Networking, one of the highest paying fields in IT, is also the fastest growing occupation in the IT sector and is required in all major companies. Significant talent shortage in the Infrastructure Management space has opened up multiple career options for aspiring students and professionals.
Cisco CCNA Training & Certifications create lucrative career opportunities by empowering students with skills like Routing & Switching, Network Design and Network Security required to manage todays mission critical networks and applications. That is the reason why everyone advises students to go in for Cisco certifications.
Cisco Certified Network Associate validates the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium-size route and switched networks, including implementation and verification of connections to remote sites in a WAN. Cisco CCNA training curriculum includes basic mitigation of security threats, introduction to wireless networking concepts and terminology, and performance-based skills. This new curriculum also includes (but is not limited to) the use of these protocols: IP, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Serial Line Interface Protocol Frame Relay, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2),VLANs, Ethernet, access control lists (ACLs).
The Cisco CCNA Training curriculum, which is taught mainly at secondary and post secondary levels, features the following modules:
CCNA 1-Networking Basics
CCNA 2-Routers and Routing Basics
CCNA 3-Switching Basics and Intermediate Routing
CCNA 4-WAN Technologies
CCNA Exams & Recommended Training
Exam Name: 640-802
Recommended Training:
Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1) v1.0
Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 2 (ICND2) v1.0
OR
Exam Name: 640-822 ICND1
Recommended Training:
Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND1) v1.0
Exam Name: 640-816 ICND2
Recommended Training:
Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 (ICND2) v1.0
The following topics are general guidelines for the content likely to be included on the Cisco Certified Network Associate exam. However, other related topics may also appear on any specific delivery of the exam. In order to better reflect the contents of the exam and for clarity purposes, the guidelines below may change at any time without notice.
1.Describe how a network works
2.Configure, verify and troubleshoot a switch with VLANs and interswitch communications
3.Implement an IP addressing scheme and IP Services to meet network requirements in a medium-size Enterprise branch office network
4.Configure, verify, and troubleshoot basic router operation and routing on Cisco devices
5.Explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN
6.Identify security threats to a network and describe general methods to mitigate those threats
7.Implement and verify WAN links
