Cisco Networking Foundations: Wireless Networks, Services, Security, and Virtualization
2h 29mBeginner2025-01-10
Authors
Kevin Wallace
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert
Course details
It’s time to get up to speed with your Cisco network administration skills, particularly if you’re an IT professional who supports and maintains Cisco networks. In this course, join Certified Internetwork Expert and instructor Kevin Wallace as he shows you the skills you need to know to manage network services, network security, wireless networks, and virtualization.
Get tips on foundational approaches to Cisco networking to get ready for the Cisco Certified Network Administrator exam. Find out more about how to prove you have what it takes to successfully navigate the ever-changing IT landscape. Follow along with Kevin as he demonstrates the basic configuration, setup, and maintenance strategies for Cisco networks, including DNS services, CDP, LLDP, NTP, NAT, DHCP, access control lists, and wireless LANs, frequencies, standards, and more.
Get tips on foundational approaches to Cisco networking to get ready for the Cisco Certified Network Administrator exam. Find out more about how to prove you have what it takes to successfully navigate the ever-changing IT landscape. Follow along with Kevin as he demonstrates the basic configuration, setup, and maintenance strategies for Cisco networks, including DNS services, CDP, LLDP, NTP, NAT, DHCP, access control lists, and wireless LANs, frequencies, standards, and more.
Skills covered
Cisco SwitchesCisco RoutersCiscoNetwork AdministrationNetwork and System AdministrationDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you can learn
- How to get hands-on practice
Network Services
- Domain name system (DNS)
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) theory
- CDP configuration
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) theory
- LLDP configuration
- Network Time Protocol (NTP) theory
- NTP configuration
- Network Address Translation (NAT) theory
- NAT configuration
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) overview
- DHCP options
- DHCP configuration
Network Security
- Common network security concerns
- Access Control List (ACL) theory
- Standard numbered ACL theory
- Standard numbered ACL configuration
- Extended numbered ACL theory
- Extended numbered ACL configuration
- Extended named ACL configuration
- The need for switch port security
- Port security configuration
Wireless Networks
- Introduction to wireless LANs (WLANs)
- WLAN antennas
- WLAN frequencies and channels
- WLAN standards
- WLAN transmission methods
- WLAN optimization and features
- WLAN security basics
- WLAN security standards
- Configuring a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC)
Network Virtualization
- Virtualized servers
- Virtualized network devices
- Introduction to software-defined networking (SDN)
- Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs)
- Software-Defined Access (SD-Access)
Conclusion
- Next steps