Course Overview
This course provides the theory and practice opportunities for students to plan, prepare, implement, and optimize switching technologies within an enterprise campus networks. Students will focus on best practices in integrating Virtual LANs (VLANs) for wired and wireless access, and for data, voice, and real time video applications. Secure, scalable, and highly available solutions for both IPv4 and IPv6 will be explored. This course includes hands-on activities using Cisco switching and routing gear within the classroom/lab.
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Explain the components of the Cisco Enterprise Campus Architecture
- Plan for and implement switched campus networks for wired and wireless access
- Design and implement addressing information for virtual local area networks (VLANs) – including both IPv4 and IPv6
- Optimize switching features by utilizing the switching database manager (SDM)
- Distribute the campus VLAN information through VLAN trunk protocol (VTP)
- Configure physical wiring resiliency through Ether-Channeling
- Plan and implement Per-VLAN Spanning Tree, Rapid-PVSTP, and Multiple-Instance STP
- Optimize Layer-2 by configuring ROOT guard, LOOP guard, BPDU guard and UDLD
- Implement routing and forwarding capabilities of switches to facilitate off-VLAN access
- Plan, implement and optimize the use of first-hop-redundancy protocols: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP
- Configure networking devices as DHCP server and DHCP relay agent for both IPv4 and IPv6
- Provision network services including NTP, SNMPv3, IP SLA and Port Mirroring
- Explain the key characteristics of Virtual Switching Systems (VSS) and StackWise
- Implement network security features including port security, storm control, DHCP snooping, IP source guard, dynamic ARP inspection, VLAN ACLs, and port isolation with protected ports and private VLANs
Effective as of Fall 2019
Related Programs
Advanced Ethernet Switching (CISA 3310) is offered as a part of the following programs:
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