Course Contents

This lab intensive course will provide valuable skills that will enable you to be more effective in your day-to-day interaction with Cisco networks. The skills that you learn will expand your knowledge of network operation, improve your troubleshooting techniques and help you identify and resolve network-related problems more efficiently.

The course focuses on the Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS) commands used to configure and test small networks based upon Cisco networking products. This training session expands on those core networking concepts and applies those key concepts to building and maintaining a small business or home network that includes Windows-based PCs. You will learn how to troubleshoot network functionality and how to gather important information prior to involving an ISP or escalation team to resolve Internet connectivity issues.

The course, containing a 50-50 balance of lecture and hands-on activities, is designed to provide students with ample opportunity to:

• Conduct labs and perform exercises
• Practice key procedures in a controlled, non-production, lab environment

This approach ensures that critical concepts are properly reinforced before the learner must apply these concepts in their job tasks.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will gain proficiency in communicating with data networking technical staff. Utilizing the skills learned in this course, participants will be able to install, operate, maintain, and troubleshoot a small business or home network based upon Cisco products. You will be able to:

• Connect devices to create a simple network
• Configure network devices
• Upgrade IOS images on Cisco devices
• Verify network device connectivity
• Troubleshoot basic network problems

Who Should Attend

Individuals who work in engineering or in technical areas utilizing network-attached devices will benefit from this hands-on lab course. This course will provide job-related proficiency, and can also lay the foundation for a future Cisco network certification. Targeted learners perform jobs in Engineering support, lab administration, development testing, and Help Desk or Network Support Centers.

Recommended Prerequisites

To fully benefit from Cisco Networking Skills Bootcamp, you should already possess certain prerequisite skills, which can be gained from formal training courses or through work experience.

The participant should have working skills and knowledge of the following:

• Basic computer literacy with Windows-based PCs
• TCP/IP Networking, including IP addressing
• Basic browser navigation and Internet usage skills

Course Outline

This course focuses on the following topics:

• Ethernet LAN Fundamentals
• TCP/IP Addressing Concepts
• Inter-device Communication
• Device Configuration using Cisco IOS
• Managing Remote Devices
• Basic Network Troubleshooting Skills
• Additional Topics – 4 - 6 for each course offering:
  - Infrastructure Planning for Delivery of Unified Communications Applications
  - Multicast Network Addressing and Content Delivery
  - Designing Security into the Wireless Network
  - BGP, an Internet Routing Protocol
  - Applying QoS to Network Traffic

Specific topics include:

• Ethernet LAN Fundamentals: Ethernet, TCP/IP
• TCP/IP Addressing Concepts: IPv4, NAT/PAT, IPv6
• Inter-device Communication: RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF (Routing)
• Device Configuration using Cisco IOS: ommand Line interface (CLI)
• Managing Remote Devices: Telnet, SSL, TFTP
• Operating a Small Network for Small Business or Lab Use: DHCP, DNS,WEP/WPA2 (Security)
• Infrastructure Planning for Delivery of Unified Communications Applications: Voice/Data VLANs, QoS, ACLs
• Basic Network Troubleshooting Skills: Ping, Trace, Basic Debug