CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) Certification

CCNA is the first step into your journey. This is the most popular certification among all Cisco certification. CCNA gives you the ability to install, configure, operate, and troubleshoot medium size networks (route and switched), including implementation and verification of secure connections to remote sites in a WAN. New curriculum includes the use of these protocols: IP, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Serial Line Interface Protocol Frame Relay, Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2), Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs),and access control lists (ACLs).

Cisco Certification Path

Network Support

Network Design

CCNA Exam Topics

Before you site the exam you must have excellent knowledge of the following exam topics.

Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS) Fundermentals

* The IOS CLI
* Router Components
* Managing Configuration Files
* Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
* Upgrading Flash Memory
* IOS initialization

OSI Reference Model & Layered Communication
* OSI layers, benefits of layering, interaction of OSI layers
* TCP/IP and NetWare comparisons with OSI
* Connectionless and connection oriented protocols
* Data Link Layer functions
* Network layer functions : addressing and routing

Bridges/Switches and LAN design
* LAN addressing and framing
* Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet
* LAN standards
* Transparent bridging
* LAN switching
* Spanning-Tree Protocols
* LAN switch configuration
* VLAN trunking protocols

Networks Protocols
* TCP/IP and TCP/IP configuration
* IP addressing and subnetting
* IPX addressing and routing
* IPX configuration

Routing
* Distance vector routing protocols
* Configuration of IP RIP and IP IGRP
* Auto summarization and route aggregation
* IPX RIP, SAP, and GNS concepts
* Tunneling
* Integrated routing protocols

Access List security
* Filtering IP traffic
* Filtering IPX traffic

WAN protocols and design
* Frame Relay concepts and configuration
* Point-to-point concepts and configuration
* ISDN concepts
* Dial-on-Demand Routing

Ref: Cisco CCNA Certification Guide