Overview

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.

Syllabus

Course 1: Introduction to QoS and QoS Mechanisms
Course 2: Managing Network Traffic with QoS
Course 3: QoS for Newer Network Technologies

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8 hours 8 minutes
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As user applications continue to drive network growth and complexity, supporting diverse types of traffic—especially for business-critical and delay-sensitive applications—has never been more essential. This course equips learners with in-demand skills to effectively manage Quality of Service (QoS) in converged networks, ensuring that priority applications receive the performance they require. You’ll explore the foundations of QoS, identify common network issues, and learn step-by-step methods for planning and implementing QoS using modern models like best-effort, IntServ, and DiffServ. What sets this course apart is its practical focus on Cisco’s Modular QoS CLI (MQC) and breakthrough AutoQoS tools, enabling both granular configuration and simplified deployment for different user needs. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll gain skills in class-based marking, monitoring QoS, and leveraging Cisco’s automation tools for both campus and WAN environments. By the end of the course, you’ll be confident in creating and maintaining QoS policies that optimize network performance and reliability—making you an invaluable asset in any network administration or architecture role.
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7 hours 57 minutes
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Aggressive network traffic can cause serious congestion, disrupting critical applications like voice, video, and interactive services. This course equips you with the expertise to master Cisco’s powerful congestion management and Quality of Service (QoS) tools, ensuring essential applications maintain the performance needed to meet demanding service levels. You’ll learn to configure advanced queuing techniques—including Weighted Fair Queuing (WFQ), Class-Based WFQ, and Low Latency Queuing (LLQ)—and discover how to leverage congestion avoidance strategies such as Random Early Detection (RED), Weighted RED (WRED), and Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to minimize packet loss and delay. A strong focus is placed on practical skills: from policing and shaping traffic to maximize WAN efficiency to optimizing bandwidth for critical flows amid network congestion. Lessons extend to increasingly vital concepts like packet compression, link fragmentation, and interleaving—essential for maintaining performance even on low-speed WAN connections. This course stands out for its hands-on approach, blending real-world Cisco labs and best practices across the enterprise campus and WAN environments. By the end, you’ll be confident in implementing reliable, cost-effective network solutions that keep business operations running smoothly, even under challenging conditions.
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4 hours 40 minutes
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In today’s dynamic business landscape, wireless networks have evolved far beyond basic data transport—they now support bandwidth-intensive and time-sensitive multimedia applications across industries like retail, finance, and education. As these demands grow, implementing effective Quality of Service (QoS) measures becomes essential to ensure critical applications—such as VoIP, video, and enterprise databases—always perform reliably. This course provides a comprehensive journey into the world of wireless and wired QoS, guiding you through the core principles, challenges, and best practices for modern enterprise networks. Leveraging expertise from Cisco, a global leader in networking, the course blends practical case studies with a unified, vendor-agnostic approach to QoS. You’ll explore how to design and implement tailored QoS policies that prioritize business-critical applications, and learn to coordinate end-to-end QoS strategies across campus, WAN, and service provider networks. The curriculum spotlights the importance of synchronizing enterprise and service provider policies, and showcases how Cisco’s Software-Defined Access, SD-WAN, and Software-Defined Data Center solutions deliver cutting-edge, unified QoS. Whether you manage networks or are looking to advance your technical skills, this course delivers essential, in-demand knowledge designed to future-proof your expertise.