Architecture
- Design principles in the enterprise network
- How the Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solution works
- How Cisco SD-Access works
- Reading and evaluating QoS configurations
Virtualisation
- Device virtualisation technologies
- Configuring and verifying data path virtualisation
- Network virtualisation concepts
Infrastructure
- Layer 2: trunking, EtherChannel, Spanning Tree in the enterprise environment
- Layer 3: OSPF, EIGRP and BGP working together
- IP services: NTP, NAT, first-hop redundancy, multicast fundamentals
- Troubleshooting in the core layer
Network Assurance
- Diagnostics with debugs, conditional debugs, traceroute, ping, SNMP and syslog
- Configuring and verifying Flexible NetFlow
- Setting up SPAN, RSPAN and ERSPAN
- IP SLA for availability and latency measurement
- Cisco Catalyst Center for configuration, monitoring and AI-driven workflows
- Configuring and verifying NETCONF and RESTCONF
Security
- Securing device access
- Configuring infrastructure security features
- REST API security
- Building blocks of a network security design
Automation and Artificial Intelligence
- Reading Python scripts and understanding their building blocks
- Building valid JSON files
- Data modelling with YANG: principles and benefits
- Cisco Catalyst Center and SD-WAN Manager APIs
- Evaluating REST API response codes and payloads
- EEM applets for configuration, troubleshooting and data collection
- Agent-based versus agentless orchestration
