Overview
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching is a certification program for entry-level network engineers. The CCNA certification program will give you the confidence to install, configure, troubleshoot, and maintain an organisation's network. The program is for anyone seeking to commence a career in IT network installation and configuration. The program provides the necessary enabling skills for this role. Students should learn how to build and maintain IT networks.
The topics covered are:
- What is a network?
- Network models
- How data flows from one computer to another
- Network addressing
- Ethernet LANs
- How Ethernet networks operate
- Early Ethernet network devices, including hubs and bridges
- Today's Ethernet network devices, including switches and Virtual LANs (VLANs)
- Routing basics
- Layer 2 and 3 addressing
- Interconnecting different broadcast domains using routers
- Address resolution
- How data is sent from one broadcast domain or network to another
- IP addressing
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- IP addressing
- Network masks
- Working with binary numbers
- Subnetting
- Routing data through a network using longest match routing
- WAN technologies
- Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
- Frame Relay
- Asynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM)
- Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
- Transport Layer protocols
- User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
- Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
- Internetworking
- Ethernet Networking and Data Encapsulation
- Introduction to TCP/IP
- Subnetting
- Cisco's Internetworking Operating System (IOS)
- Managing a Cisco Internetwork
- IP Routing
- Layer 2 Switching and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Virtual LANs (VLANs)
- Security
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Cisco's Wireless Technologies
- Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)
- Wide Area Networks
- Teacher: Christine King