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Validate your expertise in implementing core service provider network technologies, including architecture, services, networking, automation, and more. Be the next choice for a tech role in service provider networks with a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Service Provider certification.
To earn your certification, you’ll take a core exam and one concentration exam of your choice.
Core Exam
Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies.
Concentration Exam
Implementing Cisco Service Provider Advanced Routing Solutions.
Concentration Exam
Implementing Cisco Service Provider VPN Services.
Concentration Exam
Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions.
Concentration Exam
Designing and Implementing Cisco Service Provider Cloud Network Infrastructure.
The Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) Learning Path teaches you how to configure, verify, troubleshoot, and optimise next-generation service provider internet protocol (IP) network infrastructures. You’ll explore service provider core architecture, services, automation, and security.
This Learning Path prepares you for the 350-501 SPCOR v1.0 exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Service Provider Core certification and satisfy the core exam requirement for the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Service Provider and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Service Provider certifications.
Module 1: L2VPN and L3VPN Services
• Describing VPN Services
• Configuring L2VPN Services
• Configuring L3VPN Services.
Module 2: Network and Software Architectures
• Describing Service Provider Network Architectures
• Describing Cisco IOS Software Architectures
• Implementing Virtualisation in Service Provider Environment.
Module 3: SP Routing
• Implementing OSPF
• Implementing IS-IS
• Implementing BGP
• Implementing Route Maps and RPL
• Transitioning to IPv6
• Implementing High Availability in Networking
• Implementing Multicast.
Module 4: MPLS and Segment Routing
• Implementing MPLS
• Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Describing Segment Routing.
Module 5: QoS Architecture and Implementation
• Describing QoS Architecture
• Implementing QoS.
Module 6: Security Architecture and Implementation
• Implementing Control Plane Security
• Implementing Management Place Security
• Implementing Data Place Security.
Module 7: Automation and Assurance
• Introducing Network Programmability
• Implementing Automation and Assurance
• Introducing Cisco NSO.
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
Professional-level certifications expand on the foundations of associate-level certifications. They cover more advanced topics and allow candidates to hone in on a specific focus area of their choice. Many professional-level certification candidates are looking to prove they’re the best of the best in a specialised field.
Whilst there are no formal prerequisites, learners often also have three to five years of experience implementing service provider solutions.
The Implementing Cisco Service Provider Advanced Routing Solutions learning path teaches you the theories and practices to integrate advanced routing technologies, including routing protocols, multicast routing, policy language, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and segment routing, expanding your knowledge and skills in service provider core networks.
This learning path also teaches you to implement automation solutions in a service provider network infrastructure and prepares you for the Implementing Cisco Service Provider Advanced Routing Solutions (300-510 SPRI) exam, which fulfills the concentration exam requirement for the CCNP Service Provider certification.
Module 1: SP Unicast Routing
• Implementing and Verifying OSPF Multiarea Networks
• Implementing and Verifying IS-IS Multilevel Networks
• Scaling BGP in Service Provider Networks
• Securing BGP in a Service Provider Network
• Improving BGP Convergence and Implementing Advanced Operations
• Troubleshooting Routing Protocols
• Deploying IPv6 Tunnelling Mechanisms.
Module 2: Routing Policy and Manipulation
• Introducing Routing Protocol Tools, Route Maps, and Routing Policy Language
• Implementing Route Redistribution
• Influencing BGP Route Selection.
Module 3: MPLS and Segment Routing
• Implementing and Verifying MPLS
• Implementing Cisco MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Implementing Segment Routing
• Describing Segment Routing Traffic Engineering.
Module 4: SP Multicast Routing
• Implementing IP Multicast Concepts and Technologies
• Implementing PIM-SM Protocol
• Implementing PIM-SM Enhancements
• Implementing Interdomain IP Multicast
• Implementing Distributed Rendezvous Point Solution in Multicast Network.
By the end of the course, you should be able to understand:
Professional-level certifications expand on the foundations of associate-level certifications. They cover more advanced topics and allow candidates to hone in on a specific focus area of their choice. Many professional-level certification candidates are looking to prove they’re the best of the best in a specialised field.
Whilst there are no formal prerequisites, learners often also have three to five years of experience implementing service provider solutions.
The Implementing Cisco Service Provider VPN Services learning path prepares you to manage end-customer virtual private network (VPN) environments built over a common service provider Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) backbone.
