This cisco certification training course is designed to help you prepare for the Cisco Certified Design Associate certification exam. Each of the 60 objectives on the CCDA exam will be covered, and the questions will be indicative of the types of questions on the exam.

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Internetworking Review provides an overview of internetworking, with respect to the network design.
LAN Networking describes the types of LAN networks and how they operate.
WAN Networking describes types of WANs and their operation.
Introduction to Design provides the initial steps to take when designing a network.
Examining Existing Networks provides the procedures to assessing the customer's existing network design.
Designing LANs provides the procedures to designing a LAN network.
Designing WANs provides the procedures for designing a WAN network.
Specific Design Issues provides methods to assess and optimize specific and cross-platform design issues.
Optimizing by Design provides the information to optimize your network design.
Testing and Managing provides ways to test your design and manage it when it is operational.

After completing our CCNA certification training courses, the user should be able to:

Define the types of networks that exist today
Rank the types of networks by relative size
Differentiate types of network architecture
Identify distance vector and link state protocols
Identify exterior gateway protocols
Differentiate and describe physical and logical addressing
Describe LAN network topologies and architectures
Explain segmentation
Describe types of Ethernets and their operation
Describe types of Token Rings and FDDIs, and their operation
Differentiate transparent, source-route, and mixed-media bridges
Differentiate kinds of switches
Explain VLANs
Explain router operation
Describe the determination of router paths
Define the types of WAN networks
Define WAN protocols
Describe ATM switching with respect to WANs and LANs
Explain broadcasting and multicasting
List the steps in determining the customer's needs
Explain the three types of network topologies
Differentiate types of network architecture
List the layers of the hierarchical topology model
Identify types of network traffic
Explain the problems of network traffic
List the applications typically needed
Assess applications needed by customer
Identify the information to gather when evaluating an existing network
Determine the LAN and WAN hardware in use
Test the level of network traffic
Determine the performance of the existing network
Document the information obtained when the network evaluation is complete
List the limitations of cabling and hardware
Determine the LAN equipment for your design
Design a remote LAN
Design a small LAN
Design a large LAN in one building
Design a campus LAN
List steps for designing a WAN
Determine WAN requirements
Determine the type of WAN
Determine the WAN hardware
Provision the WAN
Describe ways to design scalability
Determine addressing plan
Determine naming for network hardware
Determine advantages and disadvantages for Cisco-specific hardware
Determine advantages and disadvantages for Cisco-specific software
Show design plans for specific types of networks
Improve network security
Enhance QoS
Provide special features such as queuing and load balancing
Provide redundancy
Provide alternative paths
List the steps for testing
Explain prototype testing
Explain pilot testing
List Cisco-specific commands for verifying network performance
Describe the SNMP and RMON management protocols

Our courses have special design features listed below:

Certificates of Completion
Instructional steps -- walk through a procedure
Exercises -- try it out
Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
Hotwords - See related information
Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
Course Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
Printable Exercises - PDF downloadable files
Sample Application Files - PDF downloadable files
Course Glossary
Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and course grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which course topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.