Foundry Networks Certified Network Engineer

Certification: FNCNE

The FNCP awards the designation of the Foundry Networks Certified Network Engineer (FNCNE). This is achieved through completion of an online exam comprised of IP networking technology and in-depth knowledge of Foundry products. The exam consists of 82 multiple-choice questions and typically takes 90 minutes to complete. The exam questions are very challenging and prior "hands on" experience is essential. Foundry's testing partner, Prometric, provides fast and simple online registration. You can register for the exam 24 hours a day worldwide.

Costs
The fee for the online exam is US $125.00. This fee primarily covers the costs of providing secure, reliable, and trusted scores by Prometric.

Benefits
   . Enhances career advancement
   . Increased industry recognition
   . Increases credibility
   . Validates knowledge and skills
   . Provides a competitive advantage
   . Maintains proficiency

A FNCNE certified individual is able to:
   . Install and configure Foundry switches and routers in a small to medium sized network
   . Implement Foundry's Layers 4 - Layers 7 switching, firewalls and sever load balancing solutions
   . Provide level 1 support and diagnostics, and fault isolation

How to prepare

Individuals pursuing a Certified Network Engineer (CNE) certification should have a fundamental knowledge of networking prior to learning the specifics of Foundry networking. The Basic Switch Router Configuration and Maintenance (TRNG-0103) and the Introduction to Web Switching and Load Balancing (TRNG-0202) courses prepare the candidate for the FNCNE certification.

Courses & Exams

Basic Switch Router Configuration and Management (TRNG-0103)

Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course you should have a working knowledge of the listed technologies and the following personal hardware during the week of attendance.

Working Knowledge of:

• The OSI reference model
• The difference between networks using IP and IPX protocols.
• The differences between and functions of layer 2 and layer 3 devices (switches and routers)
• Spanning Tree Protocol
• Inter-domain routing protocols (RIP, static routes)

Personal hardware

• Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
• Ethernet NIC card
• CD Drive
• Serial Interface (with a DB9 Connector)
• TFTP application

Course Content

The TRNG-103 course is a comprehensive study of layer 2 and layer 3 features of Foundry Networks switches and routers. These features are common to the majority of Foundry's layer 2 and 3 devices. LAN, MAN, and WAN networks are configured in the labs. Upon completion of this course, you will be able to select appropriate Foundry devices, connect, configure, and troubleshoot them in LAN, MAN and WAN networks.

Course Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Identify where Foundry Products are used in a Typical Data Network
• Create Layer 2 and 3 Data Networks using Foundry Switches / Routers
• Use the Command Line Interface (CLI) to configure and manage Foundry Switch / Router interfaces, VLANs and protocols.
• Upgrade software images and files on Foundry Switch / Routers
• Interconnect Foundry Switch Routers based on a network design
• Configure Access Lists
• Troubleshoot using CLI show commands

Course Outline

The Essentials

- Configure Foundry products with the Command Line Interface.
- Determine port settings from front panel LED's
- List the contents of Flash
- Move contents between Flash and a TFTP Server
- Determine the Layer 2 or 3 configuration of the product
- Control User Access

Trunks

- Define the different types of trunks
- Configure a trunk
- Use the CLI to find which ports belong to which trunks

VLANs

- Configure Layer 2 Port based VLANs
- Configure 802.1q Frame Tagging
- Configure Layer 3 Protocol VLANs
- Switching Routers (routing between VLANs in one product)
- VLAN Groups (simultaneous configuration and management of 1000 or more VLANs)

Spanning Tree Protocol

- Foundry STP default 802.1d
- Per VLAN Spanning Tree and PVST+ compatibility
- Fast Port Span
- Fast Uplink Span
- Rapid Spanning Tree (802.1w)
- STP per VLAN Group
- SuperSpan Spanning Tree

Routing

- Describe the basic functions of RIP
- Enable RIP on a router interface
- Configure a Static Route
- Configure a Default Route

Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

- List the differences between OSPF & RIP
- Describe the basic OSPF terms
- List the show commands used for OSPF troubleshooting
- Describe the Hello Protocol & Designated Router Elections
- List the OSPF LSA types and their function
- Configure OSPF in a variety of configurations:

- Multi-Area OSPF
- Stub Area OSPF
- Rip and OSPF Redistribution
- OSPF Virtual links

Boarder Gateway Protocol (BGP)

- Describe the basic BGP terms
- List the differences between IGP and EGP
- Describe an Autonomous System (AS)
- List the steps of BGP peering
- List the differences between IBGP & EBGP
- Configure EBGP and IBGP:

- EBGP for Multihome ISPs
- IBGP using loopback interfaces
- EBGP Multihop

Access Control Lists (ACLs)

- Describe differences between a Standard ACLs & Extended ACL
- Configure Standard & Extended ACLs
- Applying ACLs to Policy Based Routing

Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

- Describe VRRP and VRRPe (Enhanced)
- Configure VRRP and VRRPe

Who should attend

The Target Audience for this course is as follows:

• Customers or Resellers who are new to Foundry Networks Products
• Network technicians new to Foundry Products and Services
• Network Administrators responsible for implementing and managing small to large business networks.
• Network support staff who will act as network device installers and first-line support for a local to global sized business environment.
• FNCNE Candidates

Introduction to Web Switching & Load Balancing (TRNG-0202)

Prerequisites

To fully benefit from this course you should have a working knowledge of the listed technologies and the following personal hardware during the week of attendance.

