This course will students with the knowledge and skills needed to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot a small enterprise network. It will ensure that students understand and are ready to deploy the latest shifts in technologies and solutions as follows:

• Understanding of Quality of Service (QoS) elements and their applicability
• How virtualized and cloud services will interact and impact enterprise networks
• An overview of network programmability and the related controller types and tools that are available to support software defined network architectures A full suite of labs have been developed using the virtual IOS environment with flexible topologies that reinforce concepts with hands-on, guided discovery and challenge labs that align to each lesson module.

Upon completing this course, you will be able to meet these objectives:

Operate a medium-sized LAN with multiple switches supporting VLANs, trunking, switch stacking, chassis aggregation and spanning tree protocols

• Troubleshoot IP connectivity
• Configure and troubleshoot EIGRP and OSPF in IPv4 and IPv6 environments
• Define characteristics, functions and components of a WAN
• Describe SNMP, Syslog, and manage Cisco device configurations, IOS images and licenses
• Understand QoS, virtualization and cloud services, and network programmability related to WAN, access and core segments.

• Module 1: Implement Scalable Medium-Sized Networks
• Module 2: Troubleshooting Basic Connectivity
• Module 3: Implementing an EIGRP-Based Solution
• Module 4: Summary Challenge
• Module 5: Implement a Scalable OSPF-Based Solution
• Module 6: Wide-Area Networks
• Module 7: Network Device Management and Security
• Module 8: Summary Challenge

• Channel Partners
• Customers
• Employees

Before taking the ICND2 course, learners should be familiar with:

• Understanding network fundamentals
• Implementing local area networks
• Implementing Internet connectivity
• Managing network devices
• Securing network devices
• Implementing basic IPv6 connectivity