Course length: 5 days
Course Description
Implementing Cisco Switched Networks (SWITCH) v1.0 is an instructor-led training course presented by Cisco training partners to their end customers. This five-day course is designed to help students prepare for Cisco CCNP® certification. This course is a component of the CCNP curriculum.
The Implementing Cisco Switched Networks course is designed to provide professionals of medium to large network sites with information on how to create an efficient and expandable enterprise network by installing, configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting network infrastructure equipment according to the Cisco Enterprise Campus Architecture. This training reinforces the instruction by providing students with hands-on labs to ensure they thoroughly understand how to implement advanced routing within their networks.
Performance-Based Objectives
- Analyze campus network designs
- Implement VLANs in campus networks
- Implement spanning tree
- Implement inter-VLAN routing
- Implement a highly available network
- Minimize service loss and data theft in a campus network
- mplement first hop redundancy in a campus environment
- Accommodate voice and video in campus networks
- Integrate wireless LANs into a campus network
Course Content
Lesson 1: Analyzing Campus Network Designs
Topic 1A: Enterprise Campus Architecture
Topic 1B: Cisco Lifecycle Services and Network Implementation
Lesson 2: Implementing VLANs in a Campus Network
Topic 2A: Applying Best Practices for VLAN Topologies
Topic 2B: Configuring Private VLANs
Topic 2C: Configuring Link Aggregation with EtherChannel
Lesson 3: Implementing Spanning Tree
Topic 3A: Spanning Tree Protocol Enhancements
Topic 3B: Describing STP Stability Mechanisms
Lesson 4: Implementing Inter-VLAN Routing
Topic 4A: Describing Routing Between VLANs
Topic 4B: Deploying Multilayer Switching with Cisco Express Forwarding
Lesson 5: Implementing a Highly Available Network
Topic 5A: Understanding High Availability
Topic 5B: Implementing High Availability
Topic 5C: Implementing Network Monitoring
Lesson 6: Implementing Layer 3 High Availability
Topic 6A: Configuring Layer 3 Redundancy with HSRP
Topic 6B: Configuring Layer 3 Redundancy with VRRP and GLBP
Lesson 7: Minimizing Service Loss and Data Theft in a Campus Network
Topic 7A: Understanding Switch Security Issues
Topic 7B: Protecting Against VLAN Attacks
Topic 7C: Protecting Against Spoofing Attacks
Lesson 8: Accommodating Voice and Video in Campus Networks
Topic 8A: Planning for Support of Voice in a Campus Network
Topic 8B: Integrating and Verifying VoIP in a Campus Infrastructure
Topic 8C: Working with Specialists to Accommodate Voice and Video on Campus Switches
Lesson 9: Integrating Wireless LAN into a Campus Network
Topic 9A: Comparing WLANs to Campus Networks
Topic 9B: Assessing the Impact of WLANs on Campus Networks
Topic 9C: Preparing the Campus Infrastructure for WLANs
