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Training Course Summary:

The Designing Cisco Networks (DCN) course focuses on the skills needed to design world-class networks for small- to medium-sized networks (fewer than 500 nodes). The DCN course takes students through all the steps necessary to design an internetwork that meets a customer's needs for functionality, performance, scalability, and security. Students will begin by learning how to analyze a customer's existing internetwork and determining present and future customer needs. Based on this analysis, each student will design network solutions that include the network topology, LAN and WAN hardware and media, network-layer addressing, routing protocols, software feature provisioning, and a network management strategy. When the design is complete, students will learn how to create and present an internetwork design document to the customer, and then prove to the customer that the design works based on a prototype or pilot. The Designing Cisco Networks course is intended to prepare an individual to become a Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA).

Pre-Requisites:

Before beginning this course, students should be familiar with all of the internetworking technologies described on the Cisco Connection Training CD. Specifically, they should be able to complete the following tasks before beginning this course:
• Define networking technology terms, such as LAN, WAN, bridging, switching, protocols, and network management.
• Explain the operation and implementation of source-route bridging, transparent bridging, and mixed-media bridging.
• Describe the purpose and operation of routed protocols including Internet protocols, Novell IPX and SAP, AppleTalk, IBM SNA, DECnet, Open
• Systems Interconnection, Banyan VINES, and Xerox Network Systems.
• Describe the purpose and operation of routing protocols including RIP, OSPF, IGRP, Enhanced IGRP, BGP, IP multicast, RSVP, NLSP, IBM routing, DECnet routing, and OSI routing.
• List the technologies required by each networking devices and by each link, and across the network, given a simple network diagram or technical scenario.
• Given a technical scenario, a simple network diagram, and a list of networking technologies, identify how the listed networking technologies provide the services required by the network.

Who Should Attend:

The DCN 2.1 course is intended for systems engineers and network designers who have a working knowledge of internetworking and Cisco products. After completing this course, students can complete the Sylvan test to become a Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA).

Training Course Overview/Content:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
• Determine the customers' requirements for network performance, security, capacity, and scalability by characterizing the existing network and extracting new customer requirements.
• Design a network structure that meets the customers' requirements for network performance, security, capacity, and scalability.
• Identify how to build a prototype that proves the network design meets the customers' requirements for performance, security, capacity, and scalability.
• Assemble Cisco product lines into an end-to-end networking solution.