Core Networking (ENCOR)

CCNP Enterprise: Core Networking (ENCOR) provides students with a broad scope of architectural understanding and implementation skills required by enterprise networks. The course covers switching, routing, wireless, and related security topics along with the technologies that support software-defined, programmable networks.

Description

This course directly prepares for the Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies exam (350-401 ENCOR) to earn an Enterprise Core Specialist certification.

Completion of both courses in the CCNP Enterprise course series prepares for the CCNP Enterprise certification exam.

Objectives

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Configure L2 redundancy in an enterprise network
  • Configure EIGRP to optimize performance in an enterprise network
  • Implement advanced OSPF features to improve performance in both IPv4 and IPv6 enterprise networks
  • Configure eBGP in a single-homed remote access network
  • Explain the concepts of multicast operation and QoS in an enterprise network
  • Configure IP services and VPNs to support secure, managed site-to-site and remote-access networks
  • Explain how wireless topologies and antennas allow APs to pair with WLCs in an enterprise network
  • Implement secure wireless networks to manage and support wireless roaming
  • Implement advanced technologies to support a secure and scalable enterprise network architecture
  • Configure network technologies to provide secure infrastructure access
  • Explain the purposes and characteristics of virtualization and network automation

Outline

The courses contain these components:

  • Packet Forwarding
  • Spanning Tree Protocol
  • Advanced Spanning Tree
  • Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
  • VLAN Trunks and EtherChannel Bundles
  • IP Routing Essentials
  • EIGRP
  • OSPF
  • Advanced OSPF
  • OSPFv3
  • BGP
  • Advanced BGP
  • Multicast
  • QoS
  • IP Services
  • Overlay Tunnels
  • Wireless
  • Wireless Architecture Infrastructure
  • Understanding Wireless Roaming and Location Services
  • Wireless Security Authentication Wireless Clients
  • Wireless Troubleshooting
  • Enterprise Network Architecture
  • Fabric SDN Technologies
  • Network Assurance
  • Secure Access Control
  • Network Device Access Control and Infrastructure Security
  • Virtualization
  • Foundational Network Programmability Concepts
  • Introduction to Automation Tools

Audience

CCNP Enterprise is designed for college and university students or experienced IT professionals who want to advance their careers. Potential career pathways include: network engineer, systems engineer, network support engineer, network administrator and system integrator.

Schedule

The 70+ hour, instructor-led course is the 1st of 2 courses in the Cisco CCNP Enterprise curriculum and includes hands-on lab work along with a wide array of assessment types and tools.

Classes are usually held two times a week on three-hour sessions or one times a week on six-hour sessions.

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Curriculum are as follows:

  • Describing network fundamentals
  • Establishing Internet and WAN connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6)
  • Managing network device security
  • Operating a medium-sized LAN with multiple switches, supporting VLANs, trunking, and spanning tree
  • Troubleshooting IP connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6)
  • Configuring and troubleshooting EIGRP and OSPF (IPv4 and IPv6)
  • Configuring devices for SNMP, Syslog, and NetFlow access
  • Managing Cisco device configurations, Cisco IOS images, and licenses

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Course Price Invoice
CCNP Enterprise: ENCOR 895.00 €

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