Cisco Professional Certifications are evolving to reflect these industry changes, providing a new structure that consolidates skills, provides additional resources, and simplifies the learning experience.
Introduction to Networks (ITN) covers the architecture, structure, functions and components of the Internet and other computer networks. Students achieve a basic understanding of how networks operate and how to build simple local area networks (LAN), perform basic configurations for routers and switches, and implement Internet Protocol (IP).
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Configure switches and end devices to provide access to local and remote network resources.
- Explain how physical and data link layer protocols support the operation of Ethernet in a switched network.
- Configure routers to enable end-to-end connectivity between remote devices.
- Create IPv4 and IPv6 addressing schemes and verify network connectivity between devices.
- Explain how the upper layers of the OSI model support network applications.
- Configure a small network with security best practices.
- Troubleshoot connectivity in a small network.
The 70-hour, instructor-led course is the 1st of 3 courses in the Cisco CCNAv7 curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNAv7 curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
This course introduces a variety of topics to build students’ skills and understanding of networking. The course also introduces networking devices and the Cisco IOS® software. Students will learn how networks are set up, how devices are configured, how communication takes place on a network and the basics of implementing network security best practices which will enhance the students’ confidence in communicating their knowledge and work in networking-related professions. This course includes activities that expand on the course material presented. Upon completion of this course, the end-of-course survey, and the end-of-course assessment, the student will receive a Certificate of Completion.
Requirements
The 70-hour curriculum may be used as a standalone course or as a supplement to an existing course. Instructors can create a course, enroll students, teach and guide them through the course content, material and activities.
Certification and Careers
The course does not align to certification. Networking Essentials is a new course teaches the fundamentals of networking, it is not a replacement of CCNA Routing & Switching. It is not a prerequisite for CCNA Routing & Switching. The course is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, especially high schools, secondary schools, career and technical schools, community organizations, and other nontraditional learning environments. College and university students studying non-IT fields would also find this curriculum to be a useful introduction to IT and networking.
Wireless and mobility technologies are essential skills for a career in networking during today’s digital transformation and economy. The Mobility Fundamentals course provides foundational wireless knowledge and skills. The 9-hour course covers different technical aspect of wireless networking, and helps students develop competencies in:
- Understand wireless networking technology basics
- Configure wireless LAN components
- Understand wireless LAN security
- Set up a home Internet access
- Understand mobile networking applications, like BYOD
- Understand how to troubleshoot Wireless LANs
Requirements
The 9-hour curriculum may be used as a supplement to an existing course or as a short course. Instructors can create a course, enroll students, teach and guide them through the course content, material and activities.
Certification and Careers
Explosive growth in mobile devices has created high demand for networking professionals with knowledge of mobile and wireless technologies across many industries. Career pathway include: network technician, network administrator, support engineer, wireless network engineer.
Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials (SRWE) covers the architecture, components, and operations of routers and switches in small networks and introduces wireless local area networks (WLAN) and security concepts. Students learn how to configure and troubleshoot routers and switches for advanced functionality using security best practices and resolve common issues with protocols in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Configure VLANs and Inter-VLAN routing applying security best practices.
- Troubleshoot inter-VLAN routing on Layer 3 devices.
- Configure redundancy on a switched network using STP and EtherChannel.
- Troubleshoot EtherChannel on switched networks.
- Explain how to support available and reliable networks using dynamic addressing and first-hop redundancy protocols.
- Configure dynamic address allocation in IPv6 networks.
- Configure WLANs using a WLC and L2 security best practices.
- Configure switch security to mitigate LAN attacks.
- Configure IPv4 and IPv6 static routing on routers.
The 70-hour, instructor-led course is the 2nd of 3 courses in the Cisco CCNAv7 curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNA Routing & Switching curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation (ENSA) describes the architecture, components, operations, and security to scale for large, complex networks, including wide area network (WAN) technologies. The course emphasizes network security concepts and introduces network virtualization and automation. Students learn how to configure, troubleshoot, and secure enterprise network devices and understand how application programming interfaces (API) and configuration management tools enable network automation.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Configure single-area OSPFv2 in both point-to-point and multiaccess networks.
