Exam Prep

CCNP

Switching (SWITCH)

Who should attend this course?

The course is appropriate for enterprise network engineers with at least one year of job experience who are ready to advance their skills and work independently on complex network solutions.

Prerequisites

Cisco CCNA® certified

Outcome

Upon completion of this course, students will have performed tasks related to:

• Analysing Campus Network Designs
• Implementing VLANs in Campus Networks
• Implementing Spanning Tree
• Implementing Inter-VLAN Routing
• Implementing First Hop Redundancy in a Campus Environment
• Implementing a Highly Available Network
• Integrating Wireless LANs into a Campus Network
• Accommodating Voice and Video in Campus Networks

Duration

5 days (full time)

9:00am – 5:30pm Monday to Friday

Certification Alignment

Part of the official CCNP curriculum, it covers the skills that are validated in the CCNP certification exam 642-813 SWITCH.

Course Description

CCNP: Switching is one of three courses leading to the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP®) designation. CCNP: Switching teaches students to plan, configure, and verify the implementation of complex enterprise switching solutions using Cisco Enterprise Campus Architecture. The course also covers secure integration of VLANs, WLANs, voice, and video into campus networks.

Course Content

The course consists of theory lessons and practical exercises that build your understanding of and experience in troubleshooting in complex, enterprise routed and switched IP networks.

Module 1

Planning Tasks for the CCNP Switching Exams

Module 2

Switch Operation

Module 3

Switch Port Configuration

Module 4

VLANs and Trunks

Module 5

VLAN Trunking Protocol

Module 6

Aggregating Switch Links

Module 7

Traditional Spanning Tree Protocol

Module 8

Spanning-Tree Configuration

Module 9

Protecting the Spanning Tree Protocol Topology

Module 10

Advanced Spanning Tree Protocol

Module 11

Multilayer Switching

Module 12

Enterprise Campus Network Design

Module 13

Layer 3 High Availability

Module 14

IP Telephony

Module 15

Integrating Wireless LANs

Module 16

Securing Switch Access

Module 17

Securing with VLANs

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