Network Engineering Roadmap

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1Introduction

Course Overview

  • Objects
  • References
  • Course content
  • Evaluate
  • Prepare

2Basic Network Connectivity and Communications

Module 1: Networking Today

  • Networks affect our Lives
  • Network components
  • Network Presentations and Topologies
  • Common types of networks
  • Internet Connections
  • Reliable Networks
  • Network Trends
  • Network Security
  • The IT Professional

Module 2: Basic Switch and End Device Configuration

  • Cisco IOS access
  • IOS navigation
  • The command structure
  • Basic device configuration
  • Save configurations
  • Ports and Addresses
  • Configure IP addressing
  • Verify connectivity

3Protocols And Models

Module 3: Protocols And Models

  • The rules
  • Protocols
  • Protocol suites
  • Standards organizations
  • Reference models
  • Data encapsulation
  • Data access

Module 4: Physical Layer

  • Purpose of the Physical layer
  • Physical layer characteristics
  • Copper cabling
  • UTP cabling
  • Fiber-Optic cabling
  • Wireless media

4Ethernet Concepts

Module 5: Number Systems

  • Binary number system
  • Hexadecimal number system

Module 6: Data Link Layer

  • Purpose of the Data link layer
  • Topologies
  • Data link frame

Module 7: Ethernet Switching

  • Ethernet frames
  • Ethernet MAC address
  • The MAC address table
  • Switch speeds and forwarding methods

5Communicating Between Networks

Module 8: Network Layer

  • Network layer characteristics
  • IPv4 packet
  • IPv6 packet
  • How a host routers
  • Introduction to routing

Module 9: Address Resolution

  • MAC and IP
  • ARP
  • IPv6 neighbor discovery

Module 10: Basic Router Configuration

  • Configure initial router settings
  • Configure interfaces
  • Configure the default gateway

6IP Addressing

Module 11: IPv4 Addressing

  • IPv4 address structure
  • IPv4 unicast, broadcast, and multicast
  • Types of IPv4 addresses
  • Network segmentation
  • Subnet an IPv4 network
  • Subnet a Slash 16 and a Slash 8 prefix
  • Subnet to meet requirements
  • VLSM
  • Structured design

Module 12: IPv6 Addressing

  • IPv4 issues
  • IPv6 address representation
  • IPv6 address types
  • GUA and LLA static configuration
  • Dynamic addressing for IPv6 GUAs
  • Dynamic addressing for IPv6 for LLAs
  • IPv6 multicast address
  • Subnet an IPv6 Network

Module 13: ICMP

  • ICMP messages
  • Ping and Traceroute tests

7Network Communication

Module 14: Transport Layer

  • Transportation of data
  • TCP overview
  • UDP overview
  • Port numbers
  • TCP communication process
  • Reliability and flow control
  • UDP communication

Module 15: Application Layer

  • Application, Presentation and Session
  • Peer-to-Peer
  • Web and Mail protocols
  • IP addressing services
  • File sharing services

Module 16: Network Security Fundamentals

  • Security threats and vulnerabilities
  • Network attacks
  • Network attack mitigations
  • Device security

Module 17: Build A Small Network

  • Devices in a small network
  • Small network applications and protocols
  • Scale to larger networks
  • Verify connectivity
  • Host and IOS command
  • Troubleshooting methodologies
  • Troubleshooting scenarios

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