To get the most out of this exam review, you should have a solid understanding of the following topics:

• Network fundamentals, including protocols, infrastructure components, architecture and topologies, and IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
• LAN switching technologies, switch stacking and chassis aggregation, port security, and threat mitigation
• Routing fundamentals, including routing tables, static and dynamic routing, and RIPv2
• Infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, TFTP, NTP, and NAT
• Infrastructure maintenance, including monitoring, device management, device configuration, security, device hardening, maintenance, and troubleshooting

You should also be able to:

• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot inter-VLAN routing, and OSPF and EIGRP for IPv4 and IPv6
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot VLANs, inter-switch connectivity, STP protocols and features, and EtherChannel
• Configure monitoring and device management and troubleshoot connectivity issues
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot HSRP and access lists for traffic filtering as well as verify ACLs with the APIC-EM Path Trace ACL Analysis Tool
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot WAN technologies, including PPP, MLPPP, PPoE, GRE, and single-homed connectivity using eBGP IPv4
• Describe WAN topologies, connectivity options, and QoS concepts
• Describe key security concepts
• Describe remote access and VPNs
• Describe security password policy elements
• Configure WLAN using WPA2 PSK using the GUI
• Explain how automation impacts network management and deployment
• Describe controller based and software defined architectures (underlay, overlay and fabric)
• Describe characteristics of REST-based APIs (CRUD, HTTP, verbs, and data encoding)
• Recognize the capabilities of configuration management mechanisms Puppet, Chef and Ansible

This exam review covers the following objectives:

• Network fundamentals
• Network access
• IP connectivity
• IP services
• Security fundamentals
• Automation and programmability

Associated Certification: CCNA

Associated Exam: 200-301 CCNA