NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE

ADVANCE SWITCHING

• Switch Introduction
• Switch Data Frame Flow
• Switch Types
• Layer 2 and Layer 3
• Switch administration
• Switch Ports Description
• Managing MAC address table
• Layer 2 protocols introduction
• CDP, LLDP

VLAN technologies

• VLAN Introduction
• Way of configuration VLANs
• VLAN database
• Create, Delete and Modify VLANs
• Standard VLAN range and Extended VLANsrange, Reserve VLANs
• Voice VLAN, Data VLAN
• Port to VLAN Mapping
• Static and Dynamic Access ports
• VLAN Troubleshooting

DTP

• Introduction to DTP Protocol
• DTP Timers
• DTP Modes
• Way of configuration
• Static and Dynamic
• Trunk ports
• Encapsulation Type – ISL/802.1Q
• Verification Trunk Table, Trunk timers
• Allowed VLANs Modification with DTP features
• Native VLAN – Introduction, Configuration
• DTP Troubleshooting

VTP

• VTP introduction
• Version 1, Version 2, Version 3
• Way of Configuration VTP Protocol
• VTP Mode, VTP messages
• VTP pruning features
• VTP version 3 + MST

EtherChannel

• Introduction to EtherChannel
• Protocol Information + Configuration
• PAGP/LACP/Static
• Layer 2, Layer 3
• Load balancing
• EtherChannel Misconfiguration Guard
• Troubleshooting

STP – Spanning- Tree Protocol

• STP introduction
• STP Port State, Port Role, Timers, Priority,
• STP Cost Calculation, STP RB Election
• RB manipulation, port priority, RP/DP Manipulation, path cost, STP Diameter
• CST, PVST, PVST+
• STP BPDU
• Port Role Election
• Manipulation STP

STP Optimization

• Portfast, Portfast Edge
• backbone fast
• Uplink Fast

STP Protection

• Root Guard
• BPDU Guard
• Loop Guard
• BPDU Filter
• UDLD

RSTP

• RSTP introduction,
• RSTP Cost Calculation, Port State, Port Role
• RSTP BPDU, RSTP Timers
• Manipulation RSTP

MSTP

• MSTP BPDU
• Introduction, MST, MST+, PVST+ Interoperability.
• Configuration MST – instance configuration, Region Detail, MST RB Manipulation
• Cost Calculation, Cost Mechanism, Timers

Switch Layer 3 Forwarding

DHCP

• Introduction to DHCP
• DHCP Messages, DHCP Relay Agent
• Way of configuration DHCP
• Network pool, Client Pool, VLAN pool
• DHCP for IPV4 and IPV6
• DHCP Troubleshooting

FHRP

• Introduction to FHRP
• Protocol Information
• HSRP VRRP GLBP
• Timers Messages, Virtual MAC Information, States or Election
• How to configure HSRP VRRP GLBP
• How to perform Manual Load balancing
• How to Configure Link Monitoring
• Troubleshooting HSRP VRRP GLBP

SYSLOG

• SYSLOG Introduction
• Configuration
• Log information

SPAN

• SPAN Introduction
• Configuration
• Local SPAN, RSPAN & ESPAN

SWITCH SECURITY

• PORT-SECURITY
• PROTECTED-PORT
• VLAN-ACL
• SECURING-TRUNK
• PRIVATE-VLAN
• DHCP SNOOPING
• DYNAMIC ARP INSPECTION
• IP SOURCE GURAD

SNMP

• SNMP introduction
• SNMP Configuration
• SNMP Troubleshoot

Routing Concepts

• Introduction to Router
• Data packet Flow on Router
• Introduction CEF, FIB, RIB
• Introduction to Routing
• Introduction to IPV4 and IPV6
• Routing Types: Source based Routing
• Routing Types: Destination Based Routing
• Administrative distance
• Static routing (IPV4 &IPV6)
• Floating Routing
• Default Routing (IPV4 &IPV6)
• Dynamic Routing Protocol
• RIP Protocol (IPV4 &IPV6)
• EIGRP (IPV4 &IPV6)
• OSPF (IPV4 &IPV6)

