Cisco CCNP Enterprise Certification Boot Camp

ARCHITECTURE

•Explain the different design principles used in an enterprise network
•Analyze design principles of a WLAN deployment
•Differentiate between onpremises and cloud infrastructure deployments
• Explain the working principles of the Cisco SDWAN solution
•Explain the working principles of the Cisco SDAccess 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
•Layer 3
•Wireless
•IP Services

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
•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 highlevel 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

LAYER 3 TECHNOLOGIES

•Troubleshoot administrative distance (all routing protocols)
•Troubleshoot route map for any routing protocol (attributes, tagging, filtering)
•Troubleshoot loop prevention mechanisms (filtering, tagging, split horizon, route poisoning)
•Troubleshoot redistribution between any routing protocols or routing sources
•Troubleshoot manual and autosummarization with any routing protocol
•Configure and verify policybased routing
• Configure and verify VRFLite
• Describe Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
• Troubleshoot EIGRP (classic and named mode)
• Troubleshoot OSPF (v2/v3)
Troubleshoot BGP (Internal and External)

VPN TECHNOLOGIES

•Describe MPLS operations (LSR, LDP, label switching, LSP)
•Describe MPLS Layer 3 VPN
•Configure and verify DMVPN (single hub)

INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY

• Troubleshoot device security using IOS AAA (TACACS+, RADIUS, local database)
•Troubleshoot router security features
• Troubleshoot control plane policing (CoPP) (Telnet, SSH, HTTP(S), SNMP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP)
• Describe IPv6 First Hop security features (RA guard, DHCP guard, binding table, ND inspection/snooping, source guard)

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES

• Troubleshoot device management
• Troubleshoot SNMP (v2c, v3)
• Troubleshoot network problems using logging (local, syslog, debugs, conditional debugs, timestamps)
• Troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP (DHCP client, IOS DHCP server, DHCP relay, DHCP options)
• Troubleshoot network performance issues using IP SLA (jitter, tracking objects, delay, connectivity)
• Troubleshoot NetFlow (v5, v9, flexible NetFlow)

• CCNP Enterprise Certification Exam Structure
• Exam Registration Process
• Time Management
• Topics and Concepts
• CCNP Enterprise Certification Question Structure
• Vendor Interpretation Techniques