General Networking Theory
General Routing Concepts
- Link State and Distance Vector Protocols
- Split Horizons
- Summarisation
- Classful and a Classless routing protocol
- Routing decision criteria
Routing Information Base (RIB) and Routing Protocols Interaction
- Administrative Distance
- Routing Table
- RIB and Forwarding Information Base Interaction
Redistribution
- Redistribution between routing
- Troubleshooting Routing Loop
Bridging and LAN Switching
- Spanning Tree Protocols (STP)
- 802.1d
- 802.1w
- 802.1s
- Loopguard
- Rootguard
- Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard
- Storm Control
- Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
- Unicast flooring
- STP port roles, failure propagation and loopguard operation
Lan Switching
- Trunks
- VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) administrative functions
Ethernet
- Speed
- Duplex
- Etheret
- Fast Ethernet
- Gigabit Ethernet
Addressing
- Subnetting
- Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)
- Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
- Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
Services
- Network Time Protocol (NTP)
- Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)
- Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP
Network Management
IP Routing
OSPF
- Standard OSPF area
- Stub area
- Totally stub area
- Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
- Totally NSSA
- Link State Advertisement (LSA) types
- Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access (broadcast)
- OSPF graceful restart Troubleshooting failing adjacency formation to fail
- Troubleshooting of external route installation in the RIB
BGP
- Protocol on which BGP peers communicate
- Next Hop
- Peering
- Troubleshooting of BGP route that will not install in the routing tables.
EIGRP
- Best Path
- Loop free Paths
- EIGRP operations when alternate loop free path are available and when it is not available
- EIGRP queries
- Manual summarisation
- Auto-summarisation
- EIGRP Stubs
- Troubleshooting of EIFRP neighbour adjacencies
Policy Routing
- Concept of policy routing
QoS
- Modular QoS command-line (MQC) applied to:
- Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
- Class based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ)/Modified Deficit Round Robin (MDRR)
- Policing
- Shaping
- Marking
- Random Early Detection (RED)
WAN
- Frame Delay
- Local Management Interface (LMI)
- Traffic Shaping
- HUB and Spoke routers
- Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
- DE
IP Multicast
- Internet Group Management Protocols (IGMP)v2B. Group addresses
- Shared Trees
- Source Trees
- Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Mechanic
- PIM Sparse Mode
- Auto-RP
- Anycast RP
Security
- Extended IP access lists
- Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
- IP Source Guard
- Context Based Access Control (CBAC)
MPLS (New)
- Label Switching Router (LSR)
- Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
- Route Descriptor
- Label Format
- Label imposition/disposition
- Label Distribution
IPv6 (New)
- IPv6 Addressing and types
- IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
- Basic IPv6 functionality protocols
- IPv6 Multicast and related Multicast protocols
- Tunneling Techniques
- OSPFv3
- EIGRP v6