBGP
        • AS-Override
        • AllowAs-In
        • BGP SoO
      • Redistribution & Filtering
      • VRF Import/Export Maps
      • Importing from global table
    • VPN Topologies
      • Central Services
      • Extranet
      • Hub-and-Spoke (upstream, downstream VPNs)
    • Inter-AS VPN
      • Back-to-Back VRFs
      • Direct VPNv4 Exchange on ASBRs
      • ASBR Send-Label & VPNv4 Multihop
        • IPv4 BGP Route-Reflector for Label distribution
        • Redistribute into IGP + LDP
    • Carrier Supporting Carrier
      • IP only Customer Carrier
      • MPLS Enabled Customer Carrier
      • Hierarchical MPLS VPNs
      • Carrier Label Exchange
        • IGP+LDP
        • BGP+Send-Label
    • Multicast VPN
      • Default & Data MDT
      • PIM-SM/Bidir (ISM) in Core
      • SSM in Core (Ext.Comm/MDT SAFI)
      • Inter-AS mVPN
        • PIM-SM + MSDP
        • MDT SAFI + PIM SSM + PIM RPF Proxy
  • L2 VPN
    • Generic
      • ATM Cell Relay & AAL5 SDU Mode
      • ATM OAM Transparent/Emulation
      • HDLC Frame Tunneling
      • Frame-Relay DLCI-to-DLCI
      • Ethernet VLAN and Port Mode
      • PPP and IP address Assignment
    • AToM
      • PW Setup & MTU Issues
      • Inter-AS AToM
        • Back-to-Back
        • Label exchange
    • L2TPv3
      • Manual & Automatic Signaling
      • Authentication & Cookie
      • Sequencing & Keepalives
      • pMTU Discovery & DF-bit
    • L2 Interworking (IP/Ethernet, Local Termination)
    • Local Switching (with & w/o Interworking)
    • GRE/mGRE Tunnels
    • MPLS BGP VPN over mGRE
• QoS
  • Classification & Marking
    • ACLs
    • DSCP bits, TOS & IP Precedence
    • NBAR & Protocol-Specific Matching
    • Policers (Single/Dual-Rate, Color-Aware/Blind)
    • FR DE bit/ATM CLP
    • QoS-Groups
    • MPLS EXP bits
    • Tunnel Modes:
      • Uniform
      • Short-Pipe
      • Pipe
  • Congestion Management
    • Tx-Ring Tuning
    • Legacy Queueing
      • WFQ/CQ/PQ
      • IP RTP Priority
    • CBWFQ
      • Priority (LLQ)
      • Bandwidth
      • Hierarchical (Queueing at Subinterfaces)
    • Frame-Relay/ATM Per-VC Queueing (Legacy & CBWFQ)
    • WRED for Congestion Avoidance (Legacy & MQC)
  • Traffic Flow Control
    • Rate-Limiting
      • CAR & Cascading
      • MQC Policer
        • Single-Rate
        • Dual-Rate
        • Actions
    • Shaping
      • Legacy GTS
      • FRTS
        • Legacy
        • MQC
      • Class-Based (MQC)
  • QPPB
  • DiffServ Aware TE
    • Interface Subpools
  • 3550 QoS Features
    • WRR Queue Tuning
    • Classification & Marking
      • Policy Maps
      • Mapping Tables
    • Per-Port/Per-VLAN Classification
    • Policing
• Security
  • Application Level Filtering (NBAR)
  • L3 Security
    • Control Plane
      • Routing Updates Auth
      • Signaling Protocols Auth (LDP, L2TPv3, BGP)
      • Control Plane Policing
    • Filtering with ACLs & ACL Logging
    • RPF and Spoofing (Strict/Loose Mode)
    • CAR and Flooding
    • TCP Intercept and SYN-Flooding
  • L2 Security
    • Protecting STP (BPDU-Filter/Guard)
    • Port-Security
  • DDoS Mitigation
    • Sinkholes/Blackholes
    • RTBH Scenarios
  • Common Attacks
    • Worms & Viruses
    • Smurf/Fraggle/Generic Flooding
    • SYN-Flooding
    • Network Scanning
    • CAM-Table overflow, VLAN Hopping
• High Availability
  • NSF & SOO
    • BGP Graceful Restart
    • OSPF LLS
    • EIGRP NSF awareness
    • LDP Graceful restart
  • LDP Session protection
  • Tuning IGP Convergence
  • GLBP/HSRP/VRRP
  • MPLS TE FRR
    • Link Protection
    • Node Protection
    • L2 PW Protection
    • L3 VPN and FRR
• Management
  • SNMP
  • Syslog
  • Remote Access (Telnet/SSH)
  • NTP
  • Netflow
    • MPLS-aware Netflow
    • Flexible Netflow
    • Export Configuration
  • IP Accounting
  • Other IP Services