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Alcatel-Lucent Scalable IP Networks Course and Exam

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Contents

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Introduction ................................................................................ 3

2

Summary of Course Changes ............................................................ 3

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Summary of Exam Changes ............................................................. 4

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1 Introduction

This Release Notice identifies the changes made with the release 2.0 version of the Alcatel-
Lucent Scalable IP Networks course and exam from the Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing
Certification Program.

Course duration – 4 days (unchanged)

Exam duration – 75 minutes (unchanged)

Exam questions – 60 (unchanged)

2 Summary of Course Changes

• Expanded the background on Internet development and structure including Internet

Service Providers, POPs and IXPs.

• Added description of a packet transiting an Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router
• Provided more detail about Layer 2 technologies such as PPP, ATM and SONET/SDH
• Revised the Spanning Tree Protocol section to focus on a basic overview of the purpose

and operation of STP

• Reduced emphasis on VLSM and CIDR, instead focus on effective application of IP

subnetting

• Provided more examples of IP address planning using several different case studies
• Removed RIPv2 material and lab exercise
• OSPF section reduced to describe a single area network and router LSAs only
• BGP section reduced to cover only the basic purpose and operation of BGP with a simple

configuration exercise

• More description of the purpose and operation of an MPLS network, including MPLS

label operations

• Augmented the description of VPN service implementation including key components

and introduction of the service label

• Added simple VPLS configuration exercise and analysis of the VPLS service components

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3 Summary of Exam Changes

The Alcatel-Lucent Scalable IP Networks exam (4A0-100) has changed to reflect questions
based on the revised course content as outlined in Section 2.

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