Working Knowledge of:

• Foundry Networks Command Line Interface
• Foundry Router Interfaces addressing
• Domain Name Service (DNS)
• The OSI reference model
• The classification of TCP/UDP traffic based on port number
• The structure of a URL address (Prefix / Pattern / Suffix )

Personal hardware

• Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
• Ethernet NIC card
• CD Drive
• Serial Interface (with a DB9 connector)
• TFTP application

Course Content

The TRNG-202 course is a comprehensive study of the layer 4 through 7 features of Foundry Networks ServerIron Products. The student gains hands on experience in configuration of typical installations with the ServerIron product. Lecture topics are supported with real world labs involving: Source NAT, Direct Server Return, Active-Active Server Load Balancing, Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB), Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).

Course Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Identify where Foundry ServerIron Products are used in a Typical Data Network
• Configure ServerIrons in Layer 4 through 7 applications
• Incorporate fault tolerance and high availability at:
• The local level with multiple servers that failover
• The public address level with Multiple Virtual IP addresses (VIPs) that failover
• The global level with multiple business sites that failover.
• Redirect content to cache servers without configuring a browser proxy
• Configure Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB)
• Implement Policy Based Switching keying on SSL ID, cookie, or URL parsing

Course Outline

Intro to ServerIron

• Overview of ServerIron Products
• Describe Layer 4 Switching
• Describe Server Load Balancing
• Describe Layer 4 Security Issues

Configuring Server Load Balancing (SLB)

• Describe a Basic SLB Configuration
• Execute Show server commands
• Perform Basic SLB Lab
• Perform an Active Standby SLB Lab
• Describe Filters
• Perform Source NAT Lab

Advanced Features of SLB

• Describe Switch Back (DSR
• Perform a DSR Lab
• Describe Multiple Virtual IP addresses
• Perform Active-Active Lab
• Describe Remote Server Farms

Sample Designs of SLB

Transparent Cache Switching (TCS)

• Describe the Benefits of TCS
• Describe Web caching
• Describe TCS Applications

Configuring (TCS)

• Basic TCS layout
• Define Output policies
• Define Cache Servers
• Define Cache Groups
• Define Cache Traffic Distribution
• Filtering Cache Traffic

Firewall Load Balancing (FWLB)

• Describe the benefits of Firewall Load Balancing
• Describe Types of Firewalls
• Review a Basic FWLB example
• Describe Show FW commands
• Perform a Basic FWLB Lab
• Review Sample FWLB Designs
• Describe Stateful FWLB

Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)

• Describe GSLB
• Describe GSLB Benefits
• Describe GSLB Site Predictor Metric
• Describe a Configuration example
• Perform a GSLB Lab (3 Sites)

Policy Based Switching

• Describe Cookie Based Switching
• Describe Cookie Based Hashing
• Describe SSL Session ID Switching
• Describe URL Switching

Who should attend?
The Target Audience for this course is as follows:

• Customers or Resellers who are new to Foundry Networks Products
• Network technicians new to Foundry Products and Services
• Network Administrators responsible for implementing and managing small to large business networks.
• Network support staff who will act as network device installers and first-line support for a local to global sized business environment.
• Foundry Networks Certified Network Engineer FNCNE Candidates

Foundry Networks Certified Network Professional

Certification: FCNCP

Foundry Networks Certified Network Professional
The FNCP awards the designation of the Foundry Networks Certified Network Professional (FNCNP). This is achieved through completion of an online exam comprised of advanced concepts and applications in STP, OSPF, and BGP technologies and in-depth knowledge of Foundry products. The exam consists of 96 multiple-choice questions including a series of network application questions and typically takes 90 minutes to complete. The exam questions are very challenging and prior "hands on" experience is essential. Foundry's testing partner, Prometric, provides fast and simple online registration. You can register for the exam 24 hours a day worldwide.

Costs and Benefits
The cost of the certification exam is small, but the value is high.

Costs
The fee for the online exam is US $150.00. This fee primarily covers the costs of providing secure, reliable, and trusted scores by Prometric.

