CCNP Service Provider Bootcamp

• Metro Ethernet, MPLS, SR and SRv6 cores [1.1.a]
• Access transport: xDSL, DWDM, DOCSIS, xPON [1.1.b]
• Mobile xhaul for 5G vRAN and O-RAN [1.1.c]
• Routed optical networking [1.1.d]

LAB Map a provider topology of P, PE and CE routers

• IOS, IOS XE and IOS XR compared [1.2]
• The XR commit and rollback model [1.2.c]
• NFV infrastructure and VNF workloads [1.3.a, 1.3.b]
• Containers and application hosting [1.3.c, 1.3.d]

LAB Configure, commit and roll back on IOS XR

• Neighbor adjacency [2.2.a]
• Route advertisement and LSAs [2.2.b]
• Metrics [2.2.d]
• OSPF vs IS-IS [SPRI 1.1]

LAB Build a single-area OSPF core on XR and XE

• Area types and addressing [2.2.c]
• Inter-area advertisement [SPRI 1.2.a]
• Summarization [SPRI 1.2.b]

LAB Fix a broken multiarea OSPF design

• NET and area addressing [2.1.b]
• Route advertisement [2.1.a]
• Wide metrics [2.1.d]
• Single vs multitopology for IPv6 [2.1.c]

LAB Build an IS-IS level 2 core for IPv4 and IPv6

• Level 1/2 route leaking [SPRI 1.3.a]
• Summarization [SPRI 1.3.b]
• Adjacency troubleshooting [2.6.a]
• Advertisement troubleshooting [2.6.b]

LAB Troubleshoot a multilevel IS-IS fault

• BFD [2.8.c, SPRI 1.7.a]
• NSF and NSR [2.8.a, 2.8.b, SPRI 1.7.b, 1.7.c]
• Timers and LFA/IPFRR [SPRI 1.7.d, 1.7.f]
• Link aggregation [2.8.d]

LAB Measure failover with BFD and LFA

• iBGP and eBGP neighbors [2.4.a]
• Prefix advertisement [2.4.b]
• Address families [2.4.c]
• The path selection algorithm [2.3]

LAB iBGP full mesh plus eBGP to a customer

• Path selection in practice [2.4.d]
• Attributes [2.4.e]
• Communities [SPRI 1.5.i]
• Multihomed customers [SPRI 1.5.d]

LAB Steer a dual-homed customer with local preference and MED

• Route reflectors [SPRI 1.4.b, 1.5.b]
• Confederations [SPRI 1.4.a, 1.5.c]
• Dynamic neighbors [SPRI 1.5.h]
• Redistribution [2.4.f]

LAB Replace a full mesh with route reflectors

• Maximum prefix and dampening [SPRI 1.5.f, 1.5.g]
• TTL security and authentication [1.5.b, SPRI 1.5.e]
• Prefix suppression [1.5.c]
• BGPsec [1.5.e]

LAB Harden eBGP sessions to a peer

• Additional paths [2.4.g, SPRI 1.7.g]
• BGP PIC edge and core [2.4.h, SPRI 1.7.e]
• FlowSpec [1.5.f, SPRI 1.5.j]
• Troubleshooting advertisement [SPRI 1.5.a]

LAB Test a BGP PIC failover

• RPL vs route maps [2.5, SPRI 3.1]
• Operations and statement semantics [SPRI 3.2.a, 3.2.b]
• Regular expressions [SPRI 3.2.c]

LAB Translate a route map into RPL

• Policy sets and prefix sets [SPRI 3.2.d, 3.2.g]
• Tags, ACLs and route types [SPRI 3.2.e, 3.2.f, 3.2.h]
• Attributes and communities [SPRI 3.2.i]
• Hierarchical and parameterized policies [SPRI 3.2.j]

LAB Write a parameterized customer policy

• IS-IS manipulation [SPRI 3.3.a]
• OSPF manipulation [SPRI 3.3.b]
• BGP filtering [SPRI 3.4.a]
• BGP traffic steering [SPRI 3.4.b]

LAB Troubleshoot a leaking route policy

• Static and 6to4 tunnels [SPRI 1.6.a, 1.6.b]
• 6PE and IPv6 policy enforcement [SPRI 1.6.c, 1.6.d]
• NAT64 and MAP-T [SPRI 1.6.e, 2.7]
• NAT44, CGNAT and DS-Lite [2.7]

LAB Carry IPv6 across an IPv4 MPLS core with 6PE

• LDP neighbors [3.1.c, SPRI 4.1.a]
• LSPs and label forwarding [SPRI 4.1.b]
• LDP IGP sync [3.1.a]
• Session protection [3.1.b]

