Overview
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Prepare for the first three domains of the Cisco CCNP ENCOR exam: Architecture, Virtualization, and Infrastructure.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome to ENCOR, part 1
- Using course resources
- Enterprise architecture
- Enterprise network design considerations
- Tier 2 versus Tier 3 designs
- On-premise versus cloud designs
- Fabric Capacity planning
- Redundant design
- First hop redundancy protocols (FHRPs)
- Stateful switchover (SSO)
- Wireless LAN deployment options
- Location services
- Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN)
- Overview of SD-WAN technology
- SD-WAN implementation
- Software-Defined Access (SD-Access)
- Overview of SD-Access technology
- SD-Access implementation
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Review of QoS mechanisms
- Applying QoS policies
- Wireless QoS
- Switching mechanisms
- Process switching
- Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)
- The CAM versus the TCAM
- The FIB versus the RIB
- Chapter one summary
- Virtualization technologies
- Device virtualization
- Hypervisor type 1 and 2
- Virtual machines
- Virtual switches
- Data path virtualization
- Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
- The need to combine GRE and IPsec tunneling
- Configuring GRE over IPsec tunnels
- Network virtualization
- Location ID Separation Protocol (LISP)
- Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- Chapter two summary
- Infrastructure technologies
- Layer 2 infrastructure technologies
- Review of IEEE 802.1Q trunking
- Troubleshooting 802.1Q trunks
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) theory
- VTP configuration
- Review of EtherChannel operation
- Troubleshooting EtherChannels
- Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP) theory
- MSTP configuration
- Review of Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
- RSTP configuration
- OSPF
- OSPF compared to EIGRP
- Review of OSPF neighbor formation
- Review of OSPF network types
- Multi-area OSPFv2 configuration
- OSPF route filtering
- OSPF route summarization
- OSPFv3 traditional configuration
- OSPFv3 address families configuration
- BGP
- Fundamental BGP concepts
- BGP path selection criteria
- Routing IPv4 with BGP, part 1
- Routing IPv4 with BGP, part 2
- Routing IPv6 with BGP over an IPv4 session configuration
- Routing IPv6 with BGP over an IPv6 session configuration
- Wireless technologies
- Wireless communication theory
- Access Point Modes
- Antenna types
- Access Point operation
- Layer 2 versus Layer 3 roaming
- WLAN troubleshooting
- Network services
- Review of Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Static NAT configuration
- Dynamic NAT configuration
- Port Address Translation (PAT) configuration
- Review of Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- NTP security
- HSRP configuration
- VRRP configuration
- Multicast operation
- Chapter three summary
