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CCIE Service Provider Exam Topics (v5.0) - Practical Exam
1.0 Core Routing
1.1. Interior Gateway Protocol
1.1.a. Design, deploy, and optimize IS-IS
1.1.b. Design, deploy, and optimize OSPFv2 and OSPFv3

1.1.c. Design and optimize IGP scale and performance

1.1.d. Design, deploy, and optimize IS-IS segment routing control plane for IPv4
and IPv6

1.1.e. Design, deploy, and optimize OSPFv2 and OSPFv3 segment routing
control plane

1.2. Border Gateway Protocol

1.2.a. Design, deploy, and optimize IBGP, EBGP, and MP-BGP
1.2.b. Design, deploy, and optimize BGP route policy enforcement

1.2.c. Design BGP path attribute

1.2.d. Design and optimize BGP scale and performance

1.2.e. Design, deploy, and optimize BGP segments, BGP Labeled Unicast and
BGP Linked State

1.3. Multicast for Core, Distribution and Access

1.3.a. Design, deploy, and optimize PIM (PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, and PIM-BIDIR)

1.3.b. Design, deploy, and optimize RP (Auto-RP, BSR, Static, Anycast RP, and
MSDP)
1.3.c. Design, deploy, and optimize MLDP

1.3.3. Design, deploy, and optimize IGMP and MLD

1.3.d. Design, deploy, and optimize Tree-sid

1.4. Multiprotocol Label Switching

1.4.a. Design MPLS forwarding and control plane mechanisms
1.4.b. Design, deploy, and optimize LDP

1.4.c. Design and optimize LDP scale and performance

1.4.d. Design and optimize SR (SRGB and Max Labels Depth)

1.4.e. Design, deploy and optimize LDP and SR Interworking - Segment Routing
mapping server
1.5. MPLS Traffic Engineering
1.5.a. Design, deploy, and optimize ISIS and OSPF extensions

1.5.b. Design, deploy, and optimize RSVP-TE

1.5.c. Design, deploy, and optimize MPLS TE policy enforcement

1.5.d. Design, deploy and optimize MPLS LSP attributes

1.5.e. Design, deploy and optimize SR-TE

1.5.f. Design, deploy and optimize PCE and PCEP technology

1.5.g. Design, deploy and optimize Flexible Algorithm
1.5.f. Optimize MPLS TE scale and performance

2.0 Architecture and Services

2.1. Virtualized Infrastructure
2.1.a. Design NFVI
2.1.b. Design cloud scale networking infrastructure
2.1.c. Design IaaS (Openstack) underlay architecture using Bare metal and
Virtual Machines
2.1.d.Design convergence, virtual scaling, network Slicing and edge distribution
in 5G Architecture
2.2. Large scale MPLS Architecture
2.2.a. Design, deploy and optimize Unified MPLS

2.2.b. Design, deploy and optimize Multi-domain Segment Routing with SR-PCE

2.2.c. Design, deploy and optimize SLA based on IGP/TE metrics and Disjoint
Paths
2.3. Carrier Ethernet
2.3.a. Design, deploy, and optimize E-LINE, E-LAN and E-TREE

2.3.b. Design, deploy, and optimize VPWS, VPLS and H-VPLS

2.3.c. Design, deploy, and optimize EVPN, EVPN-VPWS and EVPN-IRB

2.3.d. Design, deploy, and optimize L2VPN service auto steering into segment
routing policy

2.4. L3VPN
2.4.a. Design, deploy, and optimize L3VPN

2.4.b. Design, deploy, and optimize Inter-AS L3VPN

2.4.c. Design, deploy, and optimize shared services, for example: Extranet and
Internet access
2.4.d. Design, deploy, and optimize L2VPN service auto steering into segment
routing policy

2.5. Internet service

2.5.a. Design, deploy, and optimize IPv4 translation mechanism, for example:
NAT44, CGNAT
2.5.b. Design, deploy, and optimize IPv6 transition mechanism, for example:
NAT64, 6RD, MAP, and DS Lite
2.5.c. Design, deploy, and optimize Internet peering route and transit policy
enforcement
2.6. Multicast VPN
2.6.a. Design, deploy, and optimize Rosen mVPN

2.6.b. Design, deploy, and optimize NG mVPN

2.7. Quality of Service for Core, Distribution and Access
2.7.a. Design, deploy, and optimize classification and marking

2.7.b. Design, deploy, and optimize congestion management and scheduling for
example: policing, shaping, and queuing
2.7.c. Design, deploy, and optimize congestion avoidance

