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As of May 15, 2019, the average annual salary for all the CCIE RS Certification in the United States is $151,870 per year.
Annual salaries are considered to be as high as $211,000 and as low as $84,500, the majority of CCIE RS salaries would be currently ranging between $125,000 to $174,000 across the United States. The average pay of the CCIE RS would be ranging to about $49,000, which suggests that regardless of location, there are many opportunities of having an increased pay or advancement, even with several years of experience. Note that, the people who would be working as a CCIE in your area are making on an average $151,870 per year or the same which would be considered as the national average annual salary of $151,870.
Obtaining the CCIE Routing and Switching Certification:
Becoming a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Routing and Switching (CCIE R&S) is not just about reading books, memorizing a bunch of facts, and taking an exam so as to obtain a certification, as is the case with some other certifications. The real challenge in the CCIE R&S certification would be considered as quite grueling hands-on lab exam which would be lasting eight hours. In order to clear the CCIE R&S Lab Exam, you are required to not only be intimately familiar with the Cisco configuration commands but you would also need to have a deep understanding of switches, routers, and network protocols.
Pursuing CCIE R&S Certification would be considered as quite a major investment of your time, effort, as well as money and it is considered quite important to have a solid plan before starting. You are needed to take into consideration a proper preparation plan, so as to enhance your current knowledge and experience, resources which would be available at hand, and the time and money which you would be willing to devote. The information that is shared with you in the following pages which would help you to craft a tailored study program that would lead you to achieve success.
These tips come from my own experience as a CCIE R&S Holder and from the experiences of friends who would have successfully cleared the CCIE R&S Lab Exam.
On a side note, it wouldn’t be essential to have the exact same router models for your home lab which would be described in the CCIE R&S Lab Equipment as well as IOS Version document. I would recommend you to use mostly Cisco 2600XM series multiservice routers for my CCIE R&S Lab. But you would be required to try using the same IOS version (12.4T) which would be as described in the said document to make sure that all the features on the blueprint which would be available online.
The high demand of Cisco certifications especially CCIE R&S has given rise to a whole ecosystem of training companies, rental rack providers, and equipment vendors. It would be considered as quite a good phenomenon for you as a CCIE candidate as you would be having an abundance of resources to choose from. I myself used study materials from Internetwork Expert as well as Cisco to prepare for the CCIE R&S Lab. These training materials would be used to fill skill gaps as well as provided practice. It would be ensuring access to quality training materials which would be developed by renowned experts.
Another way to prepare for would be to join the training providers, who also have online forums for the candidates so that they could discuss their problems. I would strongly recommend you to join and participate actively in these forums. Thus, if you wish to have the CCIE R&S Certification, you are required to prepare a good training plan and also join some good prep courses, like that offered by the SPOTO.
