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Course Outline

• Internetworking
• Introduction to TCP/IP
• Subnetting, Variable Length Subnet Masks (VLSMs), and Troubleshooting TCP/IP
• Cisco’s Internetworking Operating System (IOS) and Security Device Manager (SDM)
• Managing a Cisco Internetwork
• IP Routing
• Enhanced IGRP (EIGRP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
• 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

Course Topics

• Describe computer hardware basics, binary and hexadecimal number systems, basic networking terminology, and internetworking concepts
• Identify the major components of a network system, including clients and servers, network interface cards (NICs), internetworking devices, media, and topologies
• Describe the functions, operations, and primary components of local-area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs), metropolitan-area networks (MANs), storage-area networks (SANs), content networks (CNs), and virtual private networks (VPNs)
• Describe the major network access methods and outline the key features of each Describe the functions and operations of switching technologies
• Explain the format and significance of each of the following components to a network system: IP addressing, classes, reserved address space, and subnetting
• Calculate valid subnetwork addresses and mask values so that user/network requirements are met when given an IP address scheme
• Explain the purposes of networking addresses, routing protocols, and routed protocols
• Describe the functions, operations, and primary components of WAN technologies
• Describe the function, operation, and primary components required to provide remote access services
• Use available configuration tools to establish connectivity to the appropriate network device in order to complete the initial device configuration
• Build a functional configuration to support the specified network operational requirements, given a network design
• Use the appropriate show commands to display network operational parameters so that anomalites are detected
• Use the appropriate debug commands to monitor network operational parameters so that anomalies are detected
• Explain how bridging and switching operates
• Explain the purpose and operations of the Spanning- Tree Protocol Build a functional router configuration to support the specified network operational requirements, given a network design
• Describe the features and operation of static routing