- Explain how to mitigate threats and enhance network security using access control lists and security best practices.
- Implement standard IPv4 ACLs to filter traffic and secure administrative access.
- Configure NAT services on the edge router to provide IPv4 address scalability.
- Explain techniques to provide address scalability and secure remote access for WANs.
- Explain how to optimize, monitor, and troubleshoot scalable network architectures.
- Explain how networking devices implement QoS.
- Implement protocols to manage the network.
- Explain how technologies such as virtualization, software defined networking, and automation affect evolving networks.
The 70-hour, instructor-led course is the 3rd of 3 courses in the Cisco CCNAv7 curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNAv7 curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
Bridging provides the new topics for students who have completed CCNA R&S version 6.0 courses and want to prepare for the new CCNA certification exam (200-301). These topics were extracted from the CCNAv7: Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials and the CCNAv7: Enterprise Networking, Security and Automation (ENSA) course.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Configure WLANs using a WLC and L2 security best practices.
- Explain how vulnerabilities, threats, and exploits can be mitigated to enhance network security.
- Explain how VPNs and IPsec secure site-to-site and remote access connectivity.
- Explain how network automation is enabled through RESTful APIs and configuration management tools.
The content from this course can be integrated as needed into Cisco CCNAv7 curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
This supplemental curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNAv7 curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
Introduction to Networks (ITN) covers networking architecture, structure, and functions. The course introduces the principles and structure of IP addressing and the fundamentals of Ethernet concepts, media, and operations to provide a foundation for the curriculum.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Explain network technologies.
- Explain how devices access local and remote network resources.
- Describe router hardware.
- Explain how switching operates in a small to medium-sized business network.
- Design an IP addressing scheme to provide network connectivity for a small to medium-sized business network.
- Configure initial settings on a network device.
- Implement basic network connectivity between devices.
- Configure monitoring tools available for small to medium-sized business networks.
The 70-hour, instructor-led course is the 1st of 4 courses in the Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNA Routing & Switching curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
Routing and Switching Essentials (RSE) covers the architecture, components, and operations of routers and switches in a small network. Students learn how to configure a router and a switch for basic functionality.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Determine how a router will forward traffic based on the contents of a routing table.
- Explain how switching operates in a small to medium-sized business network.
- Use monitoring tools and network management protocols to troubleshoot data networks.
- Configure monitoring tools available for small to medium-sized business networks.
- Configure initial settings on a network device.
- Configure Ethernet switch ports.
- Implement VLANs.
- Implement static routing.
- Implement DHCP on a router.
- Implement network address translation (NAT).
- Implement access control lists (ACLs) to filter traffic.
The 70-hour, instructor-led course is the 1st of 4 courses in the Cisco CCNA Routing and Switching curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNA Routing & Switching curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
Scaling Networks (ScaN) covers the architecture, components, and operations of routers and switches in larger and more complex networks. Students learn how to configure routers and switches for advanced functionality.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Configure and troubleshoot routers and switches
- Resolve common issues with OSPF, EIGRP, and STP in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks
- Implement a WLAN in a small-to-medium network
The 70-hour, instructor-led course is the 3rd of 4 courses in the Cisco CCNA Routing & Switching curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNA Routing & Switching curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
Connecting Networks (CN) discusses the WAN technologies and network services required by converged applications in a complex network. The course enables students to understand the selection criteria of network devices and WAN technologies to meet network requirements.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Configure and troubleshoot network devices
- Resolve common issues with data link protocols
- Resolve common issues with OSPF, EIGRP, and STP in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks
- Implement virtual private network (VPN) operations in a complex network
The 70-hour, instructor-led course is the 4th of 4 courses in the Cisco CCNA Routing & Switching curriculum. The course includes activities using Packet Tracer, hands-on lab work, and a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Requirements
The curriculum is appropriate for students at many education levels and types of institutions, including high schools, secondary schools, universities, colleges, career and technical schools, and community centers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNA Routing & Switching curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
Core Networking (ENCOR) provides students with a broad scope of architectural understanding and implementation skills required by enterprise networks. The course covers switching, routing, wireless, and related security topics along with the technologies that support software-defined, programmable networks.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Configure L2 redundancy in an enterprise network.
