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Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)

This Border Gateway Protocol course for Cisco and Juniper environments covers how to configure iBGP and eBGP, manage neighbor relationships, and implement traffic engineering using local preference and AS path prepending. You'll learn about network scalability through route reflectors and confederations, while gaining hands-on practice with BGP troubleshooting and route filtering. Whether you're handling multi-carrier redundancy or SD-WAN, this course will help you learn the real-world networking skills needed to maintain stable enterprise networks.

Updated August 2019

17Skills
167Videos
7Virtual Labs
20h 58mTotal
167 videos7 labs20h 58m

Who This Course Is For

This Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) training is considered engineer-level networking training, which means it was designed for network engineers. This Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) skills course is valuable for new IT professionals with at least a year of experience with network infrastructure and experienced network engineers looking to validate their networking skills.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Configuring iBGP and eBGP neighbor relationships on Cisco and Juniper routers
  • Manipulating BGP best path selection using local preference and AS path prepending
  • Implementing network scalability with route reflectors, confederations, and peer groups
  • Managing route filtering through prefix lists, route maps, and community strings
  • Troubleshooting BGP convergence, neighbor states, and message type errors
  • Redistributing network layer reachability into OSPFv3 and other routing protocols

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Basic Operations60m
  • Premium skill.Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Peerings57m
  • Premium skill.Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Advertising NLRI1h 16m
  • Premium skill.Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Cisco Routing Policy Mechanisms1h 50m
  • Premium skill.Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Scalability Mechanisms1h 17m
  • Premium skill.Border Gateway Protocol (BGP): Advanced Topics1h 1m
  • Premium skill.Break Through BGP Basics with Address Families1h 15m + 1 lab
  • Premium skill.Filter Routes in BGP1h 11m + 1 lab
  • Premium skill.Troubleshoot Common BGP Issues35m + 2 labs
  • Premium skill.Configure BGP in SD-WAN35m
  • Premium skill.Solve BGP Scalability Issues1h 24m + 1 lab
  • Premium skill.Understand the BGP Best Path Selection Algorithm1h 6m
  • Premium skill.Design Networks with BGP1h
  • Premium skill.IT Expert: Real World, Multi-Carrier BGP1h 58m
  • Premium skill.BGP Foundation Concepts60m
  • Premium skill.Basic BGP IPv4 Configuration1h 56m + 1 lab
  • Premium skill.Basic BGP IPv6 Configuration1h 35m + 1 lab

Readiness check

Confirm prerequisite knowledge before training begins

A short placement assessment on the CBT Nuggets assessments platform measures whether a learner already has the foundation this course assumes. IT Directors use it to put the right people in the right training — and any learner can take it right now to make sure they'll get full value from day one.

  • Questions generated from this course's own lesson transcripts — what gets measured is exactly what gets taught
  • Instant, per-learner results that show whether the prerequisite foundation is in place
  • Results roll up into team readiness reporting, so training hours go where they change outcomes

Runs on assessments.cbtnuggets.com — sign in with an Adept account so results roll up into team readiness reporting. Need one? Create an Adept account.

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