CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide - FTP Server

CCDPs must also demonstrate proficiency in the following:
� Network-layer addressing in a hierarchical environment
� Traffic management with access lists
� Hierarchical network design
� VLAN use and propagation
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� Performance considerations: required hardware and software; switching
engines; memory, cost, and minimization
What Does This Book Cover?
This book covers everything you need to know in order to become CCNA
certified. However, taking the time to study and practice with routers or a
router simulator is the real key to success.
The information you will learn in this book, and need to know for the
CCNA exam, is listed in the following bullet points:
� Chapter 1 introduces you to internetworking. You will learn the
basics of the Open Systems Interconnection the way Cisco wants you
to learn it. Also, the Cisco three-layer hierarchical model will be discussed,
along with how to choose Cisco equipment based on this
model. Ethernet networking and standards are discussed in detail in
this chapter as well.
� Chapter 2 gives you a background on layer-2 switching and how
switches perform address learning and make forwarding and filtering
decisions. Network loops and how to avoid them with the Spanning-
Tree Protocol (STP) will be discussed, as well as the different LAN
switch types used by Cisco switches.
� Chapter 3 provides you with the background necessary for success
on the exam as well as in the real world by discussing TCP/IP. This
in-depth chapter covers the very beginnings of the Internet Protocol
stack and then goes all the way to IP addressing and subnetting. If you
read this chapter carefully, you will be able to subnet a network in
your head!
� Chapter 4 introduces you to the Cisco Internetwork Operating System
(IOS). In this chapter you will learn how to turn on a router and