Implement Layer 2 Technologies
- Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- VLAN and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
- Trunking and trunk protocols, EtherChannel, and load-balance
- Implement Ethernet technologies
- Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN)
- Remote Switched Port Analyzer (RSPAN), and flow control
- Implementing Frame Relay
- High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) and PPP
Implement IPv4
- IP version 4 (IPv4) addressing, subnetting, and variable-length subnet masking (VLSM)
- IPv4 tunneling and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
- RIP version 2 (RIPv2)
- Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
- Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- Implementing policy routing
- Implementing Performance Routing (PfR) and Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)
- Filtering, route redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes, and other advanced features
Implement IPv6
- IPv6 addressing and different addressing types
- Neighbor discovery
- Basic IPv6 functionality protocols
- Tunneling techniques
- OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3)
- EIGRP version 6 (EIGRPv6)
- Filtering and route redistribution
Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
- Implementing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- Implementing Layer 3 VPNs on PE, P,and CE routers
- Configuring VRFs and Multi-VRF Customer Edge (VRF-Lite)
Implement IP Multicast
- PIM sparse mode
- PIM Auto-RP, unicast RP, BSR
- Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
- Interdomain multicast routing
- Multicast tools, features, and source-specific multicast
- IPv6 multicast, PIM, and related multicast protocols
Implement Network Security
- Access lists
- Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
- IP Source Guard
- Implementing AA
- Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
- Cisco IOS Firewall
- Zone Based Firewall
- Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
- Secure Shell (SSH)
- Implementing 802.1x
- NAT
- Routing protocol authentication
- Network device access control
- Other security features
Implement Network Services
- Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
- Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
- Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Implementing DHCP
- Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)
Implement QoS
- Modular QoS CLI (MQC)
- Layer 2 QoS
- Link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) for Frame Relay
- Generic traffic shaping (GTS)
- Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
- Cisco AutoQoS
Troubleshoot a Network
- Troubleshooting Complex Layer 2 network
- Troubleshooting complex Layer 3 network issues
- Troubleshooting a network in response to application problems
- Troubleshooting network services
- Troubleshooting network security
Optimize the Network
- Syslog and local logging
- IP Service Level Agreement SLA
- NetFlow
- SPAN, RSPAN, and router IP traffic export (RITE
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
- Remote Monitoring (RMON)
- Configuring FTP
- Configuring TFTP
- Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
- Configuring HTTP and HTTPS
- Configuring Telnet
Evaluate Changes to a Network
- Evaluate interoperability of proposed technologies against deployed technologies
- Determine operational impact of proposed changes to an existing network
- Suggest Alternative solutions when incompatible changes are proposed to an existing network