Cisco CCNA Associate Training Boot Camp
Infosec’s authorized CCNA Associate Boot Camp helps you build your knowledge of networking and provides hands-on experience installing, configuring and operating network devices.
Earn your CCNA Associate, guaranteed!
- Five days of expert, live CCNA training
- Exam Pass Guarantee
- Exam voucher
- Unlimited practice exam attempts
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Free annual Infosec Skills subscription ($299 value!)
- 1-year access to all boot camp video replays and materials
- Onsite proctoring of exam
- Pre-study learning path
- Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
Hands-on labs
Hundreds of exercises in over 30 hands-on labs prepare you for the most difficult part of the CCNA Associate exam, the simulation questions. You’ll build your networking skills and gain real-world experience you can carry over to your next job or project.
Training overview
This innovative five-day boot camp is designed specifically for network engineers and administrators requiring full knowledge of Cisco router and switch configuration. You’ll gain hands-on experience by completing a series of labs in our Networking Cyber Range covering network access, IP connectivity, IP services, and automation and programmability for Cisco networks. The labs provide practical experience in a networking and switching environment and prepare you for the simulation-based questions you’ll find on the CCNA Associate exam.
What you'll learn
Upon the completion of this boot camp, you will know how to:
- Make appropriate decisions concerning implementation of hardware and configuration, based on ISR routers and switches running the Cisco iOS
- Proficiently administer Cisco routers
- Install, configure and maintain dependable, functional networks
- Properly identify protocols involving Cisco networking devices
- Troubleshoot general network and security issues
- Successfully operate routers and switched LAN networks
Who should attend?
- Network engineers
- Network administrators
- Systems administrators
- System engineers
- IT managers/directors
- Anyone looking to improve their network skills
Prerequisites
Prior to attending the CCNA Associate Boot Camp, you should be familiar with networking topics such as TCP/IP, IP configuration, peer-to-peer networking, subnetting, building a routing table and other network protocols, standards and architecture.
Everything you need to earn your CCNA Associate
- Five days of expert, live CCNA training
- Exam Pass Guarantee
- Exam voucher
- Unlimited practice exam attempts
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Free annual Infosec Skills subscription ($299 value!)
- 1-year access to all boot camp video replays and materials
- Onsite proctoring of exam
- Pre-study learning path
- Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
Exam Pass Guarantee
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CCNA training schedule
Infosec’s CCNA training is more than just a boot camp. We support you before, during and after your live training to ensure you’re fully prepared for your exam — and get certified on your first attempt.
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Before your boot camp
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Start learning now. You’ll get immediate access to all the content in Infosec Skills, including an in-depth CCNA prep course, the moment you enroll. Prepare for your live boot camp, uncover your knowledge gaps and maximize your training experience.
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During your boot camp
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Network fundamentals
- Role and function of network components
- Routers
- L2 and L3 switches
- Next-generation firewalls and IPS
- Access points
- Controllers (Cisco DNA Center and WLC)
- Endpoints
- Servers
- Characteristics of network topology architectures
- 2 tier
- 3 tier
- Spine-leaf
- WAN
- Small office/home office (SOHO)
- On-premises and cloud
- Compare and contrast network topologies
- Physical interface and cabling types
- Single-mode fiber, multimode fiber, copper
- Connections (Ethernet shared media and point-to-point)
- Concepts of PoE
- Interface and cable issues (collisions, errors, mismatch duplex, and/or speed)
- TCP and UDP
- Configuring and verifying IPv4 addressing and subnetting
- The need for private IPv4 addressing
- Configuring and verifying IPv6 addressing and prefix
- IPv6 address types
- Global unicast
- Unique local
- Link local
- Anycast
- Multicast
- Modified EUI 64
- Verifying IP parameters for client OS (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- Wireless principles
- Nonoverlapping Wi-Fi channels
- SSID
- RF
- Encryption
- Virtualization fundamentals (virtual machines)
- Switching concepts
- MAC learning and aging
- Frame switching
- Frame flooding
- MAC address table
Network access
- Configuring and verifying VLANs (normal range) spanning multiple switches
- Access ports (data and voice)
- Default VLAN
- Connectivity
- Configuring and verifying interswitch connectivity
- Trunk ports
- 802.1Q
- Native VLAN
- Configuring and verifying Layer 2 discovery protocols (Cisco Discovery Protocol and LLDP)
- Configuring and verifying (Layer 2/Layer 3) EtherChannel (LACP)
- The need for and basic operations of Rapid PVST+ Spanning Tree Protocol
- Root port, root bridge (primary/secondary), and other port names
- Port states (forwarding/blocking)
- PortFast benefits
- Cisco Wireless Architectures and AP modes
- Physical infrastructure connections of WLAN components (AP, WLC, access/trunk ports, and LAG)
- AP and WLC management access connections (Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, console and TACACS+/RADIUS)
- Configuring the components of a wireless LAN access for client connectivity using GUI only such as WLAN creation, security settings, QoS profiles and advanced WLAN settings
IP connectivity
- Components of routing table
- Routing protocol code
- Prefix
- Network mask
- Next hop
- Administrative distance
- Metric
- Gateway of last resort
- Determining how a router makes a forwarding decision by default
- Longest match
- Administrative distance
- Routing protocol metric
- Configuring and verifying IPv4 and IPv6 static routing
- Default route
- Network route
- Host route
- Floating static
- Configuring and verifying single area OSPFv2
- Neighbor adjacencies
- Point-to-point
- Broadcast (DR/BDR selection)
- Router ID
- The purpose of first hop redundancy protocol
IP services
- Configuring and verifying inside source NAT using static and pools
- Configuring and verifying NTP operating in a client and server mode
- Role of DHCP and DNS within the network Function of SNMP in network operations
- Use of syslog features including facilities and levels
- Configuring and verifying DHCP client and relay
- Understanding the forwarding per-hop behavior (PHB) for QoS such as classification, marking, queuing, congestion, policing, shaping
- Configuring network devices for remote access using SSH
- Capabilities and function of TFTP/FTP in the network
Security fundamentals
- Key security concepts (threats, vulnerabilities, exploits and mitigation techniques)
- Security program elements (user awareness, training and physical access control)
- Configuring device access control using local passwords
- Security password policies elements: management, complexity and password alternatives (multifactor authentication, certificates and biometrics)
- Remote access and site-to-site VPNs
- Configuring and verifying access control lists
- Configuring Layer 2 security features (DHCP snooping, dynamic ARP inspection and port security)
- Authentication, authorization and accounting
- Wireless security protocols (WPA, WPA2 and WPA3)
- Configuring WLAN using WPA2 PSK using the GUI
Automation and programmability
- How automation impacts network management
- Traditional networks vs. controller-based networking
- Controller-based and software-defined architectures (overlay, underlay and fabric)
- Separation of control plane and data plane
- North-bound and south-bound APIs
- Traditional campus device management vs. Cisco DNA Center enabled device management
- Characteristics of REST-based APIs (CRUD, HTTP verbs and data encoding)
- Capabilities of configuration management mechanisms Puppet, Chef and Ansible
- Interpreting JSON encoded data
- Role and function of network components
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After your boot camp
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Your boot camp includes a 1-year subscription to Infosec Skills, so you can take additional time to prepare for your exam, get a head start on your next certification goal or start earning CPEs.
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