By Ping Fang on Monday, June 07, 1999 - 10:40 am:

Week 8 -- Exterior Routing Protocols

From my experience of taking the beta exam, I found that Cisco follows their exam objectives closely. Here are the objectives for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP):

1). Design: Peer Groups, Route Reflectors, Confederations, Clusters, Attributes, Autonomous Systems (AS)
2). Operation: Route Maps, Filters, Neighbors, decision algorithm, Interior Border Gateway Protocol (IBGP), Exterior Border Gateway Protocol (EBGP)

Recommended readings:
1). Cisco Systems, Internetworking Technologies Handbook, Second Edition, Chapter 35
2). Terry Slattery & Bill Burton, Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks, Chapter 7-10
3). Bassam Halabi, Internet Routing Architectures