6 Day instructor Led Cisco CCNA Routing & Switching Course

Course Package

  • 6 days of classroom/ remote training
  • Digital recording of the classroom
  • Free retake policy
  • Weekly live on-line revision sessions
  • Self-Paced CCNA revision & Labs

Cisco CCNA Routing & Switching

 

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CCNA Route & Switch Course Contents


CISCO CCNA ROUTE & SWITCH COURSE CONTENTS

What’s on the Commsupport 6 day CCNA course in Detail

 

Switching and Bridging

• Understanding L1 Networks
• Understanding L2 Networks
• Understand Bridging
• Understand MAC learning and forwarding
• Understanding L2 Device function
• Understand, configure and fault find ARP
• Understanding L2 Switching
• Understand, configure and fault find the Native Vlan
• Creating/Modifying/Deleting VLAN’s
• Understand, configure and fault find Static Access ports
• Understand, configure and fault find Voice Vlans

L2 Trunking

 

• Understanding L2 Trunks
• Understand, configure and fault find DTP Desirable and Auto
• Understand, configure and fault find Static trunks
• Fault finding trunk mis-configurations

Management interfaces on L2 Switches

 

• Understanding Management Interfaces on L2 Switches
• Configuring SVI on L2 switches
• Fault finding L2 SVI interfaces
• Understanding the importance of the SVI on L2

VTP (Vlan Trunking Protocol)

 

• Understanding the VTP protocol.
• Understand, configure and fault find VTP Modes
• Understand, configure and fault find VTP versions
• Understand, configure and fault find VTP passwords
• Understand, configure and fault find VTP pruning
• Learn real-world scenarios on the correct use of VTP

Spanning Tree STP 802.1D

 

• Understanding STP 802.1D
• Correct design of STP 802.1D in your network
• Understanding the Port Roles ROOT/ALTN/DESG
• Understanding the Forwarding process in STP
• Understand, configure and fault find Root Bridge using various commands
• Understand, configure and fault find Default Priorities
• Understand, configure and fault find Path Costs
• Understand, configure and fault find path decisions using Path Costs
• Understand, configure and fault find Port Priorities
• Understand, configure and fault find path decisions using Port Priorities
• Understand, configure and fault find Portfast / trunk
• Understanding the real purpose of Portfast
• Configuring BPDU Guard and why your network needs this feature
• Create Broadcast storms on switched networks
• Understand, configure and fault find Root Guard
• Understand, configure and fault find Loop Guard
• Understand, configure and fault find Err-disable
• Understand, configure and fault find Uplinkfast
• Understand, configure and fault find Backbonefast
• Understand, configure and fault find Fault finding mis-configured STP

Spanning Tree 802.1W

 

• Understanding how 802.1w fits into your network
• Configuring 802.1w
• Tuning 802.1w to operate seamlessly
• Understand the synchronisation process

L2 Etherchannel

 

• Distributing traffic over L2 EtherChannel
• Configuring load balancing over L2 EtherChannel
• Understand, configure and fault find PAgP
• Understand, configure and fault find LACP
• Tuning LACP priorities
• Understand, configure and fault find LACP redundant links
• Understand, configure and fault find UDLD

• Understand, configure and fault find Spanning Tree protocol operations.

Cisco Device Maintenance and Services

 

• Understand, configure and fault find Password recovery
• Understand, configure and fault find IOS recovery
• Managing Your Network Environment using CDP, Telnet and SSH
• Understand, configure and fault find Password recovery procedures on routers and switches
• Understand, configure and fault find IOS upgrades and downgrades
• Understand, configure and fault find DHCP on Cisco Routers
• Understand, configure and fault find Port Mirroring

Introduction to Routing

 

• What is routing explained
• Understand, configure and fault find Static Routes
• Understanding Next Hop Local interface versus IP address
• Understand, configure and fault find Proxy ARP
• Understand, configure and fault find Static ARP entries
• Understand, configure and fault find closest match prefix routing

IP Addressing

• Introduction to IPv4 addressing
• Understand, configure and fault find Classful addressing
• Understand, configure and fault find Classless addressing
• Understand, configure and fault find Subnetting with 1, 2, 3 octets
• Understand, configure and fault find VLSM
• Understand, configure and fault find summarisation in RIP, OSPF and EIGRP

