CCNA — Cisco Certified Network Associate
Routing, switching, security fundamentals and automation, practised in a browser-based lab you keep access to for a year.
- 45 contact hours
- 8 weeks
- 5 modules
- 25 seats maximum
About this programme
The CCNA has widened well past routing and switching, and this course follows it: IP connectivity and services, security fundamentals, wireless, and the network automation and programmability topics that now carry real weight in the exam. Every topic is paired with a lab you configure yourself in a browser-based environment, and your lab access stays live for twelve months after the cohort ends so you can keep practising for the exam on your own schedule.
Who should attend
- Network engineers, NOC analysts, system administrators and graduates moving into infrastructure roles.
Prerequisites
- No formal prerequisite. A working understanding of IP addressing helps, and we send a short primer before the first session if you need it.
Curriculum
5 modules, 45 hours of live instruction.
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Module 1 Network fundamentals 10 hrs
The foundation the rest of the exam assumes you already have.
- OSI and TCP/IP models
- Cabling, interfaces and troubleshooting
- IPv4 addressing and subnetting
- IPv6 addressing
- Virtualisation fundamentals
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Module 2 Network access 9 hrs
Switching, VLANs and wireless, configured in your own lab.
- VLANs and trunking
- EtherChannel
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Wireless architectures and WLAN configuration
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Module 3 IP connectivity and services 11 hrs
Routing decisions, static and dynamic, plus the services that sit on top.
- Routing table interpretation
- Static routing and OSPFv2
- First hop redundancy
- NAT, NTP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, QoS
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Module 4 Security fundamentals 8 hrs
The security topics the current blueprint actually tests.
- Threats, vulnerabilities and mitigation
- Access control lists
- Layer 2 security features
- Wireless security protocols
- VPN concepts
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Module 5 Automation and programmability 7 hrs
The newest weight in the exam, and the one most self-study candidates skip.
- Controller-based networking
- Software-defined architecture
- REST APIs and JSON
- Configuration management concepts
The exam
Roughly 100 questions, 120 minutes, including configuration and troubleshooting simulations.
Your trainers
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Arjun Pillai
CCNP Enterprise, CCNA, JNCIA
Network Architect
14 years in the field
Ask about CCNA
A counsellor calls you back, usually the same working day.