- Configure EIGRP to optimize performance in an enterprise network.
- Implement advanced OSPF features to improve performance in both IPv4 and IPv6 enterprise networks.
- Configure eBGP in a single-homed remote access network.
- Explain the concepts of multicast operation and QoS in an enterprise network.
- Configure IP services and VPNs to support secure, managed site-to-site and remote-access networks.
- Explain how wireless topologies and antennas allow APs to pair with WLCs in an enterprise network.
- Implement secure wireless networks to manage and support wireless roaming.
- Implement advanced technologies to support a secure and scalable enterprise network architecture.
- Configure network technologies to provide secure infrastructure access.
- Explain the purposes and characteristics of virtualization and network automation.
The 70+ hour, instructor-led course is the 1st of 2 courses in the Cisco CCNP Enterprise curriculum and includes hands-on lab work along with a wide array of assessment types and tools.
Certification and Careers
The CCNP Enterprise curriculum aligns to the Cisco Press CCNP and CCIE Enterprise Core ENCOR 350-401 Official Cert Guide and the Implementing Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR 350-401) certification exam. This curriculum helps students develop workforce readiness skills and builds a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs.
The CCNP Routing & Switching curriculum provides a comprehensive overview of enterprise-level networking concepts, including advanced routing switching, and troubleshooting. The curriculum consists of 3 complete courses: SWITCH, ROUTE, and TSHOOT. Industry-relevant instructional approaches help students prepare for professional career opportunities and certification.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Plan, implement, secure, maintain, and troubleshoot converged enterprise networks.
- Prepare for Cisco CCNP Routing & Switching certification
CCNP Routing & Switching can be delivered as an independent curriculum or integrated into a broader course of study, such as technology-related degree programs. The curriculum can be offered in a classroom or blended distance learning environment.
Requirements
The curriculum is intended for college and university students or experienced IT professionals who seek to advance their careers.
Certification and Careers
The CCNP Routing & Switching curriculum prepares students for Cisco CCNP Routing & Switching certification.
The CCNA Cybersecurity Operations curriculum provides an introduction to the knowledge and skills needed for a Security Analyst working with a Security Operations Center team. It teaches core security skills needed for monitoring, detecting, investigating, analyzing and responding to security events, thus protecting systems and organizations from cybersecurity risks, threats and vulnerabilities.
CCNA Cybersecurity Operations – 1.1 includes an optional skills challenge after chapter 13 to practice cybersecurity operations knowledge in a fun and engaging environment.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand cybersecurity operations network principles, roles and responsibilities as well as the related technologies, tools, regulations and frameworks available.
- Apply knowledge and skills to monitor, detect, investigate, analyze and respond to security incidents.
- Apply for entry-level jobs as Assoicate Security Analyst and Incident Responder.
- Take the Cisco Certified CyberOps Certification exam.
CCNA Cybersecurity Operations is a hands-on, career-oriented course with an emphasis on practical experience to help students develop specialized skills to sucessfully handle the tasks, duties, and responsibilities of an associate-level Security Analyst working in a Security Operations Center (SOC).
Requirements
CCNA Cybersecurity Operations can be delivered as an independent curriculum or integrated into a broader course of study.
Certification and Careers
CCNA Cybersecurity Operations prepares students for entry-level security career opportunities in a Security Operations Center and prepares for the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate Certification
The CCNA Security course provides a next step for individuals who want to enhance their networking skill set and help meet the growing demand for network security professionals. CCNA Security provides an introduction to the core security concepts and skills needed for the installation, troubleshooting, and monitoring of network devices to maintain the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of data and devices.
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Understand network security principles as well as the tools and configurations available.
- Apply knowledge and skills to design, implement, and support network security.
- Apply for entry-level jobs as network security professionals.
CCNA Security is a hands-on, career-oriented course with an emphasis on practical experience to help students develop specialized security skills to advance their careers.
Requirements
CCNA Security can be delivered as an independent curriculum or integrated into a broader course of study.
Certification and Careers
CCNA Security prepares students for entry-level security career opportunities.