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1 Dell Networking Professional Certification ........................................................................................... 5
1.1 Dell Networking Professional Certification Website ...............
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Contents
1 Dell Networking Professional Certification ........................................................................................... 5
1.1 Dell Networking Professional Certification Website ..................................................................... 5
1.2 Certification Learning Paths .......................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Who should take the exam ........................................................................................................... 5
1.4 Exam description ........................................................................................................................... 6
1.5 This Study Guide ........................................................................................................................... 7
1.6 Pre-Requisites for this study guide ............................................................................................... 7
2 Exam sections and topics ...................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Pre Site and On Site: Network deployment or cutover plans, equipment and infrastructure to
support deployment or cutover configurations. ...................................................................................... 8
2.1.1 Network deployment ............................................................................................................ 8
2.1.2 Cutover plans ........................................................................................................................ 8
2.1.3 Equipment and infrastructure to support deployment or cutover configurations .............. 9
2.2 Physical Installation: Inventory, component placement, switch hardware and cabling, poweron
procedure............................................................................................................................................. 9
2.2.1 Inventory ............................................................................................................................... 9
2.2.2 Component placement ....................................................................................................... 10
2.2.3 Switch hardware and cabling .............................................................................................. 10
2.2.4 Power-on procedure ........................................................................................................... 11
2.3 Configure: Firmware upgrade process, control and management plane protocols, switch
parameters, VLANs, Spanning Tree protocols, basic dynamic routing protocols, LACP, ACLs, static
routing, and/or multicast, VLT/MLAG, switch stacking concepts ........................................................... 12
2.3.1 Firmware Upgrade Process ................................................................................................. 12
2.3.2 Control and management plane protocols ......................................................................... 12
2.3.3 Switch parameters .............................................................................................................. 14
2.3.4 VLANs .................................................................................................................................. 15
2.3.5 Spanning Tree protocols ..................................................................................................... 15
2.3.6 Dynamic routing protocols .................................................................................................. 16
2.3.7 LAG (Link Aggregation Group) ............................................................................................. 16
2.3.8 Access Control List (ACL) ..................................................................................................... 16
2.3.9 Static Routing ...................................................................................................................... 17
2.3.10 Multicast L2 and L3 ............................................................................................................. 17
2.3.11 VLT/MLAG ........................................................................................................................... 18
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2.3.12 Stacking ............................................................................................................................... 18
2.4 Validation: Operational show commands and reachability tests, VLAN functionality, spanning
tree protocol, routing protocols, CLI response, VLT/MLAG functionality and configuration. ................ 19
2.4.1 Reachability tests ................................................................................................................ 19
2.4.2 VLAN verification ................................................................................................................. 19
2.4.3 Spanning Tree verification .................................................................................................. 20
2.4.4 Routing protocols verification ............................................................................................. 20
2.4.5 Command Line Interface output ......................................................................................... 21
2.4.6 VLT/MLAG verification ........................................................................................................ 21
2.5 Troubleshooting: Troubleshooting steps, operational ping, show commands, reachability tests,
and device indicators .............................................................................................................................. 22
2.5.1 Show command output....................................................................................................... 22
2.5.2 Reachability tests ................................................................................................................ 22
2.5.3 Device indicators ................................................................................................................. 23
3 Additional Resources .......................................................................................................................... 24
3.1.1 Networking Reference Guides ............................................................................................ 24
4 Sample Questions ............................................................................................................................... 25
4.1.1 Answers ............................................................................................................................... 27
5 Conclusions
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