CCNA Routing & Switching

• Operation of IP Data Networks
• Recognize the purpose and functions of various network devices such as Routers, Switches, Bridges and Hubs.
• Select the components required to meet a given network specification.
• Identify common applications and their impact on the network
• Describe the purpose and basic operation of the protocols in the OSI and TCP/IP models.
• Predict the data flow between two hosts across a network.
• Identify the appropriate media, cables, ports, and connectors to connect Cisco network devices to other network devices and hosts in a LAN
• Internetworking
• OSI Layers
• Ethernet Cabling
• Describe the purpose and functions of various network devices
• Select the components required to meet a network specification
• CISCO IOS
• Managing CISCO Networks

• Determine the technology and media access control method for Ethernet networks
• Identify basic switching concepts and the operation of Cisco switches.
  • Collision Domain
  • Broadcast Domain
  • Types of switching
• Configure and verify initial switch configuration including remote access management.
• Cisco IOS commands to perform basic switch setup
• Verify network status and switch operation using basic utilities such as ping, telnet and ssh.
• Identify enhanced switching technologies
  • STP, RSTP, PVSTP
  • Ether channels/LAG
• Describe how VLANs create logically separate networks and the need for routing between them.
• Explain network segmentation and basic traffic management concepts
• Configure and verify VLANs
• Configure and verify trunking on Cisco switches
  • DTP
  • Auto negotiation
  • VLAN Trunking Protocol – IEEE 802.1q , ISL
• Configure and verify PVSTP operation
  • describe root bridge election
  • spanning tree mode
• VTP
• Inter VLAN Routing
• Voice VLAN
• Basics of Stacking

• Describe the operation and necessity of using private and public IP addresses for IPv4 addressing
• Identify the appropriate IPv6 addressing scheme to satisfy addressing requirements in a LAN/WAN environment.
• Identify the appropriate IPv4 addressing scheme using VLSM and summarization to satisfy addressing requirements in a LAN/WAN environment.
• Describe the technological requirements for running IPv6 in conjunction with IPv4 such as dual stack
• Describe IPv6 addresses
  • Global unicast
  • Link local
  • Unique local
  • eui 64
  • autoconfiguration

IP Routing Technologies – 08 hours

• Describe basic routing concepts
  • CEF
  • Packet forwarding
  • Router lookup process
• Describe the boot process of Cisco IOS routers
• POST
• Router bootup process
• Configure and verify utilizing the CLI to set basic Router configuration
• Cisco IOS commands to perform basic router setup
• Configure and verify operation status of a device interface, both serial and ethernet
• Verify router configuration and network connectivity
• Cisco IOS commands to review basic router information and network connectivity
• Configure and verify routing configuration for a static or default route given specific routing requirements
• Manage Cisco IOS Files
• Boot preferences
• Cisco IOS image(s)
• Licensing
• Show license
• Change license
• Differentiate methods of routing and routing protocols
  • Static vs. Dynamic
  • Link state vs. Distance Vector
  • Administrative distance
  • split horizon
  • metric
  • next hop
  • ip routing table
  • Passive Interfaces
  • How to access the remote devices (Telnet and SSH)
  • Static Routing, Default Routing, RIP
• Configure and verify EIGRP (single/multi AS)
  • Feasible Distance / Feasible Successors /Administrative distance
  • Feasibility condition
  • Metric composition
  • Router ID
  • Auto summary
  • Path selection
  • Load balancing
• Equal
• Unequal
• Passive interface
• Configure and verify OSPF (single area and Multi Area )
  • Benefit of single area
  • neighbor adjacencies
  • OSPF states
  • Discuss Multi area
  • Configure OSPF v2
  • Configure OSPF v3
  • Router ID
  • Passive interface
• Configure and verify inter VLAN routing (Router on a stick)
  • sub interfaces
  • upstream routing
  • encapsulation
• Configure SVI interfaces

IP Services – 4 hours

• Configure and verify DHCP (IOS Router)
  • configuring router interfaces to use DHCP
  • DHCP options
  • excluded addresses
  • lease time
• Describe the types, features, and applications of ACLs
• Standard
• Sequence numbers
• Editing
  • Standard
  • Extended
  • Named
  • Log option
• Configure and verify ACLs in a network environment
  • Named
  • Numbered
  • Log option
• Identify the basic operation of NAT
  • Purpose
  • Pool
  • Static 1 to 1
  • Dynamic
  • Overloading/PAT
• Configure and verify NAT for given network requirements
• Configure and verify NTP as a client
• Configure and verify Syslog
• Utilize Syslog Output
• Describe SNMP v2 & v3

Network Device Security – 6 hours

• Configure and verify network device security features such as
  • Device password security
  • Enable secret vs enable
  • Transport
  • Disable telnet
  • SSH
  • VTYs
  • Physical security
  • Service password
  • Describe external authentication methods
• Configure and verify Switch Port Security features such as
  • Sticky MAC
  • MAC address limitation
  • Static / dynamic
  • Violation modes
• Err disable
• Shutdown
  • Protect restrict
  • Shutdown unused ports
  • Err disable recovery
  • Assign unused ports to an unused VLAN
  • Setting native VLAN to other than VLAN 1
• Configure and verify ACLs to filter network traffic
• Configure and verify an ACLs to limit telnet and SSH access to the router

• Leased Line, Pont-to-Pont, Frame-Relay, MPLS
• Frame-Relay over EIGRP (Split Horizon Rules)
• Frame-Relay over OSPF (NBMA)
  • Broadcast
  • Non Broadcast
  • Point to Point Sub Interface
• VPN – Virtual Private Network