Core architecture

• Describe service provider architectures
• Describe Cisco network software architecture
• Describe service provider virtualization
• Describe QoS architecture
• Configure and verify control plane security
• Describe management plane security
• Implement data plane security

Networking

• Implement IS-IS (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Describe BGP path selection algorithm
• Implement routing policy language and route maps (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS)
• Describe IPv6 transition (NAT44, NAT64, 6RD, MAP, and DS Lite)
• Implement high availability.
  

MPLS and Segment Routing

• Implement MPLS
• Describe traffic engineering
• Describe Segment Routing services
• Describe VPN services
• Configure L2VPN and Carrier Ethernet
• Configure L3VPN
• Implement multicast services
• Implement QoS services

Automation and Assurance

• Describe the programmable APIs used to include Cisco devices in network automation
• Interpret an external script to configure a Cisco device using a REST API
• Describe the role of Network Services Orchestration (NSO)
• Describe the high-level principles and benefits of a data modeling language, such as YANG
• Compare agent vs. agentless configuration management tools, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack
• Describe data analytics and model-driven telemetry in service provider
• Configure dial-in/out telemetry streams using gRPC
• Configure and verify NetFlow/IPFIX
• Configure and verify NETCONF and RESTCONF
• Configure and verify SNMP (v2c/v3)