Course Outline

BSCI Titles 1-8

Title 1: Advanced Routing and IP Addressing Issues

Review basic routing principles. Compare classful and classless routing protocols. Compare link-state routing and distance vector protocols. Use VLSM to optimize IP addressing space, and route summarization to optimize routing capability.

Title 2: EIGRP

Describe EIGRP features and operation. Learn how EIGRP supports VLSM, how it operates in an NBMA environment, and how it summarizes routes. Learn to configure and verify EIGRP.

Title 3: OSPF in a Single Area

Learn how to use, configure, and verify OSPF. Examine the OSPF protocol, how it is used in a large network, and how OSPF discovers, chooses, and maintains routing information. Examine how OSPF operates in a single-area NBMA environment.

Title 4: OSPF in Multiple Areas

Explain how OSPF supports the use of VLSM and route summarization in multiple areas, and how it operates in a multiple-area NBMA environment. Configure and verify a multiarea OSPF network.

Title 5: IS-IS Routing Protocol

Examine IS-IS addressing, how IS-IS configures networks and interfaces, the hierarchical structure of IS-IS areas, and the basic principles of area routing. Explain how IS-IS works in an NBMA topology. Identify IS-IS configuration and verification methods.

Title 6: Route Redistribution and Policy Routing

Learn ways to control routing update traffic. Understand policy-based routing using route maps. Learn to configure route redistribution and verify redistribution operations.

Title 7: Introduction to BGP

Identify the basic concepts about BGP. Describe what BGP does, how BGP works, and how to use BGP's basic configuration commands. Examine alternatives to using BGP.

Title 8: Scaling BGP

Discover scalability problems associated with iBGP. Understand BGP route reflectors, policy control and prefix lists, and when to use redistribution between BGP and IGPs. Learn to configure and verify a multihomed BGP environment.

BCMSN Titles 1-5

This 6-title Cisco-authorized course teaches students to implement campus networks using multilayer switching technologies over high speed Ethernet. This course addresses the integration of routing and switching technologies to create an efficient campus network. Design, build, and configure a reliable campus network so that if any physical link, switch or router fails an end user won't know, while maintaining the performance to meet today's demanding application requirements, such as voice and video. Learn to design physical redundancy into your network and the necessary Layer 2 and 3 protocols to guarantee constant access to the campus network.

Title 1: Implementing Switching in the Network

Learn how to design small, medium, and large switched campus networks and redundant network solutions. Understand and learn how to implement VLANs and manage them with VTP. Explore how to deploy VLAN trunks using ISL and 802.1Q, and understand service provider aspects of 802.1Q.

You Will Learn:

• To describe the enterprise composite network model and how it is used for designing networks
• The differences between CatOS and IOS, how to back up and restore images for both OSs, and to perform basic troubleshooting procedures for Catalyst switches
• To configure, verify, and troubleshoot VLANs, VLAN trunks, and VTP in a switched network

Title 2: Implementing Spanning Tree Protocol

Understand the 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol and Cisco PVST+. Learn how to configure and tune 801.2D parameters. Understand 802.1w Rapid STP. Learn to optimize STP with PortFast, UplinkFast, and BackboneFast. Implement Multiple Spanning Tree. Explore how to configure EtherChannel and STP features such as BPDU guard and root guard.

You will learn:

• To explain the purpose and operation of STP on a switched network
• To configure STP on a switched network
• To configure STP enhancements on a switched network
• How to tune and troubleshoot spanning tree on a multilayer switched network to enhance network performance, prevent network loops, and minimize downtime

Title 3: Implementing Multilayer Switching in the Network

Understand and configure Cisco Express Forwarding. Explore layer 3 switching table architectures. Learn how to configure inter-VLAN routing. Understand redundant Catalyst switch hardware components. Explore HSRP configuration. Understand GLBP and VRRP. Learn how to configure server load balancing.

You will learn:

• To describe and configure multilayer switching, and explain routing between VLANs
• How to explain the features and operation of CEF-based MLS, and describe how to configure, verify, and troubleshoot CEF
• To configure and verify routing between VLANs
• To implement redundancy in Catalyst switches
• To describe the problems associated with implementing router redundancy in a multilayer switched network

Title 4: Implementing IP Multicast and QoS in Multilayer Switched Networks

Learn how to configure IP multicast. Understand the basics of IGMP, PIM, CGMP, and Auto-RP. Understand network design issues for VOIP. Explore QoS models and how to configure layer 2 and layer 3 QoS classification and marking. Understand how to configure CBWFQ, LLQ, and WRED.

You will learn:

• How to describe the operation of IP multicast in a multilayer switched network
• How to enable, monitor, and verify IP multicast in a multilayer switched network
• How the Cisco IP Telephony solution provides universal transport for data, voice, and video applications
• To design and implement networks that conform to either the IntServ model or DiffServ model using the QoS tools and services in Cisco IOS software
• To configure QoS for Catalyst switches based on the DiffServ architecture

Title 5: Optimizing and Securing Multilayer Switched Networks

Understand and configure SPAN and RSPAN. Understand the Catalyst 6500 Series Network Analysis Module. Learn how to configure AAA. Explore how to configure VLAN access lists and private VLANs. Understand the different Metro Ethernet technologies.

You will learn:

• To describe the techniques and tools used to optimize multilayer switched networks
• How to secure a multilayer switched network environment using AAA, IEEE 802.1x, and VLAN ACLs
• How to configure Metro Ethernet connectivity services and layer 1 transport options
• To describe Metro Ethernet tunneling