Course Content
Cisco Device Operation
- Commands (show, debug)
- Infrastructure (NVRAM, Flash, Memory & CPU, File system, config reg)
- Operations (file transfers, Password recovery, SNMP, Accessing the device, Security, Security [password])
General Networking Theory
- OSI Models
- General Routing Concepts (Split horizon, Link state, difference between switching and routing, Summarization, Link state vs. Distance vector, loops, Tunneling)
- Standards (802.x, cable specs, protocol limitations)
- Protocol Mechanics (Windowing/ACK, fragmentation, MTU, handshaking, termination)
Bridging and LAN Switching
- Transparent (IEEE/DEC Spanning tree, Translational, IRB, ACLs, MISTP)
- SRB (SRT/LB, SRT, DLSw, RSRB, ACLs)
- LAN Switching (Trunking, VTP, DISL, VLANS, Fast Ether Channel (FEC), CDP, CGMP)
- Security (VACL, RACL, Private VLANS)
- MLS
IP
- Addressing (CIDR, subnetting, ARP, NAT, HSRP)
- Services (DNS, BOOTP, DHCP, ICMP)
- Applications (telnet, FTP, TFTP)
- Transport (IP fragmentation, sockets, ports)
- ACLs
- IPv6 (Basic)
IP Routing
- OSPF (I -Design: areas, Virtual links, stub, NSSA, ABR/ASBR redistributions, media dependencies, external vs. internal, Summarization. II - Operation: DR, BDR, adjacencies, LSA types, link state database, SPF algorithm, authentication)
- BGP( I -Design: Peer Groups, Route Reflectors, Confederations, Clusters, Attributes, AS. II - Operation: Route Maps, Filters, Neighbors, decision algorithm, IBGP, EBGP)
- EIGRP (Metrics, mechanics, & design)
- IS-IS (Metrics, mechanics, & design)
- ACLs (distribute lists, route maps, policy routing, redistribution, route tagging)
- DDR (dial backup)
- IGRP
- RIP
- RIPv2
QoS
- Fancy Queuing
- PoS and IP precedence
- CoS
- Weighted RED
- WRR/queu scheduling
- Shaping vs. Policing (rate limiting)/CAR
- NBAR
- 802.1X
- DSCP
WAN
- ISDN (LAPD, BRI/PRI framing, signaling, mapping, NI1s, dialer map, interface types, B/D channel, channel bonding)
- Frame Relay (LMIs, DLCI, PVC, framing, traffic shaping, FECN, BECN, CIR, DE, Mapping, compression)
- ATM (PVC/SVC, AAL, SSCOP, UNI/NNI, ILMI, Cell format, QoS, RFC 1483,
- PNNI, mapping)
- Physical Layer (Synchronization, SONET, T1, E1, encoding)
- Leased Line Protocols (HDLC, PPP, Async & modems, compression)
- PoS
- DPT/SRP
LAN
- Data Link Layer (addressing, 802.2)
- Ethernet/FE/GE (encapsulation, CSMA/CD, topology, speed, controller errors, limitations)
- Wireless/802.11b
Multiservice
- Voice/Video (H323)
- codecs
- SS7
- RTP
- RTCP
- SIP
- MPLS
IP Multicast
- IGMP/CGMP (IGMPv1, IGMPv2, Designated Querier)
- Addressing (Group addresses, Admin Group, Link-local L3-to-L2 Mapping)
- Distribution Trees (Shared Trees, Source Trees)
- PIM-SM Mechanics (Joining, Pruning PIM State, Mroute table)
- Rendezvous Points (Auto-RP, BSR)
