Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH)

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Summary

Implementing Cisco Switched Networks ( SWITCH ) is a five-day instructor-led training course developed to help students prepare for Cisco CCNP certification. The ROUTE course is a component of the CCNP Routing and Switching curriculum.

This course is designed to help learners create an efficient and expandable enterprise network by installing, configuring, and verifying network infrastructure equipment according to the Cisco Enterprise Campus Architecture. Some older topics from Version 1 have been removed or simplified, while several new IPv6 routing topics have been added. The course content has been adapted to Cisco IOS Software Release 15 and technically updated.

Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this curriculum are as follows:

• Describing network fundamentals
• Establishing Internet and WAN connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Managing network device security
• Operating a medium-sized LAN with multiple switches, supporting VLANs, trunking, and spanning tree
• Troubleshooting IP connectivity (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Configuring and troubleshooting EIGRP and OSPF (IPv4 and IPv6)
• Configuring devices for SNMP, syslog, and NetFlow access
• Managing Cisco device configurations, Cisco IOS images, and licenses

It is highly recommended that this course be taken after the following Cisco courses:

• Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices v2.0, Part 1 (ICND1 v2.0) and Part 2 (ICND2 v2.0), or
• Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices: Accelerated version 2.0 (CCNAX v2.0)

Duration

5 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience

This course is appropriate for learners with Cisco CCNA-level knowledge who aim to be network professionals. Typical job roles include network engineers, support engineers, systems engineers, or network technicians.

Topics

• Basic Concepts and Network Design

• Campus Network Architecture

• Spanning Tree Implementation

• Inter-VLAN Routing

• High-Availability Networks

• First Hop Redundancy ProtocolImplementation

• Campus Network Security

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