CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional

CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional

• Identify Cisco Express Forwarding concepts
• Explain general network challenges (Unicast, Asymmetric routing)
• Describe IP operations (ICMP Unreachable and Redirects, TTL)
• Explain TCP operations (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Describe UDP operations
• Recognize proposed changes to the network

• Configure and verify PPP Authentication(PAP, CHAP)
• Explain Frame Relay (point-to-point, Multipoint)

• Identify, configure, and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting
• Address types (Unicast, broadcast, multicast, and VLSM)
• ARP, DHCP relay and server, DHCP protocol operations
• Identify IPv6 addressing and subnetting
• Configure and verify static routing
• Configure and verify default routing
• Evaluate routing protocol types (Distance vector, Link state,Path vector)
• Configure and verify redistribution between any routing protocols or routing sources
• Configure and verify manual and autosummarization with any routing protocol
• Configure and verify RIPV1 & RIPv2 & RIPng
• Describe EIGRP packet types,EIGRP neighbor relationship, authentication
• Configure and verify EIGRP stubs, EIGRP load balancing,optimize EIGRP metrics, EIGRP for IPv6
• Describe OSPF packet types, OSPF neighbor relationship and authentication
• Configure and verify network types, area types, and router types Point-to-point, multipoint, broadcast, nonbroadcast,LSA types, area type: backbone, normal, transit, stub, NSSA, totally stub Internal router, backbone router, ABR, ASBR
• Configure and verify OSPF for IPv6
• Describe,configure, and verify BGP peer relationships and authentication
• Configure and verify eBGP (IPv4 and IPv6 address families)
• Explain BGP attributes and best-path selection

• Configure and verify GRE, Describe DMVPN (single hub),Describe Easy Virtual Networking (EVN)

• Describe IOS AAA using local database
• Describe device security using IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
• Configure and verify device access control
• Configure and verify router security features
• IPv4 access control lists (standard, extended, time-based)
• IPv6 traffic filter

• Configure and verify device management
• Console and VTY,Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SCP
• Configure and verify IPv4 Network Address Translation (NAT), Static NAT, dynamic NAT, PAT
• Configure and verify tracking objects

• Configure and verify switch administration
• Managing MAC address table
• Troubleshoot Err-disable recovery
• Configure and verify Layer 2 protocols (CDP, LLDP)
• Configure and verify VLANs (Access ports,VLAN database,Normal,extended VLAN, voice VLAN)
• Configure and verify trunking (VTPv1, VTPv2, VTPv3, VTP pruning,dot1Q)
• Configure and verify EtherChannels (LACP, PAgP, manual)
• Configure and verify spanning tree - PVST+, RPVST+, MST,Switch priority, port priority, path cost, STP timers. PortFast, BPDUguard, BPDUfilter,Loopguard and Rootguard
• Configure and verify other LAN switching technologies
• Describe chassis virtualization and aggregation technologies

• Configure and verify switch security features
• DHCP snooping,IP Source Guard,Dynamic ARP inspection,Port security
• Private VLAN
• Describe device security using Cisco IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS

• Configure and verify first-hop redundancy protocols - HSRP, VRRP, GLBP

• Use Cisco IOS troubleshooting tools
• Debug, conditional debug,Ping and trace route with extended options

• Troubleshoot switch administration
• Troubleshoot Err-disable recovery
• Troubleshoot Layer 2 protocols
• Troubleshoot VLANs
• Troubleshoot trunking
• Troubleshoot EtherChannels
• Troubleshoot spanning tree
• Troubleshoot other LAN switching technologies

• Troubleshoot IPv4 addressing and subnetting
• Troubleshoot IPv6 addressing and subnetting
• Troubleshoot static routing
• Troubleshoot default routing
• Troubleshoot administrative distance
• Troubleshoot passive interfaces
• Troubleshoot filtering with any protocol
• Troubleshoot between any routing protocols or routing sources
• Troubleshoot manual and autosummarization with any routing protocol
• Troubleshoot RIPv2
• Troubleshoot EIGRP neighbor relationship and authentication
• Troubleshoot EIGPR operations,EIGRP stubs,EIGRP load balancing
• Troubleshoot OSPF neighbor relationship and authentication
• Troubleshoot OSPF path preference,OSPF operations,OSPF for IPv6
• Troubleshoot BGP peer relationships and authentication
• Troubleshoot eBGP

• Troubleshoot IOS AAA using local database
• Troubleshoot device access control
• Troubleshoot router security features
• IPv4 access control lists (standard, extended, time-based)

• Troubleshoot device management
• Console and VTY,Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SCP
• Troubleshoot logging
• Troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP
• Troubleshoot IPv4 Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Static NAT, Dynamic NAT, PAT