Just wanted to share some knowledge about the locations on some useful resources:

This document contains the topics that will be covered by the CCIE Collaboration exam, in my case I have been using an structured approach that goes from weakness I have. here are few (Just not to say all of them)

SCCP Call Flows MGCP Call Flows UC on UCS (all fine print and special requirements, many things I didn’t know until now!!!) Answer Files….Who in earth uses them? (I know I would have saved so much time in past deployments by using them…Cool Stuff!).

SIP Call Flows - Refer to RFC 3665, and Cisco’s PDF on it - Cisco Press sells a book dedicated to SIP, I think I will be getting it soon, I’ just afraid it will be old.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3665

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0CE8QFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cisco.com%2Fc%2Fen%2Fus%2Ftd%2Fdocs%2Fvoice_ip_comm%2Fcuipph%2F7960g_7940g%2Fsip%2F1_0%2Fenglish%2Fadministration%2Fguide%2Fver1_0%2FappBcf.pdf&ei=onxxU_niBo2jyATTqYLIDQ&usg=AFQjCNE0b38F-98PVdAJsGzx7lrYlEvrNQ&sig2=flm5Xjmq67fUQiarJWLLKA&bvm=bv.66330100,d.aWw

Entire Reading List for all of those interested, and be sure to keep the page bookmarked very useful stuff even in real life scenarios!

https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-20784

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User Management 6 pages View Now

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SIP 19 hours Buy Now

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Voice and Video CODECs 12.5 hours Buy Now

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Fax and Modem Protocols 56 min Watch Now

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IOS Dial-Plan 30 pages View Now

(a) Translation Profile 8 pages View Now

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SAF/CCD 7 min Watch Now

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QoS: Medianet 4 min Watch Now

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Security: Mixed Mode Cluster 5 pages View Now

Security: Secured Phone Connectivity 38min Watch Now

(a) VPN Phones 6 pages View Now

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(d) 802.1x 1 page View Now

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About the Author:

Andres Sarmiento, CCIE # 53520 (Collaboration) With more than 13 years of experience, Andres is specialized in the Unified Communications and Collaboration technologies. Consulted for several companies in South Florida, also Financial Institutions on behalf of Cisco Systems. Andres has been involved in high-profile implementations including Cisco technologies; such as Data Center, UC & Collaboration, Contact Center Express, Routing & Switching, Security and Hosted IPT Service provider infrastructures.

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