Course Description
The Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA) v2.0 training gives you a broad range of fundamental knowledge for all IT careers. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on labs, and self-study, you will learn how to install, operate, configure, and verify basic IPv4 and IPv6 networks. The training covers configuring network components such as switches, routers, and wireless LAN controllers; managing network devices; and identifying basic security threats. The training also gives you a foundation in network programmability, automation, and software-defined networking.
Course Objectives
- Identify the components of a computer network and describe their basic characteristics.
- Understand the model of host-to-host communication.
- Describe the features and functions of the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS®) software.
- Describe LANs and the role of switches within LANs.
- Describe Ethernet as the network access layer of TCP/IP and describe the operation of switches.
- Install a switch and perform the initial configuration.
- Describe the TCP/IP Internet layer, IPv4, its addressing scheme, and subnetting.
- Describe the TCP/IP Transport layer and Application layer.
- Explore functions of routing.
- Implement basic configuration on a Cisco router.
- Explain host-to-host communications across switches and routers.
- Identify and resolve common switched network issues and common problems associated with IPv4 addressing.
- Describe IPv6 main features and addresses, and configure and verify basic IPv6 connectivity.
- Describe the operation, benefits, and limitations of static routing.
- Describe, implement, and verify Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) and trunks.
- Describe the application and configuration of inter-VLAN routing.
- Explain the basics of dynamic routing protocols and describe components and terms of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).
- Explain how Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) work.
- Configure link aggregation using EtherChannel.
- Describe the purpose of Layer 3 redundancy protocols.
- Describe basic WAN and VPN concepts.
- Describe the operation of Access Control Lists (ACLs) and their applications in the network.
- Configure Internet access using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) clients and explain and configure Network Address Translation (NAT) on Cisco routers.
- Describe basic Quality of Service (QoS) concepts.
- Describe the concepts of wireless networks, which types of wireless networks can be built, and how to use Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs).
- Describe network and device architectures and introduce virtualization.
- Introduce the concept of network programmability and Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and describe smart network management solutions such as Cisco DNA Center™, Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), and Software Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN).
- Configure basic IOS system monitoring tools.
- Describe the management of Cisco devices.
- Describe the current security threat landscape.
- Describe threat defense technologies.
- Implement a basic security configuration of the device management plane.
- Implement basic steps to harden network devices.
Course Prerequisites
Before taking this training, you should have:
- Basic computer literacy.
- Basic PC operating system navigation skills.
- Basic Internet usage skills.
- Basic IP address knowledge.