• Five days of intense instruction with an expert instructor
• Immediate access to in-depth CCNA pre-study course
• Infosec digital courseware (physical textbooks available to purchase)
• CCNA exam voucher (200-301)
• 90-day access to cyber range (Flex Pro)
• 90-day access to replays of daily lessons (Flex Pro)
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
• Exam Pass Guarantee (Flex Pro)

Limited-time offer: Continue learning after your boot camp with a complimentary 90-day subscription to Infosec Skills, which includes unlimited access to 500+ online courses, 100+ hands-on labs and projects, skill assessments, custom certification practice exams and more.

Hundreds of exercises in over 30 hands-on labs prepare you for the most difficult part of the CCNA 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.

• Network engineers
• Network administrators
• Systems administrators
• System engineers
• IT managers/directors
• Anyone looking to improve their network skills

Prior to attending the CCNA 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.

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

Infosec’s CCNA materials are always up to date and synchronized with the latest Cisco exam objectives. Our industry-leading curriculum and expert instructors have led to the highest pass rates in the industry. More than 93% of Infosec students pass their certification exams on their first attempt.

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