300-445: Cisco Designing and Implementing Enterprise Network Assurance (ENNA)

This exam certifies a candidate's knowledge of:

◉ network assurance design and implementation

◉ including platforms and architecture

◉ data collection and implementation

◉ data analysis

◉ insights and alerts

300-445: Cisco Designing and Implementing Enterprise Network Assurance (ENNA)

The Designing and Implementing Enterprise Network Assurance (300-445 ENNA) exam certifies a candidate's knowledge of Network Assurance design and implementation, encompassing platforms and architecture, data collection and implementation, as well as data analysis, insights, and alerts. Successfully passing this exam will earn you an Enterprise Network Assurance Specialist Certification, which you can use in conjunction with the 350-401 ENCOR exam toward earning your CCNP Enterprise certification.

Cisco 300-445 Exam Overview:

Exam Name	Cisco Designing and Implementing Enterprise Network Assurance
Exam Number	300-445 ENNA
Exam Number	$300 USD
Duration	90 minutes
Number of Questions	55-65
Passing Score	Variable (750-850 / 1000 Approx.)
Sample Questions	Cisco 300-445 Sample Questions
Practice Exam	Cisco Certified Specialist Enterprise Network Assurance Practice Test

Cisco 300-445 Exam Topics:

Section	Weight	Objectives
Platforms and Architecture	20%	- Determine agent types, such as synthetic user agent, scripting agent, and local collection agent to meet network assurance and security requirements - Determine agent location to meet network assurance and security requirements - Describe active and passive monitoring (RFC 7276 and RFC 7799) - Describe ThousandEyes WAN Insights - Describe the integration between Cisco technologies, such as ThousandEyes, Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, Catalyst Center, Webex Control Hub, Meraki, and Endpoint Agent deployment through Secure Client - Describe setting a metric baseline - Select the integration type, such as API, alerting thresholds, open telemetry, and ITSM for the requested data - Select a Cisco network assurance platform based on business requirements, such as application communication, user experience, web, and events
Data Collection Implementation	25%	- Configure enterprise agent on application servers and network infrastructure devices, including dedicated devices - Describe endpoint agent deployment at scale across the enterprise on end-user devices (Windows, Mac, and Room OS) - Configure tests using tools, such as ThousandEyes and Meraki Insights ◉ Network such as TCP/UDP, network characteristics, loss, jitter, and latency ◉ DNS ◉ Voice ◉ Web - Configure endpoint agent tests in ThousandEyes - Describe the purpose, implementation, and limitations of synthetic web tests - Implement common web authentication methods, such as basic, digest, bearer tokens, OAuth, SAML, and SSO when testing web applications
Data Analysis	30%	- Diagnose network issues, such as packet loss, congestion, routing, and jitter using collected data - Diagnose end-device network issues, such as issues with a default gateway, local network, DNS server, proxy, VPN gateway, wireless, and real-time streaming using collected data - Diagnose web application performance issues using collected data such as browser waterfalls - Identify security issues, such as DDoS attacks, DNS hijacking, BGP hijacking, and route leaking affecting network performance
Insights and Alerts	25%	- Configure alert rules based on network conditions, such as TCP protocol behavior, congestion, error counters, performance, throughput, state of BGP routing table, internet insights, MPLS, VPN, NetFlow, SNMP, and syslog - Configure alert rules that affect the end-user experience, such as CPU utilization, connectivity types (wired to wireless, Wi-Fi), browser behavior, and VPN - Select deliverables or metrics such as dashboard and alerts for IT operations, production support, app/dev teams, and executives - Validate alert configuration and functionality - Recommend optimization for network capacity planning, such as topology and configuration changes, and QoS based on data interpretation