• Policy-based routing
• Policy-based redirection
• VRF stitching
• BD/VLAN stitching

2.Design, implement, and troubleshoot services

• PTP
• NTP
• DNS
• DHCP

3.Design, implement, and troubleshoot RBAC

• RADIUS
• TACACS+
• LDAP
• AAA

4.Design, implement, and troubleshoot maintenance tasks

• Backup and restore
• Firmware upgrades and downgrades

5.Design, implement, and troubleshoot monitoring services

• Flow export
• SPAN
• SNMP
• Syslog

6.Design, implement, and troubleshoot security features

• CoPP
• Storm control
• ACLs
• First-hop security
• Contracts
• Port security
• MACsec
• Private VLANs

• Fibre Channel
• FCoE
• iSCSI

2.Design, implement, and troubleshoot data center storage networking features

• Zoning
• NPV/NPIV

3.Design, implement, and troubleshoot compute policies and profiles

• Cisco UCS Manager
• Cisco Intersight

4.Design, implement, and troubleshoot data center connectivity

• SAN/LAN uplinks
• Rack server integration
• Fabric ports
• Appliance ports

• Link aggregation
• Tagging/trunking
• Spanning Tree Protocol

2.Design, implement, and troubleshoot overlays

• VXLAN
• EVPN
• OTV

3.Design, implement, and troubleshoot routing protocols and features

• OSPF
• IS-IS
• BGP
• BFD
• FHRP

4.Design, implement, and troubleshoot multicast protocols

• PIM
• IGMP

5.Describe interfabric connectivity

• Multipod
• Multisite

6.Design, implement, and troubleshoot external fabric connectivity

• L2/L3Out
• VRF-Lite

7.Design, implement, and troubleshoot traffic management

• Queueing
• Policing
• Classification/marking
• RoCE

• Create, read, update, delete using RESTful APIs
• Deploy and modify configurations
• Data collection and statistics

2.Describe and design data center orchestration using tools

• Cisco Intersight
• Cisco UCS Director
• Cisco CloudCenter

• Fabric discovery
• Controllers/network managers
• Switches

2.Design, implement, and troubleshoot fabric policies

• Access policies
• Layer 2/Layer 3 multitenancy
• Troubleshooting policies
• Monitoring policies

3.Design, implement, and troubleshoot tenant policies

• Application profiles
• Networking
• Security

4.Analyze and troubleshoot logical fabric elements

• Faults
• Events
• Health indicators

5.Design, implement, and troubleshoot virtual networking

• Cisco AVE
• vSphere Distributed Switch
• Hyper-V switch

1.Cloud
-Compare and contrast public, private, hybrid, and multicloud design considerations

• Infrastructure, platform, and software as a service (XaaS)
• Performance, scalability, and high availability
• Security implications, compliance, and policy
• Workload migration

- Describe cloud infrastructure and operations

• Compute virtualization (containers and virtual machines)
• Connectivity (virtual switches, SD-WAN and SD-Access)
• Virtualization functions (NFVi, VNF, and L4/L6)
• Automation and orchestration tools (CloudCenter, DNA-center, and Kubernetes)

2.Network programmability (SDN)
-Describe architectural and operational considerations for a programmable network

• Data models and structures (YANG, JSON and XML)
• Device programmability (gRPC, NETCONF and RESTCONF)
• Controller based network design (policy driven configuration and northbound/ southbound APIs)
• Configuration management tools (agent and agentless) and version control systems (Git and SVN)

3.Internet of things (IoT)
-Describe architectural framework and deployment considerations for IoT

• IoT technology stack (IoT Network Hierarchy, data acquisition and flow)
• IoT standards and protocols (characteristics within IT and OT environment)
• IoT security (network segmentation, device profiling, and secure remote access)
• IoT edge and fog computing (data aggregation and edge intelligence)