Author(s): Nicholas Russo
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 2930
1. SP architecture concepts
1.1 IPv6
1.1.1 Definitions
1.1.2 Neighbor Discovery details
1.2 Broadband Aggregation (BBA)
1.2.1 PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) technology
1.2.2 Multi-service PPPoE and LAC/LNS architecture
1.3 MEF Ethernet Services Definitions (MEF 6.2)
1.4 Platform Architecture
1.4.1 Route-Switch Processor (RSP) and Route Processor (RP)
1.4.2 Line cards (LC)
1.4.3 Switching fabric / backplane and forwarding model
1.4.4 Multicast forwarding and hierarchical replication
1.4.5 Satellite operations (remote linecards)
3.1 WAN technologies
3.1.1 Packet over SONET/SDH
3.1.2 T1/E1 and T3/E3
3.1.3 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
3.2 IP connectivity to the customer
3.2.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
3.2.2 Cable Internet
3.2.3 Wireline
4. Virtualization concepts
4.1 SVR vs. HVR
4.2 Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
4.3 Software Defined Networking (SDN)
5. Mobility concepts
5.1 LTE
5.2 Backhaul
6. Describe BGP path attributes
7. Describe MPLS forwarding and control plane mechanisms
7.1 Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
7.2 Static label bindings
7.3 MPLS IP and MTU minor options
8. Describe MPLS advanced features
8.1 Segment Routing
8.2 Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
8.3 MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP)
8.4 Inter-AS MPLS
8.4.1 Option A (Back to back VRF exchange)
8.4.1.1 L3VPN
8.4.1.2 L2VPN
8.4.1.3 MVPN – GRE (Profile 0) and mLDP (Profile 1)
8.4.1.4 MPLS TE
8.4.1.5 Confederation variation
8.4.1.6 Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC) variation
8.4.2 Option B (ASBR VPNv4/v6 eBGP)
8.4.2.1 L3VPN
8.4.2.2 L2VPN
8.4.2.3 mVPN – GRE (Profile 0)
8.4.2.4 MVPN – mLDP (Profile 17)
8.4.2.5 MPLS TE
8.4.2.6 Confederation variation
8.4.3 Option C (ASBR eBGP + Label, RR VPNv4 eBGP)
8.4.3.1 L3VPN
8.4.3.2 L2VPN
8.4.3.3 MVPN – GRE (Profile 0)
8.4.3.4 MVPN – mLDP (Profile 17)
8.4.3.5 MPLS TE
8.4.3.6 Confederation variation
8.4.4 Option AB Inter-AS hybrid (AKA Option D)
8.4.4.1 L3VPN
8.4.4.2 L2VPN
8.4.4.3 MVPN – GRE (Profile 0) and mLDP (Profile 1)
8.4.4.4 MPLS TE
8.4.5 Confederation variation
9. Describe multicast P2MP TE
10. Describe EVPN (EVPN and PBB-EVPN)
10.1 EVPN
10.2 PBB-EVPN
11. Describe IEEE 802.1ad (QinQ), IEEE 802.1ah (Mac-in-Mac), and ITU G.8032 (REP)
11.1 802.1ad QinQ
11.2 802.1ah MAC in MAC (Provider Backbone Bridges)
11.3 Ethernet Ring loop-prevention
11.3.1 Cisco Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP)
11.3.2 ITU G.8032
12. Describe broadband forum TR-101 VLAN paradigms (N:1 and 1:1)
13. Describe QoS link fragmentation (LFI), cRTP, and RTP
14. Describe Multichassis/Clustering High Availability (HA)
14.1 High Availability (HA) Demonstration (NSF/NSR/GR)
14.1.1 IS-IS NSF and NSR
14.1.2 OSPFv2 NSF and NSR
14.1.3 OSPFv3 GR and NSR
14.1.4 BGP GR and NSR
14.1.5 LDP GR and NSR
14.1.6 RSVP-TE GR
14.1.7 EIGRP NSF
15. Describe Layer 1 failure detection
16. Describe BGPsec
17. Describe backscatter traceback
18. Describe lawful-intercept
19. Describe BGP Flowspec
20. Describe DDoS mitigation techniques
21. Describe network event and fault management
22. Describe performance management and capacity procedures
23. Describe maintenance and operational procedures
24. Describe the network inventory management process
25. Describe network change, implementation, and rollback
25.1 Processes and best practices
25.2 NETCONF and YANG
26. Describe the incident management process based on the ITILv3 framework
27. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot advanced BGP features
27.1 Additional Paths (add-path) and Prefix Independent Convergence (PIC)
27.2 BGP RT-filter unicast / IPv4 RT-filter feature
27.3 BGP RR-group and Selective RT Retention
27.4 Accumulated IGP attribute
27.4.1 Basic AIGP
27.4.2 AIGP with cost-communities and BGP confederations
27.5 Cost-Community / Point Of Insertion (POI)
