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Route Exam Topics

• 1.0 Network Principles
  • 1.1 Identify Cisco Express Forwarding concepts
    • 1.1a FIB
      • FIB
      • FIB is abbreviation for?
        • Answer
          Forwarding Information Base
    • 1.1b Adjacency tables
      • Answer b
  • 1.2 Explain general network challenges
    • 1.2a Unicast
      • Answer
    • 1.2b Out-of-order packets
      • Answer c
    • 1.2c Asymmetric routing
      • Answer d
  • 1.3 Describe IP operations
    • 1.3a ICMP Unreachable and Redirects
    • 1.3b IPv4 and IPv6 fragmentation
    • 1.3c TTL
  • 1.4 Explain TCP operations
    • 1.4a IPv4 and IPv6 (P)MTU
    • 1.4b MSS
    • 1.4c Latency
    • 1.4d Windowing
    • 1.4e Bandwidth-delay product
    • 1.4f Global synchronization
  • 1.5 Describe UDP operations
    • 1.5a Starvation
    • 1.5b Latency
  • 1.6 Recognize proposed changes to the network
    • 1.6a Changes to routing protocol parameters
  • 1.6b Migrate parts of the network to IPv6
  • 1.6c Routing protocol migration
• 2.0 Layer 2 Technologies
  • 2.1 Configure and verify PPP
    • 2.1a Authentication (PAP, CHAP)
    • 2.1b PPPoE (client side only)
  • 2.2 Explain Frame Relay
    • 2.2a Operations
    • 2.2b Point-to-point
    • 2.2c Multipoint
• 3.0 Layer 3 Technologies
  • 3.1 Identify, configure, and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting
    • 3.1a Address types (Unicast, broadcast, multicast, and VSLM)
    • 3.1b ARP
    • 3.1c DHCP relay and server
    • 3.1d DHCP protocol operations
  • 3.2 Identify IPv6 addressing and subnetting
    • 3.2a Unicast
    • 3.2b EUI-64
    • 3.2c ND, RS/RA
    • 3.2d Autoconfig (SLAAC)
    • 3.2e DHCP relay and server
    • 3.2f DHCP protocol operations
  • 3.3 Configure and verify static routing
  • 3.4 Configure and verfiy default routing
  • 3.5 Evaluate routing protocol types
    • 3.5a Distance vector
    • 3.5b Link state
    • 3.5c Patch vector
  • 3.6 Describe administrative distance
  • 3.7 Troubleshoot passive interfaces
  • 3.8 Configure and verify VRF lite
  • 3.9 Configure and verify filtering with any protocol
  • 3.10 Configure and verify redistribution between any routing protocol or routing sources
  • 3.11 Configure and verify manual and autosummarization with any routing protocol
  • 3.12 Configure and verify policy-based routing
  • 3.13 Identify suboptimal routing
  • 3.14 Explain ROUTE maps
  • 3.15 Configure and verify loop prevention mechanisms
  • 3.15.a Route tagging and filtering
  • 3.15.b Split-horizon
  • 3.15.c Route poisoning
  • 3.16 Configure and verify RIPv2
  • 3.17 Describe RIPng
  • 3.18 Describe EIGRP packet types
  • 3.19 Configure and verify EIGRP neighbor relationship and authentication
  • 3.20 Configure and verify EIGRP stubs
  • 3.21 Configure and verify EIGRP load balancing
    • 3.21.a Equal cost
    • 3.21.b Unequal cost
  • 3.22 Describe and optimize EIGRP metrics
  • 3.23 Configure and verify EIGRP for IPv6
  • 3.24 Describe OSPF packet types
  • 3.25 Configure and verify OSPF neighbor relationship and authentication
  • 3.26 Configure and verify network types, area types, and router types
    • 3.26.a Point-to-point, multipoint, broadcast, nonbroadcast
    • 3.26.b LSA types, area type: backbone, normal, transit, stub, NSSA, totally stub
    • 3.26.c Internal router, backbone router, ABR, ASBR
    • 3.26.d Virtual link
  • 3.27 Configure and verify OSPF path preference
  • 3.28 Configure and verify OSPF operations
  • 3.29 Configure and verify OSPF for IPv6
  • 3.30 Describe, configure, and verify BGP peer relationships and authentication
    • 3.30.a Peer group
    • 3.30.b Active, passive
    • 3.30.c States and timers
  • 3.31 Configure and verify eBGP (IPv4 and IPv6 address families)
    • 3.31.a eBGP
    • 3.31.b 4-byte AS number
    • 3.31.c Private AS
  • 3.32 Explain BGP attributes and best-path selection
• 4.0 VPN Technologies
  • 4.1 Configure and verify GRE
  • 4.2 Describe DMVPN (single hub)
  • 4.3 Describe Easy Virtual Networking (EVN)
• 5.0 Infrastructure Security
  • 5.1 Describe IOS AAA using local database
  • 5.2 Describe device security using IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
    • 5.2.a AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS
    • 5.2.b Local privilege authorization fallback
  • 5.3 Configure and verify device access control
    • 5.3.a Lines (VTY, AUX, console)
    • 5.3.b Management plane protection
    • 5.3.c Password encryption
  • 5.4 Configure and verify router security features
    • 5.4.a IPv4 access control lists (standard, extended, time-based)
    • 5.4.b IPv6 traffic filter
    • 5.4.c Unicast reverse path forwarding
• 6.0 Infrastructure Services
  • 6.1 Configure and verify device management
    • 6.1.a Console and VTY
    • 6.1.b Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SCP
    • 6.1.c (T)FTP
  • 6.2 Configure and verify SNMP
    • 6.2.a v2
    • 6.2.b v3
  • 6.3 Configure and verify logging
    • 6.3.a Local logging, syslog, debugs, conditional debugs
    • 6.3.b Timestamps
  • 6.4 Configure and verify Network Time Protocol (NTP)
    • 6.4.a NTP master, client, version 3, version 4
    • 6.4.b NTP authentication
  • 6.5 Configure and verify IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP
    • 6.5.a DHCP client, IOS DHCP server, DHCP relay
    • 6.5.b DHCP options (describe)
  • 6.6 Configure and verify IPv4 Network Address Translation (NAT)
    • 6.6.a Static NAT, dynamic NAT, PAT
  • 6.7 Describe IPv6 NAT
    • 6.7.a NAT64
    • 6.7.b NPTv6
  • 6.8 Describe SLA architecture
  • 6.9 Configure and verify IP SLA
    • 6.9.a ICMP
  • 6.10 Configure and verify tracking objects
    • 6.10.a Tracking objects
    • 6.10.b Tracking different entities (for example, interfaces, IPSLA results)
  • 6.11 Configure and verify Cisco NetFlow
    • 6.11.a NetFlow v5, v9
    • 6.11.b Local retrieval
    • 6.11.c Export (configuration only)