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Implementing the Cisco Application Control Engine Appliance (ACEAP) v2.0 4 days Lecture/lab
Course description
In this 4-day hands-on course, you will learn how to deploy and configure the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Appliance. This course covers all of the key features of the Cisco ACE appliance, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, security features like application-layer inspection and fixups, and application optimization capabilities.

Learning objectives
After you complete this course, you will be able to:
  • Describe the methods used to manage the ACE appliance
  • Discuss the ACE features that provide IP application based security
  • Describe the capabilities and configuration of the ACE features used to provide load balancing of IP based applications
  • Discuss the health monitoring capabilities of the ACE appliance
  • List the Layer 7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking
  • Discuss ACE support for SSL protocol processing
  • List key application acceleration and optimization features and their benefits in the overall design
  • Describe the High Availability features of the ACE appliance that are used to provide reliable application networking services
  • Describe the methodology used to design and configure multiple ACE features
Who should attend
This course is designed for systems engineers and network architects who need to design or deploy server load-balancing solutions using the Cisco ACE appliance.

Recommended prerequisites
  • TCP/IP protocol
  • HTTP and SSL protocols
  • N-tier application architecture
  • Server load-balancing
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