R E L E A S E N O T I C E SERVICE ROUTING CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

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Alcatel-Lucent Scalable IP Networks Course and Exam

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Contents
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Introduction ................................................................................ 3
Summary of Course Changes ............................................................ 3
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 AlcatelLucent Scalable IP Networks course and exam from the Alcatel-Lucent Service Routing
Certification Program.

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
Visit http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/src/courses for the updated course outline.

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Course duration 4 days (unchanged)

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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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