Job Oriented Internetworking Training - JOINT

Explore cloud fundamentals and virtualization, including VMware and Cisco technology basics, and preview cloud vendor concepts from Google to Azure, building working knowledge essential for the JOINT program.

Examine private clouds inside public cloud infrastructures, focusing on cost, control, and security, via AWS VPC, and compare with public cloud benefits and major private cloud solutions.

Explore Cisco inter cloud fabric and director to connect private and public clouds with cloud switches and tunnels, and configure policies, service catalogs, and templates while monitoring capacity and utilization.

Learn how to move from traditional IT to cloud infrastructure through consolidation, virtualization, standardization, automation, and orchestration, using Cisco Prime Service Catalog with UCS Director for self-service private clouds.

Master cloud orchestrator capabilities for heterogeneous data centers with multi-vendor support. Provision physical and virtual compute and storage, create application profiles and containers, and enable secure multi-tenant metering and automation.

Cloud monitor, part of the three-component stack with service catalog and orchestrator, receives deployment notifications to measure resources, create billing plans, and generate on-demand reports.

Explore the cloud journey from legacy IT to cloud through consolidation, virtualization, standardization, and automation, enabling shared resources, scalable provisioning, and reduced manual errors.

Discover how orchestration enables consolidation, virtualization, standardization, and automation in IT infrastructure, and explore APIs and RESTful APIs, CLI configurations, and Python-based SDKs for network devices.

Explore the VMware ESXi hypervisor architecture and the vSphere Web Client as a single management plane to manage data centers, hosts, clusters, networks, and virtual machines.

Discover how to clone a virtual machine to a template and deploy new VMs from it in vSphere, with thin provisioning and OS customization.

Clone a VM to a template, manage storage with thin provisioning, and use the vSphere client search to locate and deploy web server templates.

Enable and configure vSphere high availability in a host and cluster lab, including HA settings, admission control, heartbeat data stores, and VM monitoring to ensure fast failover.

Explore how hosts, physical and VM interfaces, and vSwitch configurations create standard and distributed virtual switches, port groups, uplinks, and NIC teaming for network traffic in the lab.

Walk through configuring a distributed virtual switch, adjusting general and advanced properties, enabling NetFlow, port mirroring, health checks, private VLAN, and viewing topology in the VCA client.

Gain associate-level knowledge of wireless fundamentals, antennas, packet reception, device installation, frame formats, and controller-based deployment through 18 videos.

Explore how FHSS, DSSS, and OFDM use different spectrum methods in a 2.4 GHz wireless LAN, detailing channel layouts, non-overlapping channels, and parallel subcarrier processing.

Explore interference and effects of physical objects on wireless signals, including co-channel and neighboring channel interference, how reflection, absorption, scattering, refraction, diffraction, and fragile zone influence access point placement.

Explore wireless networks with a focus on wireless LANs, featuring access points, basic service sets, ssid, and roaming across an extended service set behind a wired distribution system.

Explore the 802.11 frame format, including the preamble, address fields (address 1–4), data and FCS, duration for collision avoidance, ssid learning, and wireless-to-wired and wireless-to-wireless communications.

Establish Capwap tunnels between wireless access points and the controller to manage control and data planes over IP-based tunnels using UDP 5246 with optional DTLS encryption, enabling centralized wireless management.

Learn how an access point boots, discovers the WLC via DHCP, DNS, or broadcast, and builds a Capwap control tunnel to join the controller.

Learn how to configure Meraki firewall rules, including layer three outbound, layer seven, and port forwarding with 1-to-1 and 1-to-many NAT, plus DNS name support.

Cloud computing provides on-demand, pay-for-use access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources—network, servers, storage, and applications—rapidly provisioned and released to cut costs and boost profit.

Learn how regions and zones enable high availability with multi-region, multi-zone redundancy and site data center design, and examine latency when redirecting traffic between regions.

the lab demonstrates assigning IAM roles to a principal, including compute viewer, compute admin, and service account user, while creating and managing a GCP Compute Engine VM instance.

Explore cloud identity options in Google Cloud, including login via Google account and Google Groups with identity domain. Learn to create and attach service accounts to virtual machine instances.

