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ETCP TIPS for IP
TRACKS
Fernando Cuartero Leal
Senior Service Engineer, GCH
Ericsson Certified Professional - FBSM

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ETCP IP professional
Certifications
1. Provides a measure of your knowledge and skills in a particular area
– Professional exams are complicated and hard to pass
– Should go for an exam whenever you have approx. 60% of the knowledge from
your work experience.
– Don’t go for an exam if most of the exam scope is new for you
– Exams are not ideal method: Failing does not mean you don’t know or are not valid,
rather that the exam covers some new aspects for you which you need to study or
work on
2. Forces to study, revise technical aspects
3. Helps to manage your competence development
– Help your manager to assign you to more suitable projects
4. Helps to move onto your next role inside Ericsson (not yet known in
the IT world)

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Common for all exams
1. Blueprint (Exam Topics. IMPORTANT!)
2. Training courses in Academy Space and ETCP page Training
Resources (needed, but sometimes not enough: Not all the
answers could be found in the Training resources).
3. Knowledge Assessments corresponding to each course (very
easy). The tool doesn’t correct wrong answers
4. MyPractice Lab (nice for some hands on SE, SSR). There are
practical courses with some theory
5. Sample questions (easier than actual exam, but give some ideas)
6. Study. It is easy to fail even if you know the topics by your daily
work. Time is needed. Approx. one dedicated week.

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Common for all exams
7. 60 – 70 questions. 90 minutes. Question numbering and timing
shown on screen.  1min 45 sec per question.
8. One question is shown at a time. You must answer it in order to go
to next one. After you click “next” button for next question, it is not
possible to go back.
9. Question types: Choose one (4 options) - Choose two (4 options) -
Choose three (5 options). All have same value. Only right answers
count. Blank or wrong are the same.
10. ETCP testing centers: ECD vs. External Prometric Testing center.
– Availability: Prometric more flexible in dates.
– Comfort: ECD. Proctor are Ericsson employees. Exam at office.
11. This is not official information! Just our experience. Please refer to
ETCP page

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Common for all exams
› Certification management system:
http://i7lp.integral7.com/ericsson

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ETcP tracks IP related
IP
IP Technology
IP Networking
BNG
(Fixed Broadband
Subscriber Mgmt.)

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IP technology
› Step 1:
› Ericsson Certified - IP Technology (ECP-102)
› I would better go for ECA-IPN as it is requirement for more other exams
› Boot Camp course in Aachen
› Step 2:
– Suitable for SE and SA working in these specific areas (IPv6, MPLS)
– Ericsson Certified - IPv6 Technology (ECP-111)
› More and more IPv6 business coming on
› Still unknown area for most of us
› Study and go for the exam if involved in IPv6 project (i.e. IPv4-IPv6 transition)
› As a new, trendy topic is mentioned in several workshops: E/// Tech summits, A10
seminars, … Stay alert and try to participate in those or listen the recordings
› IPv6 appears in IP Routing, IP/MPLS and BNG
– Ericsson Certified - MPLS Technology (ECP-121)
› Much simpler than IP/MPLS
› Try it also when going for IP/MPLS exam to compensate preparation effort

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On the way to IP
professional
› Step 1 (ECA):
– Ericsson Certified Associate - IP Networking (ECA-IPN)
› Step 2 (ECP):
– IP Routing (first one to take as it is the common one)
– depending on expertise,competence,interests, career path…
› ECP - IP Networking: IP/MPLS (for efficiency try MPLS Technology also)
› ECP - BNG : Fixed Broadband Subscriber Management Professional

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ECP-201 IP Networking
› Readiness: Take it whenever you most probably pass it with no preparation
› Difficulty: Easy/general questions
› Profile: Assessed/Experienced Service Engineer within IP, Broadband & Core
Competence Domain
› Material: Training resources cover well enough the scope. Don’t need to be
done if have enough IP expertise
› Hands on: MyPractice Lab is useful to practice but not essential
› Blueprint
1. IP Fundamentals 18%
2. MPLS 14%
3. L3VPN 13%
4. QoS 7%
5. BGP 14%
6. IGP 15%
7. Ethernet Fundamentals 9%
8. SmartEdge Fundamentals 10%

