Overview
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Prepare for exam 300-135 TSHOOT, Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks—one of three required exams you must pass to earn the CCNP Routing and Switching certification.
Syllabus
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1. CCNP TSHOOT 300-135: Switching and EC Fundamentals
- Checking the fundamentals
- Port security fundamentals
- Port security static addressing lab
- Port security with multiple secure addresses
- The errdisable recovery feature (or is it?)
- Speaking of trunking
- More trunking!
- EtherChannel fundamentals
- Things that don't play well with EtherChannel
- EtherChannel negotiation protocols
- Switching section open
- PortFast
- UplinkFast
- BackboneFast
- Root guard
- Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) guard
- BPDU filter and root guard
- Unidirectional link detection (UDLD)
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) theory
- RSTP synch and compatibility
- Common Spanning Tree (CST), Multiple Spanning Tree (MST), and Per-VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST)
- The fundamentals
- Fun with hello and dead timers
- Network masking and point-to-point links
- Nonbroadcast multiple access (NBMA) configuration and troubleshooting
- Virtual links: Yea or nay?
- Virtual links: Building and troubleshooting
- Authentication labs begin
- Debugging and troubleshooting a password authentication mismatch
- Spotting and fixing an authentication type mismatch
- Area authentication and interface-level authentication
- Virtual links and authentication
- Passive and nonpassive interfaces
- The maximum transmission unit (MTU)
- Stub areas and router IDs (RIDs)
- The network and frame map commands
- Masks, timers, and flapping links
- K values and passive interfaces
- More passive interfaces
- Load balancing, traceroutes, and pings
- Splitting your horizons
- Creating subinterfaces from not quite scratch
- Conclusion of the subinterface creation lab
- To autoredistribute (or not)
- EIGRP > Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- Testing and troubleshooting with pings and traces
- RIP and EIGRP
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
- Fine-tuning with route maps, part 1
- Fine-tuning with route maps, part 2
- The fundamentals
- Preemption and testing
- Interface tracking lab begins
- Interface tracking lab concludes
- Route tracking lab begins
- Route tracking lab concludes
- A refresher
- Named ACLs and placement
- Line order, placement, and... notepad?
- Network Address Translation (NAT) lab begins
- NAT lab concludes
- Time range time!
- More time ranges
- The Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- NTP authentication
- Intro remarks
- External BGP (eBGP) peering
- Internal BGP (iBGP) peering and loopback interfaces
- eBGP peering and loopback interfaces
- Advertising routes with the network command
- The origin and next hop attributes
- BGP best path selection process
- The mystery of the next hop address
- Mystery solved!
- The Multi-Exit Discrimator (MED)
- Local preference: All or nothing at all
- Local preference: Changing one, but not all
- Carry that weight (attribute)
- More weight
- Route summarization and advertisements
- Synch rules and the full mesh
- The why and how of route reflectors
- Prefix lists, part 1
- Prefix lists, part 2
- Success tips
- The dreaded but necessary theory
- Internet Key Exchange (IKE) phase 1 in action
- Configuring IPsec security associations (SAs)
- IPsec SA lab continues
- A dash of dynamic multipoint virtual private network (DMVPN)
- Virtual route forwarding (VRF) lab begins
- VRF lab continues
- VRF lab concludes
- The VRF that goes ping
- Troubleshooting tips
