Cisco Networking Foundations: Wireless Networks, Services, Security, and Virtualization

Advance your skills with Cisco networking for wireless networks, services, security, and virtualization.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you can learn
• How to get hands-on practice

1. Network Services

• Domain name system (DNS)
• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) theory
• CDP configuration
• Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) theory
• LLDP configuration
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) theory
• NTP configuration
• Network Address Translation (NAT) theory
• NAT configuration
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) overview
• DHCP options
• DHCP configuration

2. Network Security

• Common network security concerns
• Access Control List (ACL) theory
• Standard numbered ACL theory
• Standard numbered ACL configuration
• Extended numbered ACL theory
• Extended numbered ACL configuration
• Extended named ACL configuration
• The need for switch port security
• Port security configuration

3. Wireless Networks

• Introduction to wireless LANs (WLANs)
• WLAN antennas
• WLAN frequencies and channels
• WLAN standards
• WLAN transmission methods
• WLAN optimization and features
• WLAN security basics
• WLAN security standards
• Configuring a Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC)

4. Network Virtualization

• Virtualized servers
• Virtualized network devices
• Introduction to software-defined networking (SDN)
• Software-defined wide area networks (SD-WANs)
• Software-Defined Access (SD-Access)

Conclusion

• Next steps