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Cisco Certified Network Associate

Course Title: Cisco Level I Overview

Clock Hours: 40 Hours
Seminar Objective: Students will learn through lectures and hands-on practice, class discussion, questions and answers, and a comprehensive text how to install, configure and optimize a router. Students will integrate Network cabling and router configuration. Students will install, configure and test the connectivity of routers.

Upon successful completion of this level, the student will be able to:

• Internetworking
  • Explain the concepts networking
  • Explain and apply a working knowledge of the 7 Layered Approach
• The OSI Reference Model
  • Define and describe how each layer is applicable to the network
  • Analyze and troubleshoot a network
• Switching Technologies
  • Clarify and interpret the Layer-2 Switching
  • Describe the operation of the Spanning-Tree Operation
  • Differentiate between different LAN Switch types
• Internet Protocol
  • Explain the concept of TCP/IP and the DoD Model
  • Define and identify IP Terminology
  • Apply and illustrate, by real life scenarios, Sub-netting

Course Title: Cisco Level II Overview

Clock Hours: 40 hrs
Seminar Objective: Students will learn through lectures and hands-on practice, class discussion, questions and answers, and a comprehensive text how to install, configure and optimize a router. Students will integrate Network cabling and router configuration. Students will install, configure and test the connectivity of routers and students are introduced to various routing protocols and Virtual LANs.

Upon successful completion of this level, the student will be able to:

• Configuration and IOS Management Commands
  • Define and describe the router user interface
  • Interpret and determine how to apply the command line interface
  • Develop a process on how to configure a router
• IP Routing
  • Explain the IP routing process
  • Apply IP routing in a network
  • Define and describe the Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
  • Define and describe the Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRIP)
  • Verifying and evaluating the IGRIP routing tables
  • Verifying and evaluating router configurations
• Virtual LANs
  • Composing VLAN memberships
  • Identifying and describing VLANS
  • Explaining and applying routing between LANs

Course Title: Cisco Level III Overview

Clock Hours: 40 hrs
Seminar Objective: Students will learn through lectures and hands-on practice, class discussion, questions and answers, and a comprehensive text how to install, configure and optimize a router. Students are taught how to manage and administer a Cisco Internetwork and the different types of frame types.

Upon successful completion of this level, the student will be able to:

• Managing a Cisco Internetwork
  • Define and describe the Router Boot Sequence
  • Backing up and restoring the Cisco IOS
  • Backing up and restoring the Cisco Router IOS
  • Using and applying the Cisco Discovery Protocol
  • Using Telnet
  • How to resolve hostnames
  • Identifying networking connectivity problems
• Configure Novell IPX
  • Enabling and analyzing IPX on Cisco Routers
  • Describe and configure an internetwork using IPX
  • Adding secondary addresses and troubleshooting for connectivity
  • Monitoring IPX on Cisco Routers
• Managing Traffic with Access Lists
  • Configuring and using Access List and describing its functions
  • Installing and IPX Access Lists
• Wide Area Networking Protocols
  • Identifying and describing Wide Area Networks
  • Describing Point-to-Point Protocols
  • Explain and describe Frame Relay
  • Explain and describe Intergraded Services Digital Network
  • Applying a Dial on Demand Routing Protocol