CCIE Service Provider Version 4 Written and Lab Exam Comprehensive Guide

1. SP architecture concepts
	1.1 IPv6
		1.1.1 Definitions
		1.1.2 Neighbor Discovery details
	1.2 Broadband Aggregation (BBA)
		1.2.1 PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) technology
		1.2.2 Multi-service PPPoE and LAC/LNS architecture
	1.3 MEF Ethernet Services Definitions (MEF 6.2)
	1.4 Platform Architecture
		1.4.1 Route-Switch Processor (RSP) and Route Processor (RP)
		1.4.2 Line cards (LC)
		1.4.3 Switching fabric / backplane and forwarding model
		1.4.4 Multicast forwarding and hierarchical replication
		1.4.5 Satellite operations (remote linecards)
3.1 WAN technologies
	3.1.1 Packet over SONET/SDH
	3.1.2 T1/E1 and T3/E3
	3.1.3 Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM)
3.2 IP connectivity to the customer
	3.2.1 Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)
	3.2.2 Cable Internet
	3.2.3 Wireline
4.  Virtualization concepts
	4.1 SVR vs. HVR
	4.2 Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
	4.3 Software Defined Networking (SDN)
5. Mobility concepts
	5.1 LTE
	5.2 Backhaul
6. Describe BGP path attributes
7. Describe MPLS forwarding and control plane mechanisms
	7.1 Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)
	7.2 Static label bindings
	7.3 MPLS IP and MTU minor options
8. Describe MPLS advanced features
	8.1 Segment Routing
	8.2 Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
	8.3 MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP)
	8.4 Inter-AS MPLS
		8.4.1 Option A (Back to back VRF exchange)
			8.4.1.1 L3VPN
			8.4.1.2 L2VPN
			8.4.1.3 MVPN – GRE (Profile 0) and mLDP (Profile 1)
			8.4.1.4 MPLS TE
			8.4.1.5 Confederation variation
			8.4.1.6 Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC) variation
		8.4.2 Option B (ASBR VPNv4/v6 eBGP)
			8.4.2.1 L3VPN
			8.4.2.2 L2VPN
			8.4.2.3 mVPN – GRE (Profile 0)
			8.4.2.4 MVPN – mLDP (Profile 17)
			8.4.2.5 MPLS TE
			8.4.2.6 Confederation variation
		8.4.3 Option C (ASBR eBGP + Label, RR VPNv4 eBGP)
			8.4.3.1 L3VPN
			8.4.3.2 L2VPN
			8.4.3.3 MVPN – GRE (Profile 0)
			8.4.3.4 MVPN – mLDP (Profile 17)
			8.4.3.5 MPLS TE
			8.4.3.6 Confederation variation
		8.4.4 Option AB Inter-AS hybrid (AKA Option D)
			8.4.4.1 L3VPN
			8.4.4.2 L2VPN
			8.4.4.3 MVPN – GRE (Profile 0) and mLDP (Profile 1)
			8.4.4.4 MPLS TE
		8.4.5 Confederation variation
9. Describe multicast P2MP TE
10. Describe EVPN (EVPN and PBB-EVPN)
	10.1 EVPN
	10.2 PBB-EVPN
11. Describe IEEE 802.1ad (QinQ), IEEE 802.1ah (Mac-in-Mac), and ITU G.8032 (REP)
	11.1 802.1ad QinQ
	11.2 802.1ah MAC in MAC (Provider Backbone Bridges)
	11.3 Ethernet Ring loop-prevention
		11.3.1 Cisco Resilient Ethernet Protocol (REP)
		11.3.2 ITU G.8032
12. Describe broadband forum TR-101 VLAN paradigms (N:1 and 1:1)
13. Describe QoS link fragmentation (LFI), cRTP, and RTP
14. Describe Multichassis/Clustering High Availability (HA)
	14.1 High Availability (HA) Demonstration (NSF/NSR/GR)
		14.1.1 IS-IS NSF and NSR
		14.1.2 OSPFv2 NSF and NSR
		14.1.3 OSPFv3 GR and NSR
		14.1.4 BGP GR and NSR
		14.1.5 LDP GR and NSR
		14.1.6 RSVP-TE GR
		14.1.7 EIGRP NSF
15. Describe Layer 1 failure detection
16. Describe BGPsec
17. Describe backscatter traceback
18. Describe lawful-intercept
19. Describe BGP Flowspec
20. Describe DDoS mitigation techniques
21. Describe network event and fault management
22. Describe performance management and capacity procedures
23. Describe maintenance and operational procedures
24. Describe the network inventory management process
25. Describe network change, implementation, and rollback
	25.1 Processes and best practices
	25.2 NETCONF and YANG
26. Describe the incident management process based on the ITILv3 framework
27. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot advanced BGP features
	27.1 Additional Paths (add-path) and Prefix Independent Convergence (PIC)
	27.2 BGP RT-filter unicast / IPv4 RT-filter feature
	27.3 BGP RR-group and Selective RT Retention
	27.4 Accumulated IGP attribute
		27.4.1 Basic AIGP
		27.4.2 AIGP with cost-communities and BGP confederations
