Certificate in Network Planning

Certificate in Network Planning

About Network Planning

The Certificate in Network Planning exam evaluates candidates' proficiency in designing, strategizing, and planning computer networks. This exam assesses participants' understanding of network planning principles, methodologies, tools, requirements gathering, and feasibility analysis.

Why is Network Planning important?

Since the demands of the network are taken into account, networks that are part of a defined plan generally operate better than those that are merely put together. Effective network architecture will be more stable and enable overall greater performance.

Who should take the Network Planning Exam?

• Project manager
  
• Network planner
• Network engineer
• Program manager
• IT manager
• System engineer

Network Planning Certification Course Outline

• Network Planning
• Define network planning
• Describe the NSP network planning functionalities
• Explain the importance of capacity planning
• Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for capacity planning
• Port Throughput Summary report
• Interface Utilization Summary report
• Temperature, CPU, Memory Utilization Summary report
• Explain the importance of inventory management
• Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for inventory management
• Card Inventory report
• Port Inventory report
• Explain the importance of equipment health monitoring
• Demonstrate how to configure, execute and analyze NSP analytics reports for equipment health monitoring
• Explain the role of forecasting in network planning
• Describe how to configure, execute and analyze “LSP Throughput with Forecast” analytics report
• Describe the role of the IP/MPLS Simulation application in network planning
• Demonstrate how to import a network for simulation
• Demonstrate how to simulate modifying LSP demand bandwidth
• Demonstrate how to simulate modifying link bandwidth
• Define “What-if” scenario
• Demonstrate how to simulate link congestion
• Describe how to simulate a link failure
• Demonstrate how to simulate a link failure over parallel LSPs 
• Describe how to “re-set” the simulation network
• Define “Worst-case” scenario
• Demonstrate how to simulate a “Worst-case” scenario