LAB Bring up LDP and trace an LSP

• Unified MPLS and unified BGP [3.1.d, SPRI 4.1.c]
• BGP free core [SPRI 4.1.d]
• MPLS OAM [3.1.e]

LAB Troubleshoot an LSP with MPLS ping and traceroute

• IS-IS and OSPF TE extensions [3.2.a]
• RSVP [3.2.b]
• RSVP-TE tunnels [SPRI 4.1.e]
• Fast reroute [3.2.c]

LAB Build a TE tunnel with an explicit path and FRR

• Segment types [3.3.a]
• The SR control plane [3.3.b, SPRI 4.2.a]
• SRGB and SRLB [SPRI 4.2.b]

LAB Enable SR-MPLS in IS-IS

• TI-LFA [3.3.d, SPRI 4.2.c]
• SR prefer and the mapping server [SPRI 4.2.d]
• Running SR alongside LDP [SPRI 4.2.d]

LAB Migrate from LDP to SR with TI-LFA

• SR-TE policies [3.3.c, SPRI 4.3.b]
• Automated steering and coloring [SPRI 4.3.a]
• PCE and PCC [3.3.e, SPRI 4.3.c]
• SRLG and Tree SID [SPRI 4.3.d, 4.3.e]

LAB Build a color-based SR-TE policy

• Flexible algorithm [3.3.f, SPRI 4.4.c]
• SRv6 control and data planes [SPRI 4.4.a, 4.4.b]
• Locators, micro-segments and gateways [3.3.g, SPRI 4.4.d]

LAB Build a low-latency Flex Algo slice

• Domains and trees [SPRI 2.1.a]
• ASM vs SSM [SPRI 2.1.b]
• IP-to-MAC mapping [SPRI 2.2.a]
• IGMP and MLD [4.4.b, SPRI 2.2.f]

LAB Verify IGMP joins

• PIM-SM operation [4.4.a, SPRI 2.2.c]
• Auto-RP, BSR, anycast and phantom RP [SPRI 2.3.a]
• BIDIR and SSM [SPRI 2.3.b, 2.3.c]

LAB Build anycast RP with failover

• Intra vs inter-domain [SPRI 2.1.c]
• MSDP and MBGP [SPRI 2.2.b, 2.2.d, 2.3.d]
• mLDP and P2MP [SPRI 2.2.e]
• Troubleshooting multicast [SPRI 2.4]

LAB Two-domain multicast with MSDP

• Intra-AS VPN [4.3.a]
• Extranet and Internet access [4.3.b]
• Inter-AS and CSC [4.1.b, 4.1.c]
• mVPN [4.1.d]

LAB Customer L3VPN with a shared services VRF

• Ethernet services and VLAN tag rewrite [4.2.a, 4.2.d]
• 802.1ad, 802.1ah and G.8032 [4.2.b]
• Ethernet OAM [4.2.c]
• EVPN [4.1.a]

LAB E-Line pseudowire with CFM

• DiffServ and IntServ [1.4.c]
• Trust boundaries [1.4.d]
• MPLS QoS models [1.4.a]
• MPLS TE QoS and the IPv6 flow label [1.4.b, 1.4.e]

LAB Map customer DSCP to MPLS EXP with short pipe

• Classification and marking [4.5.a]
• Congestion avoidance [4.5.b]
• Policing and shaping [4.5.b]

LAB Build a PE edge policer and shaper

• LPTS and CoPP [1.5.a]
• LDP security [1.5.d]
• AAA and TACACS+ [1.6.b]
• REST API security [1.6.c]

LAB CoPP plus TACACS+ device administration

• uRPF and ACLs [1.7.a, 1.7.b]
• RTBH [1.7.c]
• Traceback and DDoS [1.6.a, 1.6.d]
• MACsec [1.7.d]

LAB Trigger RTBH for an attacked prefix

• Programmable APIs [5.1]
• YANG [5.4]
• NETCONF and RESTCONF [5.9]
• Reading a REST API script [5.2]

LAB Configure IOS XR over NETCONF

• NSO [5.3]
• Ansible and Terraform [5.5]
• Secure ZTP [5.6]

LAB Write an Ansible playbook for PE interfaces

• gRPC and gNMI with TLS and mTLS [5.7]
• NetFlow and IPFIX [5.8]
• SNMPv2c and SNMPv3 [5.10]

LAB Build a model-driven telemetry subscription

• Weak-domain review (SPCOR 1.0 to 5.0)
• SPRI troubleshooting scenarios (1.0 to 4.0)
• Exam timing strategy
• Full-length practice exams

LAB Timed SPCOR and SPRI practice exams