CCNP Service Provider SPCLOUD.
Virtualized Architecture.
- Describe IaaS constraints such as VLAN scale and segmentation.
- Determine the cloud service model (such as IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and FaaS) for private, public, or hybrid deployments.
- Describe container orchestration and virtual machines.
- Implement virtualization functions.
- NFV.
- VNF.
- NSO.
- Virtualized Cisco platforms.
- Deploy NFV using automation and orchestration.
- Onboarding VNF.
- NFV orchestration using NSO.
- NETCONF, RESTCONF, and REST APIs.
- Yang models and gNMI/gRPC.
- OpenStack.
Cloud Interconnect
- Describe carrier-neutral facilities.
- Connectivity options to cloud providers.
- Connectivity options to other carrier-neutral facilities or customer locations.
- Cloud edge facilities and interconnections.
- Evaluate WAN infrastructure connectivity.
- Direct connect.
- MPLS/segment routing.
- IPsec VPN.
- Troubleshoot DCI solutions.
- EVPN VXLAN.
- EVPN over SR/MPLS.
- ACI.
- Pseudo wires.
High Availability.
- Implement technologies for high availability.
- VNF data plane redundancy using placement and network resiliency.
- Control plane high availability within single VIM.
- Data plane high availability (compute, vNIC, and TOR).
- Implement multi-homing.
- Implement EVLAG.
- Implement a virtual private cloud.
- Implement ECMP from NFVI to physical infrastructure such as BGP multi-path, OSPF, and IS-IS.
- Recommend design models for high availability such as DNS, routing, and load #### Balancers.
- Implement infrastructure security.
- ACL.
- uRPF.
- RTBH and router hardening.
- BGP flowspec.
- TACACS.
- MACSEC.
- Describe DoS mitigation techniques.
- Describe NFVI security.
- API security.
- Secure NFVI control and management plane.
- Network segmentation in service provider cloud environment.
- TLS and mTLS.
- Describe cloud security solutions such as DNS security, zero-day exploit, and virus Detectors.
Service Assurance and Optimization.
- Describe network assurance.
- NFVI MANO.
- VNF workloads.
- VIM control plane KPIs.
- Streaming telemetry with gRPC and gNMI.
- Describe cloud infrastructure and performance monitoring.
- SR-PM.
- NetFlow and IPFIX.
- Logging with syslog.
- SNMP traps and RMON.
- Cloud agents.
- Automatic fault management.
- Diagnose NFVI errors and events.
- Describe VNF optimization.
- SR-IOV.
- Software accelerated virtual switch (DPDK and VPP).