Introduction to CCNA (R&S) course and what you will need to study and practice
- Introduction
Network Fundamentals
- TCP/IP Model and OSI Model
- Network Elements and Traffic Flow through TCP/IP Model
- TCP vs UDP, Some important Details and a look at actual packets
- Some important TCP based Applications and their functionality, QoS basics
- Layer 2 Ethernet Frame, MAC Address and IPv4 Address
- IPv4 Address Classes, How Routers differentiate between Networks and hosts, ARP
- Ethernet Card, Ethernet Cabling, IEEE 802.3 Standards
- Collision Domain, Broadcast Domain, Devices that interact with these domains
- IPv4 Review and Need for Subnetting
- IPv4 Subnetting is Easy
- IPv4 Subnetting (Practice Examples)
- Variable Length Subnet Mask (VLSM), IP Classless
- Basics of Routers, LAN, WAN Network, Routing Tables
- Configuring our First Router
- Configuring our First Router (part-2)
- IPv6 General Introduction
- IPv6 Address Format & Subnetting
- IPv6, Unique Addressing & Dual Stack
- Configuring IPv6
- Configuring IPv6 (part-2)
- IPv6 Autoconfig Feature
- Infrastructure Components: Access Point, Wireless Controller & Firewalls
- Cloud Services: Virtualization Concepts
- Cloud Services: Virtualization of Networking
- Cloud Services: IaaS, SaaS, PaaS
- Cloud Services: Traffic Paths and NFV
LAN Switching Technologies
- LAN typical devices, Basic understanding of Switches
- 3 x Methods of Frame Forwarding, Campus network design and Intro to VLAN
- Copper / Optic Fiber based Ethernet cables and Auto Negotiation Features
- Powering up the Switch and connecting to it
- General overview of switch command line interface (CLI), Some basic commands
- Basics of Switch configuration
- Configuration of DHCP server for Switch, Implement Port Security features
- Virtual LAN
- Configuration of VLANs
- Configurations of VLANs between switches
- Configuring Inter VLAN communication
- VTP concepts and configuration
- Understanding Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
- Understanding STP (part -2)
- Understanding STP (part-3), Port Fast, BPDU Guard, Etherchannel
- Rapid STP (RSTP), PVST
- Configuring STP on CISCO switches
- Configuring STP on CISCO switches (part-2)
- Configuring STP on CISCO switches (part-3)
- Configuring Port Fast, BPDU Guard, PAgP, LACP and Etherchannel
- Switch Stacking
- Chassis Aggregation
Routing Technologies
- Packet Flow in Routers, Static Routing
- Configuring Static Routes
- Configuring Static Routing (part-2)
- Dynamic Routing - What & Why
- Dynamic Routing - OSPF
- Dynamic Routing - OSPF (part-2)
- Dynamic Routing - OSPF (part-3)
- Configuring OSPF
- Configuring OSPF (part-2)
- Configuring OSPF (part-3)
- Dynamic Routing - EIGRP
- Dynamic Routing - EIGRP (part-2)
- Dynamic Routing - EIGRP (part-3)
- Configuring EIGRP
- Configuring EIGRP (part-2)
- DHCP for IPv6 and Configuration of OSPFv3 (IPv6)
- Configuring EIGRPv6
- RIP Protocol: Some Quick Theory
- RIP Protocol: Lab (part-1)
- RIP Protocol: Lab (part-2)
- SVI: Switch Virtual Interface
Wide Area Network (WAN)Technologies
- WAN Technologies, General Overview
- WAN Technologies, General Overview (part-2)
- Configuring HDLC & PPP
- PPP Multilink (MLPPP)
- Broadband PPPoE: Theory + Lab (part-1)
- Broadband PPPoE: Lab (part-2)
- Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN)
- MPLS Concepts: Why we need it ?
- MPLS Concepts: Why we need it ? (part-2)
- MPLS Concepts: Quick Lab
- VPN Techniques using IPSec
- QoS: Quality of Service - Introduction
- QoS: Traffic types and Classification / Marking
- QoS: Quick Lab
- QoS: Congestion Management
- QoS: Policing and Shaping
- BGP Protocol: Concepts
- BGP Protocol: Concepts (part-2)
- BGP Protocol: Lab
Infrastructure Services
- DNS Operation and Troubleshooting
- Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Configuring NAT
- Network Time Protocol (NTP)
