Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices: Accelerated v3.0 (CCNAX)

Michigan Technology Services offers many Cisco instructor-led courses. This CCNA training can take place at our location in Farmington Hills, 20 miles outside of Detroit, where you will sit in a room with one of our instructors, onsite at your office anywhere throughout the United States, or if you prefer, instructor led live online.

In the CCNAX class, instead of taking both the ICND1 and ICND2 classes and exams, learners have the option of taking one accelerated class and exam instead. The CCNA course covers all the material necessary to earn your CCNA certification, the prerequisite for many higher-level Cisco certifications. CCNA training teaches you the skills you need to install, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco routing and switching products, as well as introductory security and wireless technologies used by small and medium sized businesses.

This course prepares for CCNA Routing and Switching ICND v3 Exam (200-125 CCNA)

For complete Cisco course outlines and pricing information on other Cisco classes or to request a class date contact Michigan Technology Services at 248-489-0408

Who Should Attend

  • Network Administrators
  • Network Engineers
  • Network Managers
  • Systems Engineers
  • Network Designers
  • Project Managers

Prerequisites

This class is based on the traditional ICND1 and ICND2 classes and has been redeveloped to focus on achieving your CCNA efficiently with the view to fully prepare you for the exam whilst minimizing your time out of the office. All students should have a good understanding of the basics of Routing and Switching technologies - they should be familiar with a PC, understand how to change an IP address on a PC, use the ipconfig command and understand the different types of Ethernet cable. Candidates should ideally have 6 months – 1 year practical experience in a networking environment and have successfully completed our Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part1 v3 class or have equivalent work experience.

Course Objectives

  • Describe network fundamentals and build simple LANs
  • Establish Internet connectivity
  • Manage and secure network devices
  • Operate a medium-sized LAN with multiple switches, supporting VLANs, trunking, and spanning tree
  • Troubleshoot IP connectivity
  • Describe how to configure and troubleshoot EIGRP in an IPv4 environment, and configure EIGRP for IPv6
  • Configure and troubleshoot OSPF in an IPv4 environment and configure OSPF for IPv6
  • Define characteristics, functions, and components of a WAN
  • Describe how device management can be implemented using the traditional and intelligent ways.
  • Understand QoS, virtualization and cloud services, and network programmability related to WAN, access and core segments.

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1: Building a Simple Network
  • Identify the components of a computer network
  • Describe network characteristics
  • Host-to-host communications
  • OSI reference model
  • TCP/IP protocol suite
  • Peer-to-Peer Communications
  • Encapsulation and De-Encapsulation
  • Local area networks (LAN) components
  • Cisco IOS software features, functions and modes
  • Switch installation and configuration
  • Ethernet LAN connection and frame structure
  • Troubleshoot common switch network issues
Module 2: Establishing Internet Connectivity
  • Describe IPv4 and its addressing scheme
  • Describe subnets, subnetting, and the role of subnet masks
  • Describe the role of VLSM
  • Describe the TCP/IP transport layer functions
  • TCP vs. UDP analogy and characteristics
  • Functions and roles of a router
  • Cisco router configuration
  • Host-to-host communications across switches and routers
  • Static routing operations, benefits and configurations
  • ACL operation and configurations
  • Configure internet access using DHCP clients on Cisco routers
  • Configure and verify NAT
  • Configure and verify PAT
Module 3: Implementing Scalable Medium-Sized Networks
  • Enterprise network design
  • VLAN introduction and creation
  • Configure an 802.1Q Trunk
  • VLAN Trunking protocol
  • VLAN design
  • Redundancy in LAN
  • Spanning-Tree operation and protocols
  • EtherChannel protocols
  • Options and purpose for inter-VLAN routing
  • DHCP server operation and configuration
  • Layer 3 redundancy
    • FHRP
    • HSRP
  • RIPv2 operation and configuration
Module 4: Introducing IPv6
  • IPv6 features and addresses
  • Describe ICMPv6
  • Routing types for IPv6
  • Configure and implement static routes
Module 5: Troubleshooting Basic Connectivity
  • Troubleshoot IPv4 network connectivity
  • Use SPAN for troubleshooting
  • Troubleshoot IPv6 network connectivity
Module 6: Implementing Network Device Security
  • Implement a basic security configuration
  • Device hardening
  • Port security
  • Access layer threat mitigation techniques
Module 7: Implementing an EIGRP-Based Solution
  • EIGRP features, path selection, and composite metric
  • Implement EIGRP for IPv6
  • Troubleshoot EIGRP issues
Module 8: Implementing a Scalable OSPF-Based Solution
  • OSPF overview and features
  • OSPF area structure
  • Single-area and multiarea OSPF
  • OSPFv3 for IPv6
  • Troubleshoot multiarea OSPF
Module9: Implementing Wide-Area Networks
  • WAN topology and connectivity options
  • Managed VPS
  • WAN devices
  • Point-to-Point protocols
  • GRE tunnels
Module 10: Network Device Management
  • Configure Syslog
  • Configure SNMP
  • Switch stacking
  • Cloud computing and its effect on enterprise network
  • Cisco APIC-EM
  • Intelligent WAN (IWAN)
  • QoS concepts
  • Managing Cisco devices
  • Locating and loading Cisco IOS image files
  • Managing device configuration files
  • licensing
Labs
  • Establish internet connectivity
  • Troubleshoot internet connectivity
  • Implement RIPv2
  • Configure IPv6static routes
  • Troubleshoot IPv4 network connectivity
  • Troubleshoot IPv6 network connectivity
  • Secure administrative access
  • Implement device hardening
  • Troubleshoot EIGRP
  • Troubleshoot a medium-sized network
  • Troubleshoot a scalable medium-sized network
  • Troubleshoot multiarea OSPF
  • Configure single-homed EBGP
  • Troubleshoot a scalable multiarea network
  • Implement and troubleshoot a scalable multiarea network

Student Successes

Programs and Certifications