ITI 428 - CISCO CCNA Introduction to Networks | Montgomery College, Maryland

Registration Option: Open Enrollment

Total Course Hours: 40

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Description

This course focuses on end and networking devices, their protocols and the Internet. The student will learn the elements of a network, identify components such as routers, switches, firewalls and the networking features of popular operating system such as Microsoft Windows and Linux distributions like Ubuntu. In addition to the above networking components the course will heavily focus on IPv4 and IPv6 addressing to build logical networks. This online course will make extensive use of Cisco Packet Tracer network simulation tool to learn the Cisco devices’ command set using its Command Line Interface (CLI).

Prerequisites

It is highly recommended the student is very familiar with Windows 10 Professional Edition (preferred) screen and features navigation, Windows Administrative Tools in particular. Familiarity with search for software distributions (a.k.a. Linux distributions).

Very important: Motivation to learn, investigate, troubleshoot, open mind to tackle technology challenges and work hard to find solutions to fix problems.

Objectives

At the end of this course students will be able to:

Identify network components, routers and switches and well-known networking protocols.
Develop an IP plan to configure end and network devices in a Local Area Network
Configure end operating systems: Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OSX to join the configured logical network.
Configure Cisco access switches (2900 series and routers 1900 series) using Cisco CLI command set to build a Local Area Network (LAN).
Enable Windows IIS (Internet Information Services) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and Windows Advanced Firewall services and work with entry level commands for Linux distributions.