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ECP-502 IP Routing
› Readiness:
– Minimum 4 years IP experience
– one week preparation full-time.
› Difficulty:
– Very technical and specific.
– Very hard to pass 1st time. Take 1st time as a test to know requirements, type of questions and
areas to review
› Profile:
– Experienced/Senior Service Engineer within IP Competence Domain
› Material:
– Training resources are very good, useful and mandatory
– Not cover fully all exam scope. Examples:
› Routing: RIP, BGP route reflectors and confederations
› Bridging: STP, RSTP, bvi
› Resiliency: BFD, VRRP
– Other training resources:
› SEOS documentation in Alex
› SJ Nerd lunches recordings
› “Google”

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ECP-502 IP Routing
› Hands on: MyPractice Lab is useful to be familiar with SE config and show
outputs
› Blueprint : Very wide scope, not only IP Routing. Difficult to have all competence
1. IGP 20%
2. BGP 20%
3. Redistribution and PBR 7%
4. Switching 5%
5. Resiliency 5%
6. Multicast 10%
7. QoS 10%
8. IPv6 8%
9. Security 5%
10. Troubleshooting 10%

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ECP-511 IP/MPLS
› Readiness:
– Minimum 4 years IP experience and have participated in complex MPLS projects of different types
– one week full-time preparation is needed.
› Difficulty:
– Very specific.
– Not just basic L3VPN (IGP/LDP/MPBGP) used in MPBN
– Some parts, depending on your role, are difficult to get the knowledge from daily work. i.e. MPLS-TP
› Profile: Experienced/Senior Service Engineer within IP Competence Domain
› Material:
– Training resources are mandatory
– Not enough for preparation. Examples:
› IGP TE extensions : CSPF, TE LSA in OSPF, …
› 6PE and 6VPE
› L2VPN Cross-Connections
› CESoPSN, SAToP PWs practically
› Multicast VPNs
› Inter-AS, CsC networks

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ECP-511 IP/MPLS
› Material:
– Other training resources:
› MPBN Ericsson Academy: Research&Developement > Supplementary learning >Tutorials
› SJ Nerd lunches recordings
› “google”
› SEOS documentation in Alex
› work experience in MPLS projects
› Hands on:
– MyPractice Lab is useful to be familiar with SE config and show outputs.
– MyPractice Lab exercises only for MPLS with LDP outer label and L3VPN
– Needed real life hands on. Work in different MPLS scenarios (L3VPN, L2VPN, MPLS-TE, VPWS, …)

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ECP-511 IP/MPLS
› Blueprint : Not too wide scope but very specific
1. MPLS Fundamentals 16%
2. MPLS Signaling 15%
3. Layer 2 VPN/VPLS 15%
4. Layer 3 VPN 20%
5. IPv6 MPLS 5%
6. QoS 7%
7. Traffic Engineering and Protection Mechanisms 10%
8. Troubleshooting 12%

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ECP-351 BNG
› Readiness:
– Prerequisite to have been involved in BNG project/support at least 1 year
› Difficulty:
– Less wide scope.
– Very Smartedge oriented.
› Profile: Experienced/Senior Service Engineer within IP Competence Domain
› Material:
– Training resources are excellent and mandatory
– Enough for theory knowledge
› Hands on:
– MyPractice Lab is useful to be familiar with some SE config and show outputs but can’t simulate
subscribers and no AAA
– It is needed working on BNG project/support for troubleshooting knowledge

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ECP-351 BNG
› Blueprint : Not wide but specific
1. Access Technologies 6%
2. Subscriber Termination 30%
3. Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) 18%
4. IPv6 5%
5. Resiliency 6%
6. Quality of Service (QoS) 6%
7. Service and Security 12%
8. Troubleshooting 17%

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ETCP-SE/SA role matrix
EXAM
ROLE
Service
Engineer
Solution
Architect
AS EXP SR AS EXP SR
IP
Technology
IP Technology (ECP-102) X X
IPv6 (ECP-111) X X
MPLS (ECP-121) X X
IP Networking
- BNG
ECA-IPN (ECP-201) X X
IP Routing (ECP-502) X X
IP/MPLS (ECP-511) X X
BNG (ECP-351) X X
› X: minimum recommended role to take the exam

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Q&A
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