Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH)

Course Description Schedule Course Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Day 1: Network Architectures for the Enterprise and Enterprise Campus Design

  • Course Introduction
  • Module 1: Network Architectures for the Enterprise
  • Lesson 1: Review of Network Architectures for the Enterprise
  • Lesson 2: Review of the Cisco PPDIOO Approach
  • Module 2: Enterprise Campus Network Design
  • Lesson 1: High Availability in the Enterprise Campus
  • Lesson 2: Layer 2 Design Recommendations
  • Lesson 3: Layer 3 Design Recommendations
  • Lesson 4: Layer 2 to Layer 3 Boundary Design
  • Lesson 5: Describing Enterprise Network Virtualization Technologies
  • Lesson 6: Infrastructure Services Considerations
  • Case Study 2-1: MegaCorp Campus Design

Day 2: Advanced Addressing and Routing Design and Advanced WAN Services Design Considerations

  • Case Study 2-1: MegaCorp Campus Design
  • Module 3: Advanced Addressing and Routing Design
  • Lesson 1: Advanced Addressing Design
  • Lesson 2: Advanced Routing Design
  • Lesson 3: Scalable EIGRP Design
  • Lesson 4: Scalable OSPF Design
  • Lesson 5: Scalable BGP Design
  • Case Study 3-1: CP Hotels Addressing Design
  • Module 4: Advanced WAN Services Design Considerations
  • Lesson 1: Optical Technologies for WANs
  • Lesson 2: Using Metro Ethernet, VPLS, and MPLS VPN Technologies
  • Lesson 3: Advanced WAN Service Implementation
  • Case Study 5-1: CP Hotels Routing Design

Day 3: Enterprise Data Center Design, E-Commerce Module Design, and SAN Design Considerations

  • Module 5: Enterprise Data Center Design
  • Lesson 1: Core and Aggregation Layer Design
  • Lesson 2: Access Layer Design
  • Lesson 3: Scaling the Data Center Architecture
  • Lesson 4: Spanning Tree Sizing and High Availability
  • Module 6: E-Commerce Module Design
  • Lesson 1: Common Component Designs for the E-Commerce Module
  • Lesson 2: Integrated E-Commerce Designs
  • Case Study 6-1: CP Hotels Network E-Commerce Initiative
  • Module 7: Storage Area Network Design Considerations
  • Lesson 1: SAN Components and Technologies
  • Lesson 2: SAN and SAN Extension Design

Day 4: SAN Design Considerations (Cont.), Security Services Design, and IPsec and SSL VPN Design

  • Lesson 3: Integrated Fabric Designs using Nexus Technology
  • Case Study 7-1: CP Hotels Network Server Initiative
  • Module 8: Security Services Design
  • Lesson 1: Firewall Design Considerations
  • Lesson 2: Network Admission Control Design
  • Lesson 3: Intrusion Detection and Prevention Designs
  • Case Study 8-1: CP Hotels Cisco NAC Appliance Design
  • Module 9: IPsec and SSL VPN Design
  • Lesson 1: Remote-Access VPN Design
  • Lesson 2: Site-to-Site VPN Design
  • Lesson 3: IPsec VPN Technologies
  • Lesson 4: VPN Management and Scaling

Day 5: IP Multicast Design and Network Management Capabilities with Cisco IOS Software

  • Case Study 9-1: CP Hotels Security and IPsec VPN Network
  • Module 10: IP Multicast Design
  • Lesson 1: IP Multicast Overview
  • Lesson 2: PIM and RP Considerations
  • Lesson 3: IP Multicast Security
  • Module 11: Network Management Capabilities with Cisco IOS Software
  • Lesson 1: Embedded Management Capabilities
  • Lesson 2: NetFlow Considerations
  • Lesson 3: NBAR Considerations
  • Lesson 4: IP SLA Considerations
  • Case Study 12-1: DS Medical Research Institute Network Infrastructure