Passing the lab exam requires a depth of understanding difficult to obtain
without hands-on experience. Early in your preparation you should arrange access
to equipment similar to that used on the exam, and listed below.
The lab exam tests any feature that can be configured on the equipment and
the IOS versions indicated below. You may see more recent IOS versions
installed in the lab, but you will not be tested on the new features of
a release unless indicated below.
- Cisco Routers
- Cisco Catalyst Switches
- Cisco Secure Access Control System
- MDS 9506*
- MDS 9216*
- Port Analyzer Adapter
- JBOD
- RAID storage
- HBA
- 3rd Party Fibre Channel Switch
*The MDS can be configured using Fabric Manager and Device Manager as well as the CLI.
Software Versions
- IOS version 12.2 is used on all routers
- SANOS version 1.3.4
- Cisco Fabric and Device Manager software is embedded in every Cisco MDS 9000 Family
Switch. This software is transferred from the switch and installed
automatically through Java Web Start.
