Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies

Exam code : 350-501 SPCOR
version : 1.0
Vendor : Cisco

Exam description:
This exam tests your knowledge of implementing core service provider network technologies, including: Core architecture Services Networking Automation Quality of services Security Network assurance

Area : Service Provider  
Status : Active
Exam start on : 24-02-2020 end on :
Duration (minutes): 120
Questions : min None - max None

Score :
Cost :

Language :
Format : Closed Book
Delivery : Testing center - Proctored

Note : None

Exam topics:

• 1.0 - Architecture - 15%
  
  • 1.1 - Describe service provider architectures
  • 1.1.a - Core architectures (Metro Ethernet, MPLS, unified MPLS, SR)
  • 1.1.b - Transport technologies (Optical, xDSL, DOCSIS, TDM, and xPON)
  • 1.1.c - Mobility (packet core, RAN xhaul transport for 4G and 5G)
  • 1.2 - Describe Cisco network software architecture
  • 1.2.a - IOS
  • 1.2.b - IOS XE
  • 1.2.c - IOS XR
  • 1.3 - Describe service provider virtualization
  • 1.3.a - NFV infrastructure
  • 1.3.b - VNF workloads
  • 1.3.c - OpenStack
  • 1.4 - Describe QoS architecture
  • 1.4.a - MPLS QOS models (Pipe, Short Pipe, and Uniform)
  • 1.4.b - MPLS TE QoS (MAM, RDM, CBTS, PBTS, and DS-TE)
  • 1.4.c - DiffServ and IntServ QoS models
  • 1.4.d - Trust boundaries between enterprise and SP environments
  • 1.4.e - IPv6 flow label
  • 1.5 - Configure and verify control plan security
  • 1.5.a - Control plane protection techniques (LPTS and CoPP)
  • 1.5.b - BGP-TTL security and protocol authentication
  • 1.5.c - BGP prefix suppression
  • 1.5.d - LDP security (authentication and label allocation filtering)
  • 1.5.e - BGP sec
  • 1.5.f - BGP flowspec
  • 1.6 - Describe management plane security
  • 1.6.a - Traceback
  • 1.6.b - AAA and TACACS
  • 1.6.c - RestAPI security
  • 1.6.d - DdoS
  • 1.7 - Implement data plane security
  • 1.7.a - uRPF
  • 1.7.b - ACLs
  • 1.7.c - RTBH
• 2.0 - Networking - 30%
  
  • 2.1 - Implement IS-IS (IPv4 and IPv6)
  • 2.1.a - Route advertisement
  • 2.1.b - Area addressing
  • 2.1.c - Multitopology
  • 2.1.d - Metrics
  • 2.2 - Implement OSPF (v2 and v3)
  • 2.2.a - Neighbor adjacency
  • 2.2.b - Route advertisement
  • 2.2.c - Multiarea (addressing and types)
  • 2.2.d - Metrics
  • 2.3 - Describe BGP path selection algorithm
  • 2.4 - Implement BGP (v4 and v6 for IBGP and EBGP)
  • 2.4.a - Neighbors
  • 2.4.b - Prefix advertisement
  • 2.4.c - Address family
  • 2.4.d - Path selection
  • 2.4.e - Attributes
  • 2.4.f - Redistribution
  • 2.5 - Implement routing policy language and route maps (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS)
  • 2.6 - Troubleshoot routing protocols
  • 2.6.a - Neighbor adjacency (IS-IS, OSPF, BGP)
  • 2.6.b - Route advertisement (IS-IS, OSPF, BGP)
  • 2.7 - Describe IPv6 transition (NAT44, NAT64, 6RD, MAP, and DS Lite)
  • 2.8 - Implement high availability
  • 2.8.a - NSF / graceful restart
  • 2.8.b - NSR
  • 2.8.c - BFD
  • 2.8.d - Link aggregation
• 3.0 - MPLS and Segment Routing - 20%
  
  • 3.1 - Implement MPLS
  • 3.1.a - LDP sync
  • 3.1.b - LDP session protection
  • 3.1.c - LDP neighbors
  • 3.1.d - Unified MPLS
  • 3.1.e - MPLS OAM
  • 3.2 - Describe traffic engineering
  • 3.2.a - ISIS and OSPF extensions
  • 3.2.b - RSVP functionality
  • 3.2.c - FRR
  • 3.3 - Describe segment routing
  • 3.3.a - Segment types
  • 3.3.b - IGP control plane
  • 3.3.c - Segment routing traffic engineering
  • 3.3.d - TI-LFa
  • 3.3.e - PCE-PCC architectures
• 4.0 - Services - 20%
  
  • 4.1 - Describe VPN services
  • 4.1.a - EVPN
  • 4.1.b - Inter-AS VPN
  • 4.1.c - CSC
  • 4.1.d - mVPN
  • 4.2 - Configure L2VPN and Carrier Ethernet
  • 4.2.a - Ethernet services (E-Line, E-Tree, E-Access, E-LAN)
  • 4.2.b - IEEE 802.1ad, IEEE 802.1ah, and ITU G.8032
  • 4.2.c - Ethernet OAM
  • 4.2.d - VLAN tag manipulation
  • 4.3 - Configure L3VPN
  • 4.3.a - Intra-AS VPN
  • 4.3.b - Shared services (extranet and Internet)
  • 4.4 - Implement multicast services
  • 4.4.a - PIM (PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, and PIM-BIDIR)
  • 4.4.b - IGMP v1/v2/v3 and MLD
  • 4.5 - Implement QoS services
  • 4.5.a - Classification and marking
  • 4.5.b - Congestion avoidance, traffic policing, and shaping
• 5.0 - Automation and Assurance - 15%
  
  • 5.1 - Describe the programmable APIs used to include Cisco devices in network automation
  • 5.2 - Interpret an external script to configure a Cisco device using a REST API
  • 5.3 - Describe the role of Network Services Orchestration (NSO)
  • 5.4 - Describe the high-level principles and benefits of a data modeling language, such as YANG
  • 5.5 - Compare agent vs. agentless configuration management tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack
  • 5.6 - Describe data analytics and model-driven telemetry in service provider
  • 5.7 - Configure dial-in/out telemetry streams using gRPC
  • 5.8 - Configure and verify NetFlow/IPFIX
  • 5.9 - Configure and verify NETCONF and RESTCONF
  • 5.10 - Configure and verify SNMP (v2c/v3)

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