InterVlan Routing

• Understand, configure and fault find Routing between VLANs using physical router interfaces
• Understand, configure and fault find Routing between VLANs using logical router interfaces
• Understand, configure and fault find Routing between VLANs using logical SVI interfaces

 

EIGRP

• Understanding EIGRP features overview
• Understand, Configure and fault find EIGRP neighbor adjacencies
• Understand, configure and fault find AS
• Understand, configure and fault find subnet issues
• Understand, configure and fault find K-Value mismatches
• Understand, configure and fault find Authentication
• Understand, configure and fault find Summarisation
• Understand, configure and fault find passive-interface
• Understand, configure and fault find Null0 interface
• Understand, configure and fault find Routing loops in EIGRP
• Understand, configure and fault find Default routing using default network command
• Understand, configure and fault find Default routing using summarisation command
• Understand, configure and fault find Discard route out of the routing table
• Understand, configure and fault find AD in EIGRP for path selection
• Understand, configure and fault find Feasible Condition rule
• Understand, configure and fault find Load Balancing in EIGRP

OSPF

 

• Understanding OSPF features overview
• Understand, configure OSPF neighbor adjacencies
• Understand, configure and fault find Router-id
• Understand, configure and fault find Areas
• Understand, configure and fault find Hello/dead Timers
• Understand, configure and fault find Authentication techniques
• Understand, configure and fault find Summarisation
• Understand and configure passive-interface
• Understand, configure, fault find summarisation and the Null0 interface
• Understand, configure and fault find Default routing
• Understand and
• Configure the Discard route out of the routing table
• Understand, configure and fault find ABR’s
• Understand, configure and fault find DR / BDR
• Understand LSA Types 1,2,3,4,5
• Understand, configure and fault find Normal OSPF Areas
• Understand, configure and fault find Stub OSPF Areas
• Understand, configure and fault find Totally Stubby OSPF Areas
• Understand, configure and fault find ASBR

RIP

• RIP v1 and V2 overview of features
• Understand and configure RIP v1 Classful routing
• Understand and configure RIP v2 Classless routing
• Understand and configure RIP v2 Authentication
• Understand and configure RIP v2 Default routing
• Understand and configure RIP v2 passive-interface
• Understand and configure RIP v2 Timers
• Understand and configure RIP v2 Split horizon rule
• Understand Loop prevention in RIP v1/2

NAT

• Network address translations overview
• Understand and configure Static NAT
• Understand and configure Static NAT/PAT
• Understand and configure Dynamic NAT
• Understand and configure Dynamic NAT/PAT
• Understand and configure Interface PAT
• Understand and configure Inverse Masks

Router Security and Access Control Lists

• ACL overview
• Understand and configure Standard Numbered ACL’s
• Understand and configure Extended Number ACL’s
• Understand and configure Standard Named ACL’s
• Understand and configure Extended Named ACL’s
• Understand and configure Inverse Masks
• Understand and configure WildCard Masks
• Understand and configure Established command
• Understand and configure NAT and ACL order of operation
• Understand and configure Reflexive ACL’s
• Understand and configure Time Based ACL’s
• Understand and configure Object Groups
• Understand and configure Dynamic ACL’s
• Understand and configure CBAC
• Understand and configure Overview of Zone-based Firewalls

Redistribution

• Overview Of Redistribution
• Understand and configure RIP into EIGRP
• Understand and configure RIP into OSPF
• Understand and configure OSPF into EIGRP
• Understand and configure Admin Distances
• Understand and configure OSPF External Type 2 and External Type 1 LSA’s
• Understand and configure OSPF Default Costs
• Understand and fault find Black Holes in your routing network

IPv6

• Overview of IPv6
• Understand and configure Address format
• Understand and configure EUI-64
• Understand and configure Stateless Auto Config
• Understand and configure Link-Local Addressing
• Understand and configure Routing with RIPng
• Understand and configure Routing with OSPF
• Understand and configure Manual Tunneling Protocols
• Understand and configure Automatic Tunneling protocol
• Understand NAT-PT

