The Cisco BCMSN 640-811 series is designed to help learners prepare and take the qualifying exam for the Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP as well as the Cisco Certified Design Professional CCDP certifications. The BCMSN exam (642-811) will test materials covered under the new Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN) CCNP course.
The exam will certify that the successful candidate has important knowledge and skills necessary to build scalable multilayer switched networks; create and deploy a global intranet, and implement basic troubleshooting techniques in environments that use Cisco multilayer switches for client hosts and services. The exam covers topics on switching technology, implementation and operation, planning and design, and troubleshooting.
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This Series is for anyone preparing for the Cisco BCMSN 642-811 exam or for anyone who wants to learn more about networking.
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BCMSN 642-11: 1 Switched Networks, VLANs, and Trunks - This course explains Cisco's design philosophy for creating scalable campus networks, including Cisco's old three-layer hierarchical model and Cisco's new Enterprise Model design. The different types of Layer 2 and Layer 3 solutions, including the different Ethernet media types, are compared and contrasted. This course also explains how to put a basic configuration on a Catalyst switch, and defines and explains VLANs, trunking, and the Virtual Trunk Protocol (VTP). All three of these areas play an integral part in the setup of VLANs in a network.
BCMSN 642-11: 2 Spanning Tree Protocol - This course explains the function of transparent bridges. It also details the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), including its components, operation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
BCMSN 642-11: 3 Enhancements to STP
This course discusses some of the enhancements to STP to help it scale better in large Layer 2 networks. Those features covered in depth include PortFast, UplinkFast, BackboneFast, Rapid STP, STP Guard features, and EtherChannels.
BCMSN 642-11: 4 Multilayer Switching
This course explains VLANs contain broadcasts, which enable switched networks to be scaled to much larger sizes. To pass traffic between VLANs (different subnets), a Layer 3 device, such as a traditional router or multilayer switch, is needed. This course provides both a traditional approach to this issue, using external routers, as well as multilayer switching (MLS) with internal routers.
BCMSN 642-11: 5 Availability and Redundancy
This course focuses on, and provides solutions for, three types of availability and redundancy: hardware, Layer 2, and Layer 3.
BCMSN 642-11: 6 Multicasts
This course differentiates between network traffic types. It also details the traffic and bandwidth characteristics required when designing a scalable network.
BCMSN 642-11: 7 Networks Quality of Service
This course discusses IP telephony and some of its issues and solutions. It then delves into QoS, discussing QoS components, architecture, and implementation. The course also presents the management of congestion with queuing, conditioning traffic, and Campus QoS.
BCMSN 642-11: 8 QoS Configurations and Verification
This course covers QoS Configuration and Verification. Queuing methods such as WFQ, PQ, IP RTP-PQ, LLQ, and WRRQ are presented. The course concludes with a discussion on how WRED can be used to implement congestion avoidance.
BCMSN 642-11: 9 MLS Optimization and Security
This course focuses on two areas: capturing traffic to optimize a network and switch security features. The first half of this course is dedicated to the SPAN feature of Catalyst switches. The second half covers some of the security features included with the IOS switching software. These features included basic security and restricting traffic between ports on the switch by using VLAN access control lists (ACLs), port security, and private VLANs.
BCMSN 642-11: 10 Metro Ethernet
This course describes the problems and solutions that carriers use to transport Ethernet across their MAN backbones.
BCMSN 642-11: 11 Practice Exams
This course provides two practice exams for the Cisco BCMSN 642-811 certification exam.