| CCNP?? Training Camp: Curriculum
The Training Camp provides thorough instructor-led training to ensure that you learn the fundamentals, obtain hands-on skills and earn your certification. You will emerge able to immediately apply your new knowledge in your career environment.
The Training Camp has an aggressive educational schedule that thoroughly covers all essential elements necessary to become CCNP?? certified.
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Day 1 to Day 4 |
Building Scalable Cisco?? Internetworks (BSCI)/Testing |
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Day 5 to Day 8 |
Building Cisco?? Multilayered Switched Networks (BCMSN)/Testing |
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Day 9 to Day 11 |
Building Cisco?? Remote Access Networks (BCRAN)/Testing |
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Day 12 to Day 14 |
Cisco?? Internetworking Troubleshooting (CIT)/Testing | |
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Daily Educational Schedule
Many accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study. Our daily schedule incorporates different modes of instruction and learning environments to ensure that students learn, retain, comprehend, and can apply knowledge critical to a CCNP??.
8:15 am to 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 am to 1:00 pm Instruction
1:00 pm to 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm to 5:30 pm Instruction/Hands-on Labs
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Dinner and Relaxation
7:30 pm to 8:00 pm Wrap Session
8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Practice Drills
CiscoPress?? Courseware
The Cisco?? ISBN Library includes:
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Building Scalable Cisco?? Internetworks
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Building Cisco?? Multilayered Switched Networks
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Building Cisco?? Remote Access Networks
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Cisco?? Internetwork Troubleshooting
Training Camp students will take four examinations to achieve their Cisco?? CCNP??? certification.
Through lecture, group discussion and hands-on lab work, you will learn the following concepts and skills:
Building Scalable Cisco?? Internetworks (BSCI)
Routing Principles
List key information routers need to route data
Describe classful and classless routing protocols
Compare distance vector and link-state protocol operation
Describe the use of the fields in a routing table
Extending IP Addresses
Given an IP address range, use VLSMs to extend the use of the IP addresses
Given IP addressing, explain if route summarization is possible
Configure an IP helper address to manage broadcasts
Configuring OSPF in a Single Area
Explain why OSPF is better than RIP in a large internetwork
Explain how OSPF discovers, chooses, and maintains routes
Explain how OSPF operates in a single area NBMA environment
Configure OSPF for proper operation in a single area
Verify OSPF operation in a single area
Configure a single-area OSPF environment and verify proper operation
Configure single-area OSPF in an NBMA environment and verify proper operation
Interconnecting Multiple OSPF Areas
Describe the issues with interconnecting multiple areas and how OSPF addresses each
Explain the differences between the possible types of areas, routers, and LSAs
Explain how OSPF supports the use of VLSM
Explain how OSPF supports the use of route summarization in multiple areas
Explain how OSPF operates in a multiple area NBMA environment
Configure a multiarea OSPF network
Verify OSPF operation in multiple areas
Configure a multiple area OSPF environment and verify proper operation
Configuring EIGRP
Describe Enhanced IGRP features and operation
Explain how EIGRP discovers, chooses, and maintains routes
Explain how EIGRP supports the use of VLSM
Explain how EIGRP operates in an NBMA environment
Explain how EIGRP supports the use of route summarization
Describe how EIGRP supports large networks
Configure Enhanced IGRP
Verify Enhanced IGRP operation
Configure an Enhanced IGRP environment and verify proper operation
Configure Enhanced IGRP in an NBMA environment and verify proper operation
Configuring Basic Border Gateway Protocol
Describe BGP features and operation
Connect to another autonomous system using an alternative to BGP, static routes
Explain how BGP policy-based routing functions within an autonomous system
Explain how BGP peering functions
Describe BGP communities and peer groups
Describe and configure external and internal BGP
Describe BGP synchronization
Configure a BGP environment and verify proper operation
Implementing BGP in Scalable Networks
Describe the scalability problems associated with internal BGP
Explain and configure BGP route reflectors
Describe and configure policy control in BGP using prefix lists
Describe methods to connect to multiple ISPs using BGP
Explain the use of redistribution between BGP and Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)
Configure a multi-homed BGP environment and verify proper operation
Optimizing Routing Update Operation
Select and configure the different ways to control routing update traffic
