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PREPARE FOR CCNA CERTIFICATION

El Centro College, a member of the Dallas County Community College District located in downtown Dallas, is an approved Cisco Networking Academy. Training courses for CCNA (Cisco Certified Networking Associate) have been offered since 1999. Each CCNA course is comprised of fifty percent instructor-facilitated online learning and fifty percent hands-on laboratory work.

Cisco Networking Academy Curriculum for CCNA 1 through 4

ITCC 1401 CCNA 1 Objectives
Upon completion of CCNA 1, students should be able to perform tasks related to the following:
    • Living in a Network-Centric World
    • Communications over the Networks
    • OSI Application Layer Functionality
    • OSI Transport Layer
    • OSI Network Layer
    • Addressing the Network -- IPv4
    • Data Link Layer
    • OSI Physical Layer
    • Ethernet
    • Planning and Cabling Networks
    • Configuring and Testing Your Network

ITCC 1404 CCNA 2 Objectives
Upon completion of CCNA 2, students should be able to perform tasks related to the following:
    • Introduction to Routing and Packet Forwarding
    • Static Routing
    • Introduction to Dynamic Routing Protocols
    • Distance Vector Routing Protocols
    • RIP version 1
    • VLSM and CIDR
    • RIPv2
    • The Routing Table: A Closer Look
    • EIGRP
    • Link-State Routing Protocols
    • OSPF

ITCC 2408 CCNA 3 Objectives
Upon completion of CCNA 3, students should be able to perform tasks related to the following:
    • LAN Design
    • Basic Switch Concepts and Configuration
    • VLANs
    • VTP
    • STP
    • Inter-VLAN Routing
    • Basic Wireless Concepts and Configuration

ITCC 2410 CCNA 4 Objectives
Upon completion of CCNA 4, students should be able to perform tasks related to the following:
    • Introduction to WANs
    • PPP
    • Frame Relay
    • Network Security
    • ACLs
    • Teleworker Services
    • IP Addressing Services
    • Network Troubleshooting