Cisco Networking Foundations

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know
• The CCNA exam
• Lab environment overview

1. Internetworking

• Introduction to internetworking
• Internetworking devices
• Overview of the OSI reference model

2. Ethernet

• Ethernet overview
• Ethernet addressing
• Ethernet cables
• Data encapsulation and the Cisco three-layer model

3. Introduction to TCP/IP

• Overview of TCP/IP model
• Application/process layer
• Transport/host-to-host layer
• Internet layer
• IP addressing

4. Easy Subnetting

• Subnet basics
• Subnet block sizing
• Subnet by example
• Determine subnet from an IP address
• Class B subnetting

5. VLSM, Summarization, and Troubleshooting TCP/IP

• VLSM
• VLSM by hand

6. Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS)

• Introduction to the IOS CLI
• Interface and password commands
• Basic CLI commands
• Administrative configurations
• Router and switch interfaces
• Telnet and SSH
• View, save, and erase configurations
• Troubleshoot the Cisco IOS

7. Managing a Cisco Internetwork

• Router and switch components
• Back up and restore Cisco configurations
• Configure DHCP
• Configure DHCP relay
• Syslog and Network Time Protocol (NTP)
• CDP/LLDP and resolving hostnames

8. IP Routing

• Overview of IP routing
• The IP routing process
• Configure IP routing
• Static routing
• Default routing
• Administrative distances and routing protocols
• Overview of Routing Information Protocol (RIP)
• Configure RIPv2
• Verify RIPv2 routing

9. Layer 2 Switching

• Overview of switching services
• Configure a Catalyst switch
• Overview of port security
• Configure port security

10. VLANs and InterVLAN Routing (IVR)

• Overview of VLANs
• Configure VLANs
• Configure trunk links
• Overview of IVR
• Configure IVR on a router
• Configure IVR on a layer 3 switch

11. Security

• Introduction to access lists
• Configure access lists
• Secure VTY (telnet/SSH) access

12. Network Address Translation (NAT)

• Introduction to NAT
• Static NAT
• Configure static NAT
• Dynamic NAT
• Configure dynamic NAT
• NAT overload (PAT)
• Configure NAT overload

13. IPv6

• Introduction to IPv6
• IPv6 addresses and expressions
• Stateless and stateful autoconfiguration
• Compare IPv6 and IPv4 headers
• Overview of ICMPv6
• IPv6 addressing in an internetwork
• Configure IPv6
• Static and default IPv6 routing

Conclusion

• Next steps