Prepare for the first three domains of the Cisco CCNP ENCOR (350-401) certification exam: Architecture, Virtualization, and Infrastructure.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to ENCOR: Part 1
- A look at the ENCOR (350-401) v1.1 exam
- Performing lab exercises
- Enterprise architecture
- Tier vs. 3-tier designs
- On-premises vs. cloud designs
- Redundant design
- First hop redundancy protocols (FHRPs)
- Stateful Switchover (SSO)
- Wireless LAN deployment options
- Location services
- Client density considerations
- Wireless network segmentation
- Overview of SD-WAN technology
- SD-WAN implementation
- Overview of SD-Access technology
- SD-Access implementation
- Review of QoS mechanisms
- Applying QoS policies
- Wireless QoS
- Process switching
- Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)
- The CAM vs. the TCAM
- The FIB vs. the RIB
- Virtualization technologies
- Hypervisor types 1 and 2
- Virtual machines
- Virtual switches
- Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF)
- The need to combine GRE and IPsec tunneling
- Configuring GRE over IPsec tunnels
- Locator ID/Separation Protocol (LISP)
- Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
- Infrastructure technologies
- Review of IEEE 802.1q trunking
- Troubleshooting 802.1q trunks
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) theory
- VTP configuration
- Review of EtherChannel operation
- Troubleshooting EtherChannels
- Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) theory
- MST configuration
- Review of Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
- RSTP configuration
- BPDU guard
- Root guard
- OSPF compared to EIGRP
- Review of OSPF neighbor formation
- Review of OSPF network types
- OSPF LSA and area types
- Multi-Area OSPFv2 configuration
- OSPF route filtering
- OSPF route summarization
- OSPFv3 traditional configuration
- OSPFv3 address families configuration
- Fundamental BGP concepts
- BGP path selection criteria
- Routing IPv4 with BGP: Part 1
- Routing IPv4 with BGP: Part 2
- Routing IPv6 with BGP over an IPv4
- Routing IPv6 with BGP over an IPv6
- Wireless communication theory
- Access point modes
- Antenna types
- Access point operation
- Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 roaming
- WLAN troubleshooting
- Review of Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Static NAT configuration
- Dynamic NAT configuration
- Port Address Translation (PAT) configuration
- Review of Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- NTP security
- Understanding Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
- HSRP configuration
- VRRP configuration
- Multicast operation
- Next steps
Taught by
Chris Bryant