Brocade Certified Network Professional 2012 (BCNP)

As a Brocade Certified Network Professional, you must be able to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Brocade Ethernet switches and IP routers in complex environments.

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Brocade Certified Network Professional Exam Topics

The Brocade Certified Network Professional exam has these objectives:

Quality of Service (QoS)

• Describe how to configure traffic policing
• Demonstrate knowledge of QoS

Security Concepts

• Demonstrate knowledge of security concepts

OSPF Concepts

• Demonstrate knowledge of OSPF neighbors
• Describe knowledge of OSPF LSAs
• Describe OSPF router and role types

BGP Concepts

• Demonstrate knowledge of the BGP neighboring process
• Demonstrate knowledge of BGP attributes, filters and route selection

Advanced Layer 3 Concepts

• Demonstrate knowledge of route manipulation
• Describe industry standard IPv6 concepts
• Describe an ability to understand and configure multicast networks
• Describe Layer 3 gateway redundancy

Layer 2 Protocols

• Demonstrate knowledge of Layer 2 protocols and features
• Describe the implementation of MCT
• Describe advanced VLAN types

Monitoring, Maintenance and Troubleshooting

• Demonstrate knowledge of troubleshooting Layer 3 routing protocols
• Demonstrate knowledge of maintenance tasks
• Demonstrate knowledge of network monitoring
• Demonstrate how to troubleshoot typical network problems

• Certification Study Tools

  • BCAF in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.9 MB)

  • BCEFE in a Nutshell Study Guide (3.2 MB)

  • BCEFP in a Nutshell Study Guide (3.4 MB)

  • BCFA in a Nutshell 16 Gbps Study Guide (1.9 MB)

  • BCFCoEP in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.1 MB)

  • BCFD in a Nutshell Study Guide 16 Gbps (768.7 KB)

  • BCFP in a Nutshell 16 Gbps Study Guide (780.4 KB)

  • BCLE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.7 MB)

  • BCLP in a Nutshell Study Guide (822.8 KB)

  • BCND in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.2 MB)

  • BCNE in a Nutshell Study Guide 2012 (2.7 MB)

  • BCNP in a Nutshell Study Guide 2012 (636.9 KB)

  • BCSPNE in a Nutshell Study Guide (1.4 MB)

• Course Data Sheets

  • AFS 133 Implementing iSCSI with the FC4-16IP Blade (126.4 KB)

  • AFS 137 Introduction to the FC10-6 Director Blade (119.9 KB)

  • AFS 138 Introduction to the Brocade 7600 and FA4-18, Hardware and Software (133.2 KB)

  • AFS 141 Introduction to Brocade Virtual Fabrics (188.2 KB)

  • BiG 100 Introduction to the Brocade iSCSI Gateway (121.4 KB)

  • DCFM 200 Data Center Fabric Manager (220.1 KB)

  • DCX 100 Introduction to DCX Data Center Backbone (109.5 KB)

  • DCX 110 Brocade DCX Data Center Backbone Break and Fix (120.7 KB)

  • EM 101 Introduction to Fabric OS and M-EOS Element Manager (185.5 KB)

  • ENC 101 Introduction to Brocade Encyption (190 KB)

  • ETH 503 IronView Network Management (192.1 KB)

  • FC 101 Introduction to Fibre Channel Concepts (188.4 KB)