Read this book and you'll be fully prepared for Cisco's 200-301 Exam - Cisco Certified Network Associate -Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions. This book contains hundreds of diagrams and configuration examples and makes sense out of even the most complicated topics. The author - Hazim Gaber - has years of experience designing, installing, and troubleshooting computer networks for organizations large and small.
Topic Include -The role of network components including routers, switches, firewalls, access points, WLCs (wireless controllers) -PoE -Physical cabling infrastructure -Switching logic - MAC address tables, flooding -TCP, UDP, and ICMP -IPv4 addressing and subnetting -IPv6 addressing and subnetting -Public & private IP addresses -Wi-Fi channels, RF, SSIDs, frequencies, and wavelengths -Network topologies, including 2-tier, 3-tier, spine-leaf, and SOHO -WAN, MPLS, Ethernet WAN -Virtualization -Switch configuration -Router configuration -VLANs -SSH, Telnet, Console access configuration -CDP & LLDP configuration -Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and RSTP -EtherChannel -Wireless Architecture -TACAS+ and RADIUS -Routing protocols -Static & dynamic routes -OSPFv2 -First Hop Redundancy Protocol -Network Address Translation (NAT) -Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR) -Network Time Protocol (NTP) -DHCP -DNS -SNMP -syslog -QoS (Quality of Service) -Traffic shaping & policing -FTP & TFTP -Security threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits, & mitigation strategies -Security program -Access Control Lists (ACLs) -Multi-Factor authentication & biometrics -Site-to-Site VPNs & Remote Access -DHCP Snooping -ARP Inspection -Port Security -Authentication, Authorization, & Accounting (AAA) -WPA, WPA2, WPA3, WEP, TKIP, EAP-TLS, LEAP, PEAP Wi-Fi Security Protocols -Automation -Software Defined Networks (SDNs) and Software Defined Architecture (SDAs) -Cisco DNA (Digital Network Architecture) -REST Based APIs -Puppet, Chef, Ansible -JSON
