This course helps students develop workforce readiness skills and build a foundation for success in networking-related careers and degree programs. Students learn, apply, and practice CCNA knowledge and skills through a series of in-depth hands-on experiences and simulated activities including comprehensive networking concepts and skills, from network applications to the protocols and services provided to those applications. Upon completion of CS 171, CS172, and CS 173, learners will be prepared to take the Cisco CCNA Unified certification exam.
Course Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following knowledge or skills:
- Explain how single-area OSPF operates in both point-to-point and broadcast multi-access networks.
- Implement single-area OSPFv2 in both point-to-point and broadcast multi-access networks.
- Explain how vulnerabilities, threats, and exploits can be mitigated to enhance network security.
- Explain how ACLs are used as part of a network security policy.
- Implement IPv4 ACLs to filter traffic and secure administrative access.
- Configure NAT services on the edge router to provide IPv4 address scalability.
- Explain how WAN access technologies can be used to satisfy business requirements.
- Explain how VPNs and IPsec secure site-to-site and remote access connectivity.
- Explain how networking devices implement QoS.
- Implement protocols to manage the network.
- Explain the characteristics of scalable network architectures.
- Troubleshoot enterprise networks.
- Explain the purpose and characteristics of network virtualization.
- Explain how network automation is enabled through RESTful APIs and configuration management tools
Institutional Outcomes
IO1 Communication: Students will be able to communicate clearly and effectively within a workplace context
IO2 Quantitative Reasoning: Analyze and solve computational problems using a modern program language
IO3 Human Relations/Workplace Skills: Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills
IO2 Quantitative Reasoning: Analyze and solve computational problems using a modern program language
IO3 Human Relations/Workplace Skills: Students will be able to demonstrate teamwork, ethics, appropriate safety awareness and/or workplace specific skills
Course Content Outline
- Single-Area OSPFv2 Concepts
- Single-Area OSPFv2 Configuration
- WAN Concepts
- Network Security Concepts
- ACL Concepts
- ACLs for IPv4 Configuration
- NAT for IPv4
- VPN and IPsec Concepts
- QoS Concepts
- Network Management
- Network Design
- Network Troubleshooting
- Network Virtualization
- Network Automation
Department Guidelines
This is the third course in the newly revised Cisco Networking Academy CCNAv7 Routing and Switching curricula. Students will be prepared to take the Cisco CCNA® certification exam after completing CS 171, CS 172 and CS 173.