CCIE Routing & Switching Lab Exam Topics V4.0

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CCIE Routing & Switching Lab Exam Topics V4.0

I N D E X

01 – Ethernet Bridging and Switching
02 – Frame-Relay
03 – HDLC/PPP
04 – IP Routing
05 – RIP
06 – EIGRP
07 – OSPF
08 – Redistribution
09 – BGP
10 – MPLS
11 – IPv6
12 – Multicast
13 – QOS
14 – System Management
15 – IP Services
16 – Security

ETHERNET BRIDGING & SWITCHING

Ethernet Technologies
- Speed and duplex
- Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet

Switchports
- Dynamic
  - Desirable
  - Auto
- Access
- Trunk
  - Encapsulation
  - Mode
- Allowed List
- Tunnel
  - 802.1q Tunnel

VTP
- Domains
- Modes
  - Server
  - Client
  - Transparent
- Authentication
- Pruning
  - Prune Eligible List
- Extended VLANs

Layer 3 Routing
- Router-on-a-Stick
- Native Routed Ports
- SVIs

EtherChannel
- Dynamic
  - PAgP
  - LACP
- Static
- Layer 3 & Layer 2
- Load Balancing

Spanning-Tree Protocol
- Root Election
- Path Selection
  - Port Cost
  - Port Priority
- Advanced Spanning-Tree Features
  - Portfast
  - Uplinkfast
  - Backbonefast
  - BPDU Guard
  - BPDU Filter
  - Loopguard
  - UDLD
- Disabling STP

Multiple Spanning-Tree Protocol (MSTP)
- Root Election
- Path Selection

Rapid Spanning-Tree Protocol (RSTP)

Advanced Catalyst Features
- Flex Links
- Private VLANs
- SPAN
- RSPAN
- Optimizing System Resources (SDM)
- Link state Tracking
- Macros
- CAM Maintenance
  - Static Entries
  - Aging
  - Logging
  - MAC address notification traps
  - Unicast MAC address filtering

Bridging
- Transparent
- CRB
- IRB
- Fall-Back Bridging
  - Aging Time
  - Discarding Static or Dynamic MAC Address
  - Adjusting STP Parameters

3560 Security
- Port Security
  - Violation modes
  - MAC Addresses
  - Aging Time
  - Aging Type
  - Errdisable Recovery/Detect
- 802.1x Authentication
- Storm Control
- DHCP Snooping
  - Option-82 Data-Inspection
- IP Source-Guard
- DAI (Dynamic ARP Inspection)
- VACLs
  - IP Acl
  - MAC Acls & Ethertypes
- Port Protection
  - Switchport Protect
  - Switchport Block

FRAME-RELAY

NBMA Overview
- Times
- Keepalives

Interface Types
- Physical
- Multipoint Subinterface
- Point-to-Point Subinterface
- Back-to-Back
- FRF.16.1 (Multilink Frame Relay)

Address Resolution (iARP)
- Static
  - Self Mapping
- Dynamic (iARP)
  - Disabling Requests
  - Disabling Per DLCI

DCHP to new router

Broadcast Replication

LMI
- Adjusting the timers

Full Mesh

Partial Mesh (Hub-and-Spoke)

End-to-End Keepalives

Bridging over Frame Relay

PPP

PPP advantages over HDLC

PPP Features
- Auto neighbor IP
- LCP & IPCP

Authentication
- PAP
- CHAP
  - CHAP Hostname
  - CHAP Password
  - Same hostname
- Putting a “?” in Password

Peer Neighbor Route

Reliable Link (RFC 1663)

Link Quality Monitoring

Multilink PPP (MLP)
- MLP Interleaving and Queuing
- Multiclass MLP
- MRRU Negotiation

PPPoFR (PPP over Frame Relay)
PPPoE (PPP over Ethernet)

PPP Half-Bridging

IP ROUTING

Routing Decisions
- Longest Match
- Distance
- Inner Protocol
- Metric

Default Routing

Switching Paths
- Process switching
- Fast Switching
- Netflow switching
- CEF switching

Layer 2 Resolution

OER (Cisco Optimized Edge Routing)
- PFR (Performance Routing)

ODR (On Demand Routing)

Secondary Ip addresses

Floating Static Routes

Backup Interface

GRE Tunneling (L3 VPN)

PBR (Policy Routing)
- Policy route local traffic through Loopback

/31 Mask

IP-Unnumbered

RIP

RIP Operation
- no validate-update source

Metric & Timers

RIP Vesion 1 & 2

Updates Types
- Broadcast
- Multicast
- Unicast

Network Statement

Passive Int

Split-Horizon, RIP Triggered

Summarization
- Auto Summary
- Int Summary

Filtering
- Distribute-List
- Offset List
- Distance

Default Routing

Authentication
- MD5
- Text

EIGRP

EIGRP Operation

Metric, Timers and K-values

Variance & Load-sharing

Convergence Timers

Routing Updates

Packet Types (Theory)

DUAL Finite State Machine (Theory)

Passive Interface

Split-Horizon

Default Network

Authentication
- MD5
- Key Rotation

Summarization
- Auto-Summary
- Interface
- Default Route (summary command with 0.0.0.0)
- Floating Summary