Benefits

• Enhances career advancement
• Increased industry recognition
• Increases credibility
• Validates knowledge and skills
• Provides a competitive advantage
• Maintains proficiency
• Special invite to participate in early access courses or Beta courses.
• Added to the subscription distribution of the Foundry's news letter (Switched)
• Authorized use of Foundry Networks' logo on business cards
• Special discounts off designated Advanced Foundry Networks courses

A FNCNP certified individual is able to:

• Install and configure Foundry switches and routers in a medium to large sized networks
• Implement advanced features of BGP, OSPF, and Spanning Tree technologies in an existing network
• Provide level 2 support and diagnostics, and fault isolation

How to prepare
Individuals pursuing a Certified Network Professional (CNP) certification should have earned the entry certification (FNCNE) prior to taking the FNCNP. The Advanced Switch Router Configuration and Maintenance (TRNG-0405) prepare the candidate for the FNCNE certification.

Courses & Exams

Advanced Switching / Routing Configuration and Management
(TRNG- 0405)

Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course you should have attended the Basic Switch/Router Configuration and Management (TRNG 0103) . It is also recommended that you have previous exposure to switching and routing issues in a Foundry Networks environment. You should possess: a working knowledge of the listed technologies and the following personal hardware during the week of attendance:

Working Knowledge of:

• Spanning Tree Protocol 802.1d
• Inter-domain routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, static routes)
• Exterior-domain routing protocols (BGP)
• FNCNE level knowledge or equivalent of Layer 2 switching and Layer 3 IP routing
• Foundry Networks command line interface (CLI)

We strongly recommend that students bring their own PC to act as the console during labs.

Recommended Personal hardware

• Laptop Personal Computer with W95 or higher
• Ethernet NIC card
• CD Drive
• Serial Interface

Course Content
The TRNG-0405 course is an in-depth study of layer 2 and layer 3 features of Foundry Networks switches and routers including advanced technologies such as Spanning Tree, OSPF, and BGP. It covers network design, system configuration and troubleshooting using the Foundry switches and routers.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:

• Implement advanced designs and configurations in Layer 2 and 3 Data Networks
• Implement advanced STP, OSPF and BGP features on Foundry Switches / Routers
• Tune the Foundry Networks Layer 2 network for fast STP failover
• Design and configure multi-homed networks with BGP attributes and scale IBGP with route relectors
• Interconnect Foundry Switch Routers based on a network design
• Troubleshoot the in class design implementations using the CLI show commands

Course Outline

Spanning Tree

Review of 802.1D Spanning Tree Protocol

• Describe the Purpose of 802.1 D Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• Describe STP Device Titles and the roles they play in defining an Active Path to the Root Bridge
• Describe the Device Title Election Process
• Describe the two types of Bridge Protocol Data Units
• Describe the five STP port states
• Describe an STP recovery from a Topology Change
• Predict how Spanning Tree will converge on a given network topology

Root Bridge Election & Path Cost

• List the Spanning Tree Defaults for Foundry Hardware
• Define Spanning Tree Bridge and Port Parameters
• Record STP parameters of a network, and predict the Root Bridge Election
• Change STP parameters so that a different Root Bridge is elected based on your design
• Change STP timers so that a spanning tree is resolved more quickly
• Record the topology change history

Spanning Tree Applications

• Describe the Hierarchal Model for Enterprise Switching
• List Foundry Networks Spanning Tree Features and where they are applicable

Rapid Spanning Tree 802.1W- Draft 3

• Shorten the STP convergence time by applying Rapid Spanning Tree
• Verify that the convergence (failover) time is shortened
• Record the (failback) time
• Describe why failover and failback times are different
• Adjust the Forward-Delay to shorten the 802.1W failback time
• Choose which ports can benefit from Draft 3 of 802.1 W
  Single Instance Spanning Tree
• Simplify Spanning Tree environments by reducing the topology to one STP instance
• Describe how CPU resources are conserved with one STP instance compared to many STP instances
• Implement conversions to Single Instance Spanning Tree and back to Per VLAN without causing network disruption

Per VLAN Spanning Tree

• Load-balance the traffic of two VLANs across two uplinks
• Verify that traffic from either active link will failover to the other active link
• Implement Rapid Spanning Tree in the PerVLAN application and have rapid failover between the active links
• Determine which switches will provide 802.1w Draft 3 failover depending on the VLAN uplink being broken

Per VLAN Group Spanning Tree

• Describe a Topology Group as a general tool for organizing layer 2 paths
• Reduce CPU usage and maintain uplink load balancing by grouping several VLANS under two STP instances
• Verify that all VLAN member traffic from either active link will failover to the other active link
• Implement Rapid Spanning Tree in a Per VLAN Group STP application and have rapid failover between the active links
• Verify that implementing Per VLAN Group Spanning tree has not compromised Rapid STP failover time
  VRRPe in a Spanning Tree Environment
• Test the advantages of two different layer 2 designs that implement VRRPe in a network core
• Describe how a Backup Router becomes Master through non-reception of Hello packets
• Configure 2 VRIDs and verify both L2 and L3 failover between them
• Observe the effect of VRRPe hello packet interruption and delay

