CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Foundation, 2nd Edition

Recent changes to Cisco certification make it crucial for experienced network professionals to bridge the gap between CCNP Enterprise Core (350-401 ENCOR) knowledge and the deep hands-on expertise they need to succeed with their CCIE labs. In CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure Foundation, world-renowned Cisco instructor and practitioner Narbik Kocharians helps you make this leap with confidence. Based on the author’s industry-recognized CCIE prep classes, this progressive learning tool brings together:

• 40+ detailed labs for real gear and platform emulators
• Structured illustrations of protocol and feature operation
• Topic-specific labs to drive the theory home
• A full lab walkthrough of a complex configuration reflective of the actual CCIE

Following the same pattern as Kocharians’ CCIE Routing and Switching V5.1 Foundations, this guide covers both mature technologies and today’s increasingly critical policy-based intent driven solutions. Step by step, you’ll learn how to:

• Discover the physical topology for any network deployment
• Work with Spanning Tree Protocol (STP): both its foundations and advanced features
• Deploy and optimize PPP and use its full set of capabilities
• Implement Dynamic Multipoint VPNs (DMVPNs) from start to finish
• Use IP Prefix lists in prefix filtration, packet filtering, and other applications
• Handle any RIPv2 deployment scenario n Implement EIGRP, including classical and named operation modes and interoperation
• Use advanced OSPF techniques, including route filtration, LSA operation, stub configurations, and update filtering
• Understand what happens when you perform redistribution, and manage problematic scenarios
• Manage complex BGP capabilities, including Adjacency State Machine
• Operate IPv6 in complex network environments, including DMVPN
• Focus on QoS mechanisms that CCIE still covers, including traffic marking, classification, policing, and shaping
• Deploy IPsec VPN solutions including GRE/IPSec tunnel mode, multi-site VPN technologies, and their encryption
• Implement multicasting in environments requiring end-to-end IPv4 and IPv6 transport
• Address operational and deployment issues involving MPLS VPNv4 tunnels

By the time you’re done, you’ll thoroughly understand these Cisco technologies and interactions, and be comfortable applying theory in any real-world environment – and especially on your CCIE labs.