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The 642-661 exam is a qualifying exam for the CCIP certification. This exam assesses an individual's understanding of the theory of BGP, ability to configure BGP on Cisco IOS routers, and skills with troubleshooting on BGP.
The 642-661 BGP exam is a qualifying exam for the CCIP certification. The 642-661 BGP exam tests material covered under the Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP) v 3.1 course. The BGP exam assesses a candidate's understanding of the theory of BGP, ability to configure BGP on Cisco IOS routers, and skills with troubleshooting on BGP. As a routing protocol, BGP is one of the underlying foundations of the Internet and new-world technologies
Important Exam Information and Objectives
The following information provides general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the BGP exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam
- BGP Overview
- Introduction to BGP
- BGP Session Establishment
- BGP Route Processing
- Basic BGP Configuration
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting BGP
- Route Selection Using Policy Controls
- AS-Path Filters
- Prefix-List Filters
- Outbound Route Filtering
- Route-Maps as BGP Filters
- Implementing Changes in BGP Policy
- Route Selection Using Attributes
- BGP Local Preference
- BGP Multi-Exit-Discriminator (MED)
- BGP Communities
- Customer-to-Provider Connectivity with BGP
- Static Routing Toward the Customer
- BGP Customer Multi-Homed to a Single Service Provider
- BGP Customer Multi-Homed to Multiple Service Providers
- BGP Transit Autonomous System
- Transit Autonomous System Functions
- Packet Forwarding in Transit Autonomous Systems
- Configuring a Transit Autonomous System
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting IBGP in Transit AS
- BGP Route Reflectors
- Introduction to Route Reflectors
- Network Design with Route Reflectors
- Configuring and Monitoring Route Reflectors
- Advanced BGP Configuration
- AS-Path Prepending
- BGP Peer Group
- BGP Route Flap Dampening
- Scaling IGP and BGP in Service Provider Networks
- Optical Networking Designs
- Scaling BGP in Service Provider Networks
Practice Test Format:
- Over 160 exceptionally realistic practice exam questions
- Over 200 free TranscenderFlash cards
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