Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions With Network Essentials
Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions With Network Essentials
● Explain how Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
(RSTP) work
● Configure link aggregation using EtherChannel
● Describe the purpose of Layer 3 redundancy protocols
● Describe basic WAN and VPN concepts
● Describe the operation of Access Control Lists (ACLs) and their applications in
the network Configure Internet access using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
(DHCP) clients and explain and configure Network Address Translation (NAT) on
Cisco routers
● Describe basic Quality of Service (QoS) concepts
● Describe the concepts of wireless networks, which types of wireless networks
can be built, and how to use Wireless LAN Controllers (WLCs)
● Describe network and device architectures and introduce virtualization
● Introduce the concept of network programmability and Software-Defined
Networking (SDN) and describe smart network management solutions such as
Cisco DNA Center™, Software-Defined Access (SD-Access), and Software-Defined
Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
● Configure basic IOS system monitoring tools
● Describe the management of Cisco devices
● Describe the current security threat landscape
● Describe threat defense technologies
● Implement a basic security configuration of the device management plane
● Implement basic steps to harden network devices
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