OSPF

OSPF Adjacency

• Describe the OSPF Packet Types
• Describe the process of OSPF Neighbor Adjacency
• View the states of the adjacency process
• Use the OSPF debug commands to troubleshoot adjacency
• Describe how Link State costs will effect the route table
• Configure Link State costs
• Configure MD5 Authentication

OSPF Database

• Describe the six different Link State Advertisements LSA's and their uses
• Describe the difference between internal and external LSA's
• Record the LSA's stored in a router database
• Describe the effect that Normal OSPF area boundaries have on LSA migration
• Verify this migration in the lab

OSPF Route Summarization

• Configure redistribution to allow Multiple Interior routing protocols to coexist in the same network
• Describe why route summarization is beneficial to an OSPF network
• Recognize when routes should be summarized
• Design and configure Intra-Area and Inter-Area Summarization
• Configure, monitor and troubleshoot redistribution problems

Administrative Distances

• Define an Administrative Distance
• Describe the difference between an Administrative Distance and a Metric
• Define default Administrative Distances
• Modify an Administrative Distance

Blocking External LSA's

• List the LSA's types that flood into Normal areas
• List the LSA's types that flood into Stub areas
• List the LSA's types that flood into Totally Stubby areas
• List the LSA's types that flood into Not So Stubby areas (NSSA)
• Use the show ip ospf database commands to recognize what areas should be made into a particular type to enhance network performance
• Make area type changes and verify reduction of external LSA's in OSPF databases
  OSPF Filters
• List the filter types and describe their behavior
• Design and deploy filters to block route updates and traffic

BGP

BGP Fundamentals

• List the BGP message types and describe their purposes
• Explain the BGP session states
• Describe how BGP operates
• Describe how BGP attributes are used as basic routing policy tools
• Configure and troubleshoot BGP session startup
• Explain why attributes are so important in BGP

Route Filtering and Selection

• Describe the Route Exchange and Filtering processes including; IP tables, BGP tables, input and output policies
• Describe the two levels and two direction of BGP filtering mechanisms

Implementing BGP Policy Changes

• Explain the three ways to implement BGP configuration changes
• Explain the caution when using soft-reconfiguration and hard clear
• Describe memory considerations when using soft-reconfiguration
• List the advantages if using Route Refresh (RFC 2918)
• Implement non-disruptive BGP policy changes using Route Refresh

Manipulating Attributes using Route Maps

• Explain how each attribute is used to influence route selection or traffic flow
• Configure MEDs three ways to introduce inbound traffic
• Implement inbound and outbound traffic flow designs using BGP attributes
• Design BGP policies based on the knowledge gained configuring attributes

Filtering Prefixes

• Configure Access List to filter prefixes one by one
• Explain why AS-Path access-list are used in a BGP network
• List six common AS-Path regular expressions and describe what route update they will filter
• Implement a security design with AS Path access-list
• Configure prefix-list to prevent customers from advertising routes with a mask greater than 26 bits

Transit Autonomous Systems

• Describe how communities are used to simply route filtering
• Explain the RFC-1997 AS:NN community names
• Design community based policies to control propagation of the route updates
• Implement a transit policy design to control route updates to both customers and other ISPs
• Configure route-maps, neighbor statements, set and match command to implement communities

Redundancy

• Explain who controls Inbound and Outbound traffic
• Describe how BGP is not needed to implement multiple links to one or more Service Providers
• List the three common ways to have multiple links to one ISP
• Configure BGP routing for customers with multiple links to one or more Service Providers

MultiHomed to ISPs

• Explain why and when BGP should be used
• Design and configure load sharing for customer's (outbound) traffic and return (inbound) traffic
• Describe the load sharing requirements of both a typical internet customer and typical ISP
• Configure 3 types of multihome designs
• Design and deploy BGP communities for consistent return path selection

BGP Convergence and Route flap Dampening

• Explain why route flap dampening is used
• Describe what happens when a route flaps
• List the operational steps of route flap dampening
• Configure route flap dampening

Scaling IBGP

• Describe IBGP full mesh limitations
• List the guidelines for a table IBGP design
• Explain the operation of BGP route reflectors
• Describe how BGP confederations work
• Implement a route reflector design
• Configure peer groups

Who should attend
The Target Audience for this course is as follows:

• Customers or Resellers who are experienced with Foundry Networks Products
• Network technicians with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting experience with Foundry Products
• Network Administrators responsible for implementing and managing small to large enterprise and ISP networks.
• Network support staff that will act as network device installers and first-line support for a local to global sized business environment.
  
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