CCNA (200-301)

• Network Fundamentals
• Network Access

• LAN Switching Technologies
  • WAN Technologies
  • IP Addressing IPv4 and IPv6
  • Easy Subnetting
  • IP Connectivity
• Describe the Routing Concepts
• Routing Technologies
  • Describe IP Services
  • Security Fundamentals
  • NAT Technologies
  • Troubleshooting
  • Virtualization, Automation and Programmability
  • Virtual Machine Fundamentals
  • Virtualization Components
  • Automation Components
  • TCL Scripts

CISCO Security

• Common Security threats and attacks
• Cisco IOS Firewall Technologies
• Implementing Security on Cisco Routers
• Implementing Security on Cisco Switches
• Securing Administrative Access Using AAA and RADIUS
• Configuration on User Privileges
• VPN Technologies
• Secure Network Management and Reporting

Course Curriculum

Network Fundamentals

• Compare & contrast OSI & TCP/IP models
• Compare & contrast TCP & UDP protocols
• Impact of infrastructure components in a network

• Firewalls, Access points, Wireless controllers
  • Effects of cloud resources on network architecture
• Traffic path to internal and external cloud services
• Virtual services
• Basic virtual network infrastructure
  • Compare & contrast collapsed core and three-tier architecture
  • Compare & contrast network topologies
• Star, Mesh, Hybrid
  • Select the appropriate cabling type (Straight & Cross)
  • Apply troubleshooting methodologies to resolve problems
• Perform and document fault isolation
• Resolve or escalate
• Verify & monitor resolution
  • Configure, verify & troubleshoot IPv4 addressing & subnetting
  • Compare & contrast IPv4 address types
• Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast
  • Describe the need for private IPv4 addressing
  • Identify IPv6 addressing to use in LAN / WAN environment
  • Configure, verify & troubleshoot IPv6 addressing
  • Configure & verify IPv6 Stateless Address Auto Configuration
  • Compare & contrast IPv6 address types
• Global unicast, Unique local, Link local, Multicast, Modified EUI 64, Autoconfiguration, Anycast

LAN Switching Technologies

• Describe & verify switching concepts

• MAC learning & aging, Frame switching, Frame flooding, MAC address table
  • Interpret Ethernet frame format
  • Troubleshoot interface & cable issues (collisions, errors, duplex, speed)
  • Configure, verify, and troubleshoot VLANs (normal/extended range) spanning multiple switches
• Access ports (data & voice), Default VLAN
  • Configure, verify, and troubleshoot interswitch connectivity
• Trunk ports, Add & remove VLANs on a trunk
• DTP, VTP (v1&v2), and 802.1Q Native VLAN
  • Configure, verify, & troubleshoot STP protocols
• STP mode (PVST+ and RPVST+), STP root bridge selection
  • Configure, verify & troubleshoot STP related optional features
• PortFast, BPDU guard
  • Configure & verify Layer 2 protocols
• Cisco Discovery Protocol, LLDP
  • Configure, verify, & troubleshoot (Layer 2/Layer 3) EtherChannel
• Static, PAGP, LACP
  • Describe the benefits of switch stacking & chassis aggregation

Routing Technologies

• Describe the routing concepts

• Packet handling along the path through a network
• Forwarding decision based on route lookup
• Frame rewrite
  • Interpret the components of a routing table
• Prefix, Network mask, Next hop, Routing protocol code
• Administrative distance, Metric
• Gateway of last resort & Admin distance
  • Configure, verify, & troubleshoot inter-VLAN routing
• Router on a stick & SVI
  • Compare & contrast static routing & dynamic routing
  • Compare & contrast distance vector and link state routing protocols
  • Compare & contrast interior and exterior routing protocols
  • Configure, verify & troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 static routing
• Default route, Network route, Host route, Floating static
  • Configure, verify & troubleshoot single area & multi-area OSPFv2 for IPv4 & IPv6 (excluding authentication, filtering, annual summarization, redistribution, stub, virtual-link, and LSAs)
  • Configure, verify & troubleshoot EIGRP for IPv4 & IPv6 (excluding authentication, filtering, manual summarization, redistribution, stub)
  • Configure, verify, and troubleshoot RIPv2 for IPv4 (excluding authentication, filtering, manual summarization, redistribution)
  • Troubleshoot basic Layer 3 end-to-end connectivity issues

WAN Technologies

• Configure & verify PPP and MLPPP on WAN interfaces using local authentication
• Configure, verify, & troubleshoot PPPoE client-side interfaces using local authentication
• Configure, verify, & troubleshoot GRE tunnel connectivity
• Describe WAN topology options

• Point-to-point, Hub and spoke, Full mesh, Single vs dual-homed
  • Describe WAN access connectivity options
• MPLS, Metro Ethernet, Broadband PPPoE, Internet VPN (DMVPN, site-to-site VPN, client VPN)
  • Configure and verify single-homed branch connectivity using eBGP IPv4 (limited to peering and route advertisement using Network command only)
  • Describe basic QoS concepts
• Marking, Device trust, Prioritization, (Voice, Video & Data)
• Shaping, Policing, Congestion management

Infrastructure Services

• Describe DNS lookup operation
• Troubleshoot client connectivity issues involving DNS
• Configure and verify DHCP on a router (excluding static reservations)

• Server, Relay, Client, TFTP, DNS, & gateway options
  • Troubleshoot client- and router-based DHCP connectivity issues
  • Configure, verify, and troubleshoot basic HSRP
• Priority, Pre-emption, Version
  • Describe common access layer threat mitigation techniques
• Using CDP or LLDP for device discovery
• Licensing, Logging, Time zone & Loopback
  • Configure and verify initial device configuration
  • Perform device maintenance
  • Introduction to Controllers (Cisco DNA Center and WLC)
  • Compare Cisco Wireless Architectures and AP modes
  • Describe physical infrastructure connections of WLAN components (AP, WLC, access/trunk ports, and LAG)
  • Describe AP and WLC management access connections (Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, console, and TACACS+/RADIUS)
  • Configure the components of a wireless LAN access for client connectivity using GUI only
• Such as WLAN creation, security settings, QoS profiles, and advanced WLAN settings
  • Describe wireless security protocols (WPA, WPA2, and WPA3)
  • Configure WLAN using WPA2 PSK using the GUI

Network Automation and Programmability

• What is Network management automation
• Past-To-Current Methods of Network Management
• Introduction to Network Management Automation
• What Can Be Automated?
• Goals of Automation
• Network Management Automation Protocols and their Impact

Virtualization Fundamentals

• Virtualization Components
• Hypervisor
• Virtualization guest
• Virtual appliance
• Virtual Switch
• Shared storage
• Virtual Storage