Certified Router Support Professional

Virtual LAN

• Virtual LAN Basics
• ISL and 802_1Q Trunking
• VLAN Trunking Protocol
• VTP Modes
• VTP Pruning

Spanning Tree Protocol

• Spanning Tree Protocol IEEE 80d and Need
• Spanning Tree Working and Convergence
• EtherChannel PortFast and STP Security
• Rapid STP IEEE 802_1w RSTP
• RSTP Link and Edge Types Port States Roles and Convergence
• STP Configuration and Verification
• Multiple STP Instances
• Port Costs Priority PortFast BPDU Guard EtherChannel and RSTP Configuration
• STP Troubleshooting

Static and Connected Routes

• IP routing and addressing process
• IP sub netting and forwarding
• DNS DHCP ARP and ICMP
• Fragmentation and MTU
• Secondary IP Addressing and Subnet Zero
• ISL and 802_1Q Configuration on Routers
• Configuring Static Routes
• The ping command
• Static default routes with the ip route and ip default network command
• Classful and Classless Routing

VLSM and Route Summarization

• VLSM and their configuration
• Overlapping VLSM Subnets
• Manual Route Summarization
• Autosummarization and Discontiguous Classful Networks
• Discontiguous Classful Networks
• Autosummarization Support and Configuration

IP Access Control Lists

• IP Standard ACL their configuration sequence numbers and wildcard masks
• Extended IP access control lists and configuration
• Named IP Access Lists
• Controlling Telnet and SSH Access with ACLs
• Reflexive Dynamic and Time Based Access Lists
• IP Routing troubleshooting by ping and traceroute commands
• VLSM and ACL issues

Routing Protocol Theory

• Interior and Exterior Routing Protocols
• Dynamic routing protocol and routing protocol functions
• IGP Routing Protocol algorithms metrics and administrative distance
• Distance Vector Routing Protocol features and loop prevention
• Route Poisoning and Counting to infinity problem
• Split Horizon poison reverse and triggered updates
• The Holddown Process and Holddown Timer
• Link State Routing Protocol and building it
• Using Dijkstra SPF
• Convergence with Link State Protocols

OSPF

• OSPF protocols operation and neighbors
• Searching OSPF Routers
• Neighbor States and problems of a neighbor
• OSPF Topology Database Exchange
• Maintaining LSDB and building the IP Routing Table
• Hierarchical OSPF scaling
• OSPF areas advantages configuration
• OSPF single area and multiple areas configuration
• Configuring OSPF Router ID Hello and Dead Timers Metrics Cost authentication and load balancing

EIGRP

• EIGRP Operation and neighbors
• Exchanging EIGRP topology information
• Best Route Calculation feasible distance and reported distance
• EIGRP Convergence metrics successors and feasible successors
• The Query and Reply Process
• EIGRP Summary and Comparisons with OSPF
• EIGRP configuration verification and authentication
• EIGRP Maximum Paths and Variance
• Tuning the EIGRP Metric Calculation
• Troubleshooting Routing Problems

Point to Point WANs

• PPP basics and the PPP protocol field
• PPP Link Control Protocol LCP
• Looped link detection and enhanced Error Detection
• PPP multilink authentication and configuration
• PAP and CHAP configuration and verification
• Keepalive Failure
• PAP and CHAP Authentication Failure

Frame Relay Concepts

• Frame Relay Standards
• Virtual Circuits
• LMI and Encapsulation Types
• Frame Relay local and global addressing
• Frame Relay Layer different addressing
• Layer Broadcast Handling
• Controlling Speed and Discards
• FECN BECN and the discard eligibility DE bit
• Frame Relay Configuration and Verification
• Configuring the Encapsulation and LMI
• Frame Relay Address Mapping
• Inverse ARP
• Static Frame Relay Mapping
• Frame Relay Verification
• Frame Relay Troubleshooting