Cisco Networking Essentials

Course Length/Delivery	40 Hours Online
Course Difficulty
	CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Course Schedule
Course meets M-Th evenings for 5-hours (6pm - 11pm) for two consecutive weeks, OR for 10-hours on four consecutive Saturdays (8am-6pm) for a total of 40 hours of LIVE online instruction. Regularly scheduled breaks are included.

Manage and optimize today’s advanced networks
Learn to configure, manage, maintain, and secure routing devices in an enterprise environment. The skills you can gain from this prestigious networking training can help you elevate your IT career whether you’re working on a help desk or in network operations, support, administration, security, or engineering.

Course Description
Become a righteous router rockstar with CISCO Networking Essentials. This course is designed to provide you with the essential skills and knowledge to operate successfully within the world’s largest and most widely-used network ecosystem–specifically as it relates to router configuration, management, maintenance and security. Of course, the principles and skills you learn here are highly transferable to other environments, as well.

Based on the essential knowledge and skills associated with the coveted CISCO CCNA certification, students who successfully complete this training will demonstrate competence in a variety of specific tasks expected of a Network Administrator. You will gain in-depth knowledge of CISCO routers, switchers, and other hardware, software, tools, protocols, and methods required for switching, routing, and securing network traffic and data. You will also gain skills in monitoring and troubleshooting networks using safe and effective tools and technology.

Certifications associated with this training
While successful completion of certification exams is not an expected outcome of this course, the training will help you prepare for the CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification directly from CISCO. See our Services offering for the CCNA test-prep package available as an enhancement to this course.

Your new skill set
Use Access Control Lists and NAT to secure a network, understand and apply VLSM, VLAN, and OSPF protocols for network configuration, configure and manage wireless networks, understand and apply static and dynamic routing protocols, and much more.

High level skills you’ll gain from this training:

• Install, configure, and maintain routing devices in an enterprise
• Recognize and evaluate VLSM, VLAN and OSPF protocols for network configuration
• Use Access Control Lists and Network Address Translation (NAT) to secure network environments
• Configuing VLANs

: Additional skills you’ll build in this course:

• Fundamentals of network switching
• Network topology architectures
• Understanding of networking components and protocols
• Spanning Tree protocol
• Configuring VLANs
• IP addressing and configuration with IPv4 subnetting and IPv6 configuration
• Implementing CISCO Wireless architecture and WLAN components
• CISCO WLC configuration and wireless management access
• Understanding and establishing virtual networks
• Principles and practices of IP connectivity and services
• Static and dynamic routing protocols and configurations
• Monitor and manage wireless access points with WLC, servers and endpoints
• NTP Configuration
• DHCP concepts, configuration and verification
• Network traffic management using SNMP
• Using NTP, DNA Center, and DHCP protocols to automate, configure, analyze, scale, and secure networks
• Configuring Syslog for switching and routing
• NAT, SSH, FTP, and TFTP Configurations
• Applying security protocols to network routing and switching
• Implementing security programs with password policies and more
• Remote network management and troubleshooting
• AAA and VPN Security
• FHRP configuration and verification
• Routing configuration using PHB
• Using Software Defined Networking (SDN) to program and automate network traffic and operations
• Techniques for mitigating security threats on the network
• Packet Tracer skills
• Using APIs and the CISCO DNA Center
• And more…

Who will benefit from this training
If you’re an IT network technician, support specialist, data analyst, network/systems administrator, cybersecurity specialist or in a similar role with 1-5 years experience and you’re looking to upgrade your skills or take the next step in your career, the CISCO Network Specialist skill-builder training could be the perfect fit. Prior certifications such as CompTIA A+, Network+, or comparable are also helpful.

MyComputerCareer Skill-Builder Training
In today’s IT marketplace, acquired skills often trump certification in the eyes of many employers looking to fill specific roles. This training focuses on the skills in highest demand for this specialty. Competency assessment and documentation is provided for students to assure would-be employers that they have acquired the skills associated with each course. Students who wish to gain the certification associated with this course should consider purchasing the CompTIA Cyber Security Analyst (CySA+) Bundle or the CySA+ Test-Prep package available on this site.