This learning path also covers solutions for deploying MPLS VPN crossing multiple Service Provider domains that improve the use of network bandwidth, Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services, and SP-VPN architecture.
Module 1: SP VPN Service Overview
• Introducing VPN Services
• Troubleshooting MPLS VPN Underlay.
Module 2: IPv4 Layer 3 VPN Services
• Implementing Layer 3 MPLS VPNs
• Implementing Layer 3 Interdomain MPLS VPNs
• Implementing Layer 3 Multicast MPLS VPNs
• Troubleshooting Intra-AS Layer 3 VPNs.
Module 3: Layer 2 VPN Services
• Implementing Layer 2 VPNs
• Troubleshooting Layer 2 VPNs.
Module 4: IPv6 Layer 3 VPN Services
• Implementing Layer 3 IPv6 MPLS VPNs
• Troubleshooting Layer 3 IPv6 MPLS VPNs.
By the end of the course, you should be able to understand:
Professional-level certifications expand on the foundations of associate-level certifications. They cover more advanced topics and allow candidates to hone in on a specific focus area of their choice. Many professional-level certification candidates are looking to prove they’re the best of the best in a specialised field.
Whilst there are no formal prerequisites, learners often also have three to five years of experience implementing service provider solutions.
The Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions learning path prepares you to implement and support automation solutions in a Service Provider network infrastructure, using network programmability principles, protocols, tools, and mechanisms.
This learning path also introduces powerful automation solutions that streamline network operations, Yet Another Next Generation YANG) data models and validation tools, and RESTCONF and NETCONF management protocols.
Completing this learning path will prepare you for the Implementing Automation for Cisco Service Provider Solutions (300-535 SPAUTO) exam, which fulfills the concentration exam requirement of the Cisco Certified DevNet Professional certification.
Module 1: Model-driven Programmability and Telemetry
• Implementing Network Device Programmability with NETCONF and RESTCONF
• Implementing Model-driven Programmability with YANG
• Implementing Model-driven Telemetry.
Module 2: Automating the Network
• Automating Service Provider Network Traffic with Cisco XTC
• Automating Networks with Tools that Utilise SSH.
Module 3: SP Automation and Orchestration Platforms
• Orchestrating Network Services with Cisco NSO
• Automating Virtualised
Module 4: IPv6 Layer 3 VPN Services
• Implementing Layer 3 IPv6 MPLS VPNs
• Troubleshooting Layer 3 IPv6 MPLS VPNs.
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
Professional-level certifications expand on the foundations of associate-level certifications. They cover more advanced topics and allow candidates to hone in on a specific focus area of their choice. Many professional-level certification candidates are looking to prove they’re the best of the best in a specialised field.
Whilst there are no formal prerequisites, learners often also have three to five years of experience implementing service provider solutions.
The Designing and Implementing Cisco Service Provider Cloud Network Infrastructure learning path teaches you how to design and implement virtualisation cloud infrastructures in a service provider network.
You will learn about virtualised network function infrastructures and how to use programmability and orchestration to manage virtualisation cloud infrastructures. You will also learn about cloud computing and implementation of cloud interconnect and data center interconnect solutions.
In addition, you will learn how to monitor and secure virtualisation cloud infrastructures and provide optimisation and high availability within the infrastructures.
This learning path prepares you for the 300-540 SPCNI v1.0 exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Service Provider Cloud Network Infrastructure certification and satisfy the concentration exam requirement for the Cisco Certified Networking Professional (CCNP) Service Provider certification.
Module 1: Service Provider Virtualised Architecture
• Cisco NFV Infrastructure
• Service Provider Model-Driven Programmability
• Network Orchestration using NSO
• Container Orchestration.
Module 2: Public Cloud Connectivity Architecture
• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Interconnect Solutions
• Data Center Interconnect Solutions.
Module 3: Service Provider Security
• Service Provider Control Plane Security
• Service Provider Data Plane Security.
Module 4: Service Provider Assurance and Optimisation
• Service Provider High Availability
• Service Provider Core Optimisation
• Service Provider Performance Monitoring
• Cisco Crosswork Network Controller.
By the end of the course, you should be able to:
Professional-level certifications expand on the foundations of associate-level certifications. They cover more advanced topics and allow candidates to hone in on a specific focus area of their choice. Many professional-level certification candidates are looking to prove they’re the best of the best in a specialised field.
Whilst there are no formal prerequisites, learners often also have three to five years of experience implementing service provider solutions.