Cisco CCNP ENCOR (350-401) Cert Prep: 2 Network Management, Security, and Automation

Prepare for the last three domains of the Cisco CCNP ENCOR exam: Network Management, Security, and Automation.

Introduction

• Welcome to ENCOR, part 2
• Using course resources

1. Network Management

• Network management
• Command-line management utilities
• The debug command
• The traceroute command
• The ping command
• SNMP
• SNMP theory
• SNMPv2 configuration
• SNMPv3 configuration
• syslog
• syslog theory
• syslog configuration
• NetFlow
• NetFlow theory
• NetFlow configuration
• Flexible NetFlow configuration
• SPAN
• SPAN theory
• SPAN configuration
• RSPAN configuration
• ERSPAN configuration
• IP SLA
• IP SLA theory
• Basic IP SLA configuration
• Advanced IP SLA configuration
• EEM
• EEM theory
• EEM configuration
• Chapter 1 summary

2. Network Security

• Network security
• Device access security
• Privilege-level passwords
• Line passwords
• Authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) with a local database
• Infrastructure security
• Standard access control list (ACL) configuration
• Extended numbered ACL configuration
• Extended named ACL configuration
• ACL considerations
• Control plane policing (CoPP) theory
• CoPP configuration
• Wireless security
• Overview of Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP)
• EAP configuration
• Overview of WebAuth
• WebAuth configuration
• Pre-shared key (PSK) theory
• PSK configuration
• Security design considerations
• Cyber threat defense
• Endpoint hardening
• Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
• Cisco TrustSec
• Media Access Control Security (MACsec)
• Network Access Control (NAC) with 802.1X
• MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB)
• Web Authentication (WebAuth)
• Chapter 2 summary

3. Network Automation

• Network automation
• Network programmability foundations
• Overview of software-defined networking (SDN)
• JSON formatting
• XML formatting
• YANG data modeling
• Python programming
• Installing Python
• The interactive interpreter
• Data types
• Data type conversions
• Lists
• Dictionaries
• User input
• The IF function
• Loops
• File access
• Network configuration with data models
• NETCONF
• RESTCONF
• Orchestration tools
• Chef
• Puppet
• Ansible
• SaltStack
• Network automation with Cisco DNA Center and vManage
• Cisco DNA Center overview
• Cisco DNA Center workflows
• Overview of vManage
• Cisco DNA Center and vManage APIs
• REST API response codes
• REST API security considerations
• Chapter 3 summary

4. Exam Preparation

• Exam preparation
• How to register for the exam
• Study strategies
• What to do on exam day
• Chapter 4 summary