Core Topic
Will BGP or Multicast survive an ill configured IGP, will OSPF work with faulty frame-relay configuration and finally what s the use of getting the routes up to the client site when switch prunes out important traffic. Surely you can connect the dots. First thing first you got to ensure that your core is up and working fine.

Errors in core configuration can prove fatal as your rest of the configuration may suffer. Your training will start with core topics. The contents include specific but not limited to.

» Bridging and switching
    • Frame-relay configuration and troubleshooting
    • LAN switching basics
    • VLAN, Trunking with ISL and Dot1q, VTP
    • Spanning-tree, legacy STP, RSTP, MST
    • Ether channel management
    • Span, Rspan, Vspan, Erspan
    • Inter_vlan routing, Router on a stick
    • Routed ports, SVI, BVI
    • DHCP relay agent and Udp forwarding on switch
    • Connecting IP phones
    • Securing Cisco multilayer switches
    • Port security, blocking Unicast, and Multicast flooding
    • Racl, Vacl, port acls, Mac acl
    • Fallback bridging
    • Private Vlan

» Interior gateway protocol
    • RIP v2 configuration, authentication, and summarization
    • Using passive-interface and filtering RIP routes
    • Redistributing ripv2
    •  Enabling EIGRP
    • Adjusting metric, percentage bandwidth
    • Using Offsets
    • Auto, manual and disabling summarization
    • Floating summary routes
    • EIGRP authentication
    • Stub routing
    • Route filtering using distribution-list and Route maps

» OSPF Task list
    • Enabling OSPF
    • Router-id with Loopback interface
    • Implementation of network types
    • Broadcast-multi-access, NBMA and point-to-point
    • OSPF over frame-relay special focus
    • OSPF interface parameters (authentication, hello & dead interval, transmit-delay
       mtu-ignore etc.)
    • Multiple area configuration and concerns
    • Stub and NSSA configuration
    • NSSA default-information-originate and translation
    • Route summarization while redistributing
    • Virtual-link configuration and authentication
    • Generating default-routes
    • Auto-cost reference bandwidth
    • Route redistribution filtering and route-maps
    • OSPF administrative distance
    • OSPF ABR type-3 LSA filtering
    • OSPF fast hello

» Common features and task list
    • Default routes
    • Multi-interface load sharing
    • Route redistribution
    • Filtering routes
    • How and where to use ACL, prefix-list, Distribution-list and Route-maps
    • Policy routing
    • IP Event dampening