CCIE: Voice Lab Preparation Power Workshop UK Classes & Lessons (Cisco CCIE)

About this class

The CCIE Voice Lab Exam Preparation Power Workshop is a training designed to prepare students for the CCIE Voice lab exam. Over the 10 days candidates refresh their existing knowledge, gather detailed aspects of advanced technology they need to practice and gain vital test taking strategies. The course focuses entirely on practical experience. The students are exposed to full-scale labs that resemble the complexity of the CCIE Voice practical lab.

The power workshop is delivered by an experienced CCIE Voice instructor. The instructor is grading and commenting the lab work of the students, provides hints and explains the issues in wrap-up discussions.

Who will the lesson benefit?

CCIE Voice candidates

The course is of utmost importance for all experienced network engineers who are planning to take the CCIE Voice Exam and would like to quickly refresh their theoretical knowledge and to gain an additional practical experience in deploying advanced voice network solutions.

What delegates will learn

After finishing this course, students will be able to:

Take the CCIE Voice Lab Exam
Configure and troubleshoot advanced voice network solutions

What prerequisites are required

The students should possess an expert level knowledge in the field of Voice and IP Telephony.

The class does not cover introductory material and candidates are expected to have a solid level of knowledge of the topics covered in order to receive the full benefit of the class.

Taking the following courses is highly recommended:

CVOICE (Cisco Voice over IP)
CIPT1 (Cisco IP Telephony Part 1)
CIPT2 (Cisco IP Telephony Part 2)
GWGK (Implementing Cisco Voice Gateways and Gatekeepers)
IPTT (IP Telephony Troubleshooting)
QOS (Implementing Cisco QOS)
UCSE (Cisco Unified Communications System Engineers)

Contents of this class

Day 1-7: Over the first seven days the course covers all practical skills and knowledge required for the CCIE Voice Lab Exam.

Day 8: Students develop an individual test taking strategy and improve their speed.

Day 9-10: The candidates are exposed to two fullscale labs.

Basic Campus Design

DHCP, TFTP
Catalyst voice and data VLAN configuration

Cisco CallManager Configuration

Cisco CallManager groups, redundancies
Device pools
Phone registration
Phone configuration
Partitions and calling search xpaces
Pickup, Meetme and adhoc conference

Call Manager Express / SRST

Basic configuration
Interaction with Cisco CallManager
Single-line, Dual-line, Shared-line and Overlay-line
Call-Blocking
Call-Restrictions
Configuring directories
Caller ID blocking
Paging
Voicemail integration
Auto attendant

Voice Gateway and Signaling

Analog and digital voice protocols: analog FXS, E1, PRI, R2
VoIP protocols: H323, MGCP, SCCP, RAS
IOS gateway with NM-HDV
Catalyst 6500 Gateway with WS-X6608-E1
OS Gateways with voice translation rules

Call Routing

CCM route patterns
CCM route preference and redundancy
CCM translation patterns
Cisco CallManager and Gatekeeper configuration
Advanced Intrasite routing
Digit manipulation and translation

Voice CODEC

Regions
G711ulaw, G729

Call Admission Control

Location-based Call Admission Control
RAS-based Call Admission Control

High Availability Features

SRST and AAR

Media Resource Management

Media Resource Groups and Lists
Conference bridge software and hardware (NM-HDV and WS-X6608-E1)
Transcoder (NM-HDV and WS-X6608-E1)
MTP and MOH

QoS and WAN Considerations

L2/L3 classifications and policing
Queuing mechanisms
LFI
Catalyst switch QoS
Multilink over FrameRelay-ATM

Unified Messaging

Unity voicemail integration
Unity administration
Unity advanced call routing
Unity Express voicemail integration
Unity Express administration

CRS/IPCC Express Application

Default script configuration and integration
Custom script configuration and integration

Call Manager Voice Applications

Any native applications to Call Manager, examples are extension mobility, attendant console, IPMA

Fax

Fax pass-through
Fax relay