Cisco BSCI: Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks Exam 642-901 Curriculum Outline

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Network Requirements

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

1.75 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Network Requirements

Define the Cisco conceptual network models.

Identify the functional areas of the Enterprise Composite Network Model and traffic types in converged networks.

Indicate the Enterprise Composite Network Model functional areas in a given scenario.

Identify the features of the Intelligent Information Network (IIN) and the role of Cisco SONA in the evolution of enterprise networks toward IIN.

Distinguish between the advanced IP routing protocols.

Choose an appropriate routing protocol in a given scenario.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Configuring EIGRP

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

2 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Configuring EIGRP

Identify EIGRP key technologies and distinguishing features.

Recognize how EIGRP operates.

Recognize the EIGRP metric and how EIGRP and IGRP routes are integrated.

Identify the commands used for basic EIGRP configuration.

Recognize how to configure wildmask and last-resort gateway.

Identify the commands used to verify EIGRP IP route configuration.

Configure, tune, and verify basic EIGRP in a given scenario.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: EIGRP Options, Authentication, and Issues

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

3 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: EIGRP Options, Authentication, and Issues

Identify the commands used to configure route summarization.

Identify the features of EIGRP load balancing across equal paths, and configure load balancing across unequal-cost paths.

Recognize how to configure EIGRP bandwidth use across WAN links.

Recognize why administrators use manual route summarization over the default and provide a summarized route in a given scenario.

Identify the routing protocols that support router authentication, and identify the steps in MD5 authentication.

Recognize how to configure MD5 authentication.

Recognize how to verify and troubleshoot MD5 authentication.

Identify the factors that affect EIGRP scalability in large networks.

Identify the process of how EIGRP uses queries and stub routing for rapid converge.

Identify the features of Stuck in Active connections and graceful shutdowns.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Configuring Simple Elements of OSPF

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

2.25 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Configuring Simple Elements of OSPF

Recognize the characteristics and structure of the OSPF protocol and how it forms neighbor adjacencies.

Recognize how OSPF calculates the best path and how link-state updates are used to verify active links.

Identify the OSPF packet types and the contents of the hello packet in the neighbor adjacency process.

Recognize the process of link-state database synchronization and the process involved in maintaining a database.

Identify the commands used for basic OSPF configuration.

Recognize the need for a unique router ID, and how a unique ID is established and verified.

Identify the commands used to verify OSPF configuration.

Configure basic OSPF, a router ID, and verify the OSPF operation.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Tuning OSPF Configurations

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

3.50 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Tuning OSPF Configurations

Recognize the OSPF network types and the adjacency behavior based on the physical link.

Recognize the DR and BDR selection process and adjacency behavior in a NBMA network.

Identify the OSPF configuration options for a Frame Relay network.

Recognize how an NBMA topology operates in an OSPF Frame Relay environment.

Recognize how a point-to-point and point-to-multipoint topologies operate in an OSPF Frame Relay environment.

Identify the commands for configuring subinterfaces and tracking OSPF adjacencies.

Identify the OSPF router types.

Recognize how virtual links enable connectivity.

Identify the OSPF LSA types.

Recognize how to interpret an OSPF database.

Recognize how to configure OSPF LSDB overload protection and change the default metric cost.

Identify the OSPF router types.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Configuring Advanced Elements of OSPF

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

2.50 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Configuring Advanced Elements of OSPF

Recognize how to configure OSPF interarea and external route summarization.

Recognize how to configure OSPF to advertise a default route.

Recognize how to configure OSPF stub areas and totally stubby areas.

Recognize how to interpret an OSPF routing table.

Recognize how to configure a not-so-stubby area and verify all stub area configuration.

Enable OSPF and configure route summarization and a default route into an OSPF area.

Identify OSPF authentication types.

Recognize how to configure simple password and MD5 authentication.

Recognize how to troubleshoot simple password and MD5 authentication.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: The IS-IS Protocol

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

2.50 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: The IS-IS Protocol

Identify the features and principles of, and issues associated with Integrated IS-IS routing.

Identify the features of the End System-to-Intermediate System (ES-IS) protocol and the OSI routing levels.

Recognize the differences between IS-IS and OSPF.

Identify the features and applications for network services access points (NSAP) and network entity title (NET) addresses.

Identify the IS-IS routing levels, and the features of intra-area and interarea addressing and routing.

Recognize the types of IS-IS protocol data units and how routers use link-state packets.

Recognize the features of IS-IS implementation in a non-broadcast multi-access or broadcast network.