2.7.d. Design, deploy, and optimize MPLS QoS models (Pipe, Short Pipe, and
Uniform)
2.7.e. Design, deploy, and optimize MPLS TE QoS (MAM, RDM, CBTS, PBTS, and
DS-TE)

3.0 Access Connectivity

3.1. Layer-2 Connectivity
3.1.a. Design, deploy and optimize IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q), IEEE 802.1ah (Mac-
in-Mac), and ITU G.8032, REP
3.1.b. Design, deploy and optimize Spanning-Tree Access Gateway (MST-AG
and PVST-AG)
3.1.c. Design and Operate MC-LAG
3.2. Layer-3 Connectivity
3.2.a. Design, deploy, and optimize PE-CE routing protocols (OSPF, ISIS, and
BGP)
3.2.b. Design, deploy, and optimize Loop prevention techniques in multihomed
environments

4.0 High Availability and Fast Convergence

4.1. System level HA
4.1.b. Design, deploy, and optimize SS0/NSF, NSR, and GR

4.2. Routing/Fast Convergence

4.2.a. Design, deploy and optimize IGP convergence

4.2.b. Design, deploy, and optimize LDP convergence

4.2.c. Design, deploy, and optimize BGP convergence - Prefix Independent
Convergence (BGP-PIC)
4.2.d. Design, deploy, and optimize BFD

4.2.e. Design, deploy, and optimize LFA (LFA, Remote LFA and TI-LFA)
4.2.f. Design, deploy, and optimize IP FRR, MPLS TE FRR and Segment Routing
FRR

5.0 Security
5.1. Control plane security
5.1.a. Design, deploy, and optimize control plane protection techniques (LPTS
and CoPP)
5.1.b. Design, deploy, and optimize routing protocol and LDP authentication
and security
5.1.c. Design, deploy, and optimize BGP prefix-based and attribute-based
filtering
5.1.d. Design, deploy, and optimize BGP-RKPI (Origin AS validation)

5.2. Management plane security

5.2.a. Deploy, and optimize device management, for example: MPP, SSH, and
VTY

5.2.b. Deploy, and optimize logging and SNMP security

5.2.c. Deploy and troubleshoot AAA

5.3. Infrastructure security

5.3.a. Design, deploy, and optimize ACL

5.2.b. Design, deploy, and optimize uRPF

5.3.d. Design, deploy, and optimize RTBH and Router Hardening

5.3.e. Design, deploy, and optimize BGP Flowspec

6.0 Assurance and Automation

6.1. Network Assurance
6.1.a. Design, deploy, and optimize Syslog and logging functions

6.1.b.Design, deploy, and optimize SNMP traps and RMON

6.1.c. Design, deploy, and optimize NetFlow and IPFIX

6.1.d. Design, deploy, and optimize Segment Routing OAM and MPLS OAM

6.1.e. Design, deploy, and optimize Segment Routing Data Plane monitoring
6.1.f. Design, deploy, and optimize IP/MPLS Performance monitoring (TCP, UDP,
ICMP and SR)
6.1.g. Design, deploy, and optimize Ethernet OAM (Y.1564 and Y.1731)

6.2. Network Automation

6.2.a. Design, deploy and optimize NSO service packages (Yang model,
template-based, python-based, fastmap, reactive fastmap, CLI NEDs,
NETCONF NEDs, NSO northbound integration using REST and RESTCONF).

6.2.b. Design NFV orchestration (NFVO) using NSO and ESC in an ETSI NFV
architecture.
6.2.c. Design and deploy Model-driven telemetry on XR devices (Yang
models, gRPC, GPB, device configuration, collection architecture)

6.2.d. Deploy and Optimize Ansible playbook scripts that interacts with
NSO, IOS-XE and IOS-XR devices
Books and Videos

IS-IS Network Design Solutions by Abe Martey, Scott Sturgess

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Page 211 to 231)

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Chapter 6, 7 and 19)

IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straighforward Approach to Understanding IPv6 by Rick Graziani (Chapter 8)

IS-IS Network Design Solutions by Abe Martey, Scott Sturgess (Chapter 7)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Page 232 to 245)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 7)

Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition by Sam Halabi

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 8)

