What Are the Objectives of Cisco ENARSI 300-410?

Being one of the most difficult exams to succeed at, Cisco ENARSI 300-410 has an extensive number of domains covered and broad content. The knowledge and skills networking professionals stand to gain in completing this test will surely set the course for a brilliant career in the field. The main objectives involved are listed below:

• Amounting to the rest 25% of the items in 300-410 exam, the infrastructure services and automation domain will examine the candidate's knowledge in troubleshooting SNMP versions v2c and v3; DHCP in both IPv4 and IPv6; managing devices (Console, Telnet, HTTP, and HTTPS, among others); v5, v9 and flexible NetFlow. More common areas that require candidate to possess sound knowledge in cover troubleshooting network issues using local, syslog and debug files as well as using the Cisco DNA Centre Assurance for network problem troubleshooting.

• Covering topics such as how to troubleshoot administrative distance, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP, the Layer 3 technologies domain of the exam will carry about 35% of the total questions. One will also be tested on how to configure policy-based routing, VRF-Lite, verifying VRF-Lite, and other concepts.

• VPN technologies
• Services and automation in infrastructure

• The next part of the test checks and proves one's skills in carrying out router security features' troubleshooting; explaining IPv6 First Hop security features such as DHCP guard, source guard, RA guard, etc.; usage of IOS AAA for troubleshooting security in devices; and how to troubleshoot CoPP. This section too has a weightage of 20% of the exam content.

• Infrastructure security
• Layer 3 technologies

• The second section focuses on assessing the candidate's abilities in explaining Multi-protocol Label Switching (MPLS) operations such as LSR, LDP, and LSP; Layer 3 VPNs using MPLS; configuring DMVPN, including Dynamic neighbor, Ipsec, Spoke-to-spoke, etc. This domain as a whole will account for 20% of the tasks presented in the exam.

Topics of Cisco 300-410 Exam

Before starting your preparation process, it is suggested that you go through the blueprint to understand the scope of the subject areas that will be measured in the test. You should also pay attention to the associated percentage of the domains as it indicates the weight of the questions that may be administered. All in all, the topics covered in Cisco 300-410 are enumerated below:

Layer 3 Technologies

This subject area consists of 35% of the overall content and the applicants have to perform the following tasks:

• Troubleshooting the attributes, tagging, and filtering for different routing protocols;
• Troubleshooting manual summarization and auto-summarization with routing protocols;
• Troubleshooting the administrative distance of all routing protocols;
• Troubleshooting the mechanisms for loop prevention, such as filtering, slit horizon, tagging, and route poisoning;
• Configuring and verifying VRF-Lite & policy-based routing;
• Explaining Bi-directional Forwarding Detection;
• Troubleshooting redistribution among routing protocols or routing sources;
• Troubleshooting the Open Shortest Path First protocol as well as Border Gateway Protocol & Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol.

Reference: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/exams/current-list/enarsi-300-410.html

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