A Nice Little Draft

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1. Network Theory
   1. Describe basic software architecture differences between IOS and IOS XE
      1. Control plane and Forwarding plane
      2. Impact to troubleshooting and performances
      3. Excluding specific platform's architecture
   2. Identify Cisco express forwarding (CEF) concepts
      1. RIB, FIB, LFIB, Adjacency table
      2. Polarization concept and avoidance
      3. Load balancing Hash
   3. Explain IP operations
      1. ICMP unreachable, redirect
      2. IPv4 options, IPv6 extension headers
      3. IPv4 and IPv6 fragmentation
      4. TTL
      5. IP MTU
   4. Explain TCP Operations
      1. IPv4 and IPv6 PMTU
      2. MSS
      3. Latency
      4. Windowing
      5. Bandwidth delay product
      6. Global synchronization
      7. Options
   5. Explain UDP Operations
      1. Starvation
      2. RTP/RTCP concepts
      3. Latency
   6. Explain general network challenges
      1. Unicast flooding
      2. Out of order packets
      3. Asymmetric routing
      4. Impact of micro burst
2. Network implementation & operation: Evaluate proposed changes to a network
   1. Changes to routing protocol parameters
   2. Migrate parts of a network to IPv6
   3. Routing protocol migration
   4. Adding multicast support
   5. Migrate spanning tree protocol
   6. Evaluate impact of new traffic on existing QoS design
3. Network Troubleshooting
   1. Use IOS troubleshooting tools
      1. Embedded packet capture
      2. Performance monitor
      3. ping, traceroute with extended options
      4. Debug, conditional debug
   2. Apply troubleshooting methodologies
      1. Diagnose the root cause of networking issue (analyze symptoms, identify and describe root cause)
      2. Design & implement valid solutions according to constraints
      3. Verify and monitor resolution
   3. Interpret Packet Capture
      1. Using Wireshark trace analyzer
      2. Using IOS embedded packet capture

1. LAN Switching Technologies
   1. Implement & troubleshoot switch administration
      1. Managing MAC address table
      2. errdisable recovery
      3. L2 MTU
   2. Implement & troubleshoot Layer 2 protocols
      1. CDP, LLDP
      2. UDLD
   3. Implement & troubleshoot VLAN
      1. Access ports
      2. VLAN database
      3. Normal, extended VLAN, voice VLAN
   4. Implement & troubleshoot trunking
      1. VTPv1, VTPv2, VTPv3, VTP pruning
      2. dot1Q
      3. Native VLAN
      4. Manual pruning
   5. Implement & troubleshoot EtherChannel
      1. LACP, PAgP, manual
      2. Layer 2, Layer 3
      3. Load-balancing
      4. Etherchannel misconfiguration guard
   6. Implement & troubleshoot spanning-tree
      1. PVST+, RPVST+, MST
      2. Switch priority, port priority, path cost, STP timers
      3. port fast, BPDUguard, BPDUfilter
      4. loopguard, rootguard
   7. Implement & troubleshoot other LAN switching technologies
      1. SPAN, RSPAN, ERSPAN
   8. Describe chassis virtualization & aggregation technologies
      1. Multichassis
      2. VSS concepts
      3. Alternatives to STP
      4. Stackwise
      5. Excluding specific platform implementation
   9. Describe spanning-tree concepts
      1. Compatibility between MST and RSTP
      2. STP dispute, STP bridge assurance
2. Layer 2 Multicast
   1. Implement & troubleshoot IGMP
      1. IGMP v1, IGMP v2, IGMP v3
      2. IGMP snooping
      3. IGMP querier
      4. IGMP filter
      5. IGMP proxy
   2. Explain MLD
   3. Explain PIM snooping
3. Layer 2 WAN circuit technologies
   1. Implement & troubleshoot HDLC
   2. Implement & troubleshoot PPP
      1. Authentication (PAP, CHAP)
      2. PPPoE
      3. MLPPP

1. Adressing Technologies
2. Layer 3 Multicast
3. Fundamental routing concepts
4. RIP v2, v6
5. EIGRP IPv4, IPv6
6. OSPF v2, v3
7. BGP
8. ISIS

1. Tunneling
   1. Implement & troubleshoot MPLS operations
      1. Label stack, LSR, LSP
      2. LDP
      3. MPLS ping, MPLS traceroute
   2. Implement & troubleshoot basic MPLS L3VPN
      1. L3VPN, CE, PE, P
      2. Extranet (route leaking)
   3. Implement & troubleshoot encapsulation
      1. GRE
      2. Dynamic GRE
      3. LISP encapsulation principles supporting EIGRP OTP
   4. Implement & troubleshoot DMVPN (single hub)
      1. NHRP
      2. DMPVN with IPsec using pre-shared key
      3. QoS profile
      4. Pre-classify
   5. Describe IPv6 tunneling techniques
      1. 6in4, 6to5
      2. ISATAP
      3. 6RD
      4. 6PE/6VPE
   6. Describe basic L2VPN - wireline
      1. L2TPv3 general principles
      2. ATOM general principles
   7. Describe basic L2VPN - LAN services
      1. MPLS-VPLS general princples
      2. OTV general princples

1. System management
2. QoS
3. Network services
4. Network optimization