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Routing and Switching Written Exam (120hrs)

Implement Layer 2 Technologies

Implement Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

  1. 802.1d
  2. 802.1w
  3. 801.1s
  4. Loop guard
  5. Root guard
  6. Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) guard
  7. Storm control
  8. Unicast flooding
  9. Port roles, failure propagation, and loop guard operation

Implement VLAN and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Implement trunk and trunk protocols, EtherChannel, and load-balance
Implement Ethernet technologies

  1. Speed and duplex
  2. Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet
  3. PPP over Ethernet  (PPPoE)

Implement Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN), and flow control
Implement Frame Relay

  1. Local Management Interface (LMI)
  2. Traffic shaping
  3. Full mesh
  4. Hub and spoke
  5. Discard eligible (DE)

Implement High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) and PPP

Implement IPv4

Implement IP version 4 (IPv4) addressing, subnetting, and variable-length subnet masking (VLSM)
Implement IPv4 tunneling and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Implement IPv4 RIP version 2 (RIPv2)

Implement IPv4 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

Standard OSPF areas
Stub area
Totally stubby area
Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
Totally NSSA
Link-state  advertisement (LSA) types
Adjacency on a  point-to-point and on a multi-access network
OSPF graceful restart

Implement IPv4 Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)

Best path
Loop-free paths
EIGRP operations when alternate loop-free paths are available, and when they are not available
EIGRP queries
Manual summarization and auto-summarization
EIGRP stubs

Implement IPv4 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

Next hop
Peering
Internal BorderGateway Protocol (IBGP) and External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)
Implement policy routing
Implement Performance Routing (PfR) and Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)
Implement filtering, route redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes, and other advanced features

Implement IPv6

Implement IP version 6 (IPv6) addressing and different addressing types
Implement IPv6 neighbor discovery
Implement basic IPv6 functionality protocols
Implement tunneling techniques
Implement OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3)
Implement EIGRP version 6 (EIGRPv6)
Implement filtering and route redistribution

Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

Implement   Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Implement Layer 3 virtual private networks (VPNs) on provider edge (PE), provider (P), and customer edge (CE) routers
Implement virtual   routing and forwarding (VRF) and Multi-VRF Customer Edge (VRF-Lite)

Implement IP Multicast

Implement Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) sparse mode
Implement Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
Implement interdomain multicast routing
Implement PIM Auto-Rendezvous Point (Auto-RP), unicast rendezvous point (RP), and   bootstrap router (BSR)
Implement multicast tools, features, and source-specific multicast
Implement IPv6 multicast, PIM, and related multicast protocols, such as Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)

Implement Network Security

Implement access lists
Implement Zone Based Firewall
Implement Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
Implement IP Source Guard
Implement authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) (configuring the AAA server is not required, only the client-side (IOS) is configured)
Implement Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
Implement Cisco IOS Firewall
Implement Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Implement Secure Shell (SSH)
Implement 802.1x
Implement NAT
Implement routing protocol authentication
Implement device access control
Implement security features

Implement Network Services

Implement Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
Implement Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
Implement Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Implement Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Implement DHCP
Implement Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)

Implement Quality of Service (QoS)

Implement Modular QoS CLI (MQC)

  1. Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
  2. Class-based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ),  modified deficit round robin (MDRR), and low latency queuing (LLQ)
  3. Classification
  4. Policing
  5. Shaping
  6. Marking
  7. Weighted random early detection (WRED) and random early detection (RED)
  8. Compression

Implement Layer 2 QoS: weighted round robin (WRR), shaped round robin (SRR), and policies
Implement link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) for Frame Relay
Implement generic traffic shaping
Implement Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
Implement Cisco AutoQoS

Troubleshoot a  Network

Troubleshoot complex Layer 2 network issues
Troubleshoot complex Layer 3 network issues
Troubleshoot a network in response to application problems
Troubleshoot network services
Troubleshoot network security

Optimize the Network

Implement syslog and local logging
Implement IP Service Level Agreement SLA
Implement NetFlow
Implement SPAN, RSPAN, and router IP traffic export (RITE)
Implement Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Implement Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
Implement Remote Monitoring (RMON)
Implement FTP
Implement TFTP
Implement TFTP server on router
Implement Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
Implement HTTP and HTTPS
Implement Telnet

Evaluate proposed changes to a Network

Evaluate interoperability of proposed technologies against deployed technologies

  1. Changes to routing protocol parameters
  2. Migrate parts of a network to IPv6
  3. Routing Protocol migration
  4. Adding multicast support
  5. Migrate spanning tree protocol
  6. Evaluate impact of new traffic on existing QoS design

