The Implementing Cisco Quality of Service Specialization equips learners with necessary hands-on skills to design, configure, and manage effective administrative policies providing QoS across Cisco platforms—including modern wireless and software-defined networks. This Specialization will ensure learners gain advanced QoS features for today’s multiservice networks so they can advance their careers in the enterprise industry.

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Implementing Cisco Quality of Service Specialization
Optimize Networks with Cisco QoS Training. Gain in-depth knowledge of QoS requirements, implementation, and conceptual models.

Instructor: Cisco Learning & Certifications
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What you'll learn
Introduction to QoS and QoS Mechanisms
Manage Network Traffic with QoS
QoS for Newer Network Technologies
Overview
Skills you'll gain
- Network Performance Management
- Network Planning And Design
- TCP/IP
- IT Infrastructure
- Network Administration
- Performance Tuning
- Network Monitoring
- Configuration Management
- Routing Protocols
- Wide Area Networks
- Software-Defined Networking
- Network Infrastructure
- Network Analysis
- Network Routers
- Wireless Networks
- Local Area Networks
- Network Routing
- Network Switches
- Network Troubleshooting
- Network Protocols
What’s included

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Specialization - 3 course series
What you'll learn
Gain an introductory understanding of QoS and its implementation and monitoring
Understand classification and its implementation
Explain the purpose of marking and how it can be used to define a QoS service policy
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
Understand hardware and software queuing and how to manage congestion using link efficiency mechanisms to collectively improve bandwidth efficiency
Explain the problems resulting from TCP flow control limitations on a converged network and how RED can prevent congestion in a TCP/IP network
Explain traffic policing and traffic shaping
Skills you'll gain
What you'll learn
Describe the need for wireless QoS in WLANs, and the need for a unified approach to support multi-vendor time-sensitive applications
Overview QoS in the Cisco SD-Access, Software-Defined Data Center, and SD-WAN solutions
Describe how to deploy End-to-End QoS
Skills you'll gain
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Frequently asked questions
The average user will take 2-3 months and 2 hours per week.
Students do not require any necessary knowledge before taking this Specialization.
Yes. Each course is designed to provide needed knowledge for the next course.
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