CCNP Routing And Switching Training Center providing Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Routing and Switching certification validates the ability to plan, implement, verify and troubleshoot local and wide-area enterprise networks and work collaboratively with specialists on advanced security, voice, wireless and video solutions. The CCNP Routing and Switching certification is appropriate for those with at least one year of networking experience who are ready to advance their skills and work independently on complex network solutions. Those who achieve CCNP Routing and Switching have demonstrated the skills required in enterprise roles such as network engineer, support engineer, systems engineer or network technician. The routing and switching protocol knowledge from this certification will provide a lasting foundation as these skills are equally relevant in the physical networks of today and the virtualized network functions of tomorrow.
300-101 ROUTE Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE)
300-115 SWITCH Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH)
300-135 TSHOOT Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks (TSHOOT)
Exam Description: Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE 300-101) is a 120-minute qualifying exam with 50‒60 questions for the Cisco CCNP and CCDP certifications. The ROUTE 300-101 exam certifies the routing knowledge and skills of successful candidates. They are certified in using advanced IP addressing and routing in implementing scalable and highly secure Cisco routers that are connected to LANs, WANs, and IPv6.
The exam also covers the configuration of highly secure routing solutions to support branch offices and mobile workers. The following topics are general guidelines for the content that is likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific version of the exam. To better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity, the following guidelines may change at any time without notice.
10% 1.0 Network Principles
1.1 Identify Cisco Express Forwarding concepts
1.1.a FIB
1.1.b Adjacency table
1.2 Explain general network challenges
1.2.a Unicast
1.2.b Out-of-order packets
1.2.c Asymmetric routing
1.3 Describe IP operations
1.3.a ICMP Unreachable and Redirects
1.3.b IPv4 and IPv6 fragmentation
1.3.c TTL
1.4 Explain TCP operations
1.4.a IPv4 and IPv6 (P)MTU
1.4.b MSS
1.4.c Latency
1.4.d Windowing
1.4.e Bandwidth-delay product
1.4.f Global synchronization
1.5 Describe UDP operations
1.5.a Starvation
1.5.b Latency
1.6 Recognize proposed changes to the network
1.6.a Changes to routing protocol parameters
1.6.b Migrate parts of the network to IPv6
1.6.c Routing protocol migration
10% 2.0 Layer 2 Technologies
2.1 Configure and verify PPP
2.1.a Authentication (PAP, CHAP)
2.1.b PPPoE (client side only)
2.2 Explain Frame Relay
2.2.a Operations
2.2.b Point-to-point
2.2.c Multipoint
40% 3.0 Layer 3 Technologies
3.1 Identify, configure, and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting
3.1.a Address types (Unicast, broadcast, multicast, and VLSM)
3.1.b ARP
3.1.c DHCP relay and server
3.1.d DHCP protocol operations
3.2 Identify IPv6 addressing and subnetting
3.2.a Unicast
3.2.b EUI-64
3.2.c ND, RS/RA
3.2.d Autoconfig (SLAAC)
3.2.e DHCP relay and server
3.2.f DHCP protocol operations
3.3 Configure and verify static routing
3.4 Configure and verify default routing
3.5 Evaluate routing protocol types
3.5.a Distance vector
3.5.b Link state
3.5.c Path vector
3.6 Describe administrative distance
3.7 Troubleshoot passive interfaces
3.8 Configure and verify VRF lite
3.9 Configure and verify filtering with any protocol
3.10 Configure and verify redistribution between any routing protocols or routing sources
3.11 Configure and verify manual and autosummarization with any routing protocol
3.12 Configure and verify policy-based routing
3.13 Identify suboptimal routing
3.14 Explain ROUTE maps
3.15 Configure and verify loop prevention mechanisms
3.15.a Route tagging and filtering
3.15.b Split-horizon
3.15.c Route poisoning
3.16 Configure and verify RIPv2
3.17 Describe RIPng
3.18 Describe EIGRP packet types
3.19 Configure and verify EIGRP neighbor relationship and authentication
3.20 Configure and verify EIGRP stubs
3.21 Configure and verify EIGRP load balancing
3.21.a Equal cost
3.21.b Unequal cost
3.22 Describe and optimize EIGRP metrics
3.23 Configure and verify EIGRP for IPv6
3.24 Describe OSPF packet types
3.25 Configure and verify OSPF neighbor relationship and authentication
3.26 Configure and verify network types, area types, and router types