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain

BGP Design and Implementation by Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Chapter 10, 14, 15, a

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain (Pa

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain (Ch

IP Multicast, Volume 1: Cisco IP Multicast Networking by Arvind Durai, Ray Blair, Josh Loveless

BGP Design and Implementation by Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell (Chapter 11)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 10)

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Part V and Chapter 2
MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein
Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 9)

Segment Routing Part 1

Traffic Engineering with MPLS by Eric Osborne, Ajay Simha

MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein (Chapter 8)

CCDE Study Guide by Marwan Al-shawi (Chapter 5)

QoS for IP/MPLS Network by Santiago Alvarez (Chapter 4)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 9)

Metro Ethernet By Sam Halabi (Chapter 5-8)

Segment Routing Part 2

Deploying and Operating NFV Cloud

Cloud-Scale Networking by XR
Cisco VIM Cloud Platform

Cisco 5G Architecture

MPLS and VPN Architectures by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jim Guichard (Chapter 14)

Segment Routing Part 1

Segment Routing Part 2

Layer 2 VPN Architectures by Wei Luo, Carlos Pignataro, Anthony Chan, Dmitry Bokotey

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 9)

MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein (Chapter 10 and 11)

CCDE Study Guide by Marwan Al-shawi (Chapter 6, L2VPN section)

Designing Networks and Services for the Cloud: Delivering business-grade cloud applications and services by Huseni

Virtual Routing in the Cloud by Arvind Durai, Stephen Lynn, Amit Srivastava (Chapter 5)

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain

Interconnecting Data Centers Using VPLS (Ensure Business Continuance on Virtualized Networks by Implementing La

CCDE Study Guide by Marwan Al-shawi (Chapter 6)

Using Trill, FabricPath, and VxLAN: Designing Massively Scalable Data Centers (MSDC) with Overlays by Hooda, Kapad

Designing Networks and Services for the Cloud: Delivering business-grade cloud applications and services by Huseni

MPLS and VPN Architectures Volume II by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar (Chapter 9)

MPLS and VPN Architectures by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jim Guichard (exclude Chapter 3)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 9)

MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein (Chapter 7 and 9)

MPLS and VPN Architectures Volume II by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar (Chapter 6)

MPLS and VPN Architectures Volume II by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar (Chapter 8)

BGP Design and Implementation by Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell (Chapter 12)

IPv6 Fundamentals: A Straightforward Approach to Understanding IPv6 by Rick Graziani (Chapter 10 and 11)

BGP Design and Implementation by Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell (Chapter 6)

Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition by Sam Halabi (Part III and IV)

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Chapter 11, 12, 14,)

Cisco Intelligent WAN (IWAN) by Brad Edgeworth, David Prall, Jean March Barozet, Anthony Lockhart, Nir Ben-Dvora

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 8 and 9)

MPLS and VPN Architectures Volume II by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar (Chapter 7)

End-to-End QoS Network Design: Quality of Service for Rich-Media & Cloud Networks, second Edition by Tim Szigeti,

BGP Design and Implementation by Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell (Chapter 4)

End-to-End QoS Network Design: Quality of Service for Rich-Media & Cloud Networks, second Edition by Tim Szigeti,

QoS for IP/MPLS Network by Santiago Alvarez (Chapter 3)

End-to-End QoS Network Design: Quality of Service for Rich-Media & Cloud Networks, second Edition by Tim Szigeti,

End-to-End QoS Network Design: Quality of Service for Rich-Media & Cloud Networks, second Edition by Tim Szigeti,

QoS for IP/MPLS Network by Santiago Alvarez (Chapter 1)

Traffic Engineering with MPLS by Eric Osborne, Ajay Simha (Chapter 6)
MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein (Chapter 12)

Using Trill, FabricPath, and VxLAN: Designing Massively Scalable Data Centers (MSDC) with Overlays by Hooda, Kapad

Designing Network and Service for the Cloud by Huseni Saboowala, Muhammad Abid, Sudhir Modali (Chapter 8)
MPLS and VPN Architectures Volume II by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar (Chapter 2, 3, 8, and 9)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 7-9)

MPLS and VPN Architectures Volume II by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jeff Apcar (Chapter 10 snd 13)

MPLS and VPN Architectures by Ivan Pepelnjak, Jim Guichard (Chapter 5)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Mobeen Tahir, Mark Ghattas, Dawit Birhanu, Syed Natif Nawaz (chapter 12)

