ROUTING PRINCIPLES
List the key information routers need to route data
Describe classful and classless routing protocols
Compare distant-vector and link-state protocol operation
Describe the use of the filds in a routing table
Analyze a routing table, and tst connectivity using accepted troubleshooting techniques
IP ADDRESS
Review the fundamental concepts of IP Addressing
Gain an understanding of how IP addresses can b delpeted if used inefficiently
Understand the benefits of VLSM (Variable-Length Subnet Mask)
Learn how to calculate VLSM
Explain how OSPF and EIGRP supports the use of VLSM
Become familiar with CIDR (Classless Interdomain Routing)
Recognize the benefits of route summarization
Detail how to disable automatic route summarization for classless routing protocols
Examine how to use IP unnumbered interfaces
Configure an IP helper address to manage broadcasts
NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION
Understanding Network Address Translation
Configuring NAT
IGRP AND EIGRP
Describe, configure and verify IGRP features and operation
Describe Enhanced IGRP features and operation
Explain how DUAL is used with EIGRP
Explain the features supported by EIGRP
Learn how EIGRP discovers, chooses, and maintains routes
Explain EIGRP troubleshooting commands
Configure Enhanced IGRP and verify Enhanced IGRP operation
Describe how EIGRP supports large networks
OSPF OPERATIONS IN A SINGLE AREA
Introduction to OSPF terminology and functionality
Discuss OSPF areas, routers, and link-state advertisements
Explain how OSPF discovers, chooses, and maintains routes
Configure and verify OSPF for proper operation in a single area
INTERCONNCTING OSPF AREAS
OSPF scalability considerations
Defined multi-area components such as areas, classificiations of routers, and LSAs
Step-by-step guide to multi-area OSPF configuration
Guidelines for establishing stub, totally stubby, and not-so-stubby areas
Virtual link configuration
Strategies for monitoring and troubleshooting multi-area OSPF networks
INTEGRATED IS-IS
Explain basic OSI terminology and network layer protocols used in OSI
Identify similarities and differences between integrated IS-IS and OSPF
Identify characteristics of an effective addressing paln for IS-IS deployment
Explain how networks and interfaces are represented in IS-IS
List the types of IS-IS routers and their role is IS-IS area design
Descibe the hierarchical structure of IS-IS areas
Describee the concept of establishing adjacencies
Describe the concepts of routing traffic transport and database synchronization
Explain the principles of area routing
Explain IS-IS NBMS (non-broadcast multi-access network) modeling solutions in switched WAN networks
Given an addressing scheme and other laboratory parameters, identify the steps to configure Cisco routers for proper Integrated IS-IS operation
Identify verification methods which ensure proper operation of Integrated IS-IS on Cisco routers
BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL
Describe BGP features and operation
Describe and configure external and internal BGP
Explain how BGP peering functions
Explain how BGP policy-based routing functions within an autonomous system
Configure a BGP environment and verify proper operation
Describe BGP synchronization
Explain the use of redistribution between BGP and Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs)
ADVANCED BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL
Describe the BGP communities and peer groups
Describe the scalability problems associatd with internal BGP
Describe and configure policy control in BGP using prefix lists
Describe methods to connect to multiple ISPs using BGP
Configure a multi-homed BGP environment and verify proper operation
ROUTE OPTIMIZATION
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 and verify proper operation
DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
Three-Layer Hierarchical Design Model
IP Address Assignment
Consider Routing Protocols in Network Design