Cisco CCNP Service Provider SPCOR 350-501 study board

Cisco CCNP Service Provider SPCOR 350-501: hand-drawn mind map, 2,202 flashcards and 1,593 practice questions. Free preview, $49.99 one-time.

What you get

• 42 hand-drawn sheets: every exam objective on its own sheet, in reading order
• 2,202 flashcards written from the cards on the map, that come back just before you'd forget
• 1,593 original practice questions, each graded with the answer explained
• A Treemap of every card the flashcards and practice questions cover, painted by the score you have earned on it, so you can see what is left
• Bookmarks and sticky notes, saved to your account
• One payment of $49.99: no subscription, no expiry date

Who it is for

People studying for Cisco CCNP Service Provider SPCOR 350-501 on their own who learn best by seeing how topics connect, and who want one place to read the map, recall it with flashcards, prove it on practice questions and see their progress on a Treemap.

Who it is not for

It is not a hands-on lab, not a full video course and not a replacement for practising on real equipment or software.

Free preview: what is on the board

• Start here
  • How to use this map
    • Big idea: walk it, then test yourself
    • A study session that sticks
    • Getting around
    • Reading a card
    • What the marks mean
  • The exam at a glance
    • Big idea: study the v1.1 blueprint
    • Where the marks are
    • Exam day facts
    • Read the objective's verb first
    • What v1.1 changed
• Architecture (15%)
  • 1.1 SP architectures
    • Big idea: one core, many access networks
    • Which core architecture fits?
    • Core architectures
    • Transport technologies
    • Mobile transport
    • Routed optical network
    • Check yourself: SP architectures
  • 1.2 Cisco network software
    • Big idea: same look, different engines
    • Which OS runs this platform?
    • Three architectures
    • Configuration models
    • Install and upgrade models
    • Check yourself: Cisco network software
  • 1.3 SP virtualization
    • Big idea: functions become software
    • Where should this function run?
    • NFV infrastructure
    • VNF workloads
    • Containers
    • Application hosting
    • Check yourself: SP virtualization
  • 1.4 QoS architecture
  • 1.5a Control plane protection
  • 1.5b LDP security, BGPsec, flowspec
  • 1.6 Management plane security
  • 1.7 Data plane security
• Networking (30%)
  • 2.1 IS-IS
  • 2.2 OSPF
  • 2.3 BGP path selection
  • 2.4a BGP neighbors and attributes
  • 2.4b BGP redistribution, add-paths, PIC
  • 2.5 RPL and route maps
  • 2.6 Troubleshoot routing
  • 2.7 IPv6 transition
  • 2.8 High availability
• MPLS and Segment Routing (20%)
  • 3.1a LDP
  • 3.1b Unified MPLS and MPLS OAM
  • 3.2 Traffic engineering
  • 3.3a SR segments and control plane
  • 3.3b SR-TE, TI-LFA, PCE
  • 3.3c Flex-Algo and SRv6
• Services (20%)
  • 4.1a EVPN and inter-AS VPN
  • 4.1b CSC and mVPN
  • 4.2a Ethernet services
  • 4.2b Ethernet OAM, tag rewrite
  • 4.3 L3VPN
  • 4.4 Multicast services
  • 4.5 QoS services
• Automation and Assurance (15%)
  • 5.1 Programmable APIs
  • 5.2 Reading a REST API script
  • 5.3 NSO
  • 5.4 YANG
  • 5.5 Ansible and Terraform
  • 5.6 Secure ZTP
  • 5.7 gRPC and gNMI telemetry
  • 5.8 NetFlow and IPFIX
  • 5.9 NETCONF and RESTCONF
  • 5.10 SNMP

Sample flashcard

When choosing a service provider core architecture, what decides each choice: one MPLS domain or Unified MPLS, LDP/RSVP-TE or Segment Routing, SR-MPLS or SRv6?

Network size decides one domain or Unified MPLS. Wanting to drop LDP and RSVP-TE and let the IGP carry the labels decides Segment Routing. Labels or native IPv6 in the data plane decides SR-MPLS or SRv6; SR-TE policies are added only for services that need a non-shortest path.

Sample practice question

A regional provider is growing to 3,000 cell-site and aggregation routers spread over nine regions. Engineering wants each region to keep its own small IS-IS instance with LDP, without redistributing PE loopbacks between regions, while L3VPN and L2VPN services still need one end-to-end LSP between any two PEs. Which core architecture meets these requirements?

• A. SRv6 with micro-SIDs, replacing LDP in every region
• B. A full mesh of RSVP-TE tunnels signalled between every pair of PEs in all regions
• C. One IS-IS level 2 domain with LDP on every router in all nine regions
• D. Unified MPLS, with BGP labeled unicast carrying PE loopbacks between regions

Answer: D. Unified MPLS keeps every region a separate IGP and LDP domain and uses BGP labeled unicast to advertise PE loopbacks with labels between them, so an end-to-end LSP exists without leaking loopbacks into each IGP. Merging all routers into one IS-IS domain is exactly the scaling problem the design must avoid. SRv6 would remove LDP, which the requirement keeps. A full mesh of RSVP-TE tunnels among thousands of PEs puts per-tunnel state on every midpoint and does not separate the regions at all.

Questions

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