Cisco ONT: Optimized Converged Cisco Networks Exam 642-845 Curriculum Outline

Cisco ONT 1.0: Network Requirements and Introduction to VoIP

Overview/Description
To recognize the converged network requirements within the Cisco conceptual network models, the basic principles of VoIP networks and conversion to them, call control mechanisms, and how voice is digitized for data transport

Target Audience


Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

Prerequisites


Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

Expected Duration


125 Minutes

Objectives :

Cisco ONT 1.0: Network Requirements and Introduction to VoIP

  • Recognize the IIN and SONA framework, and the Cisco conceptual network models.
  • Recognize the traffic conditions in a converged network.
  • Recognize the basic principles of VoIP networks, their components, and the roles of each component.
  • Determine how to migrate to a VoIP network in given scenario.
  • Recognize the stages of a call and compare call control mechanisms.
  • Recognize the process by which voice is digitized and packetized for transport on a data network.
  • Identify compression bandwidth requirements for various codecs and data links, and recognize the purpose of a DSP.


    Course Number: 246137_eng

     


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    Cisco ONT 1.0: Supporting VoIP

    Overview/Description
    To recognize how voice is encapsulated, bandwidth requirements and overhead, and how voice is implemented in an enterprise

    Target Audience


    Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

    Prerequisites


    Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

    Expected Duration


    120 Minutes

    Objectives :

    Cisco ONT 1.0: Supporting VoIP

  • Recognize how voice is encapsulated into IP packets, the purpose of RTP, and how header overhead is reduced with cRTP.
  • Recognize the impact of voice samples and packet size on bandwidth, its requirements, and the sources of overhead.
  • Recognize how to calculate total bandwidth for a VoIP call and reduce bandwidth consumption.
  • Recognize how VoIP is implemented in an enterprise and the models used.
  • Recognize voice commands in Cisco IOS configurations and CAC functionality.
  • Determine how to implement voice support in an enterprise network, given a scenario.


    Course Number: 246147_eng

     


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    Cisco ONT 1.0: IP QoS and its Implementation

    Overview/Description
    To recognize converged network issues and how QoS optimizes performance, its models and methods of implementation

    Target Audience


    Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

    Prerequisites


    Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

    Expected Duration


    105 Minutes

    Objectives :

    Cisco ONT 1.0: IP QoS and its Implementation

  • Recognize the quality issues of converged networks.
  • Recognize the function of QoS and how it is implemented on a network.
  • Recognize how the three QoS models operate in a network.
  • Identify bottlenecks and performance losses in the network, and recommend appropriate QoS actions to mitigate specific performance issues in a given scenario.
  • Recognize the methods for configuring and monitoring QoS on a network, and how the CLI and MQC methods are implemented.
  • Recognize how to implement QoS on a network using the Cisco AutoQoS and the Cisco SDM QoS wizard methods.


    Course Number: 246156_eng

     


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    Cisco ONT 1.0: Classification and Marking

    Overview/Description
    To recognize how classification and marking are used to define a QoS service class, and configure and use NBAR for Cisco MQC class-based classification and marking operations

    Target Audience


    Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

    Prerequisites


    Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

    Expected Duration


    120 Minutes

    Objectives :

    Cisco ONT 1.0: Classification and Marking

  • Recognize the purpose of classification and marking, and how they operate in a network.
  • Use classification and marking to manage network traffic in a given scenario.
  • Recognize how to define and implement a QoS service class.
  • Recognize the functionality of NBAR and the applications it supports, PDLMs, and NBAR Protocol Discovery.
  • Recognize how to configure and monitor NBAR Protocol Discovery.
  • Configure NBAR classification with MQC marking in a given scenario.


    Course Number: 246166_eng

     


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    Cisco ONT 1.0: Queuing

    Overview/Description
    To recognize how to implement the basic and advanced queuing mechanisms for relieving network traffic congestion, and how to configure queuing on a Cisco router

    Target Audience


    Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

    Prerequisites


    Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

    Expected Duration


    120 Minutes

    Objectives :

    Cisco ONT 1.0: Queuing

  • Recognize Cisco queuing operations, and the basic algorithms and configurations.
  • Recognize the procedure for configuring WFQ mechanisms.
  • Recognize the advanced queuing mechanisms of CBWFQ and LLQ, and the architecture, benefits, and configuration of CBWFQ.
  • Recognize the architecture, benefits, and configuration of LLQ.
  • Configure CBWFQ and LLQ, and apply them to a serial interface in a given scenario.
  • Use queuing mechanisms to solve network congestion problems in a given scenario.


