The widely respected Cisco Career Certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to network professionals, their managers, and the organizations that employ them. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) is one of the most valued certifications in the IT industry. Anyone seeking to pursue or advance their career as a network technician, network administrator, or information security specialist will benefit from the range of theoretical and practical skills covered by the CCNA certification course of study.
	
	
	
 
	
 
	This course prepares students to succeed when taking the CCNA Certification Exam.  CCNA validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size routed and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN. CCNA also covers basic mitigation of security threats. CCNA certification is a prerequisite for Cisco’s more advanced certifications such the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification.	
Tuition for this course includes course materials and 1 year audit privilege (*restrictions may apply).
	
 
	
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE	
PREREQUISITES
	
CompTIA Network+ or equivalent experience is required.  Students should have at least one year of work experience with computers, TCP/IP networks, and configuring/troubleshooting operating systems at the command line.
	
 
	
WHY YOU SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE	
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
	
		
Describe computer hardware basics, binary and hexadecimal number systems, basic networking terminology, and internetworking concepts
		
Identify the major components of a network system, including clients and servers, network interface cards (NICs), internetworking devices, media, and topologies
		
Describe the functions, operations, and primary components of local-area networks (LANs), wide-area networks (WANs), metropolitan-area networks (MANs), storage-area networks (SANs), content networks (CNs), and virtual private networks (VPNs)
		
Describe the major network access methods and outline the key features of each Describe the functions and operations of switching technologies
		
Explain the format and significance of each of the following components to a network system: IP addressing, classes, reserved address space, and subnetting
		
Calculate valid subnetwork addresses and mask values so that user/network requirements are met when given an IP address scheme
		
Explain the purposes of networking addresses, routing protocols, and routed protocols
		
Describe the functions, operations, and primary components of WAN technologies
		
Describe the function, operation, and primary components required to provide remote access services
		
Use available configuration tools to establish connectivity to the appropriate network device in order to complete the initial device configuration
		
Build a functional configuration to support the specified network operational requirements, given a network design
		
Use the appropriate show commands to display network operational parameters so that anomalites are detected
		
Use the appropriate debug commands to monitor network operational parameters so that anomalies are detected
		
Explain how bridging and switching operates
		
Explain the purpose and operations of the Spanning- Tree Protocol Build a functional router configuration to support the specified network operational requirements, given a network design
		
Describe the features and operation of static routing