
Explore the theory of autonomous systems in BGP, including public and private AS ranges, 16-bit and 32-bit numbers, and dot and dart notation for configuring AS numbers.
Explore two BGP flavors: iBGP and eBGP. Learn how same AS vs different AS configurations affect next-hop behavior, time-to-live value 255, administrative distance, and advertising rules in different connectivity scenarios.
Explore hands-on dynamic routing with a BGP lab: configure iBGP and eBGP neighbors using loopback and physical interfaces, advertise loopback networks, redistribute connected, and analyze next-hop behavior and reachability.
Learn how network address translation on a Cisco router translates private to public IPs, covering static NAT, dynamic NAT, and port address translation, plus inside/outside terminology.
Apply static nat on a Cisco edge router by mapping inside local to inside global and translating outside local to outside global, then verify with show ip nat translation.
Learn PAT on Cisco routers by configuring overload with a single IP, applying ACLs to define inside networks, and using port numbers to distinguish translated sessions.
Configure snmp v2 on Cisco devices with an snmp agent and manager, using a test read/write community, define location and contact, enable traps, and validate with snmp be and wireshark.
Configure snmp version 3 across core switch, r1, and edge router with three security levels—no authentication no privacy, authentication no privacy, and authentication plus privacy—using group and user profiles.
Configure Cisco devices to forward syslog messages to a Windows server, using logging host, buffer, trap levels, and source interfaces across the router, core switch, and edge router.
Learn how network time protocol synchronizes device clocks with a central source, ensuring accurate timestamps for logs, SNMP, and syslog, using NTP modes, stratum levels, and versions 3 and 4.
Explore Cisco NetFlow theory, how unidirectional flows capture source and destination IPs, ports, and protocol to monitor bandwidth, identify top talkers, and export UDP-based flow data to a central app.
Understand control plane traffic as the device-to-device exchange, alongside data and management planes, and learn to protect it with policing and protection using ACLs, class maps, and policy maps.
Protect the control plane from udp and icmp flooding by implementing control plane policing with acl, class maps, and policy maps on the edge router, and enable logs for monitoring.
Configure Cisco routers to use enable secret, enable service password encryption, and strong algorithm types (md5, sha-256); secure vty with ssh and ACL-restricted login.
Trace the evolution from Snort, an open-source intrusion detection system, to Sourcefire, later Cisco Firepower, and finally the threat defense device with FTD, FMC, and NGFW capabilities.
Learn to implement IP SLA on Cisco routers to monitor latency, packet loss, and jitter across dual ISP links and enable automatic failover for high availability.
Explore VRF lite, creating multiple virtual routing tables beyond the default global table. Compare partitions to VLANs and security contexts, and note the MPLS distinction for VRF versus VRF lite.
Demonstrates a vrf lite lab that partitions a router into green and blue vrfs, with per vrf interfaces, routing tables, and static and rip or ospf configurations.
Explain how vxlan extends vlans into an overlay over an underlay ip network using vtep encapsulation and udp, and how lisp reduces routing tables with endpoint identifiers and routing locators.
Explore qos terminologies such as bandwidth, congestion, delay, latency, jitter, and packet loss, and learn how Weiss, video, and data traffic are prioritized (tcp vs udp).
Classify traffic for quality of service using acl-based and nbar methods on routers, identifying telnet, http, ssh, and https to prioritize traffic.
Learn the theory and benefits of multicast, compare it with unicast and broadcast, and see how PIM, IGMP snooping, and class d ranges enable scalable one-to-many delivery.
Discover how IGMP, the internet group management protocol, manages multicast membership with versions 1–3, using reports, queries, and leaves, while enabling switches to snoop and routers to route efficiently.
Understand how ICMP snooping prevents multicast flooding by building a multicast table that forwards multicast packets only to joined hosts, while routers manage multicast signaling.
Explain how multicast routing uses the PIM protocol, independent multicast, to carry traffic, with dense mode flooding then prune and sparse mode delivering to interested receivers.
Learn how network automation automates configuration, provisioning, management, testing, and deployment of physical and virtual devices using Python to boost efficiency, reduce errors, and cut costs.
Explore converting device configurations to JSON, using JSON and JSON pretty commands, and viewing JSON formatted output on Nexus and CSR devices, including Python and Postman API approaches.
Explore Cisco DNA Center as a centralized, single pane of glass platform that automates, configures, and monitors network devices from one place with templates, policies, and assurance.
Explore how to configure an embedded event manager (eem) lab to auto recover interfaces by triggering on syslog messages, creating eem applets, and issuing no shut or other actions.