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Chapter 21)

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Chapter 21)

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain (Ch

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Chapter 15)

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Chapter 12)

CCDE Study Guide by Marwan Al-shawi (Chapter 9)

Traffic Engineering with MPLS by Eric Osborne, Ajay Simha

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 9)

MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein (Chapter 8)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamental by Mobeen Tahir, Dawit Birhanu, Mark Ghattas, Syed Natif Nawaz (Chapter 1 and 6)

MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein (Chapter 4)

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain

Cisco IOS XR Fundamental by Mobeen Tahir, Dawit Birhanu, Mark Ghattas, Syed Natif Nawaz (Chapter 4)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamental by Mobeen Tahir, Dawit Birhanu, Mark Ghattas, Syed Natif Nawaz (Chapter 5)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamental by Mobeen Tahir, Dawit Birhanu, Mark Ghattas, Syed Natif Nawaz (Chapter 6)

Router Security Strategies: Securing IP Network Traffic Planes by Gregg Schudel, David Smith (Chapter 8)

Router Security Strategies: Securing IP Network Traffic Planes by Gregg Schudel, David Smith

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain (Pa

Troubleshooting BGP: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Troubleshooting BGP by Brad Edgeworth, Vinit Jain (Pa

Cisco IOS XR Fundamental by Mobeen Tahir, Dawit Birhanu, Mark Ghattas, Syed Natif Nawaz (Chapter 5)

Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies, by Nenoit Claise, Ralf Wolter (Chapter 4 to 8)

Network Security with NetFlow and IPFIX: Big Data Analytics for Information Security By Omar Santos
MPLS Fundamentals by Luc De Ghein (Chapter 14)

Operation Guide

SP Automation using NSO

Model Driven Telemetry

Cisco NSO and Ansible

Cisco Live Presentations

BRKRST-2338: ISIS Deployment in Modern Networks

BRKRST-2022: IPv6 Routing Protocols Update

BRKRST-2337: OSPF Deployment in Modern Networks

BRKRST-3320: Troubleshooting BGP

BRKRST-2022: IPv6 Routing Protocols Update

BRKRST-3321: Scaling BGP

IP Multicast, Volume 1: Cisco IP Multicast Networking by Arvind Durai, Ray Blair, Josh Loveless

BGP Design and Implementation by Randy Zhang, Micah Bartell (Chapter 11)

Cisco IOS XR Fundamentals by Tahir, Ghattas, Birhanu, Nawaz (Chapter 10)

IP Routing on Cisco IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR by Brad Edgeworth, Aaron Foss, Ramiro Garza Rios (Part V and Chapter 2
BRKMPL-1100: Introduction to MPLS
BRKMPL-3124: Troubleshooting End-to-End MPLS

Intro to Segment Routing

Intro to Segment Routing

BRKMPL-2100: Deploying MPLS Traffic Engineering

Deploying TE in SR and MPLS Backbone

Deploying TE in SR and MPLS Backbone

Scale SR Networks

BRKSPG-2002: Cisco NFVI

BRKSPG-2900: Cloud Scale Networking
BRKVIR-2601: Openstack based Cloud with Cisco Infrastructure

BRKSPG-2680: 5G xHaul Transport Network

Design, Deploy and Troubleshoot Scalable MPLS Networks

Scale SR Networks

BRKSPG-2202: Deploying Carrier Ethernet Services on ASR9000

BRKSPG-2904: ASR9000 Selected Topics and Troubleshooting

BRKSPG-2207: Redundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services

BRKMLP-2101: Deploying MPLS-based Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks

