CCIE Data Center (v3.0) - Technical Classes

About this course

Exam Description: The Cisco CCIE Data Center (v3.0) PracticalExam is an eight-hour, hands-on exam that requires a candidate to plan, design, deploy, operate, and optimize complex Data Center networks. Candidates are expected to program and automate the network within their exam, as per exam topics below.The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. Your knowledge, skills and abilities on these topics will be tested throughout the entire network lifecycle, unless explicitly specified otherwise within this document.The exam is closed book and no outside reference materials are allowed.1. Data Center L2/L3 Connectivity (20%)1.1 Layer 2 technologies1.1.a Link Aggregation 1.1.a i vPC 1.1.a ii PortChannel1.1.b Tagging/Trunking1.1.c Static Path binding1.1.d Spanning Tree Protocol1.1.d i PVST1.1.d ii MST1.2 Routing Protocols and features1.2.a OSPF (v2 and v3)1.2.a i Authentication1.2.a ii Adjacencies1.2.a iii Network types and Area Types1.2.a iv LSA Types1.2.a v Route Aggregation/Summarization1.2.a vi Route Redistribution1.2.b ISIS1.2.b i Adjacencies1.2.b.i.1. Single area, single topology1.2.b ii Network types, Levels and Router types1.2.b.ii.1. NSAP addressing1.2.b.ii.2. Point-to-point, broadcast1.2.c BGP1.2.c i Path Selection1.2.c ii External and Internal Peering1.2.c iii Route reflectors and Route Server1.2.c iv Peer Templates 1.2.c v Multi-Hop EBGP1.2.c vi Route Aggregation/Summarization1.2.c vii Route Redistribution1.2.d BFD1.2.e FHRP1.3 Multicast protocols1.3.a PIM1.3.a i Sparse Mode1.3.a ii BiDir1.3.a iii Static RP, BSR, AutoRP, PhantomRP1.3.a iv IPv4 PIM Anycast1.3.a v IPv4 Anycast RP using MSDP

Course objectives

• prepare for the CCIE Data Center Practical Exam
• develop hands-on skills in managing Data Center networks
• learn to program and automate network configurations