Aruba Network Security Fundamentals Training (ANSF)

After you successfully complete this Aruba Network Security Fundamentals Training (ANSF) course, expect to be able to:

• Use NetEdit to manage switch configurations
• Use the Network Analytics Engine (NAE) to implement scripting solutions to provide for proactive network management and monitoring
• Compare and contrast VSX, VSF, and backplane stacking
• Explain how VSX handles a split-brain scenario
• Implement and manage a VSX fabric
• Define ACLs and identify the criteria by which ACLs select traffic
• Configure ACLs on AOS-CX switches to select given traffic
• Apply static ACLs to interfaces to meet the needs of a particular scenario
• Examine an ACL configuration and determine the action taken on specific packets
• Deploy AOS-Switches in single-area and multi-area OSPF systems
• Use area definitions and summaries to create efficient and scalable multiple-area designs
• Advertise routes to external networks in a variety of OSPF environments
• Promote fast, effective convergence during a variety of failover situations
• Use virtual links as required to establish non-direct connections to the backbone
• Implement OSFP authentication
• Establish and monitor BGP sessions between your routers and ISP routers
• Advertise an IP block to multiple ISP routers
• Configure a BGP router to advertise a default route in OSPF
• Use Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to optimize the forwarding of multicast traffic within VLANs
• Describe the differences between IGMP and IGMP snooping
• Distinguish between PIM-DM and PIM-SM
• Implement PIM-DM and PIM-SM to route multicast traffic
• Implement Virtual Routing Forwarding (VRF) policies to contain and segregate routing information
• Create route maps to control routing policies
• Understand the use of user roles to control user access on AOS-CX switches
• Implement local user roles on AOS-CX switches and downloadable user roles using a ClearPass solution
• Implement 802.1X on AOS-CX switch ports
• Integrate AOS-CX switches with an Aruba ClearPass solution, which might apply dynamic role settings
• Implement RADIUS-based MAC Authentication (MAC-Auth) on AOS-CX switch ports
• Configure captive portal authentication on AOS-CX switches to integrate them with an Aruba ClearPass solution
• Combine multiple forms of authentication on a switch port that supports one or more simultaneous users
• Configure dynamic segmentation on AOS-CX switches
• Explain how technologies such as sFlow and traffic mirroring allow you to monitor network traffic
• Describe how AOS-CX switches prioritize traffic based on its queue
• Configure AOS-CX switches to honor the appropriate QoS marks applied by other devices
• Configure AOS-CX switches to select traffic, apply the appropriate QoS marks, and place the traffic in the proper priority queues
• Implement rate limiting
• Understand how the Virtual Output Queuing (VOQ) feature mitigates head-of-line (HOL) blocking
• Configure a voice VLAN and LLDP-MED

• We can adapt this Aruba Network Security Fundamentals Training (ANSF) course to your group’s background and work requirements at little to no added cost.
• If you are familiar with some aspects of this Aruba Network Security Fundamentals (ANSF) course, we can omit or shorten their discussion.
• We can adjust the emphasis placed on the various topics or build the Aruba Network Security Fundamentals (ANSF) course around the mix of technologies of interest to you (including technologies other than those included in this outline).
• If your background is nontechnical, we can exclude the more technical topics, include the topics that may be of special interest to you (e.g., as a manager or policy-maker), and present the Aruba Network Security Fundamentals (ANSF) course in a manner understandable to lay audiences.

The target audience for this Aruba Network Security Fundamentals Training (ANSF) course:

• A network or help desk engineer working in a customer or partner environment that has six months to a year of experience in networking. In both wired and wireless environments.

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this Aruba Network Security Fundamentals Training (ANSF) course are:

• Aruba Design Fundamentals Training (ADF)