CCNP R&S

Network Principles

Identify Cisco Express Forwarding concepts 

FIB 

Adjacency table 

Explain general network challenges 

Unicast 

Out-of-order packets 

Asymmetric routing 

Describe IP operations 

ICMP Unreachable and Redirects 

IPv4 and IPv6 fragmentation 

TTL 

Explain TCP operations 

IPv4 and IPv6 (P)MTU 

MSS 

Latency 

Windowing 

Bandwidth-delay product 

Global synchronization 

Describe UDP operations 

Starvation 

Latency 

Recognize proposed changes to the network 

Changes to routing protocol parameters 

Migrate parts of the network to IPv6 

Routing protocol migration 

 

Layer 2 Technologies

Configure and verify PPP 

Authentication (PAP, CHAP) 

PPPoE (client side only) 

Explain Frame Relay 

Operations 

Point-to-point 

Multipoint 

 

Layer 3 Technologies

Identify, configure, and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting 

Address types (Unicast, broadcast, multicast, and VLSM) 

ARP 

DHCP relay and server 

DHCP protocol operations 

Identify IPv6 addressing and subnetting 

Unicast 

EUI-64 

ND, RS/RA 

Autoconfig (SLAAC) 

DHCP relay and server 

DHCP protocol operations 

Configure and verify static routing 

Configure and verify default routing 

Evaluate routing protocol types 

Distance vector 

Link state 

Path vector 

Describe administrative distance 

Troubleshoot passive interfaces 

Configure and verify VRF lite 

Configure and verify filtering with any protocol 

Configure and verify redistribution between any routing protocols or routing sources 

Configure and verify manual and autosummarization with any routing protocol 

Configure and verify policy-based routing 

Identify suboptimal routing 

Explain ROUTE maps 

Configure and verify loop prevention mechanisms 

Route tagging and filtering 

Split-horizon 

Route poisoning 

Configure and verify RIPv2 

Describe RIPng 

Describe EIGRP packet types 

Configure and verify EIGRP neighbor relationship and authentication 

Configure and verify EIGRP stubs 

Configure and verify EIGRP load balancing 

Equal cost 

Unequal cost 

Describe and optimize EIGRP metrics 

Configure and verify EIGRP for IPv6 

Describe OSPF packet types 

Configure and verify OSPF neighbor relationship and authentication 

Configure and verify network types, area types, and router types 

Point-to-point, multipoint, broadcast, nonbroadcast 

LSA types, area type: backbone, normal, transit, stub, NSSA, totally stub 

Internal router, backbone router, ABR, ASBR 

Virtual link 

Configure and verify OSPF path preference 

Configure and verify OSPF operations 

Configure and verify OSPF for IPv6 

Describe, configure, and verify BGP peer relationships and authentication 

Peer group 

Active, passive 

States and timers 

Configure and verify eBGP (IPv4 and IPv6 address families) 

eBGP 

4-byte AS number 

Private AS 

Explain BGP attributes and best-path selection 

 

VPN Technologies

Configure and verify GRE 

Describe DMVPN (single hub) 

Describe Easy Virtual Networking (EVN) 

 

Infrastructure Security

Describe IOS AAA using local database 

Describe device security using IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS 

AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS 

Local privilege authorization fallback 

Configure and verify device access control 

Lines (VTY, AUX, console) 

Management plane protection 

Password encryption 

Configure and verify router security features 

IPv4 access control lists (standard, extended, time-based) 

IPv6 traffic filter 

Unicast reverse path forwarding 

 

Infrastructure Services

Configure and verify device management 

Console and VTY 

Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SCP 

(T)FTP 

Configure and verify SNMP 

v2 

v3 

Configure and verify logging 

Local logging, syslog, debugs, conditional debugs 

Timestamps 

Configure and verify Network Time Protocol (NTP) 

NTP master, client, version 3, version 4 

NTP authentication 

Configure and verify IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP 

DHCP client, IOS DHCP server, DHCP relay 

DHCP options (describe) 

Configure and verify IPv4 Network Address Translation (NAT) 

Static NAT, dynamic NAT, PAT 

Describe IPv6 NAT 

NAT64 

NPTv6 

Describe SLA architecture 

Configure and verify IP SLA 

ICMP 

Configure and verify tracking objects 

Tracking objects 

Tracking different entities (for example, interfaces, IPSLA results) 

Configure and verify Cisco NetFlow 

NetFlow v5, v9 

Local retrieval 

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