Cracking the CCIE Collaboration Design Module
Cisco, Wednesday, October 21st, 2026
Cisco explains why the CCIE Collaboration Design module trips up good engineers and how to reason toward the right answer.
Cisco's learning blog walks through the Design module of the CCIE Collaboration lab, where candidates get a customer brief and several design options.
Cisco notes that often three options would technically work but only one fits the customer.
There is no device to log into or show command to confirm an answer, so candidates must reason their way to it.
The post explains why the module trips up good engineers and how to prepare.