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Cisco ENARSI – The Exam Review!

Yes, it is finally here – I have a few moments to tell you about the ENARSI certification exam from Cisco. I hope you enjoy my exam review!

Remember, this important exam helps you achieve the new CCNP Enterprise. This is by far the most popular concentration exam that students are choosing to add to ENCOR. Questions about the exam or how to get ready for it? Let me know in the comments below!

Cisco ENARSI: The Expanded Blueprint

Here is the initial expanded blueprint for ENARSI! If there are changes to this document, they will be listed in the Change Log below the list. Enjoy your studies!

  • 1.0 Layer 3 Technologies
    • Troubleshoot administrative distance (all routing protocols)
    • Troubleshoot route maps for any routing protocol (attributes, tagging, filtering)
    • Troubleshoot loop prevention mechanisms
      • Filtering
      • Tagging
      • Split horizon
      • Route poisoning
    • Troubleshoot redistribution between any routing protocols or routing sources
    • Troubleshoot manual and auto-summarization with any routing protocol
    • Configure and verify policy-based routing
    • Configure and verify VRF-Lite
    • Describe Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
    • Troubleshoot EIGRP (classic and named mode)
      • Address families
        • IPv4
        • IPv6
      • Neighbor relationship and authentication
      • Loop-free path selections
        • RD, FD, FC
        • Successor
        • Feasible successor
        • Stuck in active
      • Stubs
      • Load balancing (equal and unequal cost)
      • Metrics
    • Troubleshoot OSPF (v2/v3)
      • Address families (IPv4, IPv6)
      • Neighbor relationship and authentication
      • Network types, area types, and router types
        • Point-to-point, multipoint, broadcast, nonbroadcast
        • Area type: backbone, normal, transit, stub, NSSA, totally stub
        • Internal router, backbone router, ABR, ASBR
        • Virtual link
        • Path preference
    • Troubleshoot BGP (Internal and External)
      • Address families
        • IPv4
        • IPv6
      • Neighbor relationship and authentication
        • Next-hop
        • Mulithop
        • 4-byte AS
        • Private AS
        • Route refresh
        • Synchronization
        • Operation
        • Peer group
        • States and timers
      • Path preference
      • Route reflector
      • Policies
        • Inbound/outbound filtering
        • Path manipulation
  • 2.0 VPN Technologies
    • Describe MPLS operations
      • LSR
      • LDP
      • Label switching
      • LSP
    • Describe MPLS Layer 3 VPN
    • Configure and verify DMVPN (single hub)
      • GRE/mGRE
      • NHRP
      • IPsec
      • Dynamic neighbor
      • Spoke-to-spoke
  • 3.0 Infrastructure Security
    • Troubleshoot device security using IOS AAA
      • TACACS+
      • RADIUS
      • Local database
    • Troubleshoot router security features
      • IPv4 access control lists (standard, extended, time-based)
      • IPv6 traffic filter
      • Unicast reverse path forwarding (uRPF)
    • Troubleshoot control plane policing (CoPP)
      • Telnet
      • SSH
      • HTTP(S)
      • SNMP
      • EIGRP
      • OSPF
      • BGP
    • Describe IPv6 First Hop security features
      • RA guard
      • DHCP guard
      • binding table
      • ND inspection/snooping
      • source guard
  • 4.0 Infrastructure Services
    • Troubleshoot device management
      • Console and VTY
      • Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, SCP
      • (T)FTP
    • Troubleshoot SNMP
      • Version 2c
      • Version 3
    • Troubleshoot network problems using logging
      • local
      • syslog
      • debugs
      • conditional debugs
      • timestamps
    • Troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP
      • DHCP client
      • IOS DHCP server
      • DHCP relay
      • DHCP options)
    • Troubleshoot network performance issues using IP SLA
      • jitter
      • tracking objects
      • delay
      • connectivity
    • Troubleshoot NetFlow
      • v5
      • v9
      • flexible NetFlow
    • Troubleshoot network problems using Cisco DNA Center assurance
      • Connectivity
      • Monitoring
      • Device health
      • Network health