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CISCO CCNP Service Provider
The Cisco Certified Network Professional Service Provider (CCNP Service Provider) certification is for service provider network engineers, systems engineers, and network specialists
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Service Provider 300-535-SPAUTO Course
Network Programmability Foundation
- Utilize common version control operations with git (add, clone, push, commit, diff, branching, and merging conflict)
- Describe characteristics of API styles (REST and RPC)
- Describe the challenges encountered and patterns used when consuming APIs synchronously and asynchronously
- Interpret Python scripts containing data types, functions, classes, conditions, and looping
- Describe the benefits of Python virtual environments
1.6 Explain the benefits of using network configuration tools such as Ansible and Puppet for automating IOS XE or IOS XR platforms
Automation APIs and Protocols
- Describe the characteristics and use of YANG Data Models (OpenConfig, IETF, and Vendor)
- Describe common HTTP authentication mechanisms (basic, token, and oauth)
- Compare common data types (JSON, XML, YAML, plain text, gRPC, and protobuf)
- Identify the JSON instance based on a YANG model
- Identify the XML instance based on a YANG model
- Interpret a YANG module tree generated by pyang
- Implement configuration and operation management using RESTCONF protocol
- Implement configuration and operation management using NETCONF protocol
- Compare the NETCONF datastores
Network Device Programmability
- Deploy device configuration and validate operational state using ncclient
- Construct a Python script using NETCONF with YDK
- Deploy device configuration and validate operational state using NetMiko
- Deploy device configuration and validate operational state using Ansible playbooks
- Compare gNMI with NETCONF
- Construct a Python script using RESTCONF with JSON
- Construct Xpath notation for a given node or instance of a node
- Diagnose model-driven dial-in/-out telemetry streams with gRPC for a Cisco IOS XR
Automation and Orchestration Platforms
- Describe ETSI NFV
- Describe NSO architecture
- Identify the benefits of NSO
- Construct a Python script to configure a device using NSO RESTCONF API
- Describe the management and automation of Cisco ESC components
- Implement XR traffic controller (including topology information transfer to XTC) 4.7 Identify the uses of Cisco WAE
- Construct a service template using NSO
- Deploy a service package using NSO
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Service Provider 300-515-SPVI Course
VPN Architecture
- Compare VPN architecture
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN
- Inter-AS and Intra-AS
- Troubleshoot underlay
- Core IGP
- LSP
- Describe Layer 2 service architecture
- IOS XR Ethernet Flowpoints
- IOS XE Ethernet Virtual Circuits
- Describe the L3VPN control plane operation
- MP-BGP
- Route distinguisher
- VPNv4 address
- Route target
- VPN label
- VRF routing instance
- PE-CE route advertisement
- Describe the L3VPN data plane operation
- Underlay label
- VRF forwarding instance
Layer 2 VPNs
- Troubleshoot L2VPN Services
- E-LAN
- E-Line
- E-Tree
- Describe EVPN concepts
- Data plane and control plane operation
- Multihoming mechanisms
- Suppression mechanisms
- Traffic forwarding operation
- Implement Ethernet Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (E-OAM)
- Implementing EVPN
- EVPN IRB
- EVPN VPWS
- EVPN native
Layer 3 VPNs
- Describe routing requirements
- MP-BGP
- PE-CE routing protocol
- Troubleshoot Intra-AS L3VPNs
- PE-CE
- PE-PE
- PE-RR
3.3 Implement multicast VPN
3.3.a Intranet MVPN
3.3.b Extranet MVPN
3.3.c MLDP
3.4 Implement extranet/shared services
3.4.a Import and export route targets
3.4.b Route policy
3.5 Describe Inter-AS L3VPNs
3.5.a Option A
3.5.b Option B
3.5.c Option AB
3.5.d Option C
