An additional 3 hours of unscheduled lab time are required.

• Week 1
  Lecture: Overview of Network Analysis, Architecture and Design
  Lab session: Layer 2 and Layer3 lab refresher
• Week 2
  Lecture: LAN: Campus Network Design
  Lab Session: Enterprise LAN Switching Techniques
• Week 3
  Lecture: LAN: Fault Tolerant Networks 1
  Lab Session: Ethernet resiliency
• Week 4
  Lecture: LAN: Fault Tolerant Networks 2
  Lab Session: High Availability and Load Balancing Techniques
• Week 5
  Lecture: WAN: Layer 2 and 2 ½ Transport technologies
  Lab Session: MPLS TDP
• Week 6
  Lecture: WAN: Traffic Engineering
  Lab Session: MPLS TE
• Week 7
  Lecture: Midterm Review Session
  Lab Session: Practice Week
• Week 8
  Lecture: Midterm Written Examination
  Lab Session: Midterm Practical Examination
• Week 9
  Lecture: WAN: VPN and Tunneling services 1
  Lab Session: MPLS L2 and L3 VPNs, GRE and L2TP
• Week 10
  Lecture: Network Optimization
  Lab Session: LAN QoS
• Week 11
  Lecture: Congestion Management on Network Components
  Lab Session: Compression, Queuing and Traffic Shaping
• Week 12
  Lecture: WAN: End to end QoS Solutions
  Lab Session: Intserv, Diffserv, Compression and other link efficiency tools
• Week 13
  Lecture: IPv6 Crash Course
  Lab Session: IPv6 Comprehensive lab
• Week 14
  Lecture: Final Review Session
  Lab Session: Practice Week
• Week 15
  Lecture: Final Written Examination
  Lab Session: Final Practical Examination

Required

Reference:
Pepelnjak and Guichard, MPLS and VPN architectures, Cisco Press, 2008, ISBN 1-58705-002-1
Evans and Filsfils, Deploying IP and MPLS QoS for Multiservice Networks: Theory & Practice, Morgan Kaufmann Press, 2007, ISBN-10: 0123705495, ISBN-13: 978-0123705495.
Odom and Cavanaugh, Cisco QOS Exam Certification Guide, 2nd ed., Cisco Press, 2005, ISBN-10: 1-58720-124-0, ISBN-13: 978-1-58720-124-0.
Hucaby, CCNP BCMSN 4th ed., Cisco Press, 2007, ISBN-10: 1587201712, ISBN-13: 978-1587201714.
Nucci and Papagiannaki, Design, Measurement and Management of Large-Scale IP Networks: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2008, ISBN-10: 0521880696, ISBN-13: 978-0521880695.