300-320: Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH)


This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of the latest development in network design and technologies, including L2 and L3 infrastructures for the enterprise, WAN technologies, data center integration, network security and network services.

Cisco 300-320 Exam Overview:


Exam Name Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH)
Exam Number  300-320 ARCH
Exam Number  $300 USD 
Duration  75 minutes 
Number of Questions  60-70 Question
Passing Score  Variable (750-850 / 1000 Approx.)
Recommended Training  Designing Cisco Network Service Architecture (ARCH)
Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures (ARCH) E-Learning
Sample Questions  Cisco 300-320 Sample Questions
Practice Exam  Cisco Certified Design Professional Practice Test


Cisco 300-320 Exam Topics:


Section Weight  Objectives 
Advanced Addressing and Routing Solutions for Enterprise Networks 22% 1. Create structured addressing designs to facilitate summarization

a) Hierarchy
b) Efficiency
c) Scalability
d) NAT

2. Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for IS-IS

3. Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for EIGRP

4. Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for OSPF

5. Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for BGP

a) Transit prevention
b) Basic route filtering
c) Authentication
d) Communities
e) Basic traffic engineering (load distribution, creating path symmetry)
f) Route reflectors

6. Determine IPv6 migration strategies

a) Overlay (tunneling)
b) Native (dual-stacking)
c) Boundaries (IPv4/IPv6 translations)
Advanced Enterprise Campus Networks 22%  1. Design for high availability

a) First Hop Redundancy Protocols
b) Device virtualization

2. Design campus Layer 2 infrastructures

a) STP scalability
b) Fast convergence
c) Loop-free technologies

3. Design multicampus Layer 3 infrastructures

a) Convergence
b) Load sharing
c) Route summarization
d) Route filtering
e) VRFs
f) Optimal topologies

4. Design a network to support network programmability

a) Describe Application Centric Infrastructures (ACI)
b) Select appropriate controller to meet requirements
c) Identify and address key security issues with network programmability
WANs for Enterprise Networks 17%  1. Compare and contrast WAN connectivity options

a) Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
b) Layer 2 VPN
c) MPLS Layer 3 VPN
d) IPsec
e) Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
f) Private lines

2. Design site-to-site VPNs

a) DMVPN
b) Layer 2 VPN
c) MPLS Layer 3 VPN
d) IPSec
e) Group Encrypted Transport VPN (GETVPN)

3. Design for a resilient WAN strategy

a) Single-homed
b) Multi-homed
c) Backup connectivity
d) Failover

4. Design Extranet connectivity

a) VPN
b) Private lines
c) Multitenant segmentation

5. Design Internet edge connectivity

a) DMZ
b) NAT
c) Proxy functionality
d) Resiliency
e) Basic traffic engineering techniques (outbound/inbound load distribution, active/failover, symmetric outbound traffic flows)
Enterprise Data Center Integration 17% 1. Describe a modular and scalable data center network

a) Top-of-rack
b) End-of-row
c) Multitenant environments
d) Multitier topologies

2. Describe network virtualization technologies for the data center

a) VPC
b) VSS
c) VDCs
d) VRFs
e) Multichassis EtherChannel
f ) VXLAN
g) TRILL / Fabric Path

3. Describe high availability in a data center network

a) VPC
b) VSS
c) Multichassis EtherChannel

4. Design data center interconnectivity

a) OTV
b) Private Line
c) L2 vs. L3
d) VPLS
e) A-VPLS

5. Design data center and network integration

a) Traffic flow
b) Bandwidth
c) Security
d) Resiliency
Security Services 13% 1. Design firewall and IPS solutions

a) Modes of operation
b) Clustering
c) High availability techniques
d) IPS functionality and placement
e) Multiple contexts

2. Design network access control solutions

a) 802.1x
b) TrustSec
c) EAP
d) Authentication services
e) RBAC
f) Basic denial of service mitigation techniques

3. Design infrastructure protection

a) Infra structure ACLs
b) CoPP
c) Layer 2 / Layer 3 security considerations
Network Services 11% 1. Select appropriate QoS strategies to meet customer requirements

a) DiffServ
b) IntServ

2. Design end-to-end QoS policies

a) Classification and marking
b) Shaping
c) Policing
d) Queuing

3. Describe network management techniques

a) In-band vs. out-of-band
b) Segmented management networks
c) Prioritizing network management traffic

4. Describe multicast routing concepts

a) Source trees, shared trees
b) RPF
c) Rendezvous points

5. Design multicast services

a) SSM
b) PIM bidirectional
c) MSDP

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