Designing EIGRP Routing
- • Describe Scalabale EIGRP Designs and Fast Convergence
- • Examine EIGRP Autonomous Systems and Layered Designs
- • Describe Scalable EIGRP Hub-and-Spoke and Stub Designs
- • Describe EIGRP Convergence Features
Designing OSPF Routing
- • OSPF Neigbour Adjacencies and LSAs
- • OSPF Scalability Issues
- • Define Area and Domain Summarization
- • OSPF Full and Partial Mesh
- • OSPF Convergence
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing an Enterprise Connectivity
Designing IS-IS Routing
- • Describe IS-IS Routing Protocol
- • Examine IS-IS Adjacencies and Authentication
- • Describe IS-IS and OSPF Similarities
- • Explore IS-IS Routing Logic
- • Describe IS-IS Operations
- • Examine Integrated IS-IS for IPv6
Designing BGP Routing and Redundancy
- • Identify IBGP Scalability Issues
- • BGP Route Reflector Terminology
- • Describe BGP-Split-Horizon
- • Route Reflector Loop Prevention Mechanisms
- • BGP Confederation Loop Prevention Mechanisms
- • Compare BGP Load Sharing Designs
- • Examine Dual and Mulithomed BGP Designs
Explorig BGP Address Families and Attributes
- • BGP Address Families and Attributes
- • BGP Route Selection Preferences
- • Describe BGP Communities
- • Examine a Case Study - Designing a Dual-Stack MP-BGP Environment
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing an Enterprise Network with BGP Internet Connectivity
Designing an Enterprise Campus LAN
- • Compare End-to-End and Local VLANs
- • Describe the Layer 3 Access Layer
- • Examine a Case Study
- • Describe Cloud Deployment Models
Designing Layer 2 Campus
- • Describe VLANs, Trunks and VTP
- • Understanding the Spanning Tree Protocol
- • Understanding Layer 2 Security Techniques
- • Understand MST, POE, and EnergyWise
- • Describe Port Aggregation Considerations
- • First-Hop Redundancy
- • Describe Network Requirements of Applications
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing an Enterprise Campus LAN
Designing a Layer 3 Campus
- • The Benefits of Building Triangles
- • Routing Convergence
- • Describe Routing Protocols and Summarization
- • Describe Default Routes, Redistribution and Filtering
- • Examine Passive Interface, Routing Convergence and Routing IPv4 and IPv6
- • Describe Network Management Best Practices
Discovering the Cisco SD-Access Architecture
- • Cisco Software Defined Access Overview
- • Cisco Software-Defined Access Architecture
- • Cisco SD-Access Node Roles
- • Cisco Software-Defined Access Definition and Benefits
- • Examine the Fabric Enabled Wireless LAN
- • Role of Cisco SD-Access in Cisco DNA
Exploring Cisco SD-Access Fabric Design
- • Describe SD-Access Fabric Constructs
- • Describe Design Requirements of Underlay Network
- • Describe DHCP and Security Solutions for the Fabric Domain
- • Describe Cisco SD-Access Wireless Fabric Constructs
Exploring Cisco SD-Access Site Design Strategy and Considerations
- • Cisco SD-Access Site Reference Models
- • Cisco SD-Access Distributed Campus Considerations
- • Migration to Cisco SD-Access
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing Cisco SD-Access in the Enterprise
Discovering Service Provider-Managed VPNs
- • WAN Connection Decision Points
- • Describe Layer 3 MPLS VPN
- • Use Routing Protocols at the PE-CE
Designing Enterprise-Managed VPNs
- • Enterprise-Managed VPNs Overview
- • Describe GRE, mGRE and IPsec
- • Describe Dynamic VTI, GET VPN, SSL VPN and Flex VPN
- • Describe DMVPN
- • Describe EIGRP DMVPN and DMVPN Scaling
Designing WAN Resiliency
- • WAN Design Overview
- • Describe Common MPLS WNA Design Models
- • Describe Common Layer 2 WNA Design Models
- • Describe Cmmon VPN WAN Design Models
- • Describe Cellular VPN Design Models
- • Remote Site Local Internet Connectivity
- • Remote-Site LAN Design
- • WAN Connectivity Case Study
- • Describe Basic Traffic Engineering Techniques
- • Describe Cloud Connectivity Options
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing Resilient Enterprise WAN
Examining Cisco SD-WAN Architectures
- • Describe SDN for the WAN
- • Describe Cisco SD-WAN Components and Functions
- • Describe the Orchestration Plane
- • Describe the Management Plane
- • Describe the Control Plane
- • Describe the Data Plane
- • Describe SD-WAN Analytics
- • Describe the Overlay Management Protocol
- • Define OMP Network Terminology
- • Describe Transport Locators
- • Describe Fabric Operation
Examining Cisco SD-WAN Deployment Design Considerations
- • Describe Controller Deployment Options