RIP Protocol (IPV4 &IPV6)

• Introduction to RIP Protocol
• Timers
• Neighborship
• Best path mechanism
• Way of configuration
• Troubleshooting (IPV4 &IPV6)

EIGRP Protocol (IPV4 &IPV6)

• Introduction to EIGRP
• EIGRP Name Mode
• EIGRP Classic Mode
• Timers, Algorithm, Parameters, Messages, SIA Mode, RTP protocol
• Adjacencies
• Tables
• Best path selection
• RD, FD, FC, successor, feasible successor
• Classic Metrics and Wide Metrics
• Operations
• General operations
• Topology table
• Packet types
• Stuck In Active
• Graceful shutdown
• EIGRP load-balancing
• Equal-cost
• Unequal-cost
• Add-path
• Variance
• EIGRP Named Mode
• Optimization, convergence and scalability
• Fast convergence requirements
• Query propagation boundaries
• IP FRR (single hop)
• Leak-map with summary routes
• EIGRP stub with leak map
• EIGRP Authentication
• EIGRP Summarization

EIGRP Troubleshooting (with LAB Scenario)

OSPF Protocol (IPV4 &IPV6)

• Introduction to OSPF Protocol (Version 2 and 3)
• Timers, Algorithm, messages, SPF Calculation
• Neighborship – Static and Dynamic
• OSPF Seven Stage Process, Elections, Packets
• Adjacencies
• Network types, area types
• Path preference
• LSA Types
• Stub Area Concepts
• NSSA Area Concept
• Transit Area, Total NSSA
• Backbone Area
• ABR and ASBR Concept
• Virtual Links: Discontinuous Area Concept
• LSA and LSDB Flooding
• LSA -TYPE-3 FILTERING
• LSA -TYPE-5 FILTERING
• OSPF Authentication
• OSPF Summarizations
• OSPF Default Root

OSPF Troubleshooting with Lab Scenario

BGP

• IBGP and EBGP peer relationships
• Peer-group/update-group, template
• Active, passive
• Timers, Messages, States
• Dynamic neighbors
• 4-bytes AS numbers
• Private AS
• Path selection
• Attributes
• Best path selection Algorithm
• Load-balancing
• Routing policies
• Attribute manipulation
• Conditional advertisement
• Outbound Route Filtering
• Standard and extended communities
• Multi-homing
• AS path manipulations
• local-AS, allow as-in, remove-private-as
• Prepend
• Convergence and scalability
• Route reflector
• Aggregation, as-set
• Other BGP features
• Multipath, add-path
• Soft reconfiguration, Route Refresh
• Policy Based Routing
• VRF aware routing with any routing protocol
• Route filtering with any routing protocol
• Redistribution between any pair of routing protocols
• Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

Multicast

• Layer 2 multicast
• IGMPv2, IGMPv3
• IGMP Snooping, PIM Snooping
• IGMP Querier
• IGMP Filter
• MLD
• Reverse path forwarding check
• PIM
• Sparse Mode
• Static RP, BSR, AutoRP
• Group to RP Mapping
• Bidirectional PIM
• Source-Specific Multicast
• Multicast boundary, RP announcement filter
• PIMv6 Anycast RP
• IPv4 Anycast RP using MSDP
• Multicast multipath

TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGY AND SOLUTIONS

MPLS

• Operations
• Label stack, LSR, LSP
• LDP
• MPLS ping, MPLS traceroute
• VPN
• PE-CE routing
• MP-BGP VPNv4/VPNv6
• Extranet (route leaking)

DMVPN

• Troubleshoot DMVPN Phase 3 with dual-hub
• NHRP
• IPsec/IKEv2 using pre-shared key
• Per-Tunnel QoS
•  Identify use-cases for FlexVPN
• Site-to-site, Server, Client, Spoke-to-Spoke
• IPsec/IKEv2 using pre-shared key
• MPLS over FlexVPN

