CCNA ( Cisco Certified Network Associate )

CCNA stands for "Cisco Certified Network Associate." Cisco Systems, Inc., created this certification program to improve the skills of professionals in home and small office networking. Today, CCNA has become one of the most sought after network certifications. CCNA can help you to land a better job in networking or to increase the salary in your current job.
Overall, the CCNA has grown significantly in popularity and should be a worthwhile addition to the resume of many networking professionals.

CCNA Routing and Switching

The CCNA Routing and Switching course teaches knowledge and skills required to install, operate, and troubleshoot a small to medium size enterprise branch network. The topics include connecting to a WAN; implementing network security; network types; network media; routing and switching fundamentals; the TCP/IP and OSI models; IP addressing; WAN technologies; operating and configuring IOS devices; extending switched networks with VLANs; determining IP routes; managing IP traffic with access lists; establishing point-to-point connections; and establishing Frame Relay connections

Course Topics

• Describe how a network works
• Configure, verify and troubleshoot a switch with VLANs and interswitch communications
• Implement an IP addressing scheme and IP Services to meet network requirements in a medium-size Enterprise branch office network
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot basic router operation and routing on Cisco devices
• Explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN
• Identify security threats to a network and describe general methods to mitigate those threats
• Implement, verify, and troubleshoot NAT and ACLs in a medium-size Enterprise branch office network
• Implement and verify WAN links

CCNA Security

The CCNA Security Course teaches knowledge of securing Cisco routers and switches and their associated networks. It leads to validated skills for installation, troubleshooting and monitoring of network devices to maintain integrity, confidentiality and availability of data and devices and develops competency in the technologies that Cisco uses in its security infrastructure.

Course Topics

• Describe the security threats facing modern network infrastructures
• Secure Cisco routers
• Implement AAA on Cisco routers using local router database and external ACS
• Mitigate threats to Cisco routers and networks using ACLs
• Implement secure network management and reporting
• Mitigate common Layer 2 attacks
• Implement the Cisco IOS firewall feature set using SDM
• Implement the Cisco IOS IPS feature set using SDM
• Implement site-to-site VPNs on Cisco Routers using SDM