The job roles best suited to the material in this course are:

• Entry-level network engineer
• Network administrator
• Network support technician
• Help desk technician

Cisco’s redesigned CCNA program will prepare you for today’s associate-level job roles in IT technologies. The program has one certification that covers a broad range of fundamentals for IT careers, with one exam and one training course to help you prepare. While it’s not a formal prerequisite of other Cisco certifications, CCNA training and certification gives you a solid foundation in starting or complementing your networking career.

• Identify the components of a computer network and describe their basic characteristics
• Understand the model of host-to-host communication
• Describe the features and functions of the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS®) software
• Describe LANs and the role of switches within LANs
• Describe Ethernet as the network access layer of TCP/IP and describe the operation of switches
• Install a switch and perform the initial configuration
• Describe the TCP/IP Internet layer, IPv4, its addressing scheme, and subnetting
• Describe the TCP/IP Transport layer and Application layer
• Explore functions of routing
• Implement basic configuration on a Cisco router
• Explain host-to-host communications across switches and routers
• Identify and resolve common switched network issues and common problems associated with IPv4 addressing
• Describe IPv6 main features and addresses, and configure and verify basic IPv6 connectivity
• Describe the operation, benefits, and limitations of static routing

The course would cover the following elements via Lecture and Self Study Modules

• Lecture: Exploring the Functions of Networking
• Lecture: Introducing the Host-to-Host Communications Model
• Lecture: Operating Cisco IOS Software
• Lecture: Introducing LANs
• Lecture: Exploring the TCP/IP Link Layer
• Lecture: Starting a Switch
• Lecture: Introducing the TCP/IP Internet Layer, IPv4 Addressing, and Subnets
• Lecture: Explaining the TCP/IP Transport Layer and Application Layer
• Lecture: Exploring the Functions of Routing
• Lecture: Configuring a Cisco Router
• Lecture: Exploring the Packet Delivery Process
• Lecture: Troubleshooting a Simple Network
• Lecture: Introducing Basic IPv6
• Lecture: Configuring Static Routing
• Lecture: Implementing VLANs and Trunks
• Lecture: Routing Between VLANs
• Lecture: Introducing OSPF
• Self-Study: Building Redundant Switched Topologies
• Lecture: Improving Redundant Switched Topologies with EtherChannel
• Self-Study: Exploring Layer 3 Redundancy
• Self-Study: Introducing WAN Technologies
• Lecture: Explaining Basics of ACL
• Lecture: Enabling Internet Connectivity