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This course focuses on providing the skills and knowledge necessary to install, operate, and troubleshoot a small branch office Enterprise network, including configuring a switch, a router, and connecting to a WAN and implementing network security.

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
Describe how networks function, identifying major components, function of network components and the Open System Interconnection (OSI) reference model.
Using the host-to-host packet delivery process, describe issues related to increasing traffic on an Ethernet LAN and identify switched LAN technology solutions to Ethernet networking issues.
Describes the reasons for extending the reach of a LAN and the methods that can be used with a focus on RF wireless access.
Describes the reasons for connecting networks with routers and how routed networks transmit data through networks using TCP / IP.
Describe the function of Wide Area Networks (WANs), the major devices of WANs, and configure PPP encapsulation, static and dynamic routing, PAT and RIP routing.
Use the command-line interface to discover neighbors on the network and managing the router?s startup and configuration .

Course Outline

Module 1 - Building a Simple Network
Module 2 - Ethernet Local Area Networks
Module 3 - Wireless Local Area Networks
Module 4 - Exploring the Functions of Routing
Module 5 - Wide Area Networks
Module 6 - Network Environment Management