3.6 Describe CSC concepts
IPv6 VPNs
- Describe routing requirements
- MP-BGP
- PE-CE routing protocol
- Troubleshoot IPv6 VPN provider edge
- PE-PE
- PE-CE
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Service Provider 300-510-SPRI Course
Unicast Routing
- Compare OSPF and IS-IS routing protocols
- Troubleshoot OSPF multiarea operations (IPv4 and IPv6)
- Route advertisement
- Summarization
- Troubleshoot IS-IS multilevel operations (IPv4 and IPv6)
- Route advertisement
- Summarization
- Describe the BGP scalability and performance
- BGP confederations
- Route reflectors
- Troubleshoot BGP
- Route advertisement
- Route reflectors
- Confederations
- Multihoming
- TTL security and inter-domain security
- Maximum prefix
- Route dampening
- Dynamic neighbors
- Communities
- Describe IPv6 tunneling mechanisms
- Static IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnels
- Dynamic 6to4 tunnels
- IPv6 provider edge (6PE)
- Implement fast convergence
- Bidirectional forwarding detection
- Nonstop Forwarding
- NSR
- Timers
- BGP pic (edge and core)
- LFA
- BGP additional and backup path
Multicast Routing
- Compare multicast concepts
- Multicast domains, distribution trees, and IGMP operations
- Any-Source Multicast (ASM) versus Source Specific Multicast (SSM)
- Intra-domain versus inter-domain multicast routing
- Describe multicast concepts
- Mapping of multicast IP addresses to MAC addresses 2.2.b Multiprotocol BGP for IPv4 and IPv6
- Principles and operations of PIM-SM
- Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP) operations
- MLDP/P2MP
- Implement PIM-SM operations
- Auto-RP, PIMv2 BSR, anycast RP
- BIDIR-PIM operations
- SSM operations
- MSDP operations
- Troubleshoot multicast routing
- Single domain
- Multidomain
Routing Policy and Manipulation
- Compare routing policy language and route maps
- Describe conditional matching
- Operations
- Semantics of policy applications and statements
- Regular expressions
- Policy sets
- Tags
- ACLs
- Prefix lists and prefix sets
- Route types
- BGP attributes and communities
- Hierarchical and parameterized structures
- Troubleshoot route manipulation for IGPs
- IS-IS
- OSPF
- Troubleshoot route manipulation for BGP
- Route filtering
3.4.b Traffic steering
MPLS and Segment Routing
- Troubleshoot MPLS
- LDP
- LSP
- Unified BGP
- BGP free core
- RSVP TE tunnels
- Implement segment routing
- Routing protocol extensions (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP)
- SRGB and SRLB
- Topology-Independent Loop-Free Alternate (TI-LFA)
- Migration procedures (SR prefer and mapping server)
- Describe segment routing traffic engineering
- Automated steering and coloring
- Policies (constraints, metrics, and attributes)
- PCE-based path calculation
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Service Provider 300-501-SPCOR Course
Architecture
- Describe service provider architectures
- Core architectures (Metro Ethernet, MPLS, unified MPLS, SR)
- Transport technologies (Optical, xDSL, DOCSIS, TDM, and xPON)
- Mobility (packet core, RAN xhaul transport for 4G and 5G)
- Describe Cisco network software architecture
- IOS
- IOS XE
- IOS XR
- Describe service provider virtualization
- NFV infrastructure
- VNF workloads
- OpenStack
- Describe QoS architecture
- MPLS QOS models (Pipe, Short Pipe, and Uniform)
- MPLS TE QoS (MAM, RDM, CBTS, PBTS, and DS-TE)
- DiffServ and IntServ QoS models
- Trust boundaries between enterprise and SP environments
- IPv6 flow label
- Configure and verify control plan security
- Control plane protection techniques (LPTS and CoPP)
- BGP-TTL security and protocol authentication
- BGP prefix suppression
- LDP security (authentication and label allocation filtering)
- BGP sec
- BGP flowspec
- Describe management plane security
- Traceback
- AAA and TACACS
- RestAPI security
- DdoS
- Implement data plane security
- uRPF
- ACLs
- RTBH
Networking
- Implement IS-IS (IPv4 and IPv6)