BRKSPG-2210: Designing Service Provider Access Networks

BRKSPG-2720: Carrier Ethernet 2.0

BRKSPG-2206: Towards Massively Scalable Ethernet: Technologies and Standards

BRKDCT-3378: Building DataCenter networks with VXLAN BGP-EVPN

BRKMPL-3101: Advanced Topics and Future Directions in MPLS

BRKMPL-2333: E-VPN & PBB-EVPN: The Next Generation of MPLS-based L2VPN

BRKMPL-2102: Designing MPLS-based IP VPNs

BRKCCIE-3345: The CCIE Candidate's Introduction to MPLS L3VPN Networks

BRKCRT-2601: VRF, MPLS and MP-BGP Fundamentals

BRKIPM-3017: mVPN Deployment Models

BRKSPG-2405: Unified MPLS: Advanced Scaling for Core and Edge Networks

BRKRST-2044: Enterprise Multi-Homed Internet Edge Architectures

BRKSPG-2300: Service Provider IPv6 Deployment

BRKSPG-2602: IPv4 Exhaustion: NAT and Transition to IPv6 for Service Provider

BRKRST-2312: IPv6 Planning, Deployment and Operation Considerations

BRKIPM-3017: Advanced MVPN Deployment Models

BRKIPM-3111: Advanced - Multipoint LDP

BRKCRS-2501: Campus QoS Design - Simplified

BRKARC-2031: Configuration Migration from Cisco IOS to IOS XE

BRKRST-2056: The QoS Paradigm Shif

BRKRST-3057: The Blood and Guts and Gore of QoS

BRKRST-2043: IWAN AVC/QoS Design

BRKSPG-2202: Deploying Carrier Ethernet Services on ASR9000

BRKMPL-2333: E-VPN & PBB-EVPN: The Next Generation of MPLS-based L2VPN

BRKSPG-2207: Redundancy Mechanisms for Carrier Ethernet and Layer 2 VPN Services

BRKMLP-2101: Deploying MPLS-based Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks

BRKSPG-2210: Designing Service Provider Access Networks

BRKSPG-2720: Carrier Ethernet 2.0

BRKSPG-2206: Towards Massively Scalable Ethernet: Technologies and Standards

BRKRST-2022: IPv6 Routing Protocols Update

BRKCRS-3438: High Availability in the Access

BRKRST-3363: Routed Fast Convergence

BRKIPM-2265: Deploying BGP Fast Convergence / BGP PIC

BRKRST-3020: IP LFA (Loop-Free-Alternate): Architecture and Troubleshooting

BRKARC-1008: Introduction to Cisco IOS XR for Enterprise and Service Providers

BRKARC-2017: Packet Journey Inside ASR 9000

BRKNMS-2658: Securely Managing Your Networks with SNMP

BRKSPG-3012: SP Security - Leveraging BGP FlowSpec to Protect your infrastructure

BRKSEC-2003: Introduction to IPv6 Security Threats and Mitigations

Troubleshooting Segment Routing

Troubleshooting Segment Routing

BRKRST-2606: Always on visibility: In-band OAM for IPv6

PSOSDN-2901: Next-gen Network Telemetry is within your packets: In-band OAM

Troubleshooting IOS-XE devices

SR Automation using NSO

L2VPN Services using NSO

Service Discovery using NSO

Model Driven Programmability of IOS XR

Trainings & Courses

IPv6 Fundamentals, Design and Deployment (IP6FD) 3.0

Deploying Cisco Service Provider Network Routing (SPROUTE) 1.2

Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) 3.0

Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE) 2.0

Building Cisco Service Provider Next Generation Networks, Part 2 (SPNGN2) 1.2

Implementing and Mainting Cisco Technologies Using IOS XR (IMTXR)

Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP) 4.0

Deploying Cisco Service Provider Advanced Network Routing (SPADVROUTE) 1.2

Building Cisco Service Provider Next Generation Networks, Part 2 (SPNGN2) 1.2

Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) 3.0

Deploying Cisco Service Provider Network Routing (SPROUTE) 1.2

Advanced Services Implementing Advanced Cisco IP Multicast (MCAST) 2

Cisco IOS XR Multicast Routing Implementation and Verification (IOSXR302) v2a

Implementing Cisco Multicast v3.0

Deploying Cisco Service Provider Advanced Network Routing (SPADVROUTE) 1.2

Cisco IOS XR Multicast Routing Implementation and Verification (IOSXR302) v2a

Implementing Segment Routing on Cisco IOS XR (SEGRTE201)

Implement Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering and Other Features (MPLST) 2.0

Implementing Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Core Network Services (SPCORE)

Advanced Implementing and Troubleshooting MPLS VPN networks (AMPLS) 4

Implementing and Maintaining Cisco Technologies Using IOS XR (IMTXR)

Advanced Services Implementing Advanced Cisco IP Multicast (MCAST) 2
Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE) 2.0

Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series Essentials (ASR9KE) 1

Advanced Services Cisco 7600 Series Essentials (7600) 3.0

Introduction to Cisco IOS XR (IOSXR100)