Configure route redistribution in a network that does not have redundant paths between dissimilar routing processes
Configure route redistribution in a network that has redundant paths between dissimilar routing processes
Resolve path selection problems that result in a redistributed network
Verify route redistribution
Configure policy-based routing using route maps
Configure redistribution between different routing domains and verify proper operation
Configure policy-based routing within your pod and verify proper operation
Building Cisco?? Multilayered Switched Networks (BCMSN)
Bridging/Switching
Describe the aspects of the Enterprise Composite Model and AAVID architecture
Understand the physical and data-link properties of switching
Explain the operations of the Switching Database Manager
Explain the features and functionality of VLANs and VTP versions 1 and 2
Configure VLAN and VTP on a Native IOS switch
Configure ISL and 802.1q trunking
Explain the operations of IEEE 802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol
Understand and configure enhancements to STP such as Multiple Spanning Tree (MST), Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w), Fast Ether Channel PortFast, UplinkFast, BackboneFast, BPDU Guard, and Root Guard
Tune and troubleshoot STP
Multilayer Switching
Describe multilayer switching components and operations
Configure and verify MLS and CEF-Based MLS
Configure inter-VLAN Layer 3 routing
Describe how to implement redundancy in a Multilayer switched network with redundant switch Supervisor engine, modules, power supplies, and protocols such Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP), Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), and Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
AVVID Services and Applications in a switched environment
Describe IP multicast operations and protocols such as IGMP,CGMP, PIM-DM and PIM-SM
Configure and monitor IP multicast
Explain the challenges and practices to provide QoS for Cisco IP Telephony in a switched environment
Describe and configure auxiliary VLANs
Describe the IntServ and DiffServ QoS architectures
Configure and troubleshoot QoS features such as queuing and policy maps
Optimizing and Securing Multilayer Switched Networks
Monitor network performance with SPAN, VSPAN, and RSPAN
Configure AAA services on a multilayer switch
Configure access-lists and private VLANs
Transparent LAN/Metro Ethernet Services
Describe Transparent LAN Services and how they are implemented in a service provider network
Describe Tag Stacking (Q-in-Q tunneling)
Building Cisco?? Remote Access Networks (BCRAN)
WAN Technologies and Components
Describe WAN connection types and apply them to individual customer requirements
Select Cisco products to provide appropriate WAN services
Asynchronous WAN Connectivity
Describe modem functions and connections
Configure modem parameters within the access server router and the modem itself
Verify and Troubleshoot modem configurations
PPP and ISDN Overview
Describe the sublayers and functions of the PPP protocol
Describe and configure PPP PAP and CHAP authentication
Configure LCP extensions such as PPP callback and compression
Explain ISDN BRI and PRI operations and concepts
Configure Dial-On-Demand routing (DDR)
Determine the differences between legacy DDR, rotary groups, and dialer profiles
Verify and troubleshoot DDR and ISDN operations
Frame Relay, Backup, Queuing, Compression, NAT, and AAA
Describe the operations and components of Frame Relay
Configure Frame Relay
Verify and troubleshoot Frame Relay
Explain the fundamentals behind Frame Relay Traffic Shaping
Configure Frame Relay Traffic Shaping
Configure a dial backup
Understand the differences between WFQ, priority queuing, custom queuing, CBWFQ, and LLQ
Configure traffic optimization be implementing compression on various links
Explain NAT operations
Configure static and dynamic NAT
Configure AAA services for remote access
Broadband Technologies
Describe emerging broadband technologies available for remote access
Describe cable operations
Describe DSL technologies
Configure and troubleshoot DSL
Virtual Private Networks
Describe the types of VPN
Explain the Cisco IOS Cryptosystem
Understand IKE negotiations
Understand IPSec technologies
Configure routers for IPSec VPNs
Verify and troubleshoot IPSec VPNs
Cisco?? Internetworking Troubleshooting (CIT)
Baselines and Troubleshooting Strategies
Describe components of Network Configuration Document
Define network baseline procedures and tools
Explain the Cisco General Troubleshooting Approach
Troubleshooting at the Physical and Data Link Layers
Explain the methodologies for gathering Layer 1 and 2 symptoms
Isolate Physical and Data Link layer problems
Explain problem correction techniques
Troubleshooting at the Network Layer
Explain the methodologies for gathering Layer 3 symptoms
Isolate Network layer problems
Explain problem correction techniques
Troubleshooting at the Transport and Application Layer
Explain the methodologies for gathering Layer 4-7 symptoms
Isolate Transport and Application layer problems
Explain problem correction techniques
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