Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP®)
Course number: CGICCNP40
What You’ll Learn
- Routing protocols, network technologies, and remote connectivity options
- RIPng in an IPv6 environment
- Technologies, operations, and metrics that EIGRP uses
- Configure and verify EIGRP in IPv4 and IPv6 environments including optimizing its behavior and named EIGRP configuration
- Multiarea OSPF including over different network types and how to optimize its database
- Configure and verify OSPFv2 in IPv4 environments and OSPFv3 in IPv4 and IPv6 environments
- Route redistribution and how it is implemented using distribute list, prefix list, and route map filtering mechanisms
- Use Cisco Express Forwarding for efficient Layer 3 packet forwarding
- Implement path control using policy based routing and IP Service Level Agreement (SLA)
- Establishing enterprise Internet connectivity for IPv4 and IPv6
- BGP for enterprise IPv4 and IPv6 Internet connectivity
- Secure Cisco routers according to best practices including the configuring routing protocol authentication
Prerequisites
- Taking ICND1 v2.0 and ICND2 v2.0 (or CCNAX v2.0) is highly recommended
- Configure network fundamentals, including the ability to establish Internet, LAN, and WAN connectivity using both IPv4 and IPv6
- Operate and support a medium-sized LAN that has multiple switches, including VLANs, trunking, and spanning tree functionality
- Troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity issues
- Configure and troubleshoot EIGRP and OSPF, for both IPv4 and IPv6
- Configure devices for SNMP, Syslog, and NetFlow
- Manage network device security, Cisco device configurations, Cisco IOS images, and licenses
Who Needs to Attend
- Network engineers and technicians
- Support engineers
- Systems engineers
- Network analysts
- Senior network administrators
- Anyone involved in planning, implementing, verifying, and troubleshooting routing protocols in enterprise networks
Certification
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP®)
Exam
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP®) Exam
Accreditation
Post class completion, students can appear for the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP®) Exam.
Course Outline
1. Basic Network and Routing Concepts
- Differentiating Routing Protocols
- Understanding Network Technologies
- Connecting Remote Locations with the Headquarters
- Implementing RIPng
2. EIGRP Implementation
- Establishing EIGRP Neighbor Relationships
- Building the EIGRP Topology Table
- Optimizing EIGRP Behavior
- Configuring EIGRP for IPv6
- Discovering Named EIGRP Configuration
3. OSPF Implementation
- Establishing OSPF Neighbor Relationship
- Building the Link State Database
- Optimizing OSPF Behavior
- Configuring OSPFv3
4. Configuration of Redistribution
- Implementing Basic Routing Protocol Redistribution
- Manipulating Redistribution Using Route Filtering
5. Path Control Implementation
- Using Cisco Express Forwarding Switching
- Implementing Path Control
6. Enterprise Internet Connectivity
- Planning Enterprise Internet Connectivity
- Establishing Single-Homed IPv4 Internet Connectivity
- Establishing Single-Homed IPv6 Internet Connectivity
- Improving Resilience of Internet Connectivity
- Considering Advantages of Using BGP
- Implementing Basic BGP Operations
- Using BGP Attributes and Path Selection Process
- Controlling BGP Routing Updates
- Implementing BGP for IPv6 Internet Connectivity
7. Routers and Routing Protocol Hardening
- Securing Cisco Routers
- Describing Routing Protocol Authentication Options
- Configuring EIGRP Authentication
- Configuring OSPF Authentication
- Configuring BGP Authentication
Labs
The following discovery labs are included in this course:
- Discovery 1: Configuring RIPng
- Discovery 2: Configuring and Investigating Basic EIGRP
- Discovery 3: Building The EIGRP Topology Table
- Discovery 4: EIGRP Stub Routing
- Discovery 5: EIGRP Summarization
- Discovery 6: EIGRP Load Balancing
- Discovery 7: EIGRP for IPv6 Configuration
- Discovery 8: Discovering Named EIGRP Configuration
- Discovery 9: Basic OSPF Configuration Introduction
- Discovery 10: Building the Link-State Database
- Discovery 11: OSPF Path Selection
- Discovery 12: OSPF Route Summarization
- Discovery 13: OSPF Stub Areas
- Discovery 14: Implementing OSPFv3
- Discovery 15: Basic Redistribution
- Discovery 16: Manipulate Redistribution
- Discovery 17: Manipulate Redistribution Using Route Maps
- Discovery 18: Analyzing CEF
- Discovery 19: Implementing PBR
- Discovery 20: NAT Virtu iscovery 25: Configuring EIGRP Authentication
- Discovery 26: OSPF Authentication Configuration
The following challenge labs are included in this course:
- Challenge 1: Configure RIPng
- Challenge 2: Configure EIGRP
- Challenge 3: Configure and Optimize EIGRP for IPv6
- Challenge 4: Implement EIGRP for IPv4 and IPv6 Through Named Configuration
- Challenge 5: Configure OSPF
- Challenge 6: Optimize OSPF
- Challenge 7: Configure OSPFv3
- Challenge 8: Implement Redistribution Using Route Filtering
- Challenge 9: Implement Path Control
- Challenge 10: Configuring BGP
- Challenge 11: Configure Authentication for EIGRP Routes
- Challenge 12: Configure BGP Authentication
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