Duration: 4 Days
In this course, you will be given the foundational knowledge and a broad overview of networking and the Cisco Nexus Operating System. This course provides skills that are needed to configure the Cisco Nexus Switches and verify their operation.
What You Will Learn
- How a network works
- Configure, verify, and troubleshoot a switch with VLANs and interswitch communications
- Implement an IP addressing scheme and IP services to meet network requirements
- Configure, verify, and troubleshoot routing operations on Cisco Nexus switches
Audience
- Network administrators, engineers, designers, and managers
- Cisco integrators/partners
- Systems engineers
- Consulting systems engineers
- Technical solutions architects
Prerequistes
Course Outline
1. Building a Simple Network
- Functions of Networking
- Host-to-Host Communications Model
- Ethernet Connections
- Ethernet Communications Standards
- OSI Network Layer Addressing
- TCP/IP Transport Layer
- Packet Delivery Process
2. Switched Network Implementation
- Switching
- Packet Delivery Process
- Cisco NX-OS Software
- Operating Cisco NX-OS Software
- Implementing VLANs and Trunks
- Building a Redundant Switched Topology
3. IP Addressing
- IP Addressing Scheme
- Transitioning to IPv6
4. Routing on the Cisco Nexus Switch
- Packet Delivery Process
- Routing Process on Cisco Nexus Switches
- Routing Protocols on Cisco Nexus Switches
- Access Control Lists on Cisco Nexus Switches
Course Labs
Lab 1: Use Windows Applications as Network Tools
Lab 2: Observe the TCP Three-Way Handshake
Lab 3: Observe Extended PC Network Information
Lab 4: Connect to Cisco Nexus Switches
Lab 5: Configure the Cisco Nexus Switches
Lab 6: Configure VLANs and Trunks
Lab 7: Verify and Configure Spanning Tree
Lab 8: Configure EtherChannel
Lab 9: Convert Decimal to Binary and Binary to Decimal
Lab 10: Classify Network Addressing
Lab 11: Compute Usable Subnetworks and Hosts
Lab 12: Calculate Subnet Masks
Lab 13: Configure Multilayer Switching
