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Advanced AOS-CX Switching

This 5-day course prepares you for the HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX based ACX - Switching certification exams (Written Exam Code: HPE7-A09 and Practical Exam Code: HPE4-A53). Attending this course will teach you the advanced skills necessary to implement and operate enterprise-level HPE Aruba Networking switching solutions. You will build on...

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  • Last updated : 23/07/2026
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Advanced AOS-CX Switching
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Duration:

40.00 hours

32.5 CPD hours

Overview:

This 5-day course prepares you for the HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX based ACX - Switching certification exams (Written Exam Code: HPE7-A09 and Practical Exam Code: HPE4-A53). Attending this course will teach you the advanced skills necessary to implement and operate enterprise-level HPE Aruba Networking switching solutions. You will build on the skills you learned at the Professional level to configure and manage modern, open standards based networking solutions using HPE Aruba Networking AOS-CX routing and switching technologies. In this course, you will learn about AOS-CX switch technologies, such as:



- Switch virtualization with HPE Aruba Networking Virtual Switching eXtension (VSX)
- Redundancy technologies such as Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
- Link aggregation techniques, including Link Aggregation Protocol (LACP)
- Securing port access with HPE Aruba Networking Dynamic Segmentation

This course is approximately 50% lecture and 50% hands-on lab exercises.

Description:

Wired network design


- Requirement analysis
- Two-tier and three-tier network design considerations
- Switching and routing design principles
Troubleshooting


- Troubleshooting principles and methodology
- Logging and debugging
- Diagnostic commands
- Traffic analysis
- Troubleshooting using HPE Aruba Networking Central
Monitoring and automation


- Network automation with AOS-CX
- REST API
- Sending REST API requests
- HPE Aruba Networking Network Analytics Engine
- Other monitoring
VSX and L2 technologies


- VSX
- VSX best practices
- VSX troubleshooting
L3 routing and OSPF


- Policy-based routing
- Single-area OSPF troubleshooting
- Multi-area OSPF
Border Gateway Protocol


- BGP connections
- BGP advertisements
- BGP metrics and tuning
- Route control
Route redistribution


- Redistribution static routes to OSPF
- Tuning static to OSPF route redistribution
- Redistribute OSPF to BGP
VRF and route leaking


- Virtual routing and forwarding
- VRF route leaking
Multicast routing


- IGMP
- PIM-SM build-up process
- Static RP configuration
- Dynamic RP configuration
- VSX and PIM
- Multicast deployment
Quality of Service


- Quality of Service (QoS) overview
- Ingress stage
- Prioritization stage
- Remark QoS
- Queuing stage
- Scheduler stage
- Active queue management
Dynamic Segmentation


- Overview
- Understanding user based tunneling
- Downloadable user roles
Network security


- Access Control Lists
- Classifier policy
- Control Plane Policing
- User group management
- Management access using TACACS+
- DHCP snooping and ARP inspection
- MACsec
DURATION 1 Day

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Training Insurance Included!

When you organise training, we understand that there is a risk that some people may fall ill, become unavailable.

To mitigate the risk we include training insurance for each delegate enrolled on our public schedule, they are welcome to sit on the same Public class within 6 months at no charge, if the case arises.