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Spirent Education ServicesSCPE CertificationNetworks and Applications
An established standard in network testing certification
Spirent, the world leader in performance analysis solutions, was the first company to offer network
testing certification programs in the 1990s. Today, Spirent’s certification programs still provide the
most rigorous and comprehensive certifications in the industry. The Spirent Certified Performance
Expert (SCPE) certification offers the highest benchmark qualification in network testing today;
they have no equal. In addition, while the curriculum employs Spirent technology, its scope is
industry-wide. Accordingly, it incorporates testing methodologies which deal with real-world testing
scenarios that have valuable industry-wide applications.
Spirent SCPE certification tracks
Currently Spirent offers two SCPE Certifications:
� Testing Network Infrastructure with Spirent TestCenter™
� Testing Security Infrastructure with Avalanche
Certification curriculum components
To be awarded an SCPE certification a candidate must:
� Complete the prerequisite self-paced on-line “Essentials of” Spirent Campus course
� Attend and complete an intensive three day hands-on instructor-led course
� Pass the online certification exam covering the topics of the selected certification track
Who should get a Spirent certification?
Candidates who will benefit most from the Spirent certification programs are engineers whose
responsibilities include device and system performance analysis, as well as those who need to
benchmark and verify network operations. Also, anyone interested in becoming more proficient
at implementing networks, and/or having a better understanding of how devices and networks
operate, will also benefit.
Assure your teams testing qualifications
efficiency, and quality continue to
grow, assuring the qualifications of
your network testing team has never
been more crucial. To help satisfy
these conditions, Spirent’s certification
tracks provide your team with the
necessary hands-on education and
subsequent validation of their testing
qualifications
SCPE certification benefits
� Learning the best practices
for proven and effective test
methodology
� Obtaining up-to-date information on
the latest developments in network
testing
� Leveraging Spirent’s extensive pool
of professional experience
� Quantifying expertise in specialized
network testing
� Enhancing professional credentials
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Testing network infrastructure with Spirent TestCenter™ SCPE
Topics
� Detailed Application Overview
� Manipulating and Customizing Views
� Options, Settings, and Preferences
� Tip and Tricks
New concepts in Spirent TestCenter
� Host Blocks
� Stream Blocks
� Routers
� Command Sequencer
� Results Framework
Host blocks
� What is a Host Block?
� Configuring Host Blocks
� Host Block Protocol Results
� Host Protocol Example: DHCP
Stream blocks
� What is a Stream Block?
� Configuring Stream Blocks
� Transmitting and Analyzing Stream Blocks
Routers
� Routing Emulation Features
� Configuring Routing Emulation
� Routing Emulation Results
� Routing Protocol Example: BGP
Command sequencer
� NoCode Automation Overview
� Creating a Command Sequence
� Manipulating Commands
� Using the Test Wizards
� Sequencer Loops
� Status Commands
� Conditional Processing
� Running an External Process
Results framework
� Real-time Results
� Database Results
� End-of-test Results
� Control Plane Results
� Results Modes
� Results Reporter Overview
� Histograms
� Analyzer Filters
� Packet Capture
� How Latency is Measured
Performance test methodology
� How to Stress-test a Switch/Router
� Layer 2 Performance Testing
� Layer 3 Performance Testing
� QoS Performance Testing
� Applications of Multi-Layer, Multi-Stream
Testing
� Router Performance Testing
� Performing Throughput Testing
� Performing Latency Testing
� How to Interpret Test Results
This is a full three-day hands-on instructor-led
course
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Testing security infrastructure with Avalanche SCPE
Topics
Layer 4-7 test environment and Avalanche
� How Avalanche is used to Test in a L4-7 Environment
Avalanche test administration
� Provisioning Appliance Hardware
� Provisioning Spirent TestCenter Hardware
Avalanche GUI application
� Creating Tests
� Client and Server Profiles
� Virtual Routing
� Packet Capture
� Capture/Replay
� Managing Avalanche Test and Projects Configurations
� Setting Avalanche GUI Preferences
Test configuration
� Configuring Realistic Tests
� Managing the TCP/IP Test Environment
� HTTP Test Configuration
� Managing Avalanche Load Control
� Application Test Setup Overview
DUT testing methodology
� Key Elements of Test Methodologies
� Concurrent (Open) TCP Connections
� Maximum TCP Connection Rate
� Maximum Transaction Rate
� Maximum Bandwidth
� Differences between TCP Connections, HTTP Transactions and
� SimUsers
Results
� Real Time Results
� Avalanche Analyzer
� Managing Avalanche Results
� Analyzing Avalanche Test Results
WorkSuite manager
� Using WorkSuite Manager to Manage the Test Environment
� Validation Criteria
� Post Run Validation Criteria
� Control Scripts
� Iterative Tests
� WorkSuite Functions
This is a full three-day hands-on instructor-led course
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Requirements
On-line courses provide the foundation for all certification tracks. These Web-based “Essentials
of” courses offer introductory product training. They are prerequisites for the instructor-led courses
and the SCPE curriculums.
Instructor-led courses involve hands-on instructor-led classroom instruction and provide product,
technology, and methodology training. Each Instructor-led course encompasses a different
technology and incorporates the Spirent product(s) which tests that technology. This can include
multiple Spirent products in a single classroom environment. Instructor-led courses range from one
to multiple day classes based on customer requirements. Custom training is also available.
Certification Programs offer a student the opportunity to learn and demonstrate proficiency in a
technology segment or group. The SCPE certification is the highest industry certification and is
attained only after completing the prerequisite on-line course, attending the intensive three day
instructor-led course, and passing the master exam covering the curriculum content. Each SCPE
certification is valid for 3 years.
Expertise of Spirent Education Services
Spirent’s training staff is an accomplished team of certified networking professionals. They
have years of experience training all levels of audiences, performing hands-on testing, and
troubleshooting diverse device and networking conditions. This has enriched their instructional
capabilities, on multiple Spirent platforms, for audiences all around the world.
Spirent campus
Visit www.spirentcampus.com and enroll today. There you will find free, on-line beginning level
training, accessible 24x7 from anywhere in the world. These include one or more online “Essentials
of” courses. There are “Essentials of” courses covering Spirent’s ‘core’ products: Abacus,
Avalanche, AX/4000, SmartBits, and Spirent TestCenter
Spirent services
Spirent Global Services provides
a variety of professional services,
support services and education
services—all focused on helping
customers meet their complex testing
and service assurance requirements.
For more information, visit the
Global Services website at
www.spirent.com or contact your
Spirent sales representative.