Filtering
- Distribute-List
- Offset List
- Distance

Stub Routing

Bandwidth Percent

OSPF

OSPF Overview

Hello Protocol

Network Types
- Broadcast
- Non-Broadcast
- Point-to-Multipoint
- Point-to-Multipoint Non-Broadcast
- Point-to-Point
- Mismatch

DR and BDR

OSPF Finite State Machine

Router Types

LSA (Link State Advertisement)

Stub Areas
- Stub
- Stub No-Summary
- NSSA No-Summary
- NSSA No-Redistrib
- NSSA No-Advertise
- GRE over Stub

Filtering
- Distribute-List
- LSA 3 Filter
- LSA Overload Protection
- LSA Throttling
- Forwarding Address Suppression in Translated Type-5 LSAs

Summarization
- Inter-area
- External

Stub Router Advertisement

Passive-Interface

Originating routes

Path Selection
- Auto-Cost
- Cost
- Bandwidth
- Neighbor Cost
- Incremental SPF

Authentication
- Area
- Interface
- MD5
- Clear Text
- Null
- Virtual-Link

Default Routing
- Always
- Conditional

OSPF Demand Circuit

REDISTRIBUTION

Redistribution Overview
- Connected interfaces
- Single Router
- Mutual Routers

Connected / Static

RIP
- Metric

EIGRP
- Metric
- External EIGRP routes

OSPF
- Route-Types
- Match command

BGP
- Bgp Redistribute internal

BGP

The BGP Process

Establishing Peerings
- TCP Transport
- Update Source
  - BGP States
  - BGP Open Message

Authentication

EBGP sessions
- Multihop
- BGP Backdoor
- Distance
- Maximum-Paths
- Dmzlink-bw

Next-Hop Processing
- Next-Hop Self
- Route-Map

iBGP sessions
- Route Reflection
- Confederation

iBGP Synchronization
- Redistribution into IGP
- BGP over GRE

Bestpath Selection Process
- Weight
- Local Preference
- AS-Path Prepending
- MED

Communities
- No-Export
- No-Advertise
- Local-AS
- Numbered
- New Format
- Community-list

Default Originate

Originating Prefixes
- Network Statement
- Redistribution
- Aggregation
  - Summary-Only
  - Suppress-Map
  - Neighbor Unsuppress-Map

Filtering
- Filtering Specifics
- Filtering Aggregate

Conditional Advertisement

Conditional Route Injection

Clearing BGP Sessions

ORF (Outbound Route Filtering)

Local AS

Remove Private AS

Route-maps

Dampening

Peer Groups

Peering Templates

Regular Expressions

Fast External Fallover

Fast Peering session deactivation

Support for Next-Hop Address Tracking

Max Prefix

BGP Policy Accounting

MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching)

MPLS Overview

Router Types
- CE (Customer Edge)
- PE (Provider Edge)
- P (Provider)

LDP (Label Distribution Protocol)

MPBGP
- Address Families
- Originating Prefixes
  - Network Statement
  - Redistribution

Layer 3 VPNs
- RD (Route-Target)
- RT (Route Disinguisher)
- VRF (virtual routing and forwarding)
- Import and Export Maps

VRF-Lite (Multi-VRF Customer Edge)

IPv6

Addressing
- Global Unicast
- Link Local
- Site Local
- Unicast Local
- EUI-64

DHCP for IPv6

IPv6 on 3560

IPv6 over Ethernet
- ICMP ND
- Static to Next-Hop
- Static to Interface

IPv6 over Frame Relay
- Layer 3 Resolution
- Static to Next-Hop
- Static to Interface

IPv6 Routing Overview

RIPng
- Enabling
- Default Routing
- Summarization
- Offset List
- Distribute-List
- Redistribution

EIGRP v6
- Enabling
- Default Routing
- Summarization
- Distribute-List
- Redistribution

OSPFv3
- Enabling
- Network Types
- OSPFv3 over NBMA
- Summarization
  - Internal
  - External
- Authentication
  - Per interface
  - Per area
- Default Routing
- Redistribution

MPBGP
- Address Families
- Originating Prefixes
  - Network Statement
  - Aggregation

Tunneling
- IPv6IP
- GRE
- Automatic 6to4
- ISATAP

IPv6 Multicast

IPv6 on 3560

Access-List Filtering

Static IPv6 DNS Entries

MULTICAST

Multicast Operation

Addressing
- Reserved Addresses
- Well-Known addresses
- multicast MAC’s
- SSM addresses

IGMP
- Join
- Static
- Access-Group
- 3560 Profile
- IGMP Snooping
- Helper
- Timers
- Max Groups

PIM
- Modes
  - Sparse
  - Dense
- Sparse-Dense
- Shortest Path switchover (SPT/RPT)
  - IP PIM SPT-Threshold

Reverse Path Forwarding
- Static M-route

RP Assignments
- Static
  - Override
- Auto-RP
  - Sparse-Dense
  - Auto-RP Listener
  - Default Static RP
- BSR
  - Specific Groups
  - Priority
  - BSR Border
- Anycast RP with MSDP