	27.5 Cost-Community / Point Of Insertion (POI)
	27.6 DMZ Link Bandwidth
	27.7 BGP Multicast VPN (MVPN) Theory
	27.8 BGP Link State AF and Path Computation Element (PCE)
28. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MVPN
	28.1 Profile 0: Default MDT − GRE − PIM C−mcast Signaling (Traditional Draft-Rosen)
		28.1.1 PIM-ASM in the core
		28.1.2 PIM-SSM in the core
		28.1.3 PIM-Bidir in the core
	28.2 Profile 1: Default MDT − MLDP MP2MP − PIM C−mcast Signaling (Basic mLDP)
	28.3 Profile 3: Default MDT − GRE − BGP−AD − PIM C−mcast Signaling
	28.4 Profile 6: VRF MLDP − In−band Signaling
	28.5 Profile 7: Global MLDP In−band Signaling
	28.6 Profile 8: Global Static − P2MP−TE
	28.7 Profile 9: Default MDT − MLDP − MP2MP − BGP−AD − PIM C−mcast Signaling
	28.8 Profile 10: VRF Static – P2MP TE - BGP−AD
	28.9 Profile 11: Default MDT − GRE − BGP−AD − BGP C−mcast Signaling
	28.10 Profile 12: Default MDT − MLDP − P2MP − BGP−AD − BGP C−mcast Signaling
	28.11 Profile 13: Default MDT − MLDP − MP2MP − BGP−AD − BGP C−mcast Signaling
	28.12 Profile 14: Partitioned MDT – MLDP P2MP – BGP-AD – BGP C-mcast signaling
	28.13 Profile 17: Default MDT – MLDP P2MP – BGP-AD – PIM C-mcast signaling
29. Describe and optimize multicast scale and performance
	29.1 Inter-AS Multicast and Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
	29.2 Multicast Only Fast Re-Reroute (MoFRR)
	29.3 Protecting mLDP LSPs with Fast Re-Reoute (FRR)
	29.4 MVPN Extranet
		29.4.1 PIM/GRE
		29.4.2 mLDP
30. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS QoS models and related features
	30.1 Uniform
	30.2 Short pipe
	30.3 Pipe (AKA long pipe)
	30.4 QoS Policy Propagation through BGP (QPPB)
	30.5 QoS specifics on IOS XRv
	30.6 Network Based Application Recognition (NBAR) summary and configurations
		30.6.1 NBAR Custom Protocols
		30.6.2 NBAR Attributes
		30.6.3 NBAR Attributes with HTTP
		30.6.4 NBAR Protocol-ID
		30.6.5 NBAR Protocol Discovery
31. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS TE / QoS mechanisms
	31.1 MPLS RSVP-TE (General)
		31.1.1 TE Topology (TED) construction and RSVP-TE signaling
		31.1.2 TE attributes
		31.1.3 Directing traffic into TE tunnels and tunnel stitching
	31.2 TE Fast-ReRoute (FRR) and rapid provisioning
		31.2.1 Link (NHOP), Node (NNHOP), and Path protection – Manual
		31.2.2 Automatic tunnels (with OSPF)
	31.3 CBTS (IOS) and PBTS (XR)
	31.4 DiffServ-aware Traffic Engineering (DS-TE)
		31.4.1 Pre-standard Model
		31.4.2 IETF Russian Dolls Model  (RDM)
		31.4.3 IETF Maximum Allocation Model (MAM)
		31.4.4 Per-VRF TE techniques
32. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot E-LAN and E-TREE (extended to general L2VPN)
	32.1 MPLS encapsulated L2VPN
		32.1.1 Static configuration
			32.1.1.1 E-LINE (VPWS)
			32.1.1.2 Advanced PW features (CW, Status, etc)
			32.1.1.3 E-LAN and E-TREE (VPLS)
			32.1.1.4 Multisegment PW (MS-PW) switching
			32.1.1.5 EVC rewrite operations
		32.1.2 BGP auto-discovery for VPWS/VPLS
			32.1.2.1 LDP signaling
			32.1.2.2 BGP signaling
		32.1.3 Hierarchical VPLS (H-VPLS)
			32.1.3.1 MPLS in the Access Network
			32.1.3.2 QinQ in the Access Network
	32.2 IP encapsulated L2VPN
		32.2.1 E-LINE with L2TP
		32.2.2 E-LAN and E-TREE using OTV
33. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Unified MPLS and CSC
	33.1 Carrier Supporting Carrier (CSC)
		33.1.1 L3VPN
		33.1.2 L2VPN
		33.1.3 MVPN (Profile 0 with SSM)
		33.1.4 TE and TE-FRR
	33.2 Unified (seamless) MPLS
		33.2.1 IS-IS
			33.2.1.1 L3VPN
			33.2.1.2 L2VPN
			33.2.1.3 MVPN (mLDP profiles 1 and 17)
			33.2.1.4 Inter-area TE and TE-FRR
		33.2.2 OSPF (summarized)
			33.2.2.1 L3VPN
			33.2.2.2 L2VPN
			33.2.2.3 MVPN (mLDP profiles 1 and 17)
			33.2.2.4 MPLS TE and TE-FRR
34. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot LISP
35. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot GRE and mGRE-based VPN
	35.1 P2P GRE tunneling and GRE features
	35.2 Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) basics
		35.2.1 Phase 1
		35.2.2 Phase 2
		35.2.3 Phase 3
	35.3 mGRE-based L3VPN
36. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IPv6 transition mechanisms
	36.1 NAT44 and NAT444
	36.2 NAT64 and NAT464
	36.3 Dual stack lite (DS-lite)
	36.4 IPv6 tunneling over IPv4 networks
		36.4.1 GRE / Manual IPv6 tunnels
		36.4.2 6to4 automatic tunnels
		36.4.3 6 Rapid Deployment (6RD)
		36.4.4 Intra-Site Automatic tunnel Addressing Protocol (ISATAP)
	36.5 IPv4/IPv6 Internet Access over MPLS using NAT44
37. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot end-to-end fast convergence
	37.1 Loop Free Alternate (LFA) for IPv4
		37.1.1 OSPFv2
			37.1.1.1 Direct LFA
			37.1.1.2 Remote LFA
		37.1.2 IS-IS
			37.1.2.1 Direct LFA
			37.1.2.2 Remote LFA
		37.1.3 EIGRP
	37.2 Loop Free Alternate (LFA) for IPv6 (XR Only)
		37.2.1 OSPFv3
			37.2.1.1 Direct LFA
			37.2.1.2 Remote LFA
		37.2.2 IS-IS
			37.2.2.1 Direct LFA
			37.2.2.2 Remote LFA
	37.3 Convergence optimizations for BGP
	37.4 Convergence optimizations for IGPs
		37.4.1 IS-IS
		37.4.2 OSPFv2 and OSPFv3
38. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot multi-VRF CE and advanced VRF techniques
	38.1 Multi-VRF CE (VRF-Lite)
		38.1.1 Basic VRF-Lite
		38.1.2 OSPF and sham-links
		38.1.3 EIGRP and Site-of-Origin (SoO)
		38.1.4 IS-IS
		38.1.5 BGP and Site-of-Origin (SoO)
		38.1.6 Static routing
		38.1.7 RIP
	38.2 VRF label modes
	38.3 VRF selection for traffic leaking
	38.4 VRF route leaking
	38.5 L3VPN import/export maps
	38.6 Half-Duplex VRF (HDVRF)
	38.7 BGP Local Convergence (VRF Local Protection)
39. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Layer 2 failure detection
	39.1 Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)
	39.2 Uni-Directional Link Detection (UDLD)
40. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Layer 3 failure detection
	40.1 Individual Protocol Hello packets
	40.2 Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)
41. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot control plane protection techniques
	41.1 Control Plane Policing (CPP) in XE and Local Packet Transport Services (LPTS) in XR
42. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot logging and SNMP security
	42.1 Logging
	42.2 SNMP security
43. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot timing
	43.1 Network Time Protocol (NTP)
	43.2 1588v2 (Precision Time Protocol(PTP))
	43.3 Synchronous Ethernet  (SyncE)
44. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot SNMP traps, RMON, EEM, and EPC
	44.1 SNMP traps
	44.2 Remote Monitor (RMON) in XE and logging correlation in XR
	44.3 Embedded Event Manager (EEM)
	44.4 Embedded Packet Capture (EPC)
45. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot port mirroring protocols
	45.1 Switch port analyzer (SPAN)
	45.2 Remote SPAN (RSPAN)
	45.3 Encapsulated RSPAN (ERSPAN)
46. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot Netflow and IPFIX
	46.1 Flexible Netflow (FNF)
	46.2 IPFIX
47. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot IP SLA
	47.1 Basic IP SLA probes, responders, features, and configurations
	47.2 UDP-jitter and VOIP codec probes
	47.3 Advanced ICMP probes
	47.4 MPLS probes
	47.5 Ethernet probes including ITU-T Y.1731 Basics and Performing Monitoring (PM)
	47.6 Miscellaneous probes
	47.7 Aggregated statistics, history, group scheduling, and miscellaneous features
	47.8 Enhanced Object Tracking (EOT)
	47.9 IPv6 SLA
	47.10 IOS-XR IP SLA and EOT
48. Describe, implement, and troubleshoot MPLS OAM and Ethernet OAM
	48.1 MPLS ping, MPLS traceroute, and VCCV
	48.2 MPLS LSP Monitor (MPLSLM) / LSP Health Monitor
	48.3 Ethernet Management Tools (CFM, OAM, and E-LMI)
		48.3.1 Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) (802.3ag)
		48.3.2 Ethernet OAM (IEEE 802.3ah)
		48.3.3 Ethernet Local Management Interface (E-LMI)  (MEF.16)
		48.3.4 Ethernet CFM, OAM, E-LMI, and Y.1731 on CSR1000v (Comprehensive)
49. Service Provider security best practices (Comprehensive)
	49.1 Control plane security best practices
	49.2 Management plane security best practices
	49.3 Data plane security best practices
	49.4 Advanced security techniques and features