300-415 Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions (300-415 ENSDWI)

Exam overview
This exam tests your knowledge of Cisco’s SD-WAN solution, including:

SD-WAN architecture
Controller deployment
Edge router deployment
Policies
Security
Quality of service
Multicast
Management and operations

Exam Description
The Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions v1.0 (ENSDWI 300-415) exam is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Enterprise and Cisco Certified Specialist – Enterprise SD-WAN Implementation certifications. This exam certifies a candidate’s knowledge of Cisco’s SD-WAN solution including SD-WAN architecture, controller deployment, edge router deployment, policies, security, quality or service, multicast and management and operations. The course, Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.

The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. To better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.

1.1 Describe Cisco SD-WAN Architecture and Components
1.1.a Orchestration plane (vBond, NAT)
1.1.b Management plane (vManage)
1.1.c Control plane (vSmart, OMP)
1.1.d Data plane (vEdge)
1.1.d [i] TLOC
1.1.d (ii) IPsec
1.1.d (iii) vRoute
1.1.d (iv) BFD

1.2 Describe WAN Edge platform types, capabilities (vEdges, cEdges)

2.1 Describe controller cloud deployment

2.2 Describe Controller on-Prem Deployment

2.2.a Hosting platform (KVM/Hypervisor)
2.2.b Installing controllers
2.2.c Scalability and redundancy

2.3 Configure and verify certificates and whitelisting

2.4 Troubleshoot control-plane connectivity between controllers

3.1 Describe WAN Edge deployment
3.1.a On-boarding
3.1.b Orchestration with zero-touch provisioning/plug-and-play
3.1.c Single/multi data center/regional hub deployments

3.2 Configure and verify SD-WAN data plane

3.2.a Circuit termination/TLOC-extension
3.2.b Underlay-overlay connectivity

3.3 Configure and verify OMP

3.4 Configure and verify TLOCs

3.5 Configure and verify CLI and vManage feature configuration templates

3.5.a VRRP
3.5.b OSPF
3.5.c BGP

4.1 Configure and verify control policies

4.2 Configure and verify data policies

4.3 Configure and verify end-to-end segmentation

4.3.a VPN segmentation
4.3.b Topologies

4.4 Configure and verify SD-WAN application-aware routing

4.5 Configure and verify direct Internet access

5.1 Configure and verify service insertion
5.2 Describe application-aware firewall
5.3 Configure and verify QoS treatment on WAN edge routers
5.3.a Scheduling
5.3.b Queuing
5.3.c Shaping
5.3.d Policing

6.1 Describe monitoring and reporting from vManage
6.2 Configure and verify monitoring and reporting
6.3 Describe REST API monitoring
6.4 Describe software upgrade from vManage