NEW CISCO CCNA 200-301 (Complete Full Series) Training -2020

Introduce the Cisco CCNA 200-301 syllabus, exam process, and career paths, highlighting routing and switching, security, and collaboration tracks, plus how to book the Pearson VUE exam.

Discover network components and architectures, from local area networks to submarine fiber cables and ethernet. Learn three-tier architecture (access, distribution, core) with switches, routers, and data centers.

Learn ethernet cabling basics: straight and crossover cables, twisted-pair categories (Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6), color coding, and practical cabling practices in data centers.

Master power over ethernet and fiber basics for enterprise networks. Learn how PoE powers IP phones, IP cameras, and Wi‑Fi modems using injectors and SFP modules.

Learn ethernet speed basics, hub vs switch vs router, VLANs, and Cisco network design across LANs and data centers with layer 2 devices, firewall, and load balancers.

Explore how unicast, broadcast, and multicast traffic propagate across hubs, switches, and routers, and compare simplex, half-duplex, and full-duplex transmission with CSMA/CD, collision domains, and VLAN concepts.

Explore the OSI model from application to physical layers and how TCP and UDP enable intersystem communication, routing, and data integrity.

Explain how the OSI application, presentation, and session layers shape data into network traffic, including fragmentation and headers, and contrast layer 2 switches with layer 3 routers for end-to-end delivery.

Explore the transport layer concepts of segmentation, flow control, and error control, ensuring end-to-end delivery, and compare dcp and udp with three-way handshake and windowing.

Investigates the transport layer, contrasting tcp and udp, detailing segmentation, headers, sequence and acknowledgement, window size, and checksums, and explains how data travels from applications to networks via ip routing.

Explore the OSI seven-layer model and how the data-link and physical layers manage frames, MAC addresses, CRC-based error control, and Ethernet media access in local and wide-area networks.

Explore designing a small office network with Cisco switches and routers, selecting appropriate variants, planning LAN topology, IP addressing, VLANs, and internet access while documenting for future-proof scalability.

Explore advanced network design with stacking and VSS, creating redundant, single logical devices; learn to implement EtherChannel and failover for resilient, high-throughput enterprise networks.

Explore common network topologies (bus, ring, star, mesh, and hybrid) and compare their advantages and drawbacks, plus the tcp/ip model's four-layer approach.

Explore IPv4 and IPv6 addressing concepts, including binary-to-decimal and hexadecimal conversions, the 32-bit IPv4 structure, classful ranges A–E, and private versus public addresses.

This lecture explains IPv4 classful addressing and subnetting, covering class A/B/C ranges, private vs public addresses, subnet masks, and creating subnets to form separate broadcast domains.

Master subnetting basics and variable length subnetting (VLSM) through a hands-on switch lab, calculating IP blocks, subnet masks, and network and broadcast addresses for a Cisco CCNA course.

Set up Cisco Packet Tracer and GNS3, solve subnetting problems, calculate subnet masks, and design host allocations for teams across network blocks.

Explore VLAN fundamentals, including access and trunk concepts, native VLAN, and data VLAN. Use a hands-on GNS3 lab to apply inter-VLAN routing basics.

Master dynamic trunking protocol (DTP) concepts and inter-VLAN routing fundamentals. Learn how trunk negotiation, dot1q encapsulation, switchport modes, and rotor-on-stick versus router-on-stick solutions enable inter-VLAN communication.

Explore native vlan and VTP, showing how untagged native traffic travels over trunks while data traffic is tagged, and how management vlan and domain settings ensure consistent network behavior.

Learn how vlan trunking protocol (VTP) synchronizes vlan databases across switches, configure vtp domain and password, and propagate vlan changes with trunking and server or transparent modes.

Explore how spanning tree protocol prevents loops by electing a root bridge, designating ports, and blocking others, using BPDU exchanges, with legacy STP and rapid spanning tree comparisons.

Learn how etherchannel aggregates two or more physical links into a single port-channel using pagp or lacp, with active and passive modes, and mac learning via arp broadcasts.

Understand routing fundamentals, including static and dynamic protocols, examples like RIP, OSPF, and BGP; learn how routing tables, prefixes, network masks, next hop, administrative distance, and cost enable inter-network communication.

Explore routing protocols, routing tables, and key decision factors like administrative distance, longest match, and cost; learn next-hop, subnet prefixes, and gateway of last resort for dynamic and static routing.

Master OSPF as a dynamic link-state protocol, covering SPF, neighbor formation, and database synchronization, with DR/BDR roles, area types, and cost-aware routing using wildcards.

Explore OSPF basics, including hello packets for neighbor formation, database exchange via topology and link state updates, and redistribution, cost considerations, area zero, area borders, and stub areas.

Discover how dynamic IP addressing works with DHCP, including DHCP Discover, Offer, Request, and Acknowledge, plus IP leases, subnet masks, gateways, and DNS name resolution.

Explore how DHCP automates IP address assignment, subnet mask, and gateway via discover, offer, request, acknowledge, with lease times and pools; then learn DNS domain name resolution.

