CNT 250 - Routing and Switching II

5 Credits
This is the second course in the CCNA curriculum series. It focuses on switching technologies and router operations that support small-to-medium business networks and includes wireless local area networks (WLAN) and security concepts. In addition to learning key switching and routing concepts, learners will be able to perform basic network configuration and troubleshooting, identify and mitigate LAN security threats, and configure and secure a basic WLAN. Software Defined Networking concepts will be explored in addition to establishing best practices for user access and restriction to resources in a cloud environment.

Prerequisite(s): Completion of CNT 240 and CSI 120 with a 2.0 or higher.

Course Outcomes

Configure devices using security best practices.
Explain how Layer 2 switches forward data.
Implement VLANs and trunking in a switched network.
Troubleshoot inter-VLAN routing on Layer 3 devices.
Explain how STP enables redundancy in a layer 2 network.
Implement DHCPv4 to operate across multiple LANs.
Configure dynamic address allocation in IPv6 networks.
Configure switch security to mitigate LAN attacks.
Explain how WLANs enable network connectivity.
Implement a WLAN using a wireless router and a WLC.
Explain how routers use information in packets to make forwarding decisions.
Configure and troubleshoot IPv4 and IPv6 static routes.
Recall and discuss the core issues of cloud and non-cloud computing, such as cost, security, and privacy.
Use cloud services and features to manage and assess resource utilization.
Implement connectivity services of a cloud architecture.
Automate manual or repeatable process to minimize management overhead.
Identify the necessary components of physical and cloud-based networks.
Interpret the design and management methods of a cloud-based infrastructure.
Debug parts of a cloud-based application.
Use an SDK to create and deploy application programming interfaces (APIs) to the cloud.
Use SSH, Bash, Putty or Python to manage cloud services.
Use best practices to establish user acces and restriction to resources in a cloud enviromnent.
Explain the core issues of cloud and non-cloud computing, such as cost, security, and privacy.