CCNA Routing and Switching Study Guide

Book Preface

Cisco certifications are powerful instruments of success that also markedly improve your grasp of all things internetworking. As you progress through this book, you’ll gain a complete understanding of networking that reaches far beyond Cisco devices. By the end of this book, you’ll comprehensively know how disparate network topologies and technologies work together to form the fully operational networks that are vital to today’s very way of life in the developed world. The knowledge and expertise you’ll gain here is essential for and relevant to every networking job and is why Cisco certifications are in such high demand— even at companies with few Cisco devices!

Although it’s now common knowledge that Cisco rules routing and switching, the fact that it also rocks the voice, data center, and service provider worlds is also well recognized. And Cisco certifications reach way beyond the popular but less extensive certifications like those offered by CompTIA and Microsoft to equip you with indispensable insight into today’s vastly complex networking realm. Essentially, by deciding to become Cisco certified, you’re proudly announcing that you want to become an unrivaled networking expert—a goal that this book will get you well on your way to achieving. Congratulations in advance on the beginning of your brilliant future!

Contents:

Part I ICND1

• Chapter 1 Internetworking
• Chapter 2 Ethernet Networking and Data Encapsulation
• Chapter 3 Introduction to TCP/IP
• Chapter 4 Easy Subnetting
• Chapter 5 VLSMs, Summarization, and Troubleshooting TCP/IP
• Chapter 6 Cisco’s Internetworking Operating System (IOS)
• Chapter 7 Managing a Cisco Internetwork
• Chapter 8 IP Routing
• Chapter 9 Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
• Chapter 10 Layer 2 Switching
• Chapter 11 VLANs and InterVLAN Routing
• Chapter 12 Security
• Chapter 13 Network Address Translation (NAT)
• Chapter 14 Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6)

Part II ICND2

• Chapter 15 Enhanced Switched Technologies
• Chapter 16 Managing Cisco Devices
• Chapter 17 IP Services
• Chapter 18 Troubleshooting IP, IPv6, and VLANs
• Chapter 19 Enhanced IGRP
• Chapter 20 Multi-Area OSPF
• Chapter 21 Wide Area Networks