INFRASTRUCTURE SECURITY AND SERVICES

Device Security on Cisco IOS XE

• Control plane policing and protection
• AAA

Network Security

• Switch security features
• VACL
• Storm control
• DHCP Snooping, DHCP option 82
• IP Source Guard
• Dynamic ARP Inspection
• Port Security
• Private VLAN
• Router security features
• IPv6 Traffic Filters
• IPv4 Access Control Lists
• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding
• IPv6 infrastructure security features
• RA Guard
• DHCP Guard
• Binding table
• Device tracking
• ND Inspection/Snooping
• Source Guard
• IEEE 802.1X Port-Based Authentication
• Device roles, port states
• Authentication process
• Host modes

System Management

• Device management
• Console and VTY
• SSH, SCP
• RESTCONF, NETCONF
• SNMP
• v2c
• v3
• Logging
• Local logging, syslog, debugs, conditional debugs
• Timestamps

Quality of Service

• End to end L3 QoS using MQC
• DiffServ
• CoS and DSCP Mapping
• Classification
• Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
• Marking using IP Precedence, DSCP, CoS
• Policing, shaping
• Congestion management and avoidance

Network Services

• HSRP, GLBP, VRRP
• Redundancy using IPv6 RS/RA
• First-Hop Redundancy Protocols
• Network Time Protocol
• Master, client
• Authentication
• DHCP on Cisco IOS
• Client, server, relay
• Options
•  SLAAC/DHCPv6 interaction
• Stateful, stateless DHCPv6
• DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation
• IPv4 Network Address Translation
• Static NAT, PAT
• Dynamic NAT, PAT
• Policy-based NAT, PAT

Network optimization

• IP SLA
• ICMP probes
• UDP probes
• TCP probes
• Tracking object

Network operations

• Traffic capture
• SPAN
• RSPAN
• ERSPAN
• Embedded Packet Capture
• Cisco IOS-XE troubleshooting tools
• Packet Trace
• Conditional debuggers (debug platform condition)

SOFTWARE DEFINED INFRASTRUCTURE

Cisco SD Access

• Design a Cisco SD Access solution
• Underlay network (IS-IS, manual/PnP)
• Overlay fabric design (LISP, VXLAN, Cisco TrustSec)
• Fabric domains (single-site and multi-site using SD-WAN transit)
• Cisco SD Access deployment
• Cisco DNA Center device discovery and device management
• Add fabric node devices to an existing fabric
• Host onboarding (wired endpoints only)
• Fabric border handoffs
• Segmentation
• Macro-level segmentation using VNs
• Micro-level segmentation using SGTs (using Cisco ISE)
• Assurance
• Network and client health (360)
• Monitoring and troubleshooting

Cisco SD-WAN

• Design a Cisco SD-WAN solution
• Orchestration plane (vBond, NAT)
• Management planes (vManage)
• Control planes (vSmart, OMP)
• Data planes (vEdge/vEdge)
• WAN edge deployment
• Onboarding new edge routers
• Orchestration with zero-touch provisioning/Plug-And-Play
• OMP
• TLOC
• Configuration templates
• Localized policies
• Centralized policies