    Course Number: 246175_eng

     


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    Cisco ONT 1.0: TCP and QoS Traffic Management and Mechanisms

    Overview/Description
    To recognize how TCP and QoS support traffic management and optimization, and how their mechanisms are implemented

    Target Audience


    Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

    Prerequisites


    Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

    Expected Duration


    150 Minutes

    Objectives :

    Cisco ONT 1.0: TCP and QoS Traffic Management and Mechanisms

  • Recognize how TCP, in conjunction with RED, WRED, and CBWRED, manages the traffic flow between two hosts.
  • Recognize how CBWRED is configured and monitored.
  • Recognize Cisco class-based traffic-policing and class-based traffic-shaping operations and basic configuration.
  • Recognize Cisco class-based header compression operations and basic configurations.
  • Recognize the purpose and basic configuration of QoS preclassify for traffic going over IPsec and GRE tunnels.
  • Configure QoS preclassify in a given scenario.
  • Identify the elements of IP QoS SLA, the typical network requirements within each functional block in an end-to-end network, and the best-practice QoS implementations.
  • Recognize QoS implementations and requirements on WAN customer edge and provider edge routers, and how the control plane and CoPP are deployed.


    Course Number: 246184_eng

     


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    Cisco ONT 1.0: AutoQoS

    Overview/Description
    To recognize the functionality of Cisco AutoQos, and how to configure and optimize it for an enterprise

    Target Audience


    Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

    Prerequisites


    Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

    Expected Duration


    120 Minutes

    Objectives :

    Cisco ONT 1.0: AutoQoS

  • Recognize how Cisco AutoQoS is used to implement QoS policy and its prerequisites.
  • Recognize how to configure and verify Cisco AutoQoS on a network using the CLI.
  • Configure a router and a switch for AutoQoS in a given scenario.
  • Identify the QoS technologies that are automatically implemented on the network using Cisco AutoQoS and the known issues with Cisco AutoQoS.
  • Determine the QoS mechanisms that Cisco AutoQoS automatically provisions using DiffServ technology in a given scenario.
  • Recognize how to use show commands to isolate areas in the Cisco AutoQoS and modify the QoS configuration.


    Course Number: 246231_eng

     


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    Cisco ONT 1.0: Wireless Implementations

    Overview/Description
    To recognize how to configure wireless security and basic wireless management

    Target Audience


    Individuals preparing for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP and the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications; senior-level network support professionals, network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers

    Prerequisites


    Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) 2.1; Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) 2.3; the ability to create interswitch connections and the initial configuration of a router, an understanding of routing, routing protocols, WAN technologies, security risks, IP addressing, ALCs, client utilities, and IOS familiarity

    Expected Duration


    180 Minutes

    Objectives :

    Cisco ONT 1.0: Wireless Implementations

  • Recognize how WLAN QoS operates and is implemented.
  • Recognize why WLAN security is needed, its issues, methods, and evolution.
  • Recognize how enhanced 802.11 security improves on basic 802.11 security.
  • Identify the basic concepts of 802.1x authentication, LEAP, or EAP Cisco Wireless, EAP-FAST, EAP-TLS, and PEAP.
  • Propose WLAN security as an enterprise network solution, given a scenario.
  • Recognize the WPA authentication process.
  • Recognize how to configure an advanced feature set WLAN for encryption and authentication on lightweight access points.
  • Recognize the Cisco Unified Wireless Network solutions, how Cisco implements WLANs, and the features and benefits of CiscoWorks WLSE.
  • Recognize the features and operations of WCS, and the architecture and functionality of the Cisco 2700 Series Wireless Location Appliance.
  • Recognize basic Cisco WCS configuration and database management, and the Cisco WCS rogue access point methodology.


    Course Number: 246334_eng

     


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