Infrastructure Services

Prerequisites

Students should have a working knowledge of networking fundamentals and the ability to understand where an issue may exist in a basic network topology. No certifications are required. A working knowledge of Cisco network devices would be useful as I will be using them throughout the course for various teaching points.

Who is this Course For?

Network Administrators, Network Engineers or other IT professionals

Course Goals

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• How to upgrade the firmware/software of their network equipment (or know how to find the process to upgrade)
• Operate Windows and Linux Command Line Interface to troubleshoot basic network problems
• Describe the various network copper and fiber cabling transmission speeds and lengths
• Connect a small lab environment with the internet utilizing DHCP
• Configure routers to use tunnels to communicate and isolate traffic

• Troubleshooting in the Command Line (Windows10 and Ubuntu)
• Course Introduction
• Network Interface Verification and ICMP Part 1
• Network Interface Verification and ICMP Part 2
• Verify DNS Records with nslookup
• What Ports do we Have Open?
• Determining Intermediary Devices
• Looking at our ARP Cache
• Viewing our Routing Table
• Patch all the Things
• Upgrading the Cisco Switch IOS Part 1
• Upgrading the Cisco Switch IOS Part 2
• Upgrading the Cisco ASA
• Upgrading the SOHO Router Firmware
• Cabling
• Categories of Ethernet Copper
• Categories of Fiber Optic Cable
• Disaster Recovery
• Finding a Backup Solution for Configs
• Backing up a Cisco Switch Config
• Restoring a Cisco Switch Config from TFTP
• Restoring a Cisco Switch Config from SSH
• Configuring the Lab
• Basic Lab Setup and Configuration
• Setup the Tunnel
• Final Look at the Routing Tables