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CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam, v4.0. Everything you need to prepare, practice, and pass.
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Certification Overview
This exam tests expert-level understanding across the full enterprise networking stack: Layer 2 switching and VLAN trunking; IPv4 and IPv6 routing at scale; advanced QoS and traffic shaping; multicast protocols and PIM; MPLS-based service delivery; carrier-grade security integration; and network management and observability platforms. Success requires both theoretical depth and practical experience with complex, interdependent systems.
What This Certification Proves
The CCIE Routing and Switching Written Exam validates expert-level proficiency in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting complex enterprise networks. This written exam is the prerequisite for the hands-on CCIE R&S Lab and demonstrates mastery of Cisco's most critical networking technologies including routing protocols, switching, QoS, multicast, and MPLS. Passing this exam proves you can architect and operate carrier-grade networks at scale.
Who Should Take This Exam
Network engineers with 5+ years of production experience, CCNP-level knowledge, and hands-on familiarity with enterprise routing and switching. Candidates should have deployed multi-protocol networks, configured advanced QoS policies, and managed large switching infrastructures. This exam is for those preparing to sit the CCIE Lab and ready for expert-level certification.
Study Plans
Choose a study plan that matches your schedule and experience level
30 Days
Intensive Sprint
Week 1-2
- Master fundamentals: Core concepts
- Read Cisco official documentation
- Complete 7 practice questions daily
Week 3
- Deep dive: Advanced topics
- Review weak areas from practice results
- Take 2 full-length practice tests
Week 4
- Review all flagged questions
- Timed practice exams to build stamina
- Final revision of key concepts
60 Days
Balanced Approach
Week 1-2
- Survey all exam domains
- Set up study environment
- Begin with foundational topics
Week 3-4
- Focus: Primary domain
- Focus: Secondary domain
- 4 practice questions daily
Week 5-6
- Focus: Remaining domains
- Hands-on labs if applicable
- Review explanations for wrong answers
Week 7-8
- Complete all 199 practice questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed tests
90 Days
Comprehensive Study
Month 1
- Learn all exam domains at a comfortable pace
- Build strong foundational knowledge
- 3 practice questions daily
Month 2
- Deep dive into each domain
- Hands-on practice and labs
- Take weekly practice tests
Month 3
- Work through all 199 questions
- Identify and eliminate weak areas
- Take 3 full-length timed exams
350-001-Specific Tips
- Master CEF (Cisco Express Forwarding) architecture and forwarding mechanics—it's foundational to all modern Cisco routing and appears across multiple domains
- Lab extensively with MPLS: configure LSPs, segment routing, traffic engineering, and MPLS-based VPNs in real or simulated environments
- Deep-dive QoS: understand queuing mechanisms, policing, shaping, priority queuing, and real-world deployment scenarios across interfaces and fabrics
- Get comfortable with IPv6 routing, addressing strategies, and coexistence with IPv4—this is now mandatory in modern networks and heavily tested
- Practice multicast addressing, PIM modes (Dense, Sparse, Sparse-Dense), IGMP snooping, and RPT vs SPT in lab topologies
- Study security domains systematically: AAA frameworks, RBAC, encryption protocols, and access control integration with routing protocols
- Review network management tools (SNMP, NetFlow/sFlow, syslog, SPAN/RSPAN) with focus on operational troubleshooting at scale
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Sample Questions
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Which IPv6 address would you ping to determine if OSPFv3 is able to send and receive unicast packets across a link?
You are the network administrator of an enterprise with a main site and multiple remote sites. Your network carries both VOIP and data traffic. You agree with your service provider to classify VOIP and data traffic according to the different service RFCs. How can your data and VOIP traffic be marked?
You add the following commands into a routed topology: router eigrp 1 variance 3 traffic-share min across-interfaces. Users now complain about voice quality in your VoIP system. What should be done?
Refer to the exhibit. You are asked to enable redirection for a network optimization engine that will be connected directly to your company CPE. What is the correct configuration to enable redirection for traffic optimization?
Refer to the exhibit. This is an MPLS VPN network with OSPF as the PE-CE routing protocol. Which statement is correct?
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