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Choose self-paced design modules with continuing access, or join the waiting list for the five-day instructor-led advanced workshop.

Domain 1 · 24 full Design Labs

Network Infrastructure Design Series

$450 one time
  • Six connected topic collections spanning Domain 1
  • 192 questions, progressive updates and written design tasks
  • Shuffled options, evidence workbooks and worked guidance
  • Account-linked pause, save and resume

CCIE EI v1.1 · Domain 1: Network Infrastructure

More · Topics and included labs
  • 1.1 Switched campus: 4 labs
  • 1.2 Routing concepts: 4 labs
  • 1.3 EIGRP: 3 labs
  • 1.4 OSPF: 4 labs
  • 1.5 BGP: 5 labs
  • 1.6 Multicast: 4 labs

Interpret business requirements, choose an appropriate design, and defend the operational consequences. One purchase grants all 24 labs.

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Domain 2 · 4 full Design Labs · 2.1 SD-Access

SDA Design Series

$250 one time
  • Four individual interactive design workbooks
  • Layer 3 handoff and multi-site fabric
  • Migration, automation, policy and assurance
  • 32 questions, progressive updates and worked design guidance

CCIE EI v1.1 · Domain 2.0: Software-Defined Infrastructure

  • Lab 01: 2.1.e(i–ii), 2.1.f(i–ii) — Layer 3 handoff, fusion routing and segmentation
  • Lab 02: 2.1.a(iv), 2.1.b(i,iv), 2.1.c(ii), 2.1.e(i) — Multisite fabric, transit and extended nodes
  • Lab 03: 2.1.a(ii–iii), 2.1.b(iii,v), 2.1.e(iii), 2.1.f(ii) — Migration, LAN Automation, multicast and policy
  • Lab 04: 2.1.b(iii), 2.1.e(iii), 2.1.f(i–ii) — TrustSec, migration and end-to-end segmentation

Supporting Domain 1.0 topics include VRF-aware routing and route filtering. The series also develops migration, assurance and operational handover decisions. View Cisco’s official blueprint.

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Domain 2 · 4 full Design Labs · 2.2 SD-WAN

SD-WAN Design Series

$250 one time
  • Four individual interactive design workbooks
  • Transport, OMP, policy and resilience
  • Automated feedback after submission
  • 32 questions, progressive updates and worked design guidance

CCIE EI v1.1 · Domain 2.0: Software-Defined Infrastructure

  • Lab 02: 2.2.b(ii–iii,v) — WAN Edge migration, transports and TLOC extension
  • Lab 03: 2.2.b(i,v), 2.2.c(i,iv–v) — OMP, routing integration and fabric handoff
  • Lab 04: 2.2.b(v), 2.2.c(iii), 2.2.d(ii–iii), 2.2.e(i–iii), 2.2.f(i–ii) — Policy, templates and route aggregation
  • Lab 05: 2.2.e(i–ii), 2.2.d(ii–iii) — Application-aware routing, queues and policy deployment

Supporting Domain 1.0 topics include redistribution, MTU and BFD. Lab 05 also applies Domain 4 QoS topics (4.4.b,d–f). Free Lab 01 covers 2.2.a(i–iii), 2.2.b(ii–iv) — controller architecture and site onboarding. View Cisco’s official blueprint.

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Domain 3 · 4 full Design Labs

Transport Technologies Design Series

$250 one time
  • Four individual interactive design workbooks
  • MPLS, LDP and forwarding verification
  • L3VPN policy, PE–CE routing and handover
  • 32 questions, progressive updates and worked design guidance

CCIE EI v1.1 · Domain 3.0: Transport Technologies and Solutions

  • Lab 02: 3.2.a(i–ii) — MPLS labels and LDP
  • Lab 03: 3.2.a(iii) — MPLS ping and traceroute
  • Lab 04: 3.2.b(ii) — MP-BGP VPNv4/VPNv6
  • Lab 05: 3.2.b(i) — BGP PE–CE routing

Supporting Domain 1.0 topics include route filtering, BGP communities, route reflection and AS-path handling. Free Lab 01 covers 3.1 — static point-to-point GRE tunnels. View Cisco’s official blueprint.

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Transport Lab 01 remains free forever. This module is sold separately from the Software Defined Infrastructure Design Series Bundle.

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Domain 4 · 12 full Design Labs

Network Services and Security Series

$250 one time
  • Four security, four QoS and network-services, and four system-management labs
  • 96 questions with progressive evidence and written design tasks
  • Automated selection feedback and worked design guidance
  • Account-linked pause, save and resume

CCIE EI v1.1 · Domain 4: Infrastructure Security and Services

More · Topics and included labs
  • Security Labs 01–04: device security, AAA, switch and router protections, and IPv6 infrastructure security (4.1–4.2).
  • QoS and Network Services Labs 01–04: DiffServ, classification, trust, marking, NBAR, policing, shaping, queues, HQoS, MQC, first-hop redundancy, time, DHCP and NAT (4.4–4.5).
  • System Management Labs 01–04: management access, SNMP, logging, IP SLA, tracking, Flexible NetFlow, traffic capture and troubleshooting (4.3, 4.6–4.7).

The eight added labs are included for existing owners at no extra charge.

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Domain 5 · 5 full Design Labs

Automation and Programmability Design Series

$250 one time
  • Five individual interactive design workbooks
  • Data formats, EEM, Guest Shell and controller APIs
  • 40 questions, progressive updates and written design tasks
  • Automated selection feedback and worked design guidance

CCIE EI v1.1 · Domain 5.0: Infrastructure Automation and Programmability

  • Lab 01: 5.1.a–d — JSON, XML, YAML, Jinja and intended state
  • Lab 02: 5.2.a — EEM applets, evidence and safe changes
  • Lab 03: 5.2.b(i–iii) — Guest Shell environment, CLI Python and EEM Python design considerations
  • Lab 04: 5.3.a(i–iii) — SD-WAN Manager API clients, monitoring and configuration
  • Lab 05: 5.3.b, 5.3.c(i) — Catalyst Center APIs and on-change gRPC telemetry

Lab 01 also applies 4.3.a(iii), NETCONF and RESTCONF. Application hosting in Lab 03 is an adjacent design topic. This is scenario-based design practice, with platform and release validation, rather than a syntax course or a claim of complete blueprint coverage. View Cisco’s official blueprint.

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Includes all five Automation labs. Sold separately from the Software Defined Infrastructure Design Series Bundle.

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Advanced workshop · Waiting list

Enterprise Design for the CCIE

$2,500 per participant
  • Five days covering all five blueprint domains
  • Live instructor-led design lectures
  • Independent design scenarios
  • Individual and group design-defense interviews
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Free starting point: SD-WAN Lab 01 and Transport Lab 01 remain publicly available without an account or payment.

Course roadmap

Designed to grow with the CCIE Enterprise blueprint.

Explore 55 full Design Labs across all five blueprint domains. Modules remain available individually; the Software Defined Infrastructure bundle includes SD-WAN and SDA. See the program map for the design topics practiced in each collection.

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