Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies v1.0 (ENCOR 350-401)

  • Enterprise network design principles: Tier 2, Tier 3, Fabric capacity planning
  • High availability: redundancy, FHRP, SSO
  • WLAN deployment design: centralized, distributed, controller-based/cloud, remote branch
  • Location services in WLAN design
  • On-premises vs. cloud infrastructure deployments
  • Cisco SD-WAN: control & data planes, traditional WAN vs. SD-WAN
  • Cisco SD-Access: control & data planes, campus interoperability
  • Wired and wireless QoS concepts, components, policies
  • Hardware vs. software switching: Process vs. CEF, MAC table, TCAM, FIB vs. RIB

  • Device virtualization technologies: Hypervisor Type 1 & 2, VMs, virtual switching
  • Data path virtualization: VRF, GRE & IPsec tunneling
  • Network virtualization: LISP, VXLAN

  • Layer 2: 802.1q trunking, EtherChannels, Spanning Tree (RSTP, MST)
  • Layer 3: EIGRP, OSPF, eBGP configuration & verification
  • Wireless: RF, RSSI, SNR, AP modes, roaming, troubleshooting WLAN
  • IP Services: NTP, NAT/PAT, HSRP/VRRP, multicast (PIM, IGMP v2/v3)

  • Network diagnostics: debugs, traceroute, ping, SNMP, syslog
  • Device monitoring: syslog, NetFlow, Flexible NetFlow
  • SPAN/RSPAN/ERSPAN configuration
  • IPSLA configuration & verification
  • Cisco DNA Center workflows, NETCONF, RESTCONF

  • Device access control: lines, passwords, AAA
  • Infrastructure security: ACLs, CoPP
  • REST API security
  • Wireless security: EAP, WebAuth, PSK
  • Network security design: Threat defense, Endpoint security, NGFW, TrustSec, MACsec, 802.1X, MAB, WebAuth

  • Python scripting basics
  • JSON file construction
  • YANG data modeling principles
  • APIs for Cisco DNA Center & vManage
  • REST API responses interpretation
  • EEM applet creation for automation
  • Orchestration tools comparison: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack

  • Network Infrastructure: Switched campus, VLANs, EtherChannel, STP, Routing concepts, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Multicast
  • Software Defined Infrastructure: Cisco SD-Access, SD-WAN
  • Transport Technologies: MPLS, L3VPN, DMVPN, FlexVPN
  • Infrastructure Security & Services: Device & network security, AAA, QoS, FHRPs, DHCP, NAT, IP SLA, NetFlow
  • Infrastructure Automation & Programmability: JSON, XML, EEM applets, Guest Shell, Python scripting, APIs (vManage, DNA Center, IOS XE), model-driven telemetry