THE COMPLETE NETWORKING FUNDAMENTALS COURSE. YOUR CCNA START

Learn about networking and start your journey to CCNA

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Created by David Bombal

Last updated 10/2017

English

What Will I Learn?

• This course is for anyone who wants to attain the Cisco CCENT or CCNA certification
• This course will prepare you for the CCNA 200-125 certification exam; and CCENT / ICND1 100-105 certification exam; and ICND2 200-105 certification exam.
• Describe network fundamentals and build simple LANs
• Explain IP addressing and subnetting
• Describe hubs, switches and routers
• Explain the OSI model
• Explain how addresses are allocated using DHCP
• Explain name resolution using DNS
• Explain Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• Introduce OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking topics

Requirements

• There are no specific prerequisites as the course covers all the topics in detail.
• Basic understanding of computers (connect to the Internet)

In this course, you will learn about topics such as IP addressing, IP subnetting, Routing, Switches, VLANs, Spanning Tree, Network Address Translation, Wireless and a whole lot more.

You will also learn more about the latest networking trends including OpenFlow and Software Defined Networking.

The course covers the following topics including (and this list will be constantly updated):

• Network basics
• Network architectures (OSI Model)
• What are hubs, switches, routers?
• How is data forwarded through a network?
• IP addresses
• IP subnetting
• Cabling and network topologies
• Ethernet basics
• TCP and UDP
• DNS and DHCP
• Routing
• VLANs
• Cisco device initial configurations
• ACLs
• Network naming
• IP Telephony
• Quality of Service (QoS)
• SDN and OpenFlow

At the end of this course, you will be able to confidently discuss networking topics; and be able to start configuring real networking devices such as routers and switches. In this an introductory course, but contains a lot of information that can be directly applied to the CCNA certification.