General Networking Theory and Routing Concepts:

• Link State and Distance Vector Protocols
• Split Horizons
• Summarisation
• Classful and a Classless routing protocol
• Routing decision criteria

Routing Information Base (RIB) and Routing Protocols Interaction:

• Administrative Distance
• Routing Table
• RIB and Forwarding Information Base Interaction

Redistribution:

• Redistribution between routing
• Troubleshooting Routing Loop

Bridging and LAN Switching line:

• Spanning Tree Protocols (STP)
• 802.1d
• 802.1w
• 802.1s
• Loopguard
• Rootguard
• Bridge Protocol Data Unit (BPDU) Guard
• Storm Control
• Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP)
• Unicast flooring
• STP port roles, failure propagation and loopguard operation

Lan Switching:

• Trunks
• VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
• administrative functions

Ethernet:

• Speed
• Duplex
• Etheret
• Fast Ethernet
• Gigabit Ethernet

Addressing:

• Subnetting
• Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)
• Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP)
• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
• Network Address Translation (NAT)

Services:

• Network Time Protocol (NTP)
• Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)
• Web Cache Communication Protocol (WCCP)

Network Management:

• Logging and Syslog

IP Routing OSPF:

• Standard OSPF area
• Stub area
• Totally stub area
• Not-so-stubby-area (NSSA)
• Totally NSSA
• Link State Advertisement (LSA) types
• Adjacency on a point-to-point and on a multi-access (broadcast)
• OSPF graceful restart Troubleshooting failing adjacency formation to fail
• Troubleshooting of external route installation in the RIB

BGP:

• Protocol on which BGP peers communicate
• Next Hop
• Peering
• Troubleshooting of BGP route that will not install in the routing tables

EIGRP:

• Best Path
• Loop free Paths
• EIGRP operations when alternate loop free path are available and when it is not available
• EIGRP queries
• Manual summarisation
• Auto-summarisation
• EIGRP Stubs
• Troubleshooting of EIFRP neighbour adjacencies

Policy Routing:

• Concept of policy routing

Modular QoS command-line (MQC) applied to:

• Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR)
• Class based weighted fair queuing (CBWFQ)/Modified Deficit Round Robin (MDRR)
• Policing
• Shaping
• Marking
• Random Early Detection (RED)

WAN:

• Frame Delay
• Local Management Interface (LMI)
• Traffic Shaping
• HUB and Spoke routers
• Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
• DE

IP Multicast:

• Internet Group Management Protocols (IGMP)v2B. Group addresses
• Shared Trees
• Source Trees
• Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Mechanic
• PIM Sparse Mode
• Auto-RP
• Anycast RP

Security:

• Extended IP access lists
• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
• IP Source Guard
• Context Based Access Control (CBAC)

MPLS (New):

• Label Switching Router (LSR)
• Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF)
• Route Descriptor
• Label Format
• Label imposition/disposition
• Label Distribution

IPv6 (New):

• IPv6 Addressing and types
• IPv6 Neighbor Discovery
• Basic IPv6 functionality protocols
• IPv6 Multicast and related Multicast protocols
• Tunneling Techniques
• OSPFv3