Switched campus

 Switch administration

•  i Managing MAC address table
•  ii Errdisable recovery
•  iii L2 MTU
•  Layer 2 protocols
•  i CDP, LLDP
•  ii UDLD
•  VLAN technologies
•  i Access ports
•  ii Trunk ports (80Q)
•  iii Native VLAN
•  iv Manual VLAN pruning
•  v VLAN database
•  vi Normal range and extended range VLANs
•  vii Voice VLAN
•  viii VTP
•  EtherChannel
•  i LACP, static
•  ii Layer 2, Layer 3
•  iii Load balancing
•  iv EtherChannel Misconfiguration Guard
•  Spanning- Tree Protocol
•  i PVST+, Rapid PVST+, MST
•  ii Switch priority, port priority, path cost, STP timers
•  iii PortFast, BPDU Guard, BPDU Filter
•  iv Loop Guard, Root Guard

Routing Concepts

•  Administrative distance
•  VRF-lite
•  Static routing
•  Policy Based Routing
•  VRF aware routing with any routing protocol
•  Route filtering with any routing protocol
•  Manual summarization with any routing protocol
•  Redistribution between any pair of routing protocols
•  Routing protocol authentication
•  Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

EIGRP

•  Adjacencies
•  Best path selection
•  i RD, FD, FC, successor, feasible successor
•  ii Classic Metrics and Wide Metrics
•  Operations
•  i General operations
•  ii Topology table
•  iii Packet types
•  iv Stuck In Active
•  v Graceful shutdown
•  EIGRP load-balancing
•  i Equal-cost
•  ii Unequal-cost
•  iii Add-path
•  EIGRP Named Mode
•  Optimization, convergence and scalability
•  i Fast convergence requirements
•  ii Query propagation boundaries
•  iii IP FRR (single hop)
•  iv Leak-map with summary routes
•  v EIGRP stub with leak map

OSPF (v2 and v3)

•  Adjacencies
•  Network types, area types
•  Path preference
•  Operations
•  i General operations
•  ii Graceful shutdown
•  iii GTSM (Generic TTL Security Mechanism)
•  Optimization, convergence and scalability
•  i Metrics
•  ii LSA throttling, SPF tuning, fast hello
•  iii LSA propagation control (area types)
•  iv Stub router
•  v Loop-free alternate
•  vi Prefix suppression

BGP

•  IBGP and EBGP peer relationships
•  i Peer-group/update-group, template
•  ii Active, passive
•  iii Timers
•  iv Dynamic neighbors
•  v 4-bytes AS numbers
•  vi Private AS
•  Path selection
•  i Attributes
•  ii Best path selection algorithm
•  iii Load-balancing
•  Routing policies
•  i Attribute manipulation
•  ii Conditional advertisement
•  iii Outbound Route Filtering
•  iv Standard and extended communities
•  v Multi-homing
•  AS path manipulations
•  i local-AS, allowas-in, remove-private-as
•  ii Prepend
•  iii Regexp
•  Convergence and scalability
•  i Route reflector
•  ii Aggregation, as-set
•  Other BGP features
•  i Multipath, add-path
•  ii Soft reconfiguration, Route Refresh

Multicast

•  Layer 2 multicast
•  i IGMPv2, IGMPv3
•  ii IGMP Snooping, PIM Snooping
•  iii IGMP Querier
•  iv IGMP Filter
•  v MLD
•  Reverse path forwarding check
•  PIM
•  i Sparse Mode
•  ii Static RP, BSR, AutoRP
•  iii Group to RP Mapping
•  iv Bidirectional PIM
•  v Source-Specific Multicast
•  vi Multicast boundary, RP announcement filter
•  vii PIMv6 Anycast RP
•  viii IPv4 Anycast RP using MSDP
•  ix Multicast multipath

 MPLS

•  Operations
•   i Label stack, LSR, LSP
•   ii LDP
•   iii MPLS ping, MPLS traceroute
•   L3VPN
•   i PE-CE routing
•   ii MP-BGP VPNv4/VPNv6
•   iii Extranet (route leaking)

DMVPN

•   Troubleshoot DMVPN Phase 3 with dual-hub
•   i NHRP
•   ii IPsec/IKEv2 using pre-shared key
•   iii Per-Tunnel QoS
•   Identify use-cases for FlexVPN
•   i Site-to-site, Server, Client, Spoke-to-Spoke
•   ii IPsec/IKEv2 using pre-shared key
•   iii MPLS over FlexVPN

Device Security on Cisco IOS XE

•  Control plane policing and p rotection
•  AAA

Network Security

•  Switch security features
•  i VACL, PACL
•  ii Storm control
•  iii DHCP Snooping, DHCP option 82
•  iv IP Source Guard
•  v Dynamic ARP Inspection
•  vi Port Security
•  vii Private VLAN
•  Router security features
•  i IPv6 Traffic Filters
•  ii IPv4 Access Control Lists
•  iii Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding
•  IPv6 infrastructure security features
•  i RA Guard
•  ii DHCP Guard
•  iii Binding table
•  iv Device tracking
•  v ND Inspection/Snooping
•  vi Source Guard
•  IEEE 80X Port-Based Authentication
•  i Device roles, port states
•  ii Authentication process
•  iii Host modes

System Management

•  Device management
•  i Console and VTY
•  ii SSH, SCP
•  iii RESTCONF, NETCONF
•  SNMP
•  i v2c
•  ii v3
•  Logging
•  i Local logging, syslog, debugs, conditional debugs
•  ii Timestamps

Quality of Service

•  End to end L3 QoS using MQC
•  i DiffServ
•  ii CoS and DSCP Mapping
•  iii Classification
•  iv Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
•  v Marking using IP Precedence, DSCP, CoS
•  vi Policing, shaping
•  vii Congestion management and avoidance
•  viii HQoS, Sub-rate Ethernet Link

 Network Services

•  First-Hop Redundancy Protocols
•  i HSRP, GLBP, VRRP
•  ii Redundancy using IPv6 RS/RA
•  Network Time Protocol
•  i Master, client
•  ii Authentication
•  DHCP on Cisco IOS
•  i Client, server, relay
•  ii Options
•  iii SLAAC/DHCPv6 interaction
•  iv Stateful, stateless DHCPv6
•  v DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation
•  IPv4 Network Address Translation
•  i Static NAT, PAT
•  ii Dynamic NAT, PAT
•  iii Policy-based NAT, PAT
•  iv VRF aware NAT, PAT
•  v IOS-XE VRF-Aware Software Infrastructure (VASI) NAT

 Network optimization

•  IP SLA
•  i ICMP probes
•  ii UDP probes
•  iii TCP probes
•  Tracking object
•  Flexible Netflow
•  Network operations
•  Traffic capture
•  i SPAN
•  ii RSPAN
•  iii ERSPAN
•  iv Embedded Packet Capture
•  Cisco IOS-XE troubleshooting tools
•  i Packet Trace
•  ii Conditional debugger (debug platform condition)

Date:

19th to 23rd Feb.

Time: 5pm IST