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ARCHITECTURE

• Explain the different design principles used in an enterprise network
• Analyze design principles of a WLAN deployment
• Differentiate between on-premises and cloud infrastructure deployments
• Explain the working principles of the Cisco SD-WAN solution
• Explain the working principles of the Cisco SD-Access solution
• Describe concepts of wired and wireless QoS
• Differentiate hardware and software switching mechanisms

VIRTUALIZATION

• Describe device virtualization technologies
• Configure and verify data path virtualization technologies
• Describe network virtualization concepts

INFRASTRUCTURE

• Layer 2 Technology:
• Troubleshoot static and dynamic 802.1q trunking protocols
• Troubleshoot static and dynamic EtherChannels
• Configure and verify common Spanning Tree Protocols (RSTP and MST)
• Layer 3 Technology:
• Compare routing concepts of EIGRP and OSPF (advanced distance vector vs. linked state, load balancing, path selection, path operations, metrics)
• Configure and verify simple OSPF environments, including multiple normal areas, summarization, and filtering (neighbor adjacency, point-to-point and broadcast network types, and passive interface)
• Configure and verify eBGP between directly connected neighbors (best path selection algorithm and neighbor relationships)
• Wireless Technology
• Describe Layer 1 concepts, such as RF power, RSSI, SNR, interference noise,
• band and channels, and wireless client devices capabilities
• Describe AP modes and antenna types
• Describe access point discovery and join process (discovery algorithms,
• WLC selection process)
• Describe the main principles and use cases for Layer 2 and Layer 3 roaming
• Troubleshoot WLAN configuration and wireless client connectivity issues
• IP Services
• Describe Network Time Protocol (NTP)
• Configure and verify NAT/PAT
• Configure first hop redundancy protocols, such as HSRP and VRRP
• Describe multicast protocols, such as PIM and IGMP v2/v3

NETWORK ASSURANCE

• Diagnose network problems using tools such as debugs, conditional debugs, trace route, ping, SNMP, and syslog
• Configure and verify device monitoring using syslog for remote logging 2019
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• Configure and verify NetFlow and Flexible NetFlow
• Configure and verify SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN
• Configure and verify IPSLA
• Describe Cisco DNA Center workflows to apply network configuration, monitoring, and management
• Configure and verify NETCONF and RESTCONF

SECURITY

• Configure and verify device access control
• Configure and verify infrastructure security features
• Describe REST API security
• Configure and verify wireless security features
• Describe the components of network security design

AUTOMATION

• Interpret basic Python components and scripts
• Construct valid JSON encoded file
• Describe the high-level principles and benefits of a data modeling language, such as YANG
• Describe APIs for Cisco DNA Center and vManage
• Interpret REST API response codes and results in payload using Cisco DNA
• Center and RESTCONF
• Construct EEM applet to automate configuration, troubleshooting, or data collection
• Compare agent vs. agentless orchestration tools, such as Chef, Puppet,
• Ansible, and SaltStack

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

Switched campus

• Switch administration
• Layer 2 protocols
• LAN technologies
• Spanning-Tree

Routing Concepts

• Administrative distance
• VRF-lite
• Static routing
• Policy-based routing
• VRF aware routing with any routing protocol
• 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
• Operations
• EIGRP load-balancing
• EIGRP named mode
• Optimization, convergence and scalability

OSPF (v2 and v3)

• Adjacencies
• Network types, area types
• Path preference
• Operations
• Optimization, convergence and scalability

BGP

• IBGP and EBGP peer relationships
• Path selection
• Routing policies
• AS path manipulations
• Convergence and scalability
• Other BGP features

Multicast

• Layer 2 multicast
• Reverse path forwarding check
• PIM

SOFTWARE DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE

Cisco SD Access

• Design a Cisco SD Access solution
• Cisco SD Access deployment
• Segmentation
• Assurance

Cisco SD-WAN

• Design a Cisco SD-WAN solution
• WAN edge deployment
• Configuration templates
• Localized policies (only QoS)
• Centralized policies

TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES AND SOLUTIONS

MPLS

• Operations
• L3VPN

DMVPN

• Troubleshoot DMVPN phase 3 with dual-hub
• Identify use-cases for FlexVPN

INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AND SERVICES

Device Security on Cisco IOS XE

• Control plane policing and protection
• AAA

Network Security

• Switch security features
• Router security features
• IPv6 First Hop Security features
• IEEE 802.1X Port-Based Authentication

System Management

• Device management
• SNMP
• Logging

Quality of Service

• End to end L3 QoS using MQC

Network Services

• First-Hop Redundancy protocols
• Network Time Protocol
• DHCP on Cisco IOS
• IPv4 Network Address Translation

Network optimization

• IP SLA
• Tracking object
• Flexible netflow

Network operations

• Traffic capture
• Cisco IOS-XE Troubleshooting tools

INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION AND PROGRAMMABILITY

Data encoding formats

• JSON
• XML

Automation and scripting

• EEM applets
• Guest shell

Programmability

• Interaction with vManage API
• Interaction with Cisco DNA Center API
• Interaction with Cisco IOS XE API
• Deploy and verify model-driven telemetry