500-490 Exam Information and Guideline
Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks
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Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
Design Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) internal routing for the enterprise network
Design Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) internal routing for the enterprise network
Design Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) internal routing for the enterprise network
Design a network based on customer requirements
Design Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing for the enterprise network
Describe the different types and uses of Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) address families
Describe BGP load sharing
Design a BGP network based on customer requirements
Decide where the L2/L3 boundary will be in your Campus network and make design decisions
Describe Layer 2 design considerations for Enterprise Campus networks
Design a LAN network based on customer requirements
Describe Layer 3 design considerations in an Enterprise Campus network
Examine Cisco SD-Access fundamental concepts
Describe Cisco SD-Access Fabric Design
Design an Software-Defined Access (SD-Access) Campus Fabric based on customer requirements
Design service provider-managed VPNs
Design enterprise-managed VPNs
Design a resilient WAN
Design a resilient WAN network based on customer requirements
Examine the Cisco SD-WAN architecture
Describe Cisco SD-WAN deployment options
Design Cisco SD-WAN redundancy
Explain the basic principles of QoS
Design Quality of Service (QoS) for the WAN
Design QoS for enterprise network based on customer requirements
Explain the basic principles of multicast
Designing rendezvous point distribution solutions
Describe high-level considerations when doing IP addressing design
Create an IPv6 addressing plan
Plan an IPv6 deployment in an existing enterprise IPv4 network
Describe the challenges that you might encounter when transitioning to IPv6
Design an IPv6 addressing plan based on customer requirements
Describe Network APIs and protocols
Describe Yet Another Next Generation (YANG), Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF), and Representational State Transfer Configuration Protocol (RESTCONF)
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have earned CCNA® certification or be familiar with:
Basic network fundamentals and building simple LANs
Basic IP addressing and subnets
Routing and switching fundamentals
Basic wireless networking concepts and terminology
Outline
Designing EIGRP Routing
Designing OSPF Routing
Designing IS-IS Routing
Designing BGP Routing and Redundancy
Understanding BGP Address Families
Designing the Enterprise Campus LAN
Designing the Layer 2 Campus
Designing the Layer 3 Campus
Discovering the Cisco SD-Access Architecture
Exploring Cisco SD-Access Fabric Design
Designing Service Provider-Managed VPNs
Designing Enterprise-Managed VPNs
Designing WAN Resiliency
Examining Cisco SD-WAN Architectures
Cisco SD-WAN Deployment Design Considerations
Designing Cisco SD-WAN Routing and High Availability
Understanding QoS
Designing LAN and WAN QoS
Exploring Multicast with Protocol-Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode
Designing Rendezvous Point Distribution Solutions
Designing an IPv4 Address Plan
Exploring IPv6
Deploying IPv6
Introducing Network APIs and Protocols
Exploring YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF, and Model-Driven Telemetry
Lab outline
Designing Enterprise Connectivity
Designing an Enterprise Network with BGP Internet Connectivity
Designing an Enterprise Campus LAN
Designing Resilient Enterprise WAN
Designing QoS in an Enterprise Network
Designing an Enterprise IPv6 Network
Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD 500-490) is a 90-minute exam
associated with the CCNP Enterprise Certification. This exam certifies a candidate's knowledge of
enterprise design including advanced addressing and routing solutions, advanced enterprise campus
networks, WAN, security services, network services, and SDA. The course, Designing Cisco Enterprise
Networks, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However,
other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. To better reflect the contents
of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
25% 1.0 Advanced Addressing and Routing Solutions
1.1 Create structured addressing plans for IPv4 and IPv6
1.2 Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for IS-IS
1.3 Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for EIGRP
1.4 Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for OSPF
1.5 Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for BGP
1.5.a Address families
1.5.b Basic route filtering
1.5.c Attributes for path preference
1.5.d Route reflectors
1.5.e Load sharing
1.6 Determine IPv6 migration strategies
1.6.a Overlay (tunneling)
1.6.b Native (dual-stacking)
1.6.c Boundaries (IPv4/IPv6 translations)
25% 2.0 Advanced Enterprise Campus Networks
2.1 Design campus networks for high availability
2.1.a First Hop Redundancy Protocols
2.1.b Platform abstraction techniques
2.1.c Graceful restart
2.1.d BFD
2.2 Design campus Layer 2 infrastructures
2.2.a STP scalability
2.2.b Fast convergence
2.2.c Loop-free technologies
2.2.d PoE and WoL
2.3 Design multicampus Layer 3 infrastructures
2.3.a Convergence
2.3.b Load sharing
2.3.c Route summarization
2.3.d Route filtering
2.3.e VRFs
2.3.f Optimal topologies
2.3.g Redistribution
2.4 Describe SD-Access Architecture (underlay, overlay, control and data plane, automation, wireless, and security)
2.5 Describe SD-Access fabric design considerations for wired and wireless access (overlay, fabric design, control plan design, border design, segmentation, virtual networks, scalability, over the top and fabric for wireless, multicast)
20% 3.0 WAN for Enterprise Networks
3.1 Compare WAN connectivity options
3.1.a Layer 2 VPN
3.1.b MPLS Layer 3 VPN
3.1.c Metro Ethernet
3.1.d DWDM
3.1.e 4G/5G
3.1.f SD-WAN customer edge
3.2 Design site-to-site VPN
3.2.a Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
3.2.b Layer 2 VPN
3.2.c MPLS Layer 3 VPN
3.2.d IPsec
3.2.e Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
3.2.f Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GET VPN)
3.3 Design high availability for enterprise WAN
3.3.a Single-homed
3.3.b Multihomed
3.3.c Backup connectivity
3.3.d Failover
3.4 Describe Cisco SD-WAN Architecture (orchestration plane, management plane, control plane, data plane, on-boarding and provisioning, security)
3.5 Describe Cisco SD-WAN design considerations (control plane design, overlay design, LAN design, high availability, redundancy, scalability, security design, QoS and multicast over SD-WAN fabric)
20% 4.0 Network Services
4.1 Select appropriate QoS strategies to meet customer requirements (DiffServ, IntServ)
4.2 Design end-to-end QoS policies
4.2.a Classification and marking
4.2.b Shaping
4.2.c Policing
4.2.d Queuing
4.3 Design network management techniques
4.3.a In-band vs. out-of-band
4.3.b Segmented management networks
4.3.c Prioritizing network management traffic
4.4 Describe multicast routing concepts (source trees, shared trees, RPF, rendezvous points)
4.5 Design multicast services (SSM, PIM bidirectional, MSDP)
10% 5.0 Automation
5.1 Choose the correct YANG data model set based on requirements
5.2 Differentiate between IETF, Openconfig, and Cisco native YANG models
5.3 Differentiate between NETCONF and RESTCONF
5.4 Describe the impact of model-driven telemetry on the network
5.4.a Periodic publication
5.4.b On-change publication
5.5 Compare dial-in and dial-out approaches to model-driven telemetry