Create structured addressing plans for IPv4 and IPv6

Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for IS-IS

Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for EIGRP

Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for OSPF

Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for BGP

Address families

Basic route filtering

Attributes for path preference

Route reflectors

Load sharing

Determine IPv6 migration strategies

Overlay (tunneling)

Native (dual-stacking)

Boundaries (IPv4/IPv6 translations)

Design campus networks for high availability (FHRP)

First Hop Redundancy Protocols

Platform abstraction techniques

Graceful restart

BFD

Design campus Layer 2 infrastructures

STP scalability

Fast convergence

Loop-free technologies

PoE and WoL

Layer 2 security techniques such as STP security, port security, VACL

Design multicampus Layer 3 infrastructures

Convergence

Load sharing

Route summarization

Route filtering

VRFs

Optimal topologies

Redistribution

Describe SD-Access Architecture (underlay, overlay, control and data plane, automation,

wireless, and security)

Describe SD-Access fabric design considerations for wired and wireless access (overlay,

fabric design, control plan design, border design, segmentation, virtual networks,

scalability, over the top and fabric for wireless, multicast

Describe WAN connectivity options for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud solutions

Layer 2 VPN

MPLS Layer 3 VPN

Metro Ethernet

DWDM

4G/5G

SD-WAN customer edge

Design site-to-site VPN for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud solutions

Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)

Layer 2 VPN

MPLS Layer 3 VPN

IPsec

Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)

Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN)

Design high availability for enterprise WAN for on-premises, hybrid, and cloud solutions

Single-homed

Multihomed

Backup connectivity

Failover

Describe Cisco SD-WAN architecture (orchestration plane, management plane, control

plane, data plane, on-boarding and provisioning, security)

Describe Cisco SD-WAN design considerations (control plane design, overlay design, LAN

design, high availability, redundancy, scalability, security design, QoS and multicast over

SD-WAN fabric)

Select QoS strategies to meet customer requirements (DiffServ, IntServ)

Design end-to-end QoS policies

Classification and marking

Shaping

Policing

Queuing

Design network management techniques

In-band vs. out-of-band

Segmented management networks

Prioritizing network management traffic

Describe multicast routing concepts (source trees, shared trees, RPF, rendezvous points)

Design multicast services (SSM, PIM bidirectional, MSDP)

Differentiate between IETF, OpenConfig, and Cisco YANG models

Differentiate between NETCONF and RESTCONF

Describe the impact of model-driven telemetry on the network

Periodic publication

On-change publication

Describe GRPC and GNMI

Describe cloud connectivity options such as direct connect, cloud on ramp, MPLS direct

connect, and WAN integration

Describe cloud-based services model in private, public, and hybrid deployments (Saas,

PaaS, IaaS)