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Introduction
The Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (SPCOR) training expands your knowledge and skills of service provider core networks. You will gain the theoretical and practical knowledge needed to implement and operate service provider networks using technologies such as core architecture, services, networking, automation, quality of service (QoS), security, and network assurance.
This training prepares you for the 350-501 SPCOR v1.0 exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Service Provider Core certification and satisfy the core exam requirement for the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Service Provider and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Service Provider certifications. This training also earns you 64 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.
Audience profile
- Network Engineers
- Network Managers
- System Engineers
- Network Administrators
- Project Managers
- Network Designers
Pre-requisites
To fully benefit from this course, you should have knowledge of these topics:
- Intermediate knowledge of Cisco IOS or IOS XE
- Familiarity with Cisco IOS or IOS XE and Cisco IOS XR software configuration
- Knowledge of IPv4 and IPv6 transmission control protocol (TCP)/IP networking
- Intermediate knowledge of IP routing protocols
- Understanding of MPLS technologies
- Familiarity with VPN technologies
These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:
- Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
Course objectives
- Describe the service provider network architectures, concepts, and transport technologies
- Describe the Cisco IOS software architectures, main internetwork operating system (IOS) types, and their differences
- Implement open shortest path first (OSPF) in the service provider network
- Implement integrated intermediate system to intermediate system (IS-IS) in the service provider network
- Implement border gateway protocol (BGP) routing in service provider environments
- Implement route maps and routing policy language
- Describe IPv6 transition mechanisms used in the service provider networks
- Implement high availability mechanisms in Cisco IOS XR software
- Implement traffic engineering in modern service provider networks for optimal resource utilization
- Describe segment routing and segment routing traffic engineering concepts
- Describe the virtual private network (VPN) technologies used in the service provider environment
- Configure and verify multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) L2VPN in service provider environments
- Configure and verify MPLS L3VPN in service provider environments
- Implement IP multicast services
- Describe the QoS architecture and QoS benefits for service provider networks
- Implement QoS in service provider environment
- Implement control plane security in Cisco devices
- Implement management plane security in Cisco devices
- Implement data plane security in Cisco devices
- Describe the YANG data modeling language
- Implement automation and assurance tools and protocols
- Describe the role of Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) in service provider environments
- Implement virtualization technologies in service provider environment
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Associated certifications and exam
Implementing and Operating Cisco Service Provider Network Core Technologies (350-501 SPCOR) v1.0 is a 120-minute exam associated with the Cisco Certified Specialist – Service Provider Core certification and satisfies the core exam requirement for the CCNP Service Provider and CCIE Service Provider certifications.
This exam tests your knowledge of core service provider network technologies, including:
- Core architecture
- Services
- Networking
- Automation
- Quality of services
- Security
- Network assurance

Cisco Overview
Torque IT is one South Africa’s larger and more experienced providers of Authorized Cisco training. We run more courses more often, than any other training provider in South Africa and we guarantee that you will receive the most up to date and relevant technical course information available when you attend Cisco training courses at Torque IT.
Our standard and customized Cisco training courses are hands-on. When you attend training at Torque IT, you will implement the concepts that you learn using current Cisco equipment or Cisco Learning Labs (CLL), in real-world scenarios, to prepare you for real networking environments and the associated Cisco Certification examinations. Our authorized Cisco training and associated certification solutions empower you to design, sell, implement, troubleshoot and maintain Cisco implementations of any size.
The above serves to illustrate our commitment to providing you with high quality skills development, enablement, training and certification solutions that demonstrate exceptional depth, breadth, and expertise across Routing & Switching, Network Security, Cyber Security, Wireless LAN, Industrial (IoT), Unified Communications, Cloud, Data Center Unified Fabric, Unified Computing Systems, Service Provider, Network Programmability, Software Defined Networking and IP NGN technologies.