Course Duration: 5 days
Exam: 100-101 ICND1, 200-101 ICND2, 200-120 CCNA
Course Content
This course will students with the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot a small enterprise network. It will ensure that students understand and are ready to deploy the latest shifts in technologies and solutions as follows:
- Understanding of Quality of Service (QoS) elements and their applicability
- How virtualized and cloud services will interact and impact enterprise networks
- An overview of network programmability and the related controller types and tools that are available to support software defined network architectures A full suite of labs have been developed using the virtual IOS environment with flexible topologies that reinforce concepts with hands-on, guided discovery and challenge labs that align to each lesson module.
Prerequisites
Before taking the ICND2 course, learners should be familiar with:
- Understanding network fundamentals
- Implementing local area networks
- Implementing Internet connectivity
- Managing network devices
- Securing network devices
- Implementing basic IPv6 connectivity
Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these objectives:
- Operate a medium-sized LAN with multiple switches supporting VLANs, trunking, switch stacking, chassis aggregation and spanning tree protocols
- Troubleshoot IP connectivity
- Configure and troubleshoot EIGRP and OSPF in IPv4 and IPv6 environments
- Define characteristics, functions and components of a WAN
- Describe SNMP, Syslog, and manage Cisco device configurations, IOS images and licenses
- Understand QoS, virtualization and cloud services, and network programmability related to WAN, access and core segments.
Course Outline
Module 1: Implement Scalable Medium-Sized Networks
Module 2: Troubleshooting Basic Connectivity
Module 3: Implementing an EIGRP-Based Solution
Module 4: Summary Challenge
Module 5: Implement a Scalable OSPF-Based Solution
Module 6: Wide-Area Networks
Module 7: Network Device Management and Security
Module 8: Summary Challenge