CCIE Routing & Switching Written Exam Topics v4.0 (Blueprint)
Exam Sections and Sub-task Objectives
· Implement Layer 2 Technologies
o Implement Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
§ 802.1d
§ 802.1w
§ 801.1s
§ Loop guard
§ Root guard
§ Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) guard
§ Storm control
§ Unicast flooding
§ Port roles, failure propagation, and loop guard operation
o Implement VLAN and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
o Implement trunk and trunk protocols, EtherChannel, and load-balance
o Implement Ethernet technologies
§ Speed and duplex
§ Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet
§ PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE)
o Implement Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN), (RSPAN), and flow control
o Implement Frame Relay
§ Local Management Interface (LMI)
§ Traffic shaping
§ Full mesh
§ Hub and spoke
§ Discard eligible (DE)
o Implement High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) and PPP
· Implement IPv4
o Implement IP version 4 (IPv4) addressing, subnetting, and VLSM
o Implement IPv4 tunneling and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
o Implement IPv4 RIP version 2 (RIPv2)
o Implement IPv4 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
§ Standard OSPF areas
§ Stub area
§ Totally stubby area
§ Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
§ Totally NSSA
§ Link-state advertisement (LSA) types
§ Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access network
§ OSPF graceful restart
o Implement IPv4 Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP)
§ Best path
§ Loop-free paths
§ EIGRP operations when alternate loop-free paths are available, and not available
§ EIGRP queries
§ Manual summarization and autosummarization
§ EIGRP stubs
o Implement IPv4 Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
§ Next hop
§ Peering
§ Internal Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP) and External Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)
§ Implement policy routing
§ Implement Performance Routing (PfR) and Cisco Optimized Edge Routing (OER)
§ Implement filtering, route redistribution, summarization, synchronization, attributes, and other advanced features
· Implement IPv6
o Implement IP version 6 (IPv6) addressing and different addressing types
o Implement IPv6 neighbor discovery
o Implement basic IPv6 functionality protocols
o Implement tunneling techniques
o Implement OSPF version 3 (OSPFv3)
o Implement EIGRP version 6 (EIGRPv6)
o Implement filtering and route redistribution
· Implement MPLS Layer 3 VPNs
o Implement Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
o Implement Layer 3 virtual private networks (VPNs) on provider edge (PE), provider (P), and customer edge (CE) routers
o Implement virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and Multi-VRF Customer Edge (VRF-Lite)
· Implement IP Multicast
o Implement Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) sparse mode
o Implement Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
o Implement interdomain multicast routing
o Implement PIM Auto-Rendezvous Point (Auto-RP), unicast rendezvous point (RP), and bootstrap router (BSR)
o Implement multicast tools, features, and source-specific multicast
o Implement IPv6 multicast, PIM, and related multicast protocols, such as Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD)
· Implement Network Security
o Implement access lists
o Implement Zone Based Firewall
o Implement Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
o Implement IP Source Guard
o Implement authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) (configuring the AAA server is not required, only the client-side (IOS) is configured)
o Implement Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
o Implement Cisco IOS Firewall
o Implement Cisco IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
o Implement Secure Shell (SSH)
o Implement 802.1x
o Implement NAT
o Implement routing protocol authentication
o Implement device access control
o Implement security feature
· Implement Network Services
o Implement Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
o Implement Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
o Implement Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
o Implement Network Time Protocol (NTP)
o Implement DHCP
o Implement Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)
· Implement Quality of Service (QoS)
o Implement Modular QoS CLI (MQC)
§ Network-Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
§ Class-based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ), modified deficit round robin (MDRR), and low latency queuing (LLQ)
§ Classification
§ Policing
§ Shaping
§ Marking
§ Weighted random early detection (WRED) and random early detection (RED)
§ Compression
o Implement Layer 2 QoS: weighted round robin (WRR), shaped round robin (SRR), and policies
o Implement link fragmentation and interleaving (LFI) for Frame Relay
o Implement generic traffic shaping
o Implement Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
o Implement Cisco AutoQoS
· Troubleshoot a Network
o Troubleshoot complex Layer 2 network issues
o Troubleshoot complex Layer 3 network issues
o Troubleshoot a network in response to application problems
o Troubleshoot network services
o Troubleshoot network security
· Optimize the Network
o Implement syslog and local logging
o Implement IP Service Level Agreement SLA
o Implement NetFlow
o Implement SPAN, RSPAN, and router IP traffic export (RITE)
o Implement Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
o Implement Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
o Implement Remote Monitoring (RMON)
o Implement FTP
o Implement TFTP
o Implement TFTP server on router
o Implement Secure Copy Protocol (SCP)
o Implement HTTP and HTTPS
o Implement Telnet
