Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks v1.0 (ENSLD)

About this course:

In this 5-day course, Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks (ENSLD) v1.0, students will gain the knowledge and skills needed to design an enterprise network. This course serves as a deep dive into enterprise network design and expands on the topics covered in the Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR) v1.0 course.

This course will help students:

• Prepare to take the exam, Designing Cisco Enterprise Networks v1.0 (ENSLD 300-420), which is part of the CCNP Enterprise and Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Design certifications. The ENSLD 300-420 exam certifies your knowledge of enterprise design including advanced addressing and routing solutions, advanced enterprise campus networks, WAN, security services, network services, and SDA.

Course Objective:

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:   

• Design EIGRP internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design OSPF internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design IS-IS internal routing for the enterprise network
• Design a network based on customer requirements
• Design BGP routing for the enterprise network
• Describe the different types and uses of MP-BGP address families
• Describe BGP load sharing
• Design a BGP network based on customer requirements
• Decide where 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 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 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 YANG, NETCONF and RESTCON

Audience:

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Network design engineers
• Network engineers
• System administrators

Prerequisite:

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

• Students 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