27.6 DMZ Link Bandwidth
27.7 BGP Multicast VPN (MVPN) Theory
27.8 BGP Link State AF and Path Computation Element (PCE)
28. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MVPN
28.1 Profile 0: Default MDT − GRE − PIM C−mcast Signaling (Traditional Draft-Rosen)
28.1.1 PIM-ASM in the core
28.1.2 PIM-SSM in the core
28.1.3 PIM-Bidir in the core
28.2 Profile 1: Default MDT − MLDP MP2MP − PIM C−mcast Signaling (Basic mLDP)
28.3 Profile 3: Default MDT − GRE − BGP−AD − PIM C−mcast Signaling
28.4 Profile 6: VRF MLDP − In−band Signaling
28.5 Profile 7: Global MLDP In−band Signaling
28.6 Profile 8: Global Static − P2MP−TE
28.7 Profile 9: Default MDT − MLDP − MP2MP − BGP−AD − PIM C−mcast Signaling
28.8 Profile 10: VRF Static – P2MP TE - BGP−AD
28.9 Profile 11: Default MDT − GRE − BGP−AD − BGP C−mcast Signaling
28.10 Profile 12: Default MDT − MLDP − P2MP − BGP−AD − BGP C−mcast Signaling
28.11 Profile 13: Default MDT − MLDP − MP2MP − BGP−AD − BGP C−mcast Signaling
28.12 Profile 14: Partitioned MDT – MLDP P2MP – BGP-AD – BGP C-mcast signaling
28.13 Profile 17: Default MDT – MLDP P2MP – BGP-AD – PIM C-mcast signaling
29. Describe and optimize multicast scale and performance
29.1 Inter-AS Multicast and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
29.2 Multicast Only Fast Re-Reroute (MoFRR)
29.3 Protecting mLDP LSPs with Fast Re-Reoute (FRR)
29.4 MVPN Extranet
29.4.1 PIM/GRE
29.4.2 mLDP
30. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS QoS models and related features
30.1 Uniform
30.2 Short pipe
30.3 Pipe (AKA long pipe)
30.4 QoS Policy Propagation through BGP (QPPB)
30.5 QoS specifics on IOS XRv
30.6 Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) summary and configurations
30.6.1 NBAR Custom Protocols
30.6.2 NBAR Attributes
30.6.3 NBAR Attributes with HTTP
30.6.4 NBAR Protocol-ID
30.6.5 NBAR Protocol Discovery
31. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS TE / QoS mechanisms
31.1 MPLS RSVP-TE (General)
31.1.1 TE Topology (TED) construction and RSVP-TE signaling
31.1.2 TE attributes
31.1.3 Directing traffic into TE tunnels and tunnel stitching
31.2 TE Fast-ReRoute (FRR) and rapid provisioning
31.2.1 Link (NHOP), Node (NNHOP), and Path protection – Manual
31.2.2 Automatic tunnels (with OSPF)
31.3 CBTS (IOS) and PBTS (XR)
31.4 DiffServ-aware Traffic Engineering (DS-TE)
31.4.1 Pre-standard Model
31.4.2 IETF Russian Dolls Model (RDM)
31.4.3 IETF Maximum Allocation Model (MAM)
31.4.4 Per-VRF TE techniques
32. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot E-LAN and E-TREE (extended to general L2VPN)
32.1 MPLS encapsulated L2VPN
32.1.1 Static configuration
32.1.1.1 E-LINE (VPWS)
32.1.1.2 Advanced PW features (CW, Status, etc)
32.1.1.3 E-LAN and E-TREE (VPLS)
32.1.1.4 Multisegment PW (MS-PW) switching
32.1.1.5 EVC rewrite operations
32.1.2 BGP auto-discovery for VPWS/VPLS
32.1.2.1 LDP signaling
32.1.2.2 BGP signaling
32.1.3 Hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS)
32.1.3.1 MPLS in the Access Network
32.1.3.2 QinQ in the Access Network
32.2 IP encapsulated L2VPN
32.2.1 E-LINE with L2TP
32.2.2 E-LAN and E-TREE using OTV
33. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Unified MPLS and CSC
33.1 Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC)
33.1.1 L3VPN
33.1.2 L2VPN
33.1.3 MVPN (Profile 0 with SSM)
33.1.4 TE and TE-FRR
33.2 Unified (seamless) MPLS
33.2.1 IS-IS
33.2.1.1 L3VPN
33.2.1.2 L2VPN
33.2.1.3 MVPN (mLDP profiles 1 and 17)
33.2.1.4 Inter-area TE and TE-FRR
33.2.2 OSPF (summarized)
33.2.2.1 L3VPN
33.2.2.2 L2VPN
33.2.2.3 MVPN (mLDP profiles 1 and 17)
33.2.2.4 MPLS TE and TE-FRR
34. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot LISP
35. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot GRE and mGRE-based VPN
35.1 P2P GRE tunneling and GRE features
35.2 Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) basics
35.2.1 Phase 1
35.2.2 Phase 2
35.2.3 Phase 3
35.3 mGRE-based L3VPN
36. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IPv6 transition mechanisms
