Course Information

About this course:

This course expands on the topics covered in the Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR) v1.0 course and serves as a deep dive into enterprise network design.

This course also fully prepares you to take the Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks v1.0 (ENSLD 300-420) exam, which is part of the CCNP Enterprise and Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Design certifications.

Course Objective:

Once you have completed this course, you should be able to:

• Design rendezvous point distribution solutions
• Describe high-level considerations when doing IP addressing design
• Create an IPv6 addressing plan
• Plan an IPv6 deployment in an existing enterprise IPv4 network
• Describe the challenges that you might encounter when transitioning to IPv6
• Design a network based on customer requirements
• Design Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing for the enterprise network
• Describe the different types and uses of Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) address families
• Describe BGP load sharing
• Design an IPv6 addressing plan based on customer requirements
• Design Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design a BGP network based on customer requirements
• Decide where the L2/L3 boundary will be in your Campus network and make design decisions
• Describe Layer 2 design considerations for Enterprise Campus networks
• Design a LAN network based on customer requirements
• Describe Layer 3 design considerations in an Enterprise Campus network
• Explain the basic principles of multicast
• Examine Cisco Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) fundamental concepts
• Describe Cisco SD-Access Fabric Design
• Design an SD-Access Campus Fabric based on customer requirements
• Design service provider-managed VPNs
• Design enterprise-managed VPNs
• Design a resilient WAN
• Design a resilient WAN network based on customer requirements
• Examine the Cisco SD-WAN architecture
• Describe Cisco SD-WAN deployment options
• Design Cisco SD-WAN redundancy
• Explain the basic principles of quality of service (QoS)
• Design QoS for the WAN
• Design QoS for enterprise network based on customer requirements
• Describe Network APIs and protocols
• Describe Yet Another Next Generation (YANG), Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), and Representational State Transfer Configuration Protocol (RESTCONF)

Audience:

• Network design engineers
• Network engineers
• System administrators

Prerequisite:

You should be CCNA certified or be familiar with these skills before taking this course:

• Routing and switching fundamentals
• Basic wireless networking concepts and terminology
• Basic IP addressing and subnets
• Basic network fundamentals and building simple LANs