CCIE Lab Certification (Data Center)

Data Center L2/L3 Connectivity.

• Layer 2 technologies.
• Link Aggregation.
• vPC.
• Port Channel.
• Tagging/Trunking.
• Static Path binding.
• Spanning Tree Protocol.
• PVST.
• MST.
• Routing Protocols and features.
• OSPF (v2 and v3).
• Authentication.
• Adjacencies.
• Network types and Area Types.
• LSA Types.
• Route Aggregation/Summarization.
• Route Redistribution.
• ISIS.
• Adjacencies.
• Single area, single topology.
• Network types, Levels and Router types.
• NSAP addressing.
• Point-to-point, broadcast.
• BGP.
• Path Selection.
• External and Internal Peering.
• Route reflectors and Route Server.
• Peer Templates.
• Multi-Hop EBGP.
• Route Aggregation/Summarization.
• Route Redistribution.
• BFD.
• FHRP.
• Multicast protocols.
• PIM.
• Sparse Mode.
• BiDir.
• Static RP, BSR, AutoRP, PhantomRP.
• IPvPIM Anycast.
• IPvAnycast RP using MSDP.
• IGMP.
• IGMPv2, IGMPv3.
• IGMP Snooping.
• IGMP Querier.

Data Center Fabric Infrastructure.

• Physical fabric components.
• Fabric Discovery.
• Controllers/Network Managers.
• Switches.
• Fabric policies.
• Access Policies.
• Multi Tenancy.
• Monitoring Policies.
• Tenant Policies.
• Application profiles and EPGs.
• Networking.
• Security.
• Fabric Monitoring.
• Faults.
• Events.
• Health indicators.
• Audit Logs.
• Virtual Networking.
• vSphere VDS.

Data Center Fabric Connectivity.

• VRF lite.
• L3Out.
• OSPF.
• Authentication.
• Adjacencies.
• Network types and Area Types.
• Route Redistribution.
• BGP.
• AS manipulation.
• External and Internal Peering.
• Route reflectors.
• Route Redistribution.
• Transit Routing.
• Inter Fabric connectivity.
• Multi-Pod.
• Multi-Site.
• Virtual POD.
• remote Leaf.
• Overlays.
• VXLAN EVPN.

Data Center Compute.

• Compute Resources.
• UCSM Policies, Profiles and Templates.
• Hyperflex.
• Compute Connectivity.
• SAN/LAN uplinks.
• Rack server integration.
• Port Modes.

Data Center Storage Protocols and Features.

• FC and FCoE.
• Zoning.
• NPV/NPIV.
• Trunking.
• Portchannel.
• Load Balancing.
• iSCSI.
• Authentication.
• Multipathing.
• RoCE vover IP Networks.

Data Center Security and Network Services.

• Security features.
• ACL's.
• First Hop Security.
• Port security.
• Private VLANs.
• Contracts.
• RBAC.
• Radius.
• TACACS+.
• LDAP.
• AAA.
• Network Services Insertion and Redirection.
• Policy Based Routing.
• Policy Based Redirection.
• Inter VRF communication.
• Route Targets.
• Prefix Lists.
• Services.
• Flow/Telemetry Export.
• SPAN.
• SNMP.
• Syslog.
• DHCP.
• NTP/PTP.
• Traffic management.
• Queueing.
• Policing.
• Classification/Marking.
• Scheduling.
• CoPP.

Data Center Automation and Orchestration.

• Data center tasks using scripts (Python and Ansible).
• Create, Read, Update, Delete using RESTful APIs.
• Deploy and modify configurations.
• Statistics, Data Collection.
• Data Center Automation and Orchestration using tools.
• DCNM.
• UCSD.
• Tasks.
• Workflows.
• Catalog.
• Intersight.
• CloudCenter Suite.
• Applications.
• Deployments.
• Action Orchest.