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Description

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• ​Introduction to Aruba Solutions

  • Describe market trends that are leading companies to implement a digital workplace

  • Describe how the Mobile First Network from Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, delivers

  • the digital workplace

• Data Link Layer Redundancy Technologies

  • Compare RPVST+ with RSTP and MSTP

  • Implement spanning tree protocol and loop protections

  • Describe how Unidirectional Link Detection (UDLD) and Device Link Detection Protocol (DLDP) detect and handle unidirectional links

• Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)

  • Ensure redundancy for a network’s default gateway by configuring VRRP on Aruba switches

  • Establish load-balancing of active routing in several different ways

  • Use best practices for implementing VRRP with MSTP

• Aruba Backplane Stacking and Advanced Virtual Switch Framework (VSF)

  • Describe the three topologies supported with backplane stacking and the roles members play in the stack

  • Explain how backplane stacking handles stack fragments

  • Implement and manage an VSF fabric

  • Describe what a split VSF stack is and configure the mechanisms designed to detect and remedy this problem

• Advanced Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)

  • Deploy ArubaOS products 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

• Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP)

  • Use Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) to optimize forwarding of multicasts within VLANs

  • Describe the differences between IGMP and IGMP snooping

• Protocol Independent Multicast –Dense Mode (PIM-DM)

  • Distinguish between PIM-DM and PIM-SM

  • Implement PIM-DM to route multicast traffic

• Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

  • 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

• Access Control Lists (ACL)

  • Define ACLs and identify the criteria by which ACLs select traffic

  • Configure ACLs on ArubaOS 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

• 802.1X Authentication

  • Implement 802.1X on ArubaOS switch ports

  • Integrate ArubaOS switches with an Aruba ClearPass solution, which might apply dynamic VLAN assignments, ACLs, QoS priorities, and rate limits

• MAC Authentication

  • Implement RADIUS-based MAC Authentication (MAC-Auth) on ArubaOS switch ports

  • Implement local MAC Authentication (LMA) on ArubaOS switch ports

• Captive Portal and Other Guest Options

  • Configure captive portal authentication on ArubaOS switches to integrate them with an Aruba ClearPass solution

  • Implement Web Authentication (Web-Auth) on Aruba switch ports

  • Combine multiple forms of authentication on a switch port that supports one or more simultaneous users

  • Use the Unauthenticated VLAN on ArubaOS switches to provide guest access

• Integrating with an Aruba Mobility Solution

  • Configure tunneled-node on ArubaOS switches

  • Describe when and how to configure PAPI enhanced security, high availability, and fallback switching for tunneled-node

• Secure Device Management

  • Set up RADIUS authentication and authorization for managers

  • Describe the differences between SNMPv2c and v3 and configure SNMPv3 settings on ArubaOS switches

  • Explain how technologies such as RMON, sFlow, and traffic mirroring allow you to monitor network traffic

  • Explain best practices for managing configurations and monitoring network traffic using a solution such as Aruba AirWave

• Quality of Service

  • Describe how ArubaOS switches prioritize traffic based on its queue

  • Configure ArubaOS switches to honor the appropriate QoS marks applied by other devices

  • Configure ArubaOS switches to select traffic, apply the appropriate QoS marking, and place the traffic in the proper priority queues

  • Implement rate limiting

  • Configure a voice VLAN and LLDP-MED

• Additional Security Features

  • Implement DHCP snooping and ARP protection to defend networks against DHCP exploits, ARP snooping, and ARP poisoning attacks

  • Implement the proper port security measures for various use cases

  • Explain how MAC lockdown differs from port security and use the proper solution for each use case

  • Implement connection rate filtering to provide a first layer of protection against viruses and worms

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Prerequisites

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Experience and knowledge of the OSI Model, IP Addressing and Subnettting, TCP/UDP, VLANs, Spanning Tree and Routing would be beneficial.