UW Centre of Excellence

CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)

• Network Fundamentals
• OSI and TCP/IP models
• IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
• Routing And Switching Essentials
• VLANs (Virtual LANs) and trunking
• Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• Routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP)
• Scaling Networks
• WAN (Wide Area Network) concepts and technologies
• PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol)
• Frame Relay
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• Connecting Networks
• Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Network management protocols (SNMP, NTP, SYSLOG)
• Security Fundamentals
• VPN (Virtual Private Network) technologies
• Network Automation and Programmability
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) principles