• Troubleshoot interface and cable issues

• Contrast TCP and UDP protocols

• Configure and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting

• Understand the necessity for private IPv4 addressing

• Configure and verify IPv6 addressing and prefixes

• Compare different IPv6 address types

• Verify IP parameters for various client operating systems (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)

• Describe wireless networking principles

• Understand virtualization fundamentals (Virtual Machines)

• Introduce switching concepts

 

Domain 2: Network Access

• Configure and verify VLANs across multiple switches

• Configure and verify interswitch connectivity

• Set up Layer 2 discovery protocols (Cisco Discovery Protocol and LLDP)

• Configure and verify EtherChannel (LACP) on Layer 2/Layer 3

• Understand and configure Rapid PVST+ spanning tree protocol

• Compare Cisco wireless architectures and access point modes

• Learn about WLAN physical infrastructure connections (AP, WLC, access/trunk ports, LAG)

• Manage AP and WLC access connections

• Configure WLAN components for client connectivity using GUI

 

Domain 3: IP Connectivity

• Interpret routing table components

• Learn how routers make forwarding decisions by default

• Configure and verify IPv4 and IPv6 static routing

• Configure and verify OSPFv2 in a single area

• Understand the role of First Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP)

 

Domain 4: IP Services

• Configure and verify inside source NAT using static and pool methods

• Set up and verify NTP in client and server modes

• Understand DHCP and DNS roles within the network

• Explain SNMP's role in network operations

• Use Syslog for network monitoring, including facilities and levels

• Configure and verify DHCP client and relay

• Explore QoS features like classification, marking, queuing, congestion, policing, and shaping

• Configure remote network device access using SSH

• Understand TFTP/FTP functionality in the network

 

Domain 5: Security Fundamentals

• Define key security concepts

• Outline elements of a security program

• Configure device access control using local passwords

• Describe password policies (management, complexity, alternatives)

• Explore remote access and site-to-site VPNs

• Configure and verify access control lists (ACLs)

• Configure Layer 2 security features

• Understand authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)

• Describe wireless security protocols (WPA, WPA2, WPA3)

• Configure WLAN using WPA2 PSK through GUI

 

Domain 6: Automation and Programmability

• Understand the impact of automation on network management

• Compare traditional networks with controller-based networking

• Explore controller-based and software-defined architectures

• Contrast traditional campus device management with Cisco DNA Center-enabled management

• Learn about REST-based APIs (CRUD, HTTP verbs, and data encoding)

• Explore configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible

• Interpret JSON-encoded data