1

Network equipment security

• The current landscape of security threats.
• Threat defense technologies.

2

• Upgrading to smart networks
• Network architectures and virtualization.
• The concept of network programmability and software-defined networks (SDN).
• Smart network management solutions like (Cisco DNA Center, SD-Access and SD-WAN).
• Configuring IOS monitoring tools.
• Managing Cisco equipment.
• Implementing campus network upgradability
• How the spanning tree protocol (STP) and rapid spanning tree protocol (RSTP) work.
• Configuring link aggregation using EtherChannel.
• Layer 3 redundancy protocols.
• Implementing routing
• Static routing: How it works, its benefits and limits.
• Describing, implementing, and verifying virtual local area networks (VLANs) and trunks.
• Applying and configuring inter-VLAN routing.
• Basics of dynamic routing protocols, components and functions of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).
• Building a simple network
• Components of a computer network and basic characteristics.
• Switch and initial configuration.

3

Advanced wide-area network features

• Basic concepts of WAN and VPNs.
• How access control lists (ACLs) and their applications work.
• Configuring Internet access using DHCP (dynamic host configuration protocol) clients.
• Configuring network address translation (NAT).

4

Internet v4 and v6 connectivity

• The Internet TCP/IP layer, IP v4, addressing plans and subnets.
• The TCP/IP layer (transport and application).
• Basic routing and configuration functions on a Cisco router.
• Host-to-host communications on switches and routers.
• Identifying and solving common problems in switched networks and IPv4-related problems.