Explore configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ship, Ansible, and Salt Stick to deploy, configure, and automate servers, storage, and network devices, comparing agent-based and agentless approaches.
Explore how Vmanage provides a centralized, virtual dashboard to deploy, monitor, and push policies across VEdge devices and their data plane, while Vsmart handles control-plane routing and Vbond manages onboarding.
Discover software defined networking, including software defined access and software defined wide area network, for centralized, software-driven control of LAN, data center, and WAN with zero-touch provisioning.
The ENCOR - Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies v1.0 course gives you the knowledge and skills needed to configure, troubleshoot, and manage enterprise wired and wireless networks. You’ll also learn to implement security principles within an enterprise network and how to overlay network design by using solutions such as SD-Access and SD-WAN. CCNP Enterprise training includes advanced routing, switching , troubleshooting , security, SDN etc. Educational training videos are supported with step-by-step configuration and troubleshooting examples so you can easily understand topics , get hands on experience and you can be a network professional. You will get important information about advanced routing, switching , tshoot , security , SDN etc. If you want to prepare for the CCNP Enterprise certification exams, this course will be a great step for you. The core exam is also the qualifying exam for CCIE Enterprise certification. This course gives you the knowledge and skills needed to configure, troubleshoot, and manage enterprise wired and wireless networks. You’ll also learn to implement security principles within an enterprise network and how to overlay network design by using solutions such as SD-Access and SD-WAN.
After taking this course, you should be able to:
Illustrate the hierarchical network design model and architecture using the access, distribution, and core layers
Compare and contrast the various hardware and software switching mechanisms and operation, while defining the Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) and Content Addressable Memory (CAM), along with process switching, fast switching, and Cisco Express Forwarding concepts
Troubleshoot Layer 2 connectivity using VLANs and trunking
Implementation of redundant switched networks using Spanning Tree Protocol
Troubleshooting link aggregation using Etherchannel
Describe the features, metrics, and path selection concepts of Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
Implementation and optimization of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)v2 and OSPFv3, including adjacencies, packet types, and areas, summarization, and route filtering for IPv4 and IPv6
Implementing External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP) interdomain routing, path selection, and single and dual-homed networking
Implementing network redundancy using protocols including Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
Implementing internet connectivity within Enterprise using static and dynamic Network Address Translation (NAT)
Describe the virtualization technology of servers, switches, and the various network devices and components
Implementing overlay technologies such as Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF), Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), VPN, and Location Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP)
Describe the components and concepts of wireless networking including Radio Frequency (RF) and antenna characteristics, and define the specific wireless standards
Describe the various wireless deployment models available, include autonomous Access Point (AP) deployments and cloud-based designs within the centralized Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) architecture
Describe wireless roaming and location services
Describe how APs communicate with WLCs to obtain software, configurations, and centralized management
Configure and verify Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP), WebAuth, and Pre-shared Key (PSK) wireless client authentication on a WLC
Troubleshoot wireless client connectivity issues using various available tools
Troubleshooting Enterprise networks using services such as Network Time Protocol (NTP), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS) IP Service Level Agreements (SLAs), NetFlow, and Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager
Explain the use of available network analysis and troubleshooting tools, which include show and debug commands, as well as best practices in troubleshooting
Configure secure administrative access for Cisco IOS devices using the Command-Line Interface (CLI) access, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Access Control List (ACL), and Secure Shell (SSH), and explore device hardening concepts to secure devices from less secure applications, such as Telnet and HTTP
Implement scalable administration using Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) and the local database, while exploring the features and benefits
Describe the enterprise network security architecture, including the purpose and function of VPNs, content security, logging, endpoint security, personal firewalls, and other security features
Explain the purpose, function, features, and workflow of Cisco DNA Center™ Assurance for Intent-Based Networking, for network visibility, proactive monitoring, and application experience
Describe the components and features of the Cisco SD-Access solution, including the nodes, fabric control plane, and data plane, while illustrating the purpose and function of the Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) gateways
Define the components and features of Cisco SD-WAN solutions, including the orchestration plane, management plane, control plane, and data plane
Describe the concepts, purpose, and features of multicast protocols, including Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) v2/v3, Protocol-Independent Multicast (PIM) dense mode/sparse mode, and rendezvous points
Describe the concepts and features of Quality of Service (QoS), and describe the need within the enterprise network
Explain basic Python components and conditionals with script writing and analysis
Describe network programmability protocols such as Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) and RESTCONF
Describe APIs in Cisco DNA Center and vManage