PPP

• PPP Overview
• Understand and configure PPP encapsulation
• Understand and configure PPP Authentication
• Understand and configure Compression

QoS

• QoS Overview
• Understand QoS principles
• Understand and configure CBWFQ
• Understand and configure LLQ
• Understand and configure Shaping and Policing

BGP

• BGP Overview
• Understand and configure IBGP neighbors
• Understand and configure EBGP neighbors
• Understand and configure Route Reflectors
• Understand and configure Route summarization


 


 

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Our CCNA Course will help you earn more

One of the most common questions we are asked by prospective students is will they be able to get a job after having done the CCNA Course or will it improve their career prospects.

The answers to both questions are undoubtedly yes! Commsupport CCNA Course not only follows the official CCNA syllabus, but we also focus on the practical elements of the theory.

From start to finish from no CCNA knowledge to being able to start looking for a CCNA level network engineer level position is generally 8 to 10 weeks. This is the time it takes to complete all of the labs we provide you with. Don’t worry if you don’t have Cisco equipment at home, we can provide you with a solution to that.

Although other providers may claim they can do it sooner we say it is important to understand all the technologies well. We have created lots of CCNA focused lab workbooks which once completed will arm you with the skills to call yourself a network engineer with confidence.

We focus heavily on the hands-on skills required in the real world. Don’t be a paper CCNA.

If you doubt us, then why don’t you come and pay us a visit in our classroom and see how we deliver the CCNA course.

Our CCNA Course will help you pass the exam first time

We have two aims in our CCNA course, the first is to equip you with the technical skills to design, build, configure and fault find Cisco networks. We do this through our unique teaching methods and comprehensive lab workbooks.

The other aim is to help you pass the CCNA exam the first time around. By teaching you how all the protocols work and how they work together to create networks will set you up with a solid foundation so that all the theory makes complete sense.

If you don’t lab then the theory is worthless. Practice enforces the theory. This is something which Commsupport pioneered in the I.T technical training industry from the start in 2008, and we are still enforcing the rule of if you are not labbing then you are not learning.

Come see our CCNA Courses in action

If you are still not sure why don’t you come and pay us a visit. You can either come and sit in the classroom for a couple of hours and take part. If you can’t make it into the classroom in North London then you can attend our classes via our live remote sessions. Call us today for details.

What is on your CCNA Course

The CCNA certification has for a very long time been the corner stone of every network engineers’ career. It was said that if you did not have a CCNA you could not be considered to have the correct foundations.

This has now changed slightly since there are other certifications provided by other vendors such as H.P, Juniper, Huawei. These are all good certifications, but they take their inspiration from the best of the best which is of course the Cisco CCNA course.

Our CCNA course will take you from novice to a very decent level, in fact our students who have done our CCNA course claim that they were able to pick up the more advanced CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) material and understand it.

We take you from the basics of the Layer 2 switching, VLAN’s, Trunking all the way through to the more complex OSPF, NAT, Access Control Lists.

You will leave your CCNA course feeling confident that in only a few weeks you will move into a new career, pay rise or both.

Our CCNA course is conducted over 6 consecutive days from Sunday to Friday. Our Weekend CCNA courses are conducted over 5 consecutive weekends.

We go into all of the protocols in detail, we use everyday examples to explain the more complex theories. Our approach to teaching has been described as unorthodox but the results speak for themselves. With many 1,000’s of happy students since we started in 2008.

Come and visit our CCNA course in action and judge for yourself. We will turn you into a real cisco network engineer.

Theory is nothing without practice

Comprehensive CCNA Training course Lab manuals

When Commsupport first started in 2008 we used the official Cisco lab material. It soon become very apparent that despite the best intentions of Cisco’s education dept had when they wrote their official labs that they left a lot to be desired.

So, we decided to take what Cisco had written and decided to improve on it. Since 2008 we have developed a series of CCNA lab manuals which completely out class and out lab anything provided by any other Cisco technical training provider in the U.K.
Our ccna lab manuals focus on the following:

1.

Walk Through Labs: Hundreds of lab exercises for you complete with detailed instructions of what to do, how to do it and the result.

2.