- Route advertisement
- Area addressing
- Multitopology
- Metrics
- Implement OSPF (v2 and v3)
- Neighbor adjacency
- Route advertisement
- Multiarea (addressing and types)
- Metrics
- Describe BGP path selection algorithm
- Implement BGP (v4 and v6 for IBGP and EBGP)
- Neighbors
- Prefix advertisement
- Address family
- Path selection
- Attributes
- Redistribution
- Implement routing policy language and route maps (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS)
- Troubleshoot routing protocols
- Neighbor adjacency (IS-IS, OSPF, BGP)
- Route advertisement (IS-IS, OSPF, BGP)
- Describe IPv6 transition (NAT44, NAT64, 6RD, MAP, and DS Lite)
- Implement high availability
- NSF / graceful restart
- NSR
- BFD
- Link aggregation
MPLS and Segment Routing
- Implement MPLS
- LDP sync
- LDP session protection
- LDP neighbors
- Unified MPLS
- MPLS OAM
- Describe traffic engineering
- ISIS and OSPF extensions
- RSVP functionality
- FRR
- Describe segment routing
- Segment types
- IGP control plane
- Segment routing traffic engineering
- TI-LFa
- PCE-PCC architectures
Services
- Describe VPN services
- EVPN
- Inter-AS VPN
- CSC
- mVPN
- Configure L2VPN and Carrier Ethernet
- Ethernet services (E-Line, E-Tree, E-Access, E-LAN)
- IEEE 802.1ad, IEEE 802.1ah, and ITU G.8032
- Ethernet OAM
- VLAN tag manipulation
- Configure L3VPN
- Intra-AS VPN
- Shared services (extranet and Internet)
- Implement multicast services
- PIM (PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, and PIM-BIDIR)
- IGMP v1/v2/v3 and MLD
- Implement QoS services
- Classification and marking
- Congestion avoidance, traffic policing, and shaping
Automation and Assurance
- Describe the programmable APIs used to include Cisco devices in network automation
- Interpret an external script to configure a Cisco device using a REST API
- Describe the role of Network Services Orchestration (NSO)
- Describe the high-level principles and benefits of a data modeling language, such as
- YANG
- Compare agent vs. agentless configuration management tools, such as Chef, Puppet,
- Ansible, and SaltStack
- Describe data analytics and model-driven telemetry in service provider 5.7 Configure dial-in/out telemetry streams using gRPC
- Configure and verify NetFlow/IPFIX
- Configure and verify NETCONF and RESTCONF
- Configure and verify SNMP (v2c/v3)
Signellent's expert instructor led course is designed for working and upcoming professionals. We are proud in stating that we provide a high success rate to our students by way of highlighting the goals for them, starting day one. Our major course highlights are as below.
- The course is designed according to “CISCO guidelines".
- On a daily basis, the instructors pay personal attention in Monitoring and evaluating the candidates' progress.
- Lab exercises are conducted, daily, for extensive familiarity with the equipment.
- Revisions conducted regularly.
- Instructors who are experienced in CISCO and, from the industry.
- The modules of CCNP are designed to meet the objectives of CCNP.
- The course is specially designed, with an aim to achieve proficiency in technology and, CCNP certification.
- Dedicated Professional to manage, track and evaluate the candidate's performance from registration to completion.
- The course benefits students who aim to build academic knowledge as it contains, in addition, applied lab exercises.
- Intensive training+ rigorous lab exercises.
- To enable students to prepare better, the Course kit contains reference material and add-ons.
- Apt balance of theoretical and practical application
- To ensure better results, there are "Customised tests" at the end of the course.
- Progress reports of each student is made keeping Stern passing standards.
- For students who wish to practice remotely, there's Lab-on-cloud facility.
- Till the time the students are comfortable with the topic, they can attend the same lecture multiple times.