CCNP Enterprise ENCOR (350-401)

Course Overview

• VLANs and trunks.
• The different spanning-tree versions like STP, RSTP, and MST.
• How to configure Etherchannels / Link aggregation.
• Routing protocols including EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP.
• Cisco wireless.
• Multicast protocols like PIM dense, sparrse, and sparse-dense mode.
• Network designs and architectures like the campus design or leaf-spine architecture.
• How to configure NAT/PAT and first hop redundancy protocols like HSRP, VRRP, or GLBP.
• How to configure Quality of Service (QoS) topics like queuing, policing, and shaping.
• How to monitor and troubleshoot your network.
• How to secure your routers and switches.
• How network automation impacts traditional network management.
• Different virtualization technologies.
• And many other topics…

Audience Profile:

CCNP candidates often also have three to five years of experience implementing enterprise networking solutions.

Course Outcome: * Analyze design principles of a WLAN deployment
 * Describe concepts of wired and wireless QoS
 * Differentiate hardware and software switching mechanisms
* Configure and verify data path virtualization technologies
* Troubleshoot static and dynamic 802.1q trunking protocols
* Compare routing concepts of EIGRP and OSPF (advanced distance vector vs. linked state, load balancing, path selection, path operations and metrics)
* Describe network virtualization concepts
* Configure and verify eBGP between directly connected neighbors (best path selection algorithm and neighbor relationships)
* Troubleshoot static and dynamic Ether Channels
* Troubleshoot WLAN configuration and wireless client connectivity issues
* Describe the main principles and use cases for Layer 2 and Layer 3 roaming
* Diagnose network problems using tools such as debugs, conditional debugs, trace route, ping, SNMP and syslog
* Configure and verify NetFlow and Flexible NetFlow
* Configure and verify SPAN/RSPAN/ /ERSPAN

Course Content

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Basic Networking and IP Fundamentals

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Implementing OSPF

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Implementing EIGRP

Cisco Enterprise Networks: BGP and Path Control

Cisco Enterprise Networks: NAT and Security

Cisco Enterprise Networks: VLANs & Trunking

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Spanning Tree Protocols and EtherChannels

Cisco Enterprise Networks: First Hop Redundancy Protocols

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Infrastructure Security

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Layer 2 Troubleshooting

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Troubleshooting OSPF and EIGRP for IPv4

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Troubleshooting OSPF and EIGRP for IPv6

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Troubleshooting BGP and GRE Tunnels

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Troubleshooting IP Services

Cisco Enterprise Networks: 802.11 Wireless

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Design

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Automation and SDN

Cisco Enterprise Networks: Programmability Cisco Enterprise Networks: Quality of Service