Cisco CCNP Routing/Switching 300-101 ROUTE NETWORKING

Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE v2.0)

This Cisco video training course with Jeremy Cioara covers the material needed for the 300-101 Cisco ROUTE exam with real-world experience and gobs of technical content packed together in one.

Practice makes perfect, right? Especially hands-on practice. We highly recommend applying the knowledge you’ve learned in this course by watching Keith Barker’s “Cisco CCNP Route 300-101 Hands-on Labs Exam Prep ” course! 

Recommended skills:

• Basic understanding of concepts taught in ICND1/ICND2

Recommended equipment:

• GNS3 v1.x
• Cisco IOS image (12.x or 15x) supported by GNS3
• Optional: Cisco VIRL, live gear (three 2621XM routers are ideal) or simulators/emulators supporting the technology in the lab may be used instead of GNS3 v1.x.

Related certifications:

• Cisco CCNP Routing and Switching
• Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching

Related job functions:

• Network technician
• Network engineer

The worldwide network landscape is continually changing with new technologies being introduced continually. The new revision of the Cisco ROUTE exam is the most information packed addition to the CCNP curriculum experienced to date! By the time you're done watching, you'll be ready to configure routing protocols at a master level; grasp the big-picture of worldwide Cisco network design; fill in plenty of “knowledge gaps” left by the CCNA on routing protocols; and confidently sit for the 300-101 exam.

Introduction

This book focuses on one major goal: to help you prepare to pass the ROUTE exam (300-101). To help you prepare, this book achieves other useful goals as well: It explains a wide range of networking topics, shows how to configure those features on Cisco routers, and explains how to determine whether the feature is working. As a result, you also can use this book as a general reference for IP routing and IP routing protocols.

However, the motivation for this book, and the reason it sits within the Cisco Press Official Certification Guide series, is that its primary goal is to help you pass the ROUTE

exam. The rest of this introduction focuses on two topics: the ROUTE exam and a description of this book.

The CCNP ROUTE Exam

Cisco announced the original ROUTE exam (642-902) in January 2010. The term ROUTE does not act as an acronym; instead, the name describes the content of the exam, which focuses on IP routing. Generally, the exam includes detailed coverage of the EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP IP routing protocols; IPv6; and a few other smaller topics related to IP routing.

Cisco first announced its initial professional-level certifications in 1998 with the CCNP Routing and Switching certification. CCNP Routing and Switching certification from its inception has included the same kinds of IP routing topics found in today’s ROUTE exam, but the exam names changed over the years. The 300-101 VCE exam names have tracked the names of the associated Cisco authorized courses for the same topics: Advanced Cisco Router Configuration (ACRC) in the early days, followed by Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) , and now ROUTE , because the current Cisco-authorized course also goes by the name ROUTE .

Like its ancestors, the ROUTE exam is a part of the certification requirements for both of the following Cisco certifications:

• Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP)
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)

Each of these certifications emphasizes different perspectives on some similar topics. CCNP focuses on the skills needed by a network engineer working for an enterprise— that is, a company that deploys networking gear for its own purposes. CCDP focuses more on design, but good design requires solid knowledge of the technology and configuration. So, although this book frequently refers to the most popular certification of these two—CCNP—the ROUTE exam does apply to both certifications.

Contents of the ROUTE Exam

Every student who ever takes an exam wants to know what’s on the exam. As with all its exams, Cisco publishes a set of exam topics. These exam topics give general guidance as to what’s on the exam.

You can find the exam topics at Cisco.com. The most memorable way to navigate is to go to www.cisco.com/go/ccnp and look for the ROUTE exam. Also, you can go to the Cisco Learning Network website ( www.cisco.com/go/learnnetspace )—a less memorable URL but a great Cisco certification site. The Cisco Learning Network site hosts exam information, learning tools, and forums in which you can communicate with others and learn more about this and other Cisco exams.

Interestingly, some of the topics on the ROUTE (300-101) exam are topics that you covered in your CCNA studies (that is, in the CCENT [ICND1] and ICND2 curriculum). Also, several topics on the ROUTE exam are not covered in the Cisco official ROUTE course. A big goal of this book is to make sure that you are prepared for any topic you might encounter on the ROUTE exam. Therefore, in addition to covering topics in the official ROUTE course, this book also covers topics not found in the ROUTE course. Additionally, you might want to review your CCENT (ICND1) and ICND2 materials for exam topics coming from those courses.

Table I-1 lists the topics on the Examcollection 300-101 exam blueprint, with a reference to the part of this book that covers the topic or a reference to the CCNA course (that is, CCENT

[ICND1] or ICND2) that covers the topic.

Table I-1 ROUTE Exam (300-101) Topics 

Note Supplemental study materials are available from Cisco Press:

CCNP ROUTE Complete Video Course: http://kwtrain.com/routecourse

CCNA Complete Video Course: http://kwtrain.com/ccnacourse

CCNA Official Certification Library: http://kwtrain.com/ccnabooks