Explore Google Cloud Shell, an online Linux-based development and operations environment that emphasizes the CLI for fast troubleshooting, with persistent home storage and an integrated editor.

Learn to upload and download files in Google Cloud Shell, create and manage storage buckets with gsutil, and use copy commands to move images to cloud storage.

learn to use the Google Cloud pricing calculator to estimate compute engine costs: instances, OS options, vCPU, RAM, and disk for services like GKE, AI services, and cloud storage.

Watch three pre-videos introducing infra as a service, platform as a service, and software as a service to prepare for section 2.2; complete them to understand section 2.2.

Explore IaaS with AWS as a leading example, outlining provider and consumer responsibilities. Review core AWS services like EC2, S3, VPC, and Route 53, plus regions and availability zones.

Explore platform as a service with azure, where the provider delivers the operating system and infrastructure software, and you host your application via the azure portal.

Learn about spot VMs, formerly preemptible VMs, their steep discounts, and how they may be terminated or restarted for fault-tolerant workloads on Google Cloud.

Plan and configure storage options across Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Bigtable, Cloud Storage, Datastore, and Firestore, balancing relational and NoSQL models with vertical and horizontal scaling.

Explore Compute Engine to create a vm instance in the GCP console, configure regions, machine type, boot disk, and access controls, then use CLI for rapid deployment.

Learn to attach and create disks for a GCP VM, including adding new disks, attaching existing ones, and adjusting sizes from 10 to 14 GB.

Learn practical Linux file and directory operations, including creating files and directories with touch and mkdir, editing with nano or vi, and managing files with cp, mv, and rm.

Learn basic control flow with if and else statements, boolean logic, and comparisons, and practice with lab exercises using user input to decide which prints occur.

Explore list mutability, aliasing, and cloning, and master list operations, slices, and list comprehensions, then compare immutable tuples, tuple assignment, and basic tuple operations.

Master Python file handling by reading, writing, and appending text and binary files, with operations like open and close, and use sys to access command line arguments.

Explore switches and routers, watch videos on MAC VLAN, firewall, and load balancer, and then move into the routing section.

Explore the purpose of mac and IPv4 addresses, distinguishing physical and logical addressing, and learn how mac operates at the data link layer while IPv4 enables global routing via gateways.

Learn how to segment networks with VLANs, create VLANs on switches, assign access ports, and configure trunks with 802.1Q and ISL, including manual and dynamic options.

Explore networking components including switches, routers, firewalls, and load balancers, with a focus on load balancer features across Cisco, NSX, and other vendors.

Move into routing basics and learn VRF, IRB, OSPF, and BGP. Explore IGP concepts, LSA protection, best path selection criteria, and route filtering with labs on routers and switches.

Learn the fundamentals of route redistribution between OSPF and RIP in multi-protocol networks, including metrics, default metrics, and two-way redistribution, demonstrated by a lab that reveals potential routing loops.

Configure a vrf lite lab with a vf and global routing, advertise loopback and link networks via erp, then test connectivity from r1 to r4 and r3.

Enable bidirectional forward detection (bfd) to detect failures in subseconds with low cpu usage, linking to ospf, isis, and ipv6, enabling rapid convergence across routing protocols in asynchronous mode.

Configure ERP, assign IP addresses to interfaces and a loopback, then verify neighbor, topology, and routing tables; explore IGP, autonomous system, and dual algorithm metrics.

Configure eigrp authentication with a keychain and md5 on interface e0/0 to converge neighbors, then explore unequal cost load balancing variance and stub routing.

Explore how to configure ERP with passive interfaces, auto and manual summarization, and authentication, including keychains and metrics, to optimize neighbor relationships and routing in networks.

Practice ERP troubleshooting with a lab, validating baseline IP configurations, redistribution, and best path decisions, using show, log, event history, and debug tools safely.

In this EIGRP troubleshooting lab, diagnose a suboptimal path caused by redistribution with OSPF and fix it by adjusting administrative distance to prefer the internal route.

Explore OSPF neighbor states from down to full, learn DR and BDR roles on broadcast networks, and perform a lab to build neighbor, topology, and routing tables using area zero.