INFRASTRUCTURE AUTOMATION AND PROGRAMMABILITY

• PYTHON BASICS + THEORY PART 1
• Install Python
• Python shell
• Python as calculator
• The print functions
• Variables and Types
• Reproducibility
• Type conversion
• LISTS
• LIST Operations
• Functions
• Using the inbuilt Help Functions
• More Commonly used inbuilt Functions
• Methods- String and List Methods
• BASIC PYTHON SCRIPTING
• Python and Telnet – Configure Cisco Router
• Python, Telnet – Configure Switch VLANs
• Remove Passwords and improve scripts (Telnet)
• Create switch VLANs using loops (Telnet)
• Multiple switches, multiple VLANs (Telnet)
• Discussing the PEP Style Guide
• Backup Switch Configurations
• IMPORTANT LIBRARIES FOR NETWORK OPERATIONS
• Paramiko
• Netmiko – Multiple Variations of scripts
• NAPALM – Multiple Variations of scripts
• JSON and more commands– Getting beautiful outputs NAPALM and BGP – Multiple
• Variations of scripts Use NAPALM for device configuration audit and changes pyntc –
• Multiple Variations of scripts
• Netmiko Iteration Scripting – Multiple Variations of scripts Basic discussion on REST API
• PYTHON THEORY PART 2
• Python Objects
• String methods- upper, starts with and ends with, strip, split demo
• String methods- Join, concatenation, Capitalize, upper, lower, swap, slicing
• Boolean comparisons
• Boolean Truth Table
• Lists versus tuples
• Tuples and Sequences
• More OnComments in Code
• More On if / else / elseif logic
• More On While Loops
• More On For Loops
• More On Dictionaries
• More On Functions

Labs

• AUTOMATION LAB
• SD-WAN LAB
• CCIE LAB CONFIG
• CCIE LAB TROUBLE SHOOTING

• Installation and Initialisation
• Package management & Process monitoring
• Services, Utilities, Important Files and Directories
• System services
• User Administration
• File System Security and Management
• Advanced File System Management

Module-1 Installing & Initial Access

•  BIG-IP LTM Overview
•  Licensing and the setup utility
• Installation and Setup Labs

1. Lab Changing Initial IP Address.
2. Lab Licensing The System
3. Lab Setup Utility
4. Lab Configuration Utility
5. Lab Configuration Backup Utility

• BIG-IP Hardware Platform
• What’s outside BIG-IP
• What’s Inside BIG-IP
• Building block of F5

Module-2 Components

Nodes 

• Lab using GUI
• LAB using CLI

Pool

• Lab using GUI
• LAB using CLI

Pool Members

• Lab using GUI
• Lab using CLI

Virtual-server

• Lab using GUI
• LAB using CLI

Module-3 Load Balancing

• Virtual Servers & Pools
• Network Map
• Load Balancing Modes
• Configuring Load Balancing

         1. Load Balancing with Pool Members

         2. LAB using GUI & CLI

Module-4 Virtual-Server for IPV6

• Ipv6 Virtual Server Configuration
• IPv6 Virtual Server to IPv4 Backend Server Configuration

           1. LAB

Module-5 Monitors

• Monitor Concepts
• Monitor Configuration
• Monitor Assignment
• Monitor Status Reporting

          1. Labs Monitor

          2.Modified Lab Monitor

Module-6 Profile

• Profile
• Profile Types and Dependencies
• Protocol Profile Types and Setting
• Configuring Profiles
• Configuring Parent And Child Profile

Module-7 Persistence

• Persistence
• Source Address Based Persistence

           1. LAB – Source Address Based Persistence

• Destination Address Based Persistence

              2. LAB – Destination Address Based Persistence

• Cookies Based Persistence

          3. LAB – Cookies Based Persistence

• Object Management

              4. Disabled and Enable Members

Module-8 Processing SSL Traffic

• SSL Termination/Initiation
• SSL profile Configuration

         1. LAB Client SSL Termination

         2.LAB Server SSL Termination

Module-9 Configuration Project

• Configuration Project
      1.  LAB Including all the Servers And Client & BIG-IP

Module-10 NATs and SNATs

• NATs
       1. LAB NAT
• SNAT
       2. LAB SNAT
• Auto-map
  3. LAB Automap

Module-11 iRules

• iRules Concepts
• iRules Events
• Types of iRules
• Different Ways To Use iRules
• iRule Editer
• Configuring iRules

              1. LAB iRules

Module-12 Installation Of a Redundant BIG-IP

• Redundant Pair Concept
• Synchronization State and Failover
• Redundant Pair Labs

           1. Lab Redundant Pair Setup
            2. Synchronization

• Redundant Pair Communication

Module-13 High Availability

• Requirements
• Concept of High Availability
• Fail-over Triggers
• Fail-over Trigger Configuration

