• Describe the various OSPF link-state advertisement (LSA) types. 

• Explain the flooding of LSAs in an OSPF network. 

• Describe the shortest-path-first (SPF) algorithm. 

• Explain OSPF link metrics 

• Describe the various OSPF authentication methods. 

• Explain the key differences between OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. 

• Describe OSPF area types and operations. 

• Configure various OSPF area types. 

• Summarize and restrict routes. 

• Configure OSPF multi-area adjacencies 

• Configure OSPF virtual links. 

• Explain OSPF external reachability. 

• List useful commands that are used to troubleshoot and verify OSPF. 

• Isolate different OSPF issues. 

• Explain the concepts and operation of IS-IS. 

• Describe various IS-IS link-state protocol data unit (LSP) types. 

• List IS-IS adjacency rules and troubleshoot common adjacency issues. 

• Configure and monitor IS-IS. 

• Display and interpret the link-state database (LSDB). 

• Perform advanced IS-IS configuration options. 

• Implement IS-IS routing policy. 

• Explain the default operation in multilevel IS-IS. 

• Describe address summarization methods used in IS-IS. 

• Configure and monitor a multilevel IS-IS network. 

• List useful commands to troubleshoot and verify IS-IS problems. 

• Troubleshoot and isolate different IS-IS issues. 

• Describe basic BGP operation. 

• List common BGP attributes. 

• Explain the route selection process for BGP. 

• Describe how to alter the route selection process. 

• Configure some advanced options for BGP peers. 

• Explain how policies function in BGP. 

• Describe BGP attributes and explain how these attributes can be used to manipulate traffic. 

• Show how Regex can be used in policies to manipulate AS-path. 

• Describe the BGP attributes Origin, MED and communities in detail and explain the operation of those attributes. 

• Manipulate these BGP attributes using routing policy.

• Describe the operation of BGP route reflection. 

• Configure a route reflector. 

• Describe the virtual route reflector. 

• Describe the operation of optimal route reflection. 

• Describe the operation of a BGP confederation. 

• Configure confederations. 

• Describe peering relationships in a confederation. 

• Describe DDoS attacks. 

• Describe DDoS mitigation techniques. 

• Describe FlowSpec Operations. 

• Configure and Monitor FlowSpec. 

• Review common BGP troubleshooting procedures. 

• List common BGP troubleshooting commands. 

• Identify issues with BGP peering. 

• Isolate problems on routing policy structure and configuration. 

• Identify common commands for troubleshooting routing policy. 

• Explain the causes for route instability. 

• Describe the effect of damping on BGP routing. 

• Explain the default behavior of damping on links. 

• Control damping using routing policy. 

• View damped routes using command-line interface (CLI) commands.