3.26.a Point-to-point, multipoint, broadcast, nonbroadcast
3.26.b LSA types, area type: backbone, normal, transit, stub, NSSA, totally stub
3.26.c Internal router, backbone router, ABR, ASBR
3.26.d Virtual link
3.27 Configure and verify OSPF path preference
3.28 Configure and verify OSPF operations
3.29 Configure and verify OSPF for IPv6
3.30 Describe, configure, and verify BGP peer relationships and authentication
3.30.a Peer group
3.30.b Active, passive
3.30.c States and timers
3.31 Configure and verify eBGP (IPv4 and IPv6 address families)
3.31.a eBGP
3.31.b 4-byte AS number
3.31.c Private AS
3.32 Explain BGP attributes and best-path selection
10% 4.0 VPN Technologies
4.1 Configure and verify GRE
4.2 Describe DMVPN (single hub)
4.3 Describe Easy Virtual Networking (EVN)
10% 5.0 Infrastructure Security
5.1 Describe IOS AAA using local database
5.2 Describe device security using IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
5.2.a AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
5.2.b Local privilege authorization fallback
5.3 Configure and verify device access control
5.3.a Lines (VTY, AUX, console)
5.3.b Management plane protection
5.3.c Password encryption
5.4 Configure and verify router security features
5.4.a IPv4 access control lists (standard, extended, time-based)
5.4.b IPv6 traffic filter
5.4.c Unicast reverse path forwarding
20% 6.0 Infrastructure Services
6.1 Configure and verify device management
6.1.a Console and VTY
6.1.b Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SCP
6.1.c (T)FTP
6.2 Configure and verify SNMP
6.2.a v2
6.2.b v3
6.3 Configure and verify logging
6.3.a Local logging, syslog, debugs, conditional debugs
6.3.b Timestamps
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6.4 Configure and verify Network Time Protocol (NTP)
6.4.a NTP master, client, version 3, version 4
6.4.b NTP authentication
6.5 Configure and verify IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP
6.5.a DHCP client, IOS DHCP server, DHCP relay
6.5.b DHCP options (describe)
6.6 Configure and verify IPv4 Network Address Translation (NAT)
6.6.a Static NAT, dynamic NAT, PAT
6.7 Describe IPv6 NAT
6.7.a NAT64
6.7.b NPTv6
6.8 Describe SLA architecture
6.9 Configure and verify IP SLA
6.9.a ICMP
6.10 Configure and verify tracking objects
6.10.a Tracking objects
6.10.b Tracking different entities (for example, interfaces, IPSLA results)
6.11 Configure and verify Cisco NetFlow
6.11.a NetFlow v5, v9
6.11.b Local retrieval
6.11.c Export (configuration only)
Exam Description:Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH 300-115) is a 120-minute qualifying exam with 45‒55 questions for the Cisco CCNP and CCDP certifications. The SWITCH 300-115 exam certifies the switching knowledge and skills of successful candidates. They are certified in planning, configuring, and verifying the implementation of complex enterprise switching solutions that use the Cisco Enterprise Campus Architecture. The SWITCH exam also covers highly secure integration of VLANs and WLANs.
The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
65% 1.0 Layer 2 Technologies
1.1 Configure and verify switch administration
1.1.a SDM templates
1.1.b Managing MAC address table
1.1.c Troubleshoot Err-disable recovery
1.2 Configure and verify Layer 2 protocols
1.2.a CDP, LLDP
1.2.b UDLD
1.3 Configure and verify VLANs
1.3.a Access ports
1.3.b VLAN database
1.3.c Normal, extended VLAN, voice VLAN
1.4 Configure and verify trunking
1.4.a VTPv1, VTPv2, VTPv3, VTP pruning
1.4.b dot1Q
1.4.c Native VLAN
1.4.d Manual pruning
1.5 Configure and verify EtherChannels
1.5.a LACP, PAgP, manual
1.5.b Layer 2, Layer 3
1.5.c Load balancing
1.5.d EtherChannel misconfiguration guard
1.6 Configure and verify spanning tree
1.6.a PVST+, RPVST+, MST
1.6.b Switch priority, port priority, path cost, STP timers
1.6.c PortFast, BPDUguard, BPDUfilter
1.6.d Loopguard and Rootguard
1.7 Configure and verify other LAN switching technologies
1.7.a SPAN, RSPAN
1.8 Describe chassis virtualization and aggregation technologies
1.8.a Stackwise
20% 2.0 Infrastructure Security
2.1 Configure and verify switch security features
2.1.a DHCP snooping
2.1.b IP Source Guard
2.1.c Dynamic ARP inspection
2.1.d Port security
2.1.e Private VLAN
2.1.f Storm control
2.2 Describe device security using Cisco IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
2.2.a AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
2.2.b Local privilege authorization fallback
15% 3.0 Infrastructure Services
3.1 Configure and verify first-hop redundancy protocols
3.1.a HSRP
3.1.b VRRP
3.1.c GLBP