                  1. LAB

• Fail-over Detection

                 2. LAB

Module-14 Maintaining & Troubleshooting BIG-IP LTM

• Additional Tools And Resources
• Logs
• SNMP
• iHealth
• QKView
• analytics
• TCP Dumps
• EUD
• ASK-F5
• BIG-IP Logging Method
• BIG-IP Log Facilites

SD-WAN Architecture

• Traditional WAN – Challenges
• SD-WAN Overview and definitions
• SD-WAN Benefits
• SD-WAN Key Concepts
• SD-WAN Main Components
• Describe Cisco SD-WAN Architecture and Components
• Orchestration plane (vBond, NAT)
• Management plane (vManage)
• Control plane (vSmart, OMP)
• Data plane (vEdge)
• TLOC
• IPsec
• vRoute
• BFD
• Describe WAN Edge platform types, capabilities (vEdges, cEdges)

SD-WAN Controller Deployment

• Describe controller cloud deploymen
• Describe Controller on-Prem Deployment
• Hosting platform (KVM/Hypervisor)
• Installing controllers
• Scalability and redundancy
• Configure and verify certificates and whitelisting
• Troubleshoot control-plane connectivity between controllers

Router Deployment

• Describe WAN Edge deployment
• On-boarding
• Orchestration with zero-touch provisioning/plug-and-play
• Single/multi data center/regional hub deployments
• Configure and verify SD-WAN data plane
• Circuit termination/TLOC-extension
• Underlay-overlay connectivity
• Configure and verify OMP
• Configure and verify TLOCs
• Configure and verify CLI and vManage feature configuration templates
• VRRP
• OSPF
• BGP

Policies

• Configure and verify control policies
• Configure and verify data policies
• Configure and verify end-to-end segmentation
• VPN segmentation
• Topologies
• Configure and verify SD-WAN application-aware routing
• Configure and verify direct Internet access

Security and Quality of Service

• Configure and verify service insertion
• Describe application-aware firewall
• Configure and verify QoS treatment on WAN edge routers
• Scheduling
• Queuing
• Shaping
• Policing

Management and Operations

• Describe monitoring and reporting from vManage
• Configure and verify monitoring and reporting
• Describe REST API monitoring
• Describe software upgrade from vManage

Module 1 :- PYTHON BASICS + THEORY PART 1

• Install Python
• Ipython shell
• Python as calculator
• The print function
• Variables and Types
• Reproducibility
• Type conversion

LISTS

• LIST Operations
• Functions
• Using the inbuilt Help Functions
• More Commonly used inbuilt Functions
• Methods- String and List Methods

Module 2 :- BASIC PYTHON SCRIPTING

• Python and Telnet – Configure Cisco Router
• Python, Telnet – Configure Switch VLANs
• Remove Passwords and improve scripts(Telnet)
• Create switch VLANs using loops(Telnet)
• Multiple switches, multiple VLANs(Telnet)
• Discussing the PEP Style Guide
• Backup Switch Configurations

Module 3 :- IMPORTANT LIBRARIES FOR NETWORK OPERATIONS

• Paramiko
• Netmiko – Multiple Variations ofscripts
• NAPALM – Multiple Variations ofscripts
• JSON and more commands– Getting beautiful outputs NAPALM and BGP –Multiple
  Variations ofscripts Use NAPALM for device configuration audit and changes pyntc – Multiple Variations ofscripts
• Netmiko Iteration Scripting – Multiple Variations ofscripts Basic discussion on REST API

Module 4 :-PYTHON THEORY PART 2

• Python Objects
• String methods- upper,startswith and endswith,strip,split demo
• String methods- Join, concatenation, Capitalize, upper, lower, swap,slicing
• Boolean comparisons
• Boolean Truth Table
• Lists versustuples
• Tuples and Sequences
• More On Commentsin Code
• More On if / else / elseif logic
• More On While Loops
• More On For Loops
• More On Dictionaries
• More On Functions