36.1 NAT44 and NAT444
36.2 NAT64 and NAT464
36.3 Dual stack lite (DS-lite)
36.4 IPv6 tunneling over IPv4 networks
36.4.1 GRE / Manual IPv6 tunnels
36.4.2 6to4 automatic tunnels
36.4.3 6 Rapid Deployment (6RD)
36.4.4 Intra-Site Automatic tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
36.5 IPv4/IPv6 Internet Access over MPLS using NAT44
37. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot end-to-end fast convergence
37.1 Loop Free Alternate (LFA) for IPv4
37.1.1 OSPFv2
37.1.1.1 Direct LFA
37.1.1.2 Remote LFA
37.1.2 IS-IS
37.1.2.1 Direct LFA
37.1.2.2 Remote LFA
37.1.3 EIGRP
37.2 Loop Free Alternate (LFA) for IPv6 (XR Only)
37.2.1 OSPFv3
37.2.1.1 Direct LFA
37.2.1.2 Remote LFA
37.2.2 IS-IS
37.2.2.1 Direct LFA
37.2.2.2 Remote LFA
37.3 Convergence optimizations for BGP
37.4 Convergence optimizations for IGPs
37.4.1 IS-IS
37.4.2 OSPFv2 and OSPFv3
38. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot multi-VRF CE and advanced VRF techniques
38.1 Multi-VRF CE (VRF-Lite)
38.1.1 Basic VRF-Lite
38.1.2 OSPF and sham-links
38.1.3 EIGRP and Site-of-Origin (SoO)
38.1.4 IS-IS
38.1.5 BGP and Site-of-Origin (SoO)
38.1.6 Static routing
38.1.7 RIP
38.2 VRF label modes
38.3 VRF selection for traffic leaking
38.4 VRF route leaking
38.5 L3VPN import/export maps
38.6 Half-Duplex VRF (HDVRF)
38.7 BGP Local Convergence (VRF Local Protection)
39. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Layer 2 failure detection
39.1 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
39.2 Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
40. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Layer 3 failure detection
40.1 Individual Protocol Hello packets
40.2 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
41. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot control plane protection techniques
41.1 Control Plane Policing (CPP) in XE and Local Packet Transport Services (LPTS) in XR
42. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot logging and SNMP security
42.1 Logging
42.2 SNMP security
43. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot timing
43.1 Network Time Protocol (NTP)
43.2 1588v2 (Precision Time Protocol(PTP))
43.3 Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE)
44. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot SNMP traps, RMON, EEM, and EPC
44.1 SNMP traps
44.2 Remote Monitor (RMON) in XE and logging correlation in XR
44.3 Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
44.4 Embedded Packet Capture (EPC)
45. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot port mirroring protocols
45.1 Switch port analyzer (SPAN)
45.2 Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
45.3 Encapsulated RSPAN (ERSPAN)
46. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Netflow and IPFIX
46.1 Flexible Netflow (FNF)
46.2 IPFIX
47. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IP SLA
47.1 Basic IP SLA probes, responders, features, and configurations
47.2 UDP-jitter and VOIP codec probes
47.3 Advanced ICMP probes
47.4 MPLS probes
47.5 Ethernet probes including ITU-T Y.1731 Basics and Performing Monitoring (PM)
47.6 Miscellaneous probes
47.7 Aggregated statistics, history, group scheduling, and miscellaneous features
47.8 Enhanced Object Tracking (EOT)
47.9 IPv6 SLA
47.10 IOS-XR IP SLA and EOT
48. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS OAM and Ethernet OAM
48.1 MPLS ping, MPLS traceroute, and VCCV
48.2 MPLS LSP Monitor (MPLSLM) / LSP Health Monitor
48.3 Ethernet Management Tools (CFM, OAM, and E-LMI)
48.3.1 Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) (802.3ag)
48.3.2 Ethernet OAM (IEEE 802.3ah)
48.3.3 Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LMI) (MEF.16)
48.3.4 Ethernet CFM, OAM, E-LMI, and Y.1731 on CSR1000v (Comprehensive)
49. Service Provider security best practices (Comprehensive)
49.1 Control plane security best practices
49.2 Management plane security best practices
49.3 Data plane security best practices
49.4 Advanced security techniques and features