- • Describe Controller Deployment Models
- • Describe Cisco SD-WAN Cloud Deployment
- • Describe Cisco SD-WAN Managed Service Provider Deployment
- • Describe Cisco SD-WAN On-Premises Deployment
- • Use Enterprise CA
- • Describe Controller Placement and Challenges
- • Describe Cloud Controller Connections
- • Describe On-Premise Controller Connections
- • Describe MPLS and Internet Interconnection
- • Describe Deployment Considerations
- • Describe On-Premises Deployment Considerations
- • Describe vBond On-Premises Deployment
Examining Cisco SD-WAN-NAT and Hybrid Design Considerations
- • Describe Working with NAT
- • Describe NAT Traversal Combinations
- • Describe Zero-Touch Provisioning
- • Describe Considerations for Hybrid Scenarios
- • Describe Deployment Options: Pure Vs Hybrid
Designing Cisco SD-WAN Routing and High Availability
- • Describe Horizontal Solution Scale
- • Describe SD-WAN Redundancy
- • Describe Site Design
- • Describe Path Redundancy
- • Compare an Underlay Vs Overlay Network
- • Describe SD-WAN Branch Connectivity
- • Describe SD-WAN Privacy and Integrity
- • Describe SD-WAN Secure Segmentation
- • Describe SD-WNA Security Features
- • Cisco SD-WAN Security Use Cases
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing Resilient Enterprise Cisco SD-WAN
Exploring QoS
- • IntServ vs DiffServ
- • Explain Classification and Marking Tools
- • Policers and Shapers
- • Describe Queuing Tools
- • Explain RFC 4594 QoS Recommendations
Designing LAN and WAN QoS
- • Need for Campus QoS
- • Describe the Classification, Marking and Policing QoS Model
- • Need for QoS in WAN and Branch
- • Need for QoS in IPsec VPN
- • Describe DMVPN QoS Considerations
- • Describe SD-WAN Forwarding
- • Describe SD-WAN QoS Operation
- • Descrive vEdge Queuing
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing QoS in an Enterprise
Network
Introducing Multicast
- • Explain How IP Multicast Works
- • Explain Multicast Groups
- • Describe SD-WNA Multicast Application Support
- • Describe the Functions of a Multicast Network
- • Describe Multicast Protocols
- • Describe Multicast Forwarding and RPF Check
- • Explain Multicast Protocol Basics
Exploring Multicast with PIM-SM
- • Describe Multicast Distribution Trees Identification
- • Describe Reciver Joins and Registering the Source
- • Describe PIM-SM SPT Switchover
- • Describe Multicast Routing Table
- • Describe Basic SSM Concepts
- • Describe Bidirectional PIM
- • Describe DF Election and Messages
- • Case Study: DF Election
Designing Rendezvous Point Distribution Solutions
- • Rendezvous Point Discovery
- • Case Study: Auto-RP Operation
- • Auto-RP and BSR Flooding
- • MSDP Protocol Overview
Designing an IPv4 Address Plan
- • IPv4 Adress Planning Considerations
- • Plan the IP Addressing Hierarchy
- • Create an Addressing Plan
- • Case Study: Design an IPv4 Address Space
- • Case Study: Resolve Overlapping Address Ranges
- • Allocating More IP Addresses
Exploring IPv6 (Self-Study)
- • IPv6 Address Planning Considerations
- • IPv6 for an Enterprise
- • Describe IPv6 Address Allocation: Linked IPv4 Into IPv6
- • Describe IPv6 Address Allocation: Per Location/Type
- • Describe IPv6 Address Allocation: Per VLAN
Deploying IPv6 (Self-Study)
- • Describe the IPv6 Phased Approach
- • Identify IPv6 Services to Deploy
- • IPv4 and IPv6 Coexistence
- • Transition Mechanisms
- • Describe NAT64 and DNS64
- • Describe Manual Tunnels
- • Describe Tunnel Brokers
- • Describe 6rd
- • Describe DS-Lite
- • Describe LISP
- • IPv6 Application Support
- • IPv6 Related Security
- • Design Case Study Activity: Designing an Enterprise IPv6 Network
Introducing Network APIs and Protocols (Self-Study)
- • Describing Network APIs and Protocols
- • Describing the Evolution of Device Management and Programmability
- • Describing Data Encoding Formats
- • Describing JSON
- • Decrisbing XML
- • Describing Data Models
- • Describing the Model-Driven Programmability Stack
- • Describing REST
- • Describing NETCONF
- • Describing RESTCONF
- • Describing gRPC
Exploring YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and Model-Driven Telemetry (Self-Study)
- • Define YANG, NETCONF and RESTCONF
- • Describe YANG Concepts
- • Describe NETCONF Concepts
- • Describe RESTCONF Concepts
- • Compare NETCONF and RESTCONF
- • Describe gRPC and gNMi
- • Define Model-Driven Telemetry
- • Describe Stream Telemetry Data
- • Explain Subscription
- • Describe Dial-In and Dial-Out Model-Driven Telemetry
