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Implementing Cisco Quality of Service Specialization

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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.

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Introduction to QoS and QoS Mechanisms

  • Manage Network Traffic with QoS

  • QoS for Newer Network Technologies

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July 2025

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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

Category: Wide Area Networks
Managing Network Traffic with QoS

Managing Network Traffic with QoS

Course 27 hours

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

Category: Wide Area Networks
Category: Network Switches
Category: Service Level
Category: Algorithms
Category: Telecommunications
Category: Network Routing
Category: TCP/IP
Category: Network Performance Management
Category: Network Protocols
Category: Network Administration

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

Category: Wide Area Networks
Category: Computer Networking
Category: Software-Defined Networking
Category: Network Infrastructure
Category: Local Area Networks
Category: Network Architecture
Category: Service Level
Category: Network Planning And Design
Category: Network Performance Management
Category: Wireless Networks

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