Configure access control lists (ACLs) to restrict traffic, distinguishing standard and extended ACLs, using named or numbered formats, and define source and destination with deny or permit rules on interfaces.

Understand snmp basics: manager, mib, and agent roles, udp ports 161/162, polling vs traps, and log storage. Then learn wireless concepts like ap types, 2.4/5 ghz, channels, and wpa security.

Explore quality of service basics, including traffic classification, marking, and policing for voice priority, plus network time protocol concepts like UDP client-server synchronization and stratum.

Explore IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, DHCP options, and static versus dynamic IP configuration across Windows, Linux, and Mac, plus unicast, multicast, and link-local concepts.

Learn IPv6 fundamentals, OS parameters, and network automation, including DHP configuration on Windows and Mac, plus IPv6 addressing, unicast types, and auto configuration.

Explore layer2 security and enterprise security topics, including recognisance, axis attacks, social engineering, DoS and DDoS, spoofing, and man-in-the-middle, with mitigation via port security and network defenses.

In 2020, this lecture argues starting with CCNP over CCNA due to syllabus changes, topic overlap, no prerequisites for CCNA, and emphasis on hands-on labs, cost, and network automation topics.

Explore a massive lab topology with a 100-lab workbook to practice switching and routing, including VLANs, trunking, OSPF, BGP, IP redistribution, DHCP, VPN, and IPsec.

Explore the new CCNP Enterprise structure with encode and concentration tracks, core labs, and flexible exam options. Build hands-on networking skills in virtualization, automation, security, and enterprise architecture.

Learn how Cisco switches and routers connect end devices and uplinks in enterprise networks. Compare layer two switches with multilayer routers and the roles of data, control, and management planes.

Explore how Cisco switches and routers connect devices and networks, how the ASA firewall enforces implicit deny with ACLs, and how DMZ zones, VPNs, and load balancers secure enterprise networks.

Explore traditional three-tier and two-tier enterprise topologies, assess core, distribution, and access layers, and learn how SD-Access overlays and DNA Center automate policy, segmentation, and provisioning for resilient networks.

Explore how spanning-tree protocol prevents layer two loops by electing a root bridge and blocking redundant links via bpdu exchanges, with insights into legacy stp and rapid spanning tree.

Explore IPsec site-to-site VPN theory, including phase one and phase two, main mode, and AH/ESP. Understand tunnel vs transport, encryption, integrity, and authentication for secure inter-site connectivity.

Configure a site-to-site ipsec vpn using Cisco routers in a GNS3 lab, detailing IKE phase one and phase two, transform sets, crypto maps, access-lists, and routing for end-to-end connectivity.

Explore how snmp works, including manager and agent roles, mib and oid concepts, and versions 1, 2c, and 3, plus polling and traps for Cisco devices.

Explore SNMP discovery, polling, and troubleshooting with a manager and agents, configure SNMPv2c and SNMPv3, use Observe on Linux, and navigate MIBs for Cisco devices.

Explore IPv6 theory and lab concepts, from why IPv6 replaces IPv4, to global unicast and unique local addresses, link-local autoconfiguration, and the shift from broadcast to neighbor discovery.

Explore network automation with Python 3 and Ansible, learning to automate multi-vendor devices, VLAN configurations, and backups while reducing human errors and boosting efficiency.

Set up a CCNA lab by installing GNS3, IOS IOU images, and the VM workstation. Download editors, import appliances, map devices, and prepare for network automation with Python and Docker.

Explore using the telnetlib Python module to automate Cisco device access, write beginner scripts with ASCII bytes, and compare telnet and SSH transport in a lab setup.

Learn to admin unshut ports on Cisco devices using Python Netmiko and regex search, with looping for multi-device automation and IP validation.

Master Nornir 3.0 for parallel automation on Cisco devices, configuring host/group/default inventory, a main script, and Netmiko/Napalm integration for concurrent operations.

Explore python 3 theory and variable concepts, covering syntax, data types, casting, print with parentheses, comments, naming rules and case sensitivity, and python 2 to python 3 differences.

Delve into Python 3 basics of strings, numbers, and booleans, covering literals, indexing, concatenation, and simple boolean logic with print and variables.

Learn how the Python-based Nornir framework separates configuration into config, host, group, and default files, enabling hierarchical credential lookup and concurrent connections via a structured inventory.

Join a five-module network security training covering Palo Alto and other vendors, with scenario-based labs, dedicated trainers, and six months of centralized server access.

Explore palo alto wildfire, a cloud-based malware analysis service that uses signatures, static/machine learning, dynamic, and heuristic scanning to analyze files, update threat intelligence, and block or quarantine threats.

Explore Palo Alto Networks certifications and core next-generation firewall concepts, including high availability, lab setups, security features, and load balancer basics for practical certification readiness.

Configure a Palo Alto firewall starting with IP addresses and zones. Implement security policies to enable inside to outside traffic flow.