Configure and verify OSPF in a two-area topology, assign areas zero and 20, advertise networks, and convert E0/0 to point-to-point or broadcast, then test passive interface behavior and neighbor relationships.

Explore OSPF authentication and virtual links, configure plain text or MD5 authentication at the area zero interface, and implement virtual links to connect areas via a transit router.

Configure and verify an OSPF lab with MD5 authentication and a virtual link to make area one transit, enabling authentication keys across area zero, area one, and area two.

Explore OSPF area types like not-so-stub areas and their default route behavior, and learn to inject default routes with default-information originate and the always option.

Perform a hands-on lab on OSPFv3, configuring IPv6 unicast routing across five virtual routers, verifying neighbors, router IDs, and database content, and exploring self-originated aliases in area zero.

Learn to troubleshoot OSPF adjacency issues between routers by diagnosing authentication mismatches, TTL security, IP subnet errors, and stub configurations, using debugging commands to restore neighbor relationships.

Explore BGP best path selection across four autonomous systems by configuring networks, loopback prefixes, prefix lists, and route maps; use weight and local preference to steer next hops.

Use loopback interfaces, prefix lists, and route maps to influence BGP best path selection, setting local preference to route via router three as primary and router four as backup.

Explore azure firewall security labels and zone separation inside, dmz, and outside with 0 to 100 levels, and learn how to permit intra- and inter-interface traffic using dedicated commands.

Explore how a stateful firewall uses dynamic packet filtering, builds a state table during TCP/UDP handshakes, and enforces inside to outside trusted zone rules with flags and connection state.

Configure icmp echo and echo-reply rules in an access-list to permit ping from outside to inside and inside to outside, then create a login banner on the inside interface.

Configure the OSPF relationship between R2 and ASA1v by removing static routes, setting router IDs, advertising networks in area zero, and enabling MD5 authentication, verifying neighbors.

Redistribute between ERP and OSPF in a two-way setup, configuring ERP to OSPF and OSPF to ERP, then verify connectivity with telnet and ping.

Configure static auto NAT on the ASA to map the DMZ web server 3333 to the outside address 20.1.1.50, then verify with show commands.

Configure a static manual nat on the asa between inside pc and web server three in the dmz. This identity nat preserves the destination while the source changes.

Integrate the FMC with the FTD and configure inside, DMZ, and ISP. Create a static ISP route, deploy the HQ FTD template, and verify with CLI show routes.

Navigate the firepower HQ FTD CLI and Linux shells across three cells, using expert and sudo su, then verify version, interfaces, and routes with show commands.

Create, edit, move, and deploy firewall policies to enforce allow or block actions, explore mandatory and base policies, and configure DMZ access for HTTP, SSH, and FTP.

Verify ssl policy by installing FMC root certificate as a trusted CA on the host and in Firefox and Chrome, then test google.com to confirm trust after browser import.

Configure platform settings on the FMC, including banner, SMTP, and syslog with buffer sizes; create and deploy policies across devices from a central management engine.

Configure a hub-and-spoke site-to-site vpn between HQ and remote office using ipsec with ikev2, define hub and spoke endpoints, protected networks, and dynamic crypto maps; deploy policies and verify routes.

Navigate FMC to monitor events, filter connections, and view block or SSL events, then explore network maps, host vulnerability reports, and generate HTML network risk reports.

Explore the FMC API explorer workflow, including login, creating an API admin user, and navigating API info and services. Preview the Python programming segment in the next recording.

Master sd-wan basics and bring-up process within a job oriented networking track. Explore video sequence from fundamentals to advanced topics, including cloud automation, Linux, Python, routing, switching, firewall, and firepower.

Explore SD-WAN basics and the decoupled control, management, and orchestration planes. Identify how Vmanage, Vbond, and Vsmart coordinate edge devices, IPsec data planes, and system wide onboarding.

Learn SD-WAN policy fundamentals, including OMB/OMP/BGP route selection, graceful restart, and the building blocks of centralized and localized data and control policies with match-action rules.

Explore application aware routing policy in sd-wan by configuring data policies, app route policies, and sla-driven path selection between mpls and internet, using bfd to measure loss latency and jitter.