Description
This 5-day course focuses on providing the skills and knowledge necessary to install, operate, and troubleshoot a small branch office Enterprise network, including configuring a switch, a router, connecting to a WAN and implementing network security. A learner should be able to complete configuration and implementation of a small branch office network under supervision. This is the first in a two-course series preparing the learner for the CCENT and CCNA certifications.
Objectives
After completing this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe how networks function, identifying major components, function of network components and
the Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model
- Using the host-to-host packet delivery process , describe issues related to increasing traffic on an
Ethernet LAN and identify switched LAN technology solutions to Ethernet networking issues
- Describes the reasons for extending the reach of a LAN and the methods that can be used with a focus on RF wireless access
- Describes the reasons for connecting networks with routers and how routed networks transmit data through networks using TCP/IP
- Describe the function of Wide Area Networks (WANs), the major devices of WANs, and configure PPP encapsulation, static and dynamic routing, PAT and RIP routing
- Use the command-line interface to discover neighbors on the network and managing the router's startup and configuration
Outline
Building a Simple Network
- Medium-Sized Switched Network Construction
- Exploring the Functions of Networking
- Securing the Network
- Understanding the Host-to-Host Communication Model
- Understanding TCP/IP's Internet Layer
- Understanding TCP/IP's Transport Layer
- Exploring the Packet Delivery Process
- Understanding Ethernet
- Connecting to an Ethernet LAN
- Ethernet Local Area Networks
- Understanding the Challenges of Shared LANs
- Solving Network Challenges with Switched LAN Technology
- Exploring the Packet Delivery Process
- Operating Cisco IOS Software
- Starting a Switch
- Understanding Switch Security
- Maximizing the Benefits of Switching
- Troubleshooting Switch Issues
- Wireless Local Area Networks
- Exploring Wireless Networking
- Understanding WLAN Security
- Implementing a WLAN
- Exploring the Functions of Routing
- Exploring the Functions of Routing
- Understanding Binary Basics
- Constructing a Network Addressing Scheme
- Starting a Router
- Configuring a Router
- Exploring the Packet Delivery Process
- Understanding Router Security
- Using Cisco Router and Security Device Manager
- Using a Router as a DHCP Server
- Accessing Remote Devices
- Wide Area Networks
- Understanding WAN Technologies
- Enabling the Internet Connection
- Enabling Static Routing
- Configuring Serial Encapsulation
- Enabling Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
- Network Environment Management
- Discovering Neighbors on the Network
- Managing Router Startup and Configuration
- Managing Cisco Devices
- Hands-on Lab Exercises
- Lab 1-1: Using Windows Applications as Network Tools
- Lab 1-2: Observing the TCP Three-Way Handshake
- Lab 1-3: Observing Extended PC Network Information
- Lab 2-1: Connecting to Remote Lab Equipment
- Lab 2-2: Switch Startup and Initial Config
- Lab 2-3: Enhancing Security of Switch Configuration
- Lab 2-4: Operating and Configuring a Cisco IOS Device
- Lab 4-1 Converting Decimal to Binary and Binary to Decimal
- Lab 4-2 Classifying Network Addressing
- Lab 4-3: Computing Usable Subnetworks and Hosts
- Lab 4-4 Calculating Subnet Masks
- Lab 4-5: Initial Router Startup
- Lab 4-6: Initial Router Configuration
- Lab 4-7: Enhancing Security of Initial Router Configuration
- Lab 4-8: Using SDM to Configure DHCP Server Function
- Lab 4-9: Managing Remote Access Sessions
- Lab 5-1: Connecting to the Internet
- Lab 5-2: Connecting to the Main Office
- Lab 5-3: Enable Dynamic Routing to Main Office
- Lab 6-1: Using CDP
- Lab 6-2: Managing Router Startup Options
- Lab 6-3: Managing Cisco Devices
- Lab 6-4: Cap Stone Lab: Network Environment Management
- In this lab activity, the learners will assume that they are taking over the re-configuration of a branch network from an administrator who has not completed the configuration, in fact there may be mis-configuration of some of the settings. They will use their knowledge and experience from the earlier labs to complete the reconfiguration, correction and testing.
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