QoS Requirements on the
CCIE R&S Written Exam #350-001

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1. Develop Knowledgeable Network Professionals
2. Help People Pass Cisco Certification Exams

Both of these goals are accomplished through our topic-oriented Study Guides which consist of a tutorial, a set of study questions, and one or more hands-on exercises.

Because of how these Study Guides have been structured, it is sometimes difficult to see how they relate to the items on the Cisco exam blueprints. For one thing, almost every item is covered in more than one Study Guide, because the topics are not isolated, they relate to other topics which also must be mastered. Thus you must consult more than one Study Guide in order to master a topic. This integrated approach helps develop networking professionals who have a solid understanding of all topics AND how the topics relate to each other. However, the student sometimes has difficulty knowing what Study Guides need to be read in order to understand a specific item on a Cisco exam blueprint.

This article is one in a series that relates the Certification Zone Study Guides to specific items on the Cisco CCIE R&S; written exam blueprint for the 350-001 exam.

From the Cisco R&S Written Exam (350-001) Blueprint:
VI. QoS

1. Fancy Queuing
2. PoS and IP Precedence
3. CoS
4. Weighted RED
5. WRR/queu scheduling
6. Shaping vs. Policing (rate limiting)/CAR
7. NBAR
8. 802.1X
9. DSCP

VI. QoS
QoS Part 1, General Principles and Ingress Handling
QoS Part 2, Connection Admission Control, Policy Routing, and Egress Queuing
MPLS
ATM Basics
Switched WAN Technologies
The 3550 Switch, Quality of Service (QoS)
New Generation of Cisco Switching, QoS at the Switch

1. Fancy Queuing
   QoS Part 1, General Principles and Ingress Handling
   QoS Part 2, Connection Admission Control, Policy Routing, and Egress Queuing
   The 3550 Switch, Quality of Service (QoS)
   New Generation of Cisco Switching, QoS at the Switch

2. PoS and IP precedence
   QoS Part 1, General Principles and Ingress Handling, ToS, IP Precedence, and DiffServ
   QoS Part 2, Connection Admission Control, Policy Routing, and Egress Queuing
   The 3550 Switch, Quality of Service (QoS)
   New Generation of Cisco Switching

3. CoS (Class of Service)
   The 3550 Switch, Quality of Service (QoS)

4. Weighted RED (Random Early Detection)
   QoS Part 1, General Principles and Ingress Handling, , Random Early Detection (RED) and Weighted RED
   QoS Part 2, Connection Admission Control, Policy Routing, and Egress Queuing , Proactive Congestion Management with RED
   

5. WRR/queu scheduling
   

6. Shaping vs. Policing (rate limiting)/CAR (Committed Access Rate)
   QoS Part 1, General Principles and Ingress Handling, Shaping and Policing, Committed Access Rate (CAR)
   ATM Basics, Traffic Management during the Data Flow
   Switched WAN Technologies, SLA Assurance
   The 3550 Switch, Quality of Service (QoS)
   New Generation of Cisco Switching, QoS at the Switch

7. NBAR
   

8. 802.1X
   The 3550 Switch, 802.1x - Port Based Authentication
   New Generation of Cisco Switching, 802.1x - Port Based Authentication
   Cisco High Availability, 802.1x - Port Based Authentication

9. DSCP (Differentiated Services Code Point)
   QoS Part 1, General Principles and Ingress Handling
   The 3550 Switch, Quality of Service (QoS)
   New Generation of Cisco Switching, QoS at the Switch