CCNA

The CCNA Routing and Switching covers skills necessary to administer devices on small or medium-sized networks. This certification requires the ICND1 100-105 and ICND2 200-105 exams. Examinees may take the exams separately or the composite 200-125 CCNA exam.

It exists generally as a prerequisite to more advanced certifications, such as the CCNP exams and Cisco Design certifications, e.g. CCNP, CCDA, CCDP, etc.

Course Content:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (200-125)
• Exam Description: The Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching composite exam (200-125) is a 90-minute, 50–60 question assessment that is associated with the CCNA Routing and Switching certification.
• This exam tests a candidate’s knowledge and skills related to network fundamentals, LAN switching technologies, IPv4 and IPv6 routing technologies, WAN technologies, infrastructure services, infrastructure security, and infrastructure management.
• The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
• Compare and contrast OSI and TCP/IP models
• Compare and contrast TCP and UDP protocols
• Describe the impact of infrastructure components in an enterprise network
• Firewalls
• Access points
• Wireless controllers
• Describe the effects of cloud resources on enterprise network architecture
• Traffic path to internal and external cloud services
• Virtual services
• Basic virtual network infrastructure
• Compare and contrast collapsed core and three-tier architectures
• Compare and contrast network topologies
• Star
• Mesh
• Hybrid
• Select the appropriate cabling type based on implementation requirements
• Apply troubleshooting methodologies to resolve problems
• Perform and document fault isolation
• Resolve or escalate
• Verify and monitor resolution
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot IPv4 addressing and subnetting
• Compare and contrast IPv4 address types
• Unicast
• Broadcast
• Multicast
• Describe the need for private IPv4 addressing
• Identify the appropriate IPv6 addressing scheme to satisfy addressing requirements in a LAN/WAN environment
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot IPv6 addressing
• Configure and verify IPv6 Stateless Address Auto Configuration
• Compare and contrast IPv6 address type
• Global unicast
• Unique local
• Link local
• Multicast
• Modified EUI 64
• Autoconfiguration
• Anycast
• And more.