Detailed Course Outline
Design
10%
- Gather and analyze data, and document customer requirements for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network.
- Given an outline of a customer's needs, determine the information required to create a solution.
18%
- Evaluate the requirements for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network, and select the wired and wireless networking technologies for the design.
- Given a scenario, evaluate the customer requirements to identify gaps per a gap analysis, and select components based on the analysis results.
- Given a scenario, translate the business needs of the environment into technical customer requirements.
31%
- Plan and design an Aruba solution per the customer requirements for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network.
- Given a scenario, select the appropriate products based on the customer technical requirements.
- Given the customer requirements, design the high-level architecture.
- Given a customer scenario, explain how a specific technology or solution would meet the customer requirements.
33%
- Produce a detailed design specification document for a single-site campus environment with less than 1000 employees or subsystems of an enterprise-wide network.
- Given a customer scenario, choose the appropriate components that should be included on the BOM.
- Given the customer requirements, determine the component details and document the high-level design.
- Given a customer scenario, determine and document a detailed network management design.
- Given a customer scenario, design and document a detailed network security solution.
- Given a customer scenario, design and document the logical and physical network solutions.
- Given the customer scenario and service level agreements, document the licensing and maintenance requirements.
8%
- Recommend the solution to the customer.
- Given the customer's requirements, explain and justify the recommended solution.
Mobility
20%
- Integrate and implement Aruba Mobile First architecture components and explain their uses.
- Integrate components of the Aruba Mobile First Architecture.
- Differentiate between standalone mode and Master Controller Mode (MCM) features and recommend use cases.
- Differentiate the use of packet forwarding modes (tunnel, decrypt-tunnel, split-tunnel, and bridge).
- Differentiate between redundancy methods, and describe the benefits of L2 and L3 clustering.
- Explain Remote Access architectures and how to integrate the architectures.
- Describe and differentiate advanced licensing features.
20%
- Configure and validate Aruba WLAN secure employee and guest solutions.
- Configure Remote Access with Aruba Solutions such as RAP and VIA.
- Configure and deploy redundant controller solutions based upon a given design.
- Configure a Mesh WLAN.
38%
- Implement advanced services and security.
- Enable multicast DNS features to support discovery across VLAN boundaries.
- Configure role derivation, and explain and implement advanced role features.
- Configure an AAA server profile for a user or administrative access.
- Implement Mobility Infrastructure hardening features.
- Explain Clarity features and functions.
- Implement Voice WLAN based upon a given design.
- Configure primary zones and data zones to support MultiZone AP.
- Implement mobility (roaming) in an Aruba wireless environment.
- Implement tunneled node to secure ArubaOS switches.
10%
- Manage and monitor Aruba solutions.
- Use AirWave to monitor an Aruba Mobility Master and Mobility Controller.
- Perform maintenance upgrades and operational maintenance.
12%
- Troubleshoot Aruba WLAN solutions.
- Troubleshoot controller communication.
- Troubleshoot the WLAN.
- Troubleshoot Remote Access.
- Troubleshoot issues related to services and security.
- Troubleshoot role-based access, per-port based security and Airmatch.
Switching
14%
- Plan the wired network solution.
- Given a scenario with an architect's design and/or customer requirements, identify gaps between the design and customer requirements.
- Given a scenario with an architect's design and/or customer requirements, determine an appropriate implementation, monitoring, and management plan.
46%
- Install and configure the wired network solution.
- Given an implementation plan, configure backplane stacking and VSF.
- Given an implementation plan, explain how to configure Layer 2 technologies.
- Given an implementation plan, explain how to configure and validate Layer 3 interfaces, services, routing protocols and overlays.
- Explain multicast features and configuration concepts.
- Explain ArubaOS-Switch security features and configuration concepts.
- Explain QoS ArubaOS-Switch features and configuration concepts.
- Explain mobility integration features and configuration concepts.
27%
- Troubleshoot the wired network solution.
- Given a scenario, identify a failure such as an IP mismatch, VLAN mismatch, hardware failure, or configuration error.
- Given an action plan to remediate an issue, determine the implications to the network state.
- Given a scenario, determine the cause of the performance problem such as QoS issue, configuration issue with hardware and software, and end node.
- Given a scenario, predict the outcome based on the changes to the security configuration.
- Given a scenario with an identified security issue, determine the remediation actions.
13%
- Manage, maintain, optimize, and monitor the wired network solution.
- Given a scenario, determine a strategy to implement configuration management (maintenance, auditing, backup, archiving) and to monitor the network.
- Analyze data that represents the operational state of a network and determine the appropriate action.
ClearPass
5%
- Intro to ClearPass
25%
- ClearPass for AAA
6%
- External Authentication
23%
- Guest
17%
- Onboard
6%
- Endpoint Analysis
8%
- Posture
5%
- Operations and Admin Users
5%
- Clustering and Redundancy