
Explore the Cisco router fundamentals core components and boot process, including ports, console access, usb, fat16 formatting, and how iOS loads from nvram, flash, or ftp with startup config.
Download Packet Tracer from the Cisco Academy site for Windows, Linux, or Mac OS, and sign up. Log in, install, explore the interface, configuring devices via CLI and adjusting fonts.
Explore Packet Tracer’s interface and core components—routers, switches, PCs, servers, and IP phones—and build labs by dragging devices, using the CLI for configuration, and handling IOS transfers via FTP.
Explore Cisco router basics, from components and boot process to iOS loading, startup config, and CLI navigation, using Packet Tracer labs and console access.
Learn to access a Cisco router via the CLI, navigate user, privileged, and configuration modes, and connect from a PC using a console cable at 9600 baud.
Configure a router using the cli by setting an ip domain name for dns lookup, adding a banner of the day, encrypting console and vty passwords, and enabling logging synchronization.
Configure a router password by entering global configuration mode, setting a console password and login, and applying an enable secret to restrict access, preparing to encrypt passwords next.
Encrypt router passwords with service password encryption in global configuration mode, verify changes in show running config, and enable logging sync on line console zero to prevent line wrapping.
Configure an ip address on the router's gigabit ethernet interface, bring the interface up, connect a pc, and verify connectivity by pinging the router.
log into the router via cli to configure ip domain name, set a banner of the day, encrypt passwords, and enable ssh with rsa keys.
Learn essential Cisco switch basics, including accessing the CLI, switching to privileged and global configuration modes, and configuring hostname and a banner while using basic show commands.
Configure vlan ten and vlan 20, assign switch ports, set up a trunk to the router, and enable inter-vlan routing to verify connectivity with ping.
Cisco Routing, Switching for beginners is a short course and is for those who would like to learn the base fundamentals of a Cisco Router to get you up and running in the real-world. This course will teach you basics to get going on the job or in the workplace from day one. Just knowing these basics will demonstrate to your employer, collogues, workmates that you have solid foundation around the basics of a cisco router and networking.
Know the basics is your spring board in the world of networking, you can use this course to learn more and explore what cisco can do for you. You use this course to help you work towards gaining your Cisco CCENT, CCNA certification. In addition packet tracer is free tool by Cisco you help learn and grow in Cisco networking.
Again this short course is designed to get you up and running in 1 hour with how do some of just some the basic configurations on any Cisco router and Cisco Switch in the real-world work place.
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