Bi-directional PIM

NBMA Mode

Multicast over GRE

Multicast BGP

Stub Multicast IP Routing

Filtering
- Static RP
  - Filtering Specific Groups
- Auto-RP filtering
  - RP group filtering
  - MA filtering RP’s
- BSR
  - Specific Groups
- PIM-Neighbor filtering
- Client filtering
- Multicast Bopundary
- Multicast Route-Limit

Scoping
- TTL Scoping
- Administrative Scoping

Additional Multicast features
- Multicast Rate Limiting
- Multicast Helper
- SDR Listener support
- Load splitting multicast traffic
- Multicast Heartbeat

SSM (Source specific multicast)

MSDP (Multicast Source Distribution Protocol)
- Interdomain Multicast Routing

PGM (Pragmatic General multicast)

MRM (Multicast Routing Monitor)

MVR (Multicast VLAN Registration) on the 3550

IGMP Profile filtering on 3550/3550

DVMRP

QOS

Qos Overview

Diffserv & Intserv Models

Classification & Marking
- Access-Lists
- IP Precedence
- DSCP
- NBAR
- Packet Length
- FR-DE
- Interface
- NOT statement

Congestion Management
- Custom Queue (CQ)
- Priority Queue (PQ)
- Weighted Fair Queue (WFQ)
- MQC Bandwidth (CBWFQ)
- MQC Priority (LLQ)

Congestion Avoidance
- Legacy WRED
- MQC WRED
- IP Precedence
- DSCP

Shaping
- Legacy GTS
- Legacy FRTS
- MQC Shape
- MQC FRTS
- Adaptive

Policing
- Legacy CAR
- MQC Police
- COPP (Control Plane Policing)

Unconditional Packet Discard

RSVP

Nested MQC Policies

Switching Voice VLANs

Cisco AutoQoS

3550 QoS
- Classification
  - Per-Port Per-VLAN
  - Mutation Maps
- Congestion Management
  - WRR
  - Expedite Queue
- Policing and Shaping

3560 QoS
- Classification
  - Per-Vlan Classification
- Congestion Management
  - Shaped Round Robin (SRR)
  - Weighted Tail Drop (WTD)
- Priority Queue
- Policing and Shaping
  - Aggregate policer

Compression
- TCP Header
- Predictor
- RTP Header-compression
- Frame-Relay RTP compression

Link Efficiency mechanisms
- FRF.12

SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

SNMP
- Polling
- Trapping
- Communities
- Controlling Access

RMON
- Delta
- Absolute

Logging
- Syslog
- Timestamps
- 3560 Flash Logging
- Config Change Notification and Logging (Archive)

Remote-access via Telnet
- Establishing Terminal Session Limits
- Displaying Line Connection Information
- Chunk-size
- Assign IP address to service provided on a TCP port
- Busy-message
- Vacant-message
- Telnet message on successful connection
- Refuse-message
- IP telnet quiet
- Saving Local Settings Between Sessions
- Defining Escape character and other key sequences
- Setting terminal screen length and width
- Enable session locking
- Login Enhancements
  - block-for
  - quite-mode
  - delay
- Hiding Telnet Addresses

Master

Server

Peer

Authentication

Timezones

Banners & Menus
- Configuring Banners using tokens

HTTP Server

TFTP Server

Crash Dump

Warm Reboot

IOS Parser

EEM (Embedded Resource Manager)

System Resources
- Memory
- CPU

Various other
- Autoinstall
- Aliases
- Service Nagle
- Interface Commands
  - Hold-Queue
  - Load-interval

IP SERVICES

Scheduler allocate

TCP
- Performance Parameters
  - TCP Selective Acknowledgment
  - TCP Time-stamp
  - TCP Window Scaling
  - TCP ECN
- TCP Synwait-time
- Window Scaling
- Explicit Congestion Notification
- Keepalive Packet Service

MTU
- IP MTU
- TCP MSS
- PMTU Discovery

NAT
- Inside Source
- Outside Source
- Overload
- Static Nat
  - Extendable
  - Port Redirection
- NAT Timeouts
- TCP Load Balancing
- On a Stick
- Stateful Nat

Broadcast Services
- IP Helper
- Changing Broadcast address

DHCP
- Server
  - Exclusions
  - Domain
  - Gateway
  - Multiple Gateways
  - Lease Time
- Client
- IPCP Client
- IP Helper, DHCP Relay and Option 82
  - Disabling on router
  - Disabling on switch
- IP Source Guard
- Multiple Default Gateway

DNS
- Static Entries
- Record Types: MX, A PTR etc
- Proxy

IP Accounting
- Output Packets
- Access-List Violations
- Precedence

First Hop Redundancy
- HSRP
- VRRP
- GLBP
- Track

IP SLA/RTR

NetFlow

RITE (Router IP Traffic-Export)

EEM (Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager)

SCP (Switch-module Configuration Protocol)

TCP/UDP Small Services

Local Area Mobility

Web Caching Content Protocol (WCCP)
- Inbound/Outbound
- Excluding Traffic from Redirection
- Only allowing certain Content Engines
- Setting a Password for a router and cache engine
- Enabling on 3550