MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

CNT150AA  2007 Fall – 2012 Spring

Cisco Routing Protocols and Concepts

1.

Describe the purpose, nature, and operations of a router (I)

2.

Explain the critical role routers play in enabling communications across multiple networks (II)

3.

Describe how a router determines a path and switches packets (I)

4.

Describe how a router determines a path and switches packets (I)

5.

Configure and verify router interfaces (I)

6.

Describe the purpose and procedure for configuring static routes (II)

7.

Describe the role of dynamic routing protocols and place these protocols in the context of modern network design (III)

8.

Analyze the operations and features of the transport layer protocols and services (IV)

9.

Identify the characteristics of distance vector routing protocols (IV)

10.

Describe the network discovery process of distance vector routing protocols using Routing Information Protocol (RIP) (IV,V)

11.

Describe the functions, characteristics, and operations of the RIPv1 protocol (V)

12.

Compare and contrast classful and classless IP addressing (VI)

13.

Describe classful and classless routing behaviors in routed networks (VI,VIII)

14.

Design and implement a classless IP addressing scheme for a given network (VI)

15.

Demonstrate comprehensive RIPv1 configuration skills (V)

16.

Apply the basic RIPv2 configuration commands and evaluate RIPv2 classless routing updates (VII)

17.

Describe the main features and operations of the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) (IX)

18.

Use advanced configuration commands with routers implementing EIGRP (IX)

19.

Describe the basis features and concepts of link-state routing protocols (X)

20.

Describe the purpose, nature, and operations of the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) Protocol (XI)

MCCCD Official Course Outline:

CNT150AA  2007 Fall – 2012 Spring

Cisco Routing Protocols and Concepts

I. Introduction to Routing and Packet Forwarding

A. Inside the router

B. Command Line Interface configuration and addressing review

C. Introducing the routing table

D. Path determination and switching functions

II. Static Routes

A. Routers in networks

B. Directly connected networks

C. Static routes with "next hop" addresses

D. Static routes with exit interfaces

E. Summary and default static routes

F. Topology review

G. Managing and troubleshooting static routes

III. Introduction to Dynamic Routing

A. Advantages of Dynamic Routing

B. Classifying dynamic routing protocols

C. Routing domains, process IDs, and autonomous systems

D. Metrics

E. Administrative distances

IV. Distance Vector Routing Protocol

A. Overview of distance vector routing protocols

B. Network discovery

C. Routing table maintenance

D. Routing loops

E. Distance vector routing protocols today

V. RIPv1

A. RIPv1 - a distance vector, classful routing protocol

B. Basic RIPv1 configuration

C. Verification and troubleshooting

D. Automatic summarization

E. Default route and RIPv1

F. Troubleshooting

VI. Classless Routing Protocols, VLSM and CIDR

A. IP addressing

B. Overview of IPv4 enhancements

C. Variable-Length Subnet Masking (VLSM)

D. Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR)

VII. RIPv2

A. RIPv1 configuration and limitations

B. Configuring RIPv2

C. VLSM and CIDR with RIPv2

D. Verifying and troubleshooting RIPv2

VIII. Routing Table: A Closer Look

A. Routing table structure

B. Routing table lookup process

C. Classful routing behavior

D. Classless routing behavior

E. Equal cost load balancing

IX. EIGRP

A. Basic EIGRP configuration

B. EIGRP metric calculation

C. Features of EIGRP

D. Establishing adjacencies

E. Diffusing Update Algorithm (DUAL)

F. More EIGRP configurations

G. Verifying and troubleshooting EIGRP

X. Link State Routing Protocols

A. Concept of link state routing protocols

B. Link state process

XI. OSPF

A. Basic OSPF configuration

B. OSPF router ID

C. OSPF metric calculation

D. Establishing adjacencies

E. OSPF and multi-access networks

F. More OSPF configuration

G. Verifying and troubleshooting OSPF