Determine operational impact of proposed changes to an existing network

  1. Downtime of network or portions of network
  2. Performance degradation
  3. Introducing security breaches

Suggest Alternative solutions when incompatible changes are proposed to an existing network

  1. Hardware/Software upgrades
  2. Topology shifts
  3. Reconfigurations


Routing and Switching Lab Exam (100hrs)

Implement Layer 2 Technologies

Implement Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)

  1. 802.1d
  2. 802.1w
  3. 801.1s
  4. Loop guard
  5. Root guard
  6. Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) guard
  7. Storm control
  8. Unicast flooding
  9. Port roles, failure propagation, and loop guard operation

Implement VLAN and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
Implement trunk and trunk protocols, EtherChannel, and load-balance
Implement Ethernet technologies

  1. Speed and duplex
  2. Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet
  3. PPP over Ethernet   (PPPoE)

Implement Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN), and flow control
Implement Frame Relay

  1. Local Management Interface (LMI)
  2. Traffic shaping
  3. Full mesh
  4. Hub and spoke
  5. Discard eligible (DE)

Implement High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) and PPP

Implement IPv4

Implement IP version4 (IPv4) addressing, subnetting, and variable-length subnet masking (VLSM)
Implement IPv4 tunneling and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
Implement IPv4 RIP version 2 (RIPv2)

Implement IPv4 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Standard OSPF areas
Stub area
Totally stubby area
Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
Totally NSSA
Link-state advertisement (LSA) types
Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access network
OSPF graceful restart

Implement IPv4 Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
 Best path
Loop-free paths
EIGRP operations when alternate loop-free paths are available, and when they are not available
EIGRP queries
Manual summarization and auto-summarization
EIGRP stubs

Implement IPv4 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
 Next hop
Peering
Internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP) and External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)

Implement policy routing
 Implement Performance Routing (PfR) and Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)
Implement filtering, route redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes, and other advanced features

Implement IPv6

Implement IP version 6 (IPv6) addressing and different addressing types
Implement IPv6 neighbor discovery
Implement basic IPv6 functionality protocols
Implement tunneling techniques
Implement OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3)
Implement EIGRP version 6 (EIGRPv6)
Implement filtering and route redistribution

Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPNs

Implement Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Implement Layer 3 virtual private networks (VPNs) on provider edge (PE), provider (P), and customer edge (CE) routers
Implement virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and Multi-VRF Customer Edge (VRF-Lite)

Implement IP Multicast

Implement Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) sparse mode
Implement Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
Implement interdomain multicast routing
Implement PIM Auto-Rendezvous Point (Auto-RP), unicast rendezvous point (RP), and bootstrap router (BSR)
Implement multicast tools, features, and source-specific multicast
Implement IPv6 multicast, PIM, and related multicast protocols, such as Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)

Implement Network Security

Implement access lists
Implement Zone Based Firewall
Implement Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
Implement IP Source Guard
Implement authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) (configuring the AAA server is not required, only the client-side (IOS) is configured)
Implement Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
Implement Cisco IOS Firewall
Implement Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
Implement Secure Shell (SSH)
Implement 802.1x
Implement NAT
Implement routing protocol authentication
Implement device access control
Implement security features

Implement Network Services

Implement Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
Implement Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
Implement Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Implement Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Implement DHCP
Implement Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)

Implement Quality of  Service (QoS)

Implement Modular QoS CLI (MQC)

  1. Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
  2. Class-based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ),  modified deficit round robin (MDRR), and low latency queuing (LLQ)
  3. Classification
  4. Policing
  5. Shaping
  6. Marking
  7. Weighted random early detection (WRED) and random early detection (RED)
  8. Compression

Implement Layer 2 QoS: weighted round robin (WRR), shaped round robin (SRR), and policies
Implement link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) for Frame Relay
Implement generic traffic shaping
Implement Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
Implement Cisco AutoQoS

Troubleshoot a Network

Troubleshoot complex Layer 2 network issues
Troubleshoot complex Layer 3 network issues
Troubleshoot a network in response to application problems
Troubleshoot network services
Troubleshoot network security

Optimize the Network

Implement syslog and local logging
Implement IP Service Level Agreement SLA
Implement NetFlow
Implement SPAN, RSPAN, and router IP traffic export (RITE)
Implement Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Implement Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
Implement Remote Monitoring (RMON)
Implement FTP
Implement TFTP
Implement TFTP server on router
Implement Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
Implement HTTP and HTTPS
Implement Telnet