Maintaining Cisco Service Provider Routing Protocols (MSPRP) 1.0

Deploying Cisco Service Provider Advanced Network Routing (SPADVROUTE) 1.2

Deploying Cisco Service Provider Advanced Network Routing (SPADVROUTE) 1.2

Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP) 4.0

Implementing Segment Routing on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing Cisco Service Provider Next-Generation Core Network Services (SPCORE)
Advanced Implementing and Troubleshooting MPLS VPN networks (AMPLS) 4

Implementing and Maintaining Cisco Technologies Using IOS XR (IMTXR)

Building Cisco Service Provider Next Generation Networks, Part 2 (SPNGN2) 1.2
Advanced Implementing and Troubleshooting MPLS VPN networks (AMPLS) 4

Cisco Aggregation Services Router 9000 Series Essentials (ASR9KE) 1

Understanding and Configuring MEF Certified Services on the Cisco ASR 9000

NSO Essentials for Network Architects

URL, Blogs, Design Guides and Webinars

Implementing IS-IS on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing OSPF and OSPFv3 on Cisco IOS XR

Multitopology Routing Configuration on Cisco IOS

Implementing IS-IS on Cisco IOS

Implementing OSPF and OSPFv3 on Cisco IOS

Implementing BGP on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing BGP on Cisco IOS

Implementing Multicast Routing on Cisco IOS XR

IP Multicast: LSM Configuration Guide, Cisco IOS XE

Multicast Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing Multicast Routing on Cisco IOS

CCIE SP Training Videos

Implementing LDP on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing LDP on Cisco IOS

Segment Routing

Segment Routing Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing RSVP and MPLS TE on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing MPLS TE on Cisco IOS

Segment Routing Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS XE

Segment Routing Configuration Guide for Cisco IOS XR

MPLS Traffic Engineering Inter-AS TE

Cisco NFVI
Cloud Scale Networking

EPN Transport Guide

Unified MPLS Functionality, Features, and Configuration Example

Book on Segment Routing

Understanding Ethernet Virtual Circuits (EVC)

L2VPN and Ethernet Service Configuration on Cisco IOS XR

Layer 2 VPNs, Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS

Ethernet Services Configuration on Cisco IOS

Implementing MPLS Layer 3 VPN on Cisco IOS XR

L2VPN Services over Segment Routing

Implementing the Carrier Grade IPv6 on Cisco IOS XR

IPv6 Rapid Deployment: Provide IPv6 Access to Customers over an IPv4-only Network

Implementing Tunneling for IPv6

Configure mVPN Profiles Within Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS MLDP-Based MVPN Configuration Guide

Implementing QoS on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing QoS on Cisco IOS

Configuring Link Bundles on Cisco IOS XR

ASR9000/XR: Multichassis LAG or MC-LAG guide

Multichassis LACP
IOS Implementation of the iBGP PE-CE Feature

OSPF as PE-CE Protocol and Loop-Prevention Techniques in MPLS Layer 3 Configuration Example

Configuration Guide for Cisco IOS (BGP, ISIS, and OSPF Configuration Guide)

High Availability Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS

BGP Additional Paths on Cisco IOS

IP Routing Fast Convergence - Cheat Sheet

BGP PIC Edge

IPv4 Loop-Free Alternate Fast Reroute

IS-IS Remote Loop-Free Alternate Fast Reroute

Implementing OSPF on Cisco IOS XR

BGP Diverse Path

MPLS Traffic Engineering Path Link and Node Protection Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS
ASR9000/XR: Local Packet Transport Services (LPTS) CoPP

Cisco Guide to Harden Cisco IOS devices

Understanding Control Plane Protection

BGP RKPI Origin AS Validation

MPLS LDP commands
Security System

Implement Management Plane Protection

Cisco Guide to Harden Cisco IOS XR Devices

System Monitoring System on Cisco IOS XR
Securing SNMP

Service Provider Security

System Message Logging

Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding Enhancements for the Internet Service Provider

Remotely Triggered Black Hole Filtering-Destination Based and Source Based

Implementing BGP Flowspec

Segment Routing and MPLS OAM

IP SLA Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS

Router IP Addresses and Services Configuration Guide on Cisco IOS XR

Implementing MPLS OAM on Cisco IOS XR

Ethernet OAM Protocols on Cisco IOS XR

Managing IOS XR

Configuration Guide for MDT

Ansible with NSO

NSO Documentation