Prerequisite knowledge to Pass CCIE Routing and Switching
Prerequisite knowledge to Pass CCIE Routing and Switching
Introduction to Network Devices
Introduction to Decimal, Binary and Hexa-Decimal Numbers
Work experience on Recommended Software:
History of IPv4 Addressing
Format of IPv4 Addressing
Classification of IPv4 Addressing
Calculating Number of networks in classes
Calculation number of hosts per network
Concept of Network-id and Broadcast-id
Subnet Mask and Wildcard Mask
Concept of Default Gateway
Routed & Non-Routed Ports
Rules of IP addressing for Routed Ports
Subnetting and Super-netting
History of IPv6 Addressing
Format of IPv6 addressing
Network Prefix and Interface ID
History of MAC addressing
Basic Lab Setup with Cisco Devices.
Physical Overview of Routers and Switches.
How to access network devices locally.
Difference between local and remote access.
Introduction to terminal applications such as Putty, Hyper terminal and Secure CRT etc.
Introduction to Cisco IOS and CLI.
Initial Configuration of Cisco IOS.
Introduction of different modes of Cisco IOS.
Configure and verify clock
Configure and verify hostname
Configure and verify user access verification or
Configure and verify enable password
Configure and verify enable secret
Learn how to modify, copy, write and erase configuration.
Verify running-config and startup-config
Create username, password and their privileges
Practice above configuration of Cisco Packet Tracer and GNS3.
Introduction to LAN and WAN interfaces.
How to configure and troubleshoot Ethernet and Serial interfaces.
Configure description on interfaces.
Configure ipv4 and ipv6 addresses on interfaces.
Configure Keepalive, clock rate and encapsulation on interfaces.
How to make admin up and down interfaces.
Verify connectivity with test traffic.
Introduce ICMP-echo and echo-reply.
Use of ping command and understand output.
Impact of round-trip time.
Remote-access with TELNET and SSH.
How to configure DHCP on Cisco IOS.
Introduction to Routing for reachability.
How to configure next hop with:
Understand static routing.
Configure and verify static routing for IPv4
Introduction to Dynamic Routing
Types of routing protocols
Interior gateway protocols:
RIP: Routing Information Protocol
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
IS-IS: Intermediate System to Intermediate System
Exterior Gateway protocols:
BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
Administrative Distance or preference of routing methods.
Configure and verify Default Routing.
Configure and verify DHCP Relay Agent.
Network Services and IOS Features
IOS and Configuration Backup with TFTP
Configure and verify LLDP
Configure and verify NTP: Network Time Protocol
Configure and verify Embedded Event Manager: EEM
Configure and verify SYSLOG
IPv6 DHCP Server, Client and Relay Agent
Introduction to Access Control List
Configure and verify standard ACL
Configure and verify extended ACL
Contiguous and dis-contiguous wildcard mask
Implement named and numbered ACL
Introduction to public and private IP addresses
Introduction to NAT and PAT.
Configure and verify network address translation
Configure and verify PAT/NAT-overloading
Deep Dive into Dynamic Routing
Understand and Implement Routing Information Protocol.
OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
Configure Loopback Interfaces
OSPF contiguous wildcard mask
Configure and verify single area OSPF.
Design and implement multiple area OSPF.
Regular and transit area.
Define Internal Router, Backbone Router,
Backbone Internal Router, Area Border Router
Introduce and configure redistribution.
Define seed/external metric.
Type 1 and Type 2 seed metric.
Static routes with null-0 for testing.
OSPF and Policy Based Routing
Introduction to PBR tools:
OSPF Design constraints and filtering
OSPF over multi-access networks
DR, BDR and DRO roles in multi-access networks.
Introducing OSPF LSA types 1 to 7.
Configure and verify OSPF Virtual Links.
Continuous and discontinuous OSPF backbones.
Understand network troubleshooting tools and
Advanced show commands with filters
Troubleshoot RIP related issues.
Troubleshoot OSPF related issues.
Deep Dive into Exterior Gateway Protocol
Introduction to Multihoming
Internal and External BGP.
BGP attributes: Weight, Local preference, As-path, Multi exit discriminator, Origin
PBR with BGP attributes and PBR tools
Route-reflector configuration
BGP configuration best practices
BGP Packet types and states
Deep Dive into Intermediate System to Intermediate System.
Understanding IS-IS routing protocol.
Importance of IS-IS in ISPs.
Comparison of OSPF and IS-IS
IS-IS L1, L2 and L1L2 Router roles
IS-IS L1, L2 and L1L2 neighbor relation.
IS-IS PDUs: L1 Hello PDU, L2 Hello PDU
IS-IS over multi-access network
DIS role in multi-access network
Route Leaking from L2 into L1
Configure and verify Static Routing for IPv6 addresses.
Configure and verify RIP-ng
Configure and verify OSPF-v3
Configure and verify BGP (AF-IPv6)
Introduction to Virtual Private Networks
Configure and verify GRE tunnels
Configure and verify IP-Sec :IKE 1, IKE 2
Configure and verify DMVPN: Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3
Understanding Switching Architectures:
Understanding Routing Information Base
Understanding Forwarding Information Base
Label Forwarding Information Base
Configure and verify basic MPLS
Introduction to Multicasting
Multicast Source & Client
Protocol Independent Multicast
Introduction to Quality of Service
Network Congestion Management
Classification and Marking
Congestion avoidance with WRED
Forwarding on the basis of MAC Addresses
Address Resolution Protocol
Configure and verify basic VLAN configuration.
VTP: VLAN Trunking Protocol
Inter VLAN routing with Access ports
Inter VLAN routing with Router on a Stick
Inter VLAN routing with SVI (MLS)
Inter VLAN routing with Routed and Non-Routed Ports
How to allow and block VLANs on trunk links
Introduction to L2 redundancy
Inconsistent MAC address table
Introduction to Spanning-tree protocol
Non-Designated/Block Port
Load-balancing and redundancy
STP Enhancements Protect STP Operations RSTP MST/MISTP
Implementing Portfast feature.
Implementing Backbonefast
Understand & Implement RSTP
Understand & Implement MST
Link Aggregation Link Bundling EtherChannel L3 Redundancy
Introduction to link aggregation
Configure and verify EtherChannel
Dynamic EtherChannel with Different Load-balancing techniques.
Introduce First Hop Redundancy
Hot Standby Routing Protocol
L3 Redundancy & Switch Security
Implementing GLBP Object Tracking
Implementing Switch Port Security