Build Labs: This lab manual is crammed full of challenge labs which put your skills to the test. We challenge you to build networks against the clock.

3.

Fault Finding Labs: Another great Lab manual packed with broken networks that you have to fix also against the clock.

No one else in the CCNA course provider industry has such fantastic lab materials in the UK. Remember the reason you want to take the CCNA course is to become a competent network engineer and not just a paper CCNA which we see too many of in the I.T industry.

If you would like a sample of our CCNA Course labs just drop us a line or call us and we can send it out to you.

You won’t be bored on Our CCNA Course

We are unique in the I.T technical CCNA course training industry in that we never use power point. We believe power point is probably on the of the worse ways to torture a human being. Power Point is an offence to humanity and will never be used in our CCNA courses.

We believe in live demonstrations and lab work. We use good old-fashioned chalk and talk for all our CCNA course lectures which are done on a digital board which we record for you to take home at the end of the week. We also encourage interaction between the students and instructors to reinforce the theory and practical.

Our instructors believe in the free exchange of ideas and questions, lots of questions in both directions.

Small CCNA Course class sizes

Even though our prices are Ryanair budget level we do not believe in packing you in like sardines, so close where you can smell what your fellow students had for dinner last night.

Our class limit is never more than 10 students in one CCNA course. We want everyone to benefit from their time with us and this can only be done with small class sizes.

Our focus is first your development and secondly the development of our bank balance not the other way around.

Re-live your CCNA course forever

How would you have liked for every lecture you attended at school, collage, or university to have been recorded so that you could review at your leisure?

It would have been great and with the technology we have at our disposal today it does seem crazy that academic institutions do not do this, it’s just common sense.

We pioneered the use of session recording. We are the only CCNA course provider that routinely records every single lecture.

We do this because we are sensible and understand that it is not always possible to remember or take in everything that is said during the course. So, we figured why not just record the entire session then hand it over to you at the end of the Week.

We have encouraged other training companies to do the same. Their refusal speaks volumes.

Commsupport, always the first to innovate and pioneer new ways to deliver CCNA courses.

FREE CCNA COURSE RETAKES

Another first we pioneered in the technical training industry was to offer our students free retakes of the CCNA course if they felt that they needed to brush up before taking the exam, if they wanted to hone their skills after the exam prior to a jo interview, or if they had nothing better to do other than drop in sit the class again to eat biscuits and make coffee for the instructors.

Our only conditions for the retakes are as follows:

1.

Complete the initial course without missing any days

2.

Take the free retake one year of having done the original course

3.

Book the free retake one week (7 days) prior to course commencing.

We allow our students to retake the CCNA either in the classroom or remotely via live webinar

Weekly Live Online CCNA Course Revision Sessions

Once a Commsupport Student, always a Commsupport student. We don’t forget about you after the class has ended. We keep in touch using our weekly monday night webinar sessions.

Each week our students, past, present and future will log into our live instructor led webinar revision sessions.

We use these sessions to revise CCNA course topics and to cover new material that is relevant and connected to the CCNA course.

Who else offers this service? Only Commsupport.

Contact us to find out more about our great webinar to complement your Classroom Based CCNA Training Courses.

One Cisco Lab per Student

When Commsupport first started we wanted to be different. We wanted to focus on our students first and foremost, their experience in the classroom was and is important to us. So, one of the first things we did was to have a policy of having one physical lab per student on the CCNA course.

We have never expected our students to share any lab equipment. Everyone works at their own pace and we understand that it can be counter productive to have students sharing equipment.

On your CCNA course you are responsible for all the mistakes you make on your kit and then you fix them 😊

Come and Visit us – Sit in on the CCNA course

We always encourage anyone wishing to undertake our fantastic CCNA courses that they come and visit us or at least talk to one of our instructors. If you can’t make it into the classroom, we have the facility for you to log into the live stream we run during the CCNA course.

Please contact us before you plan to visit the CCNA course in London

Who is the CCNA course for?

This is an ideal course if you’re looking to become a Network Engineer and or seeking the Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching Certification. We also recommend the course for anyone involved in the installation and support of enterprise branch office networks.

Job roles: Entry Level Network Engineer, Network Administrator, Network Support Technician or Help Desk Technician.