1.0 Network Fundamentals

• Compare & contrast OSI & TCP/IP models
  
• Compare & contrast TCP & UDP protocols
  
• Impact of infrastructure components in a network
  
• Firewalls, Access points, Wireless controllers
  
• Effects of cloud resources on network architecture
  
• Traffic path to internal and external cloud services
  
• Virtual services
  
• Basic virtual network infrastructure
  
• Compare & contrast collapsed core and three-tier architecture
  
• Compare & contrast network topologies
  
• Star, Mesh, Hybrid
  
• Select the appropriate cabling type (Straight & Cross)
  
• Apply troubleshooting methodologies to resolve problems
  
• Perform and document fault isolation
  
• Resolve or escalate
  
• Verify & monitor resolution
  
• Configure, verify & troubleshoot IPv4 addressing & subnetting
  
• Compare & contrast IPv4 address types
  
• Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast
  
• Describe the need for private IPv4 addressing
  
• Identify IPv6 addressing to use in LAN/WAN environment
  
• Configure, verify & troubleshoot IPv6 addressing
  
• Configure & verify IPv6 Stateless Address Auto Configuration
  
• Compare & contrast IPv6 address types 
  
• Global unicast, Unique local, Link local, Multicast, Modified EUI 64, Autoconfiguration, Anycast
  

2.0 LAN Switching Technologies

• Describe & verify switching concepts
  
• MAC learning & aging, Frame switching, Frame flooding, MAC address table
  
• Interpret Ethernet frame format
  
• Troubleshoot interface & cable issues (collisions, errors, duplex, speed)
  
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot VLANs (normal/extended range) spanning multiple switches
  
• Access ports (data & voice), Default VLAN
  
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot interswitch connectivity
  
• Trunk ports, Add & remove VLANs on a trunk
  
• DTP, VTP (v1&v2), and 802.1Q Native VLAN
  
• Configure, verify, & troubleshoot STP protocols
  
• STP mode (PVST+ and RPVST+), STP root bridge selection
  
• Configure, verify & troubleshoot STP related optional features
  
• PortFast, BPDU guard
  
• Configure & verify Layer 2 protocols
  
• Cisco Discovery Protocol, LLDP
  
• Configure, verify, & troubleshoot (Layer 2/Layer 3) EtherChannel
  
• Static, PAGP, LACP
  
• Describe the benefits of switch stacking & chassis aggregation

• Describe the routing concepts
  
• Packet handling along the path through a network
  
• Forwarding decision based on route lookup
  
• Frame rewrite
  
• Interpret the components of a routing table
  
• Prefix, Network mask, Next hop, Routing protocol code
  
• Administrative distance, Metric
  
• Gateway of last resort & Admin distance
  
• Configure, verify, & troubleshoot inter-VLAN routing
  
• Router on a stick & SVI
  
• Compare & contrast static routing & dynamic routing
  
• Compare & contrast distance vector and link state routing protocols
  
• Compare & contrast interior and exterior routing protocols
  
• Configure, verify & troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 static routing
  
• Default route, Network route, Host route, Floating static
  
• Configure, verify & troubleshoot single area & multi-area OSPFv2 for IPv4 & IPv6
  
• (excluding authentication, filtering, manual summarization, redistribution, stub, virtual-link, and LSAs)
  
• Configure, verify & troubleshoot EIGRP for IPv4 & IPv6 
  
• (excluding authentication, filtering, manual summarization, redistribution, stub)
  
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot RIPv2 for IPv4
  
• (excluding authentication, filtering, manual summarization, redistribution)
  
• Troubleshoot basic Layer 3 end-to-end connectivity issues
  

4.0 WAN Technologies

• Configure & verify PPP and MLPPP on WAN interfaces using local authentication
  
• Configure, verify, & troubleshoot PPPoE client-side interfaces using local authentication
  
• Configure, verify, & troubleshoot GRE tunnel connectivity
  
• Describe WAN topology options
  
• Point-to-point, Hub and spoke, Full mesh, Single vs dual-homed
  
• Describe WAN access connectivity options
  
• MPLS, Metro Ethernet, Broadband PPPoE, Internet VPN (DMVPN, site-to-site VPN, client VPN)
  
• Configure and verify single-homed branch connectivity using eBGP IPv4 (limited to peering and route advertisement using Network command only)
  
• Describe basic QoS concepts
  
• Marking, Device trust, Prioritization, (Voice, Video & Data)
  
• Shaping, Policing, Congestion management
  
• Describe DNS 

• lookup operation
  
• Troubleshoot client connectivity issues involving DNS
  
• Configure and verify DHCP on a router (excluding static reservations)
  
• Server, Relay, Client, TFTP, DNS, & gateway options
  
• Troubleshoot client- and router-based DHCP connectivity issues
  
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot basic HSRP
  
• Priority, Pre-emption, Version
  
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot inside source NAT
  
• Static, Pool, PAT
  
• Configure and verify NTP operating in a client/server mode
  

• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot port security
  
• Static, Dynamic, Sticky, Max MAC addresses, Violation actions & Err-disable recovery
  
• Describe common access layer threat mitigation techniques
  
• 802.1x, DHCP snooping, Nondefault native VLAN
  
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 access list for traffic filtering
  
• Standard, Extended, Named
  
• Verify ACLs using the APIC-EM Path Trace ACL analysis tool
  
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot basic device hardening
  
• Local authentication, Secure password, Access to device (Source address & Telnet/SSH)
  
• Login banner
  
• Describe device security using AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
  

• Configure and verify device-monitoring protocols
  
• SNMPv2, SNMPv3 & Syslog
  
• Troubleshoot network connectivity issues using ICMP echo-based IP SLA
  
• Configure and verify device management
  
• Backup and restore device configuration
  
• Using CDP or LLDP for device discovery
  
• Licensing, Logging, Timezone & Loopback
  
• Configure and verify initial device configuration
  
• Perform device maintenance
  
• Cisco IOS upgrades and recovery (SCP, FTP, TFTP, and MD5 verify)
  
• Password recovery and configuration register & File system management
  
• Use Cisco IOS tools to troubleshoot and resolve problems
  
• Ping & traceroute with extended option
  
• Terminal monitor, Log events, Local SPAN
  
• Describe network programmability in enterprise network architecture
  
• Function of a controller
  
• Separation of control plane and data plane
  
• Northbound and southbound APIs