Recognize the features of IS-IS link-state packets, hello packets, and link-state database (LSD) synchronization.

Identify the commands to configure Integrated IS-IS in a Connectionless Network Service environment.

Identify the commands to optimize IS-IS and configure route summarization.

Recognize how to verify IS-IS configuration and CLNS IS-IS structures.

Enable the Integrated IS-IS protocol and optimize the configuration.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Manipulating Routing Updates

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

3.50 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Manipulating Routing Updates

Recognize whats involved in route distribution in a multiple routing-protocol environment.

Recognize how to artificially define the best path to an IP network.

Recognize how to configure route redistribution.

Recognize how to configure routes into RIP and OSPF.

Identify the commands to configure routes into EIGRP and IS-IS.

Recognize how to verify route distribution.

Recognize how to configure a passive interface and route filtering using distribution lists.

Recognize how to configure a distribute list and define a route map.

Identify the commands to configure route maps and implement route maps with redistribution.

Recognize the features and impact of the administrative distance value.

Recognize the purpose of and the commands used to configure DHCP.

Recognize how to configure the DHCP client and IP helper address.

Identify the commands to configure and verify DHCP Relay Services.

Enable a DHCP server and customize the configuration.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Tuning BGP Implementations

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

2 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Tuning BGP Implementations

Identify the features of BGP Neighbor States.

Identify the commands to authenticate and troubleshoot a BGP configuration.

Recognize the features of the AS and next-hop attributes.

Recognize the features of the origin, local preference, MED, weight BGP attributes and BGP best path selection process.

Recognize the BGP session process.

Recognize how to configure the local preference within an AS.

Identify the command to change the MED value in the BGP path selection process.

Recognize how to implement BGP in an enterprise network.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Implementing Multicast

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

2.50 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Implementing Multicast

Recognize the features of an IP multicast group.

Recognize IP multicast addresses.

Identify the features of IGMPv2 and IGMPv3.

Recognize the features of multicast in a Layer 2 switching environment, CGMP operation, and IGMP snooping.

Recognize the features of multicast routing protocols, distribution trees, and IP multicast routing.

Recognize the features of PIM-DM, PIM-DM flood and prune, PIM-SM, and PIM sparse-dense modes.

Identify the commands to configure PIM-SM and PIM Sparse-Dense Mode on an interface.

Identify the commands to verify IGMP groups and IGMP snooping.

Enable multicast routing, enable PIM-SM on a router interface, and configure IGMP group membership.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: Implementing IPv6

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

3 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: Implementing IPv6

Recognize how IPv6 functions to satisfy the requirements of IPv6 addressing.

Identify the features of IPv6 addressing.

Recognize how a MAC address is used to generate a host interface address.

Identify the features of IPv6 Multicast.

Identify the features of IPv6 mobility.

Identify the features of IPv6 routing and IPv6 with OSPF functionality.

Recognize the differences between OSPF for IPv6 and OSPFv2.

Identify the LSA types for IPv6.

Identify the commands to configure and verify OSPFv3 in Cisco IOS software.

Configure OSPFv3 on a router, and enable IPv6 and OSPFv3 on a router interface.

Identify IPv6-over-IPv4 transition methods used to transit IPv4 networks.

Identify IPv6-over-IPv4 tunneling mechanisms and IPv4 addresses in IPv6 format.

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Cisco BSCI 3.0: BGP for Enterprise ISP Connectivity

Target Audience

Candidates for Cisco CCNP, CCDP, CCIP, and Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching and CCIE Communications and Services certifications; network administrators, technicians, and senior network support staff who are responsible for implementing and managing network environments

Prerequisites

CCNA certification; practical experience with deploying and operating networks based on Cisco network devices and Cisco IOS software is strongly recommended

Expected Duration

2.75 Hours

Objectives :

Cisco BSCI 3.0: BGP for Enterprise ISP Connectivity

Recognize how BGP is used in an enterprise network and BGP multihoming options.

Identify the factors that affect BGP routing between autonomous systems and path vector functionality.

Identify BGP features and message types.

Recognize the features of BGP, EBGP, and IBGP neighbor relationships.

Identify the factors that affect IBGP route summarization in transit paths.

Recognize how to configure basic BGP, activate a BGP session, and shut down a BGP neighbor.

Initiate basic BGP, activate a BGP session, and shutdown a BGP neighbor in a given scenario.

Recognize the impact of the neighbor configuration in a BGP network.

Recognize the factors that affect BGP routing from AS to AS.

Recognize the BGP network advertisement process.

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