CCDA
Total Time: 32 hours

This series of courses is designed to help you prepare for the Cisco Certified Design Associate certification exam. Each of the 60 objectives on the CCDA exam will be covered, and the questions will be indicative of the types of questions on the exam.

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CCDA: Internetworking Review Time: 3 hours CCDA01
CCDA: Internetworking Review provides an overview of internetworking, with respect to the network design.
  • Types of Networks
  • The OSI Reference Model
  • Routed Protocols
  • Routing Protocols

CCDA: LAN Networking Time: 4 hours CCDA02
CCDA: LAN Networking describes the types of LAN networks and how they operate.
  • Basic Concepts
  • Ethernets
  • Token Rings and FDDIs
  • Bridges
  • Switches
  • Routers

CCDA: WAN Networking Time: 3 hours CCDA03
CCDA: WAN Networking describes types of WANs and their operation.
  • Basic Concepts
  • WAN Protocols
  • WAN Issues
  • ATM Switching

CCDA: Introduction to Design Time: 3 hours CCDA04
CCDA: Introduction to Design provides the initial steps to take when designing a network.
  • Customer Considerations
  • Network Topologies
  • Addressing
  • Network Traffic

CCDA: Examining Existing Networks Time: 3 hours CCDA05
CCDA: Examining Existing Networks provides the procedures to assessing the customer's existing network design.
  • The Steps of Evaluation
  • Assessing Software and Hardware
  • Assessing Traffic and Bottlenecks
  • Assessing Performance and Related Issues
  • Assessing Network Health

CCDA: Designing LANs Time: 4 hours CCDA06
CCDA: Designing LANs provides the procedures to designing a LAN network.
  • 10 Mbps Ethernets
  • 100- and 1000-Mbps Ethernets
  • Additional Hardware Rules
  • Choosing Hardware
  • Examples of LAN Designs

CCDA: Designing WANs Time: 3 hours CCDA07
CCDA: Designing WANs provides the procedures for designing a WAN network.
  • Introduction to WAN Design
  • WAN Technologies
  • WAN Hardware
  • Provisioning the WAN

CCDA: Specific Design Issues Time: 4 hours CCDA08
CCDA: Specific Design Issues provides methods to assess and optimize specific and cross-platform design issues.
  • Defining Protocols
  • Factors Affecting Transmission
  • Compression and Encryption
  • Network Security
  • Specific Designs

CCDA: Optimizing by Design Time: 2 hours CCDA09
CCDA: Optimizing by Design provides the information to optimize your network design.
  • Quality of Service
  • Implementing QoS
  • Cisco-Specific Optimizing

CCDA: Testing and Managing Time: 3 hours CCDA10
CCDA: Testing and Managing provides ways to test your design and manage it when it is operational.
  • The Design Document
  • Building the Test Model
  • Testing the Model
  • Network Management