Network Administration

Cisco CCNA

Prepare for the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification with this comprehensive networking course. Study routing, switching, IP addressing, and network security concepts. The course offers hands-on labs and exam-focused preparation. Training is delivered by certified professionals with extensive practical experience.

Intermediate Online 12 weeks 48 hours Next group: May 24, 2026

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Assignments and projects are checked by the instructor, and your knowledge and skills are determined

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1 What is networking
2 General and physical network components
3 Network types/ models and topologies
4 Network characteristics
5 Explanation of network stacks (OSI and TCP/IP)
6 Explanation of network protocols

1 Explain purpose of Application layer (layer 5) and well-known application layer protocols
2 Explain purpose of Transport layer (layer 4)
3 TCP and UDP functions and differences
4 Role of port numbers at Layer 4
5 “netstat” and “telnet” utilities

1 Explain purpose of Network layer (layer 3)
2 IP packet and IP classes
3 IPv6 address format
4 Private and public IP addresses
5 Broadcast packets and broadcast domain
6 Explanation of network mask

1 ARP protocol overview
2 IPv6 neighbor discovery
3 ICMP messages
4 Ping and Traceroute connectivity test commands

1 Explain purpose of the data link (layer 2) layer
2 Data link frame explanation
3 Ethernet MAC address
4 Switch forwarding methods

1 Explain purpose of the physical layer (layer 1)
2 Standards and components
3 Copper and fiber optic cabling
4 Binary and hexadecimal number system

1 Network ID, broadcast IP and valid range
2 Purpose of subnetting
3 Finding number of hosts in subnetwork
4 Finding number of new subnets after subnetting
5 Finding valid range of the subnetwork

1 Finding network ID, broadcast ID, first and last valid IP of each new subnetwork
2 Variable length subnet mask (VLSM)
3 IPv4 address planning

1 IPv6 address types
2 IPv6 address representation
3 Global Unicast and Link Local addresses
4 Dynamic addressing for IPv6

1 Security threats and vulnerabilities
2 CIA – confidentiality, integrity and availability
3 Network attack types
4 Device security and network attack mitigations

1 Port-security implementation on Cisco switches
2 VLAN attack and mitigation
3 DHCP attack review
4 DHCP Snooping configuration
5 ARP inspection on Cisco switches
6 PortFast and BPDUGuard configuration

1 Network attack types
2 Network attack tools
3 IP vulnerabilities and attacks
4 Network security best practices

1 Router and router-components
2 Cisco Operating Systems
3 How to connect to Cisco CLI
4 CLI modes
5 Basic and fundamental commands
6 Telnet and SSH configuration

1 Switch and switch-components
2 MAC address table
3 Address Learning process
4 Flooding and flooding process
5 Forwarding process
6 Collision and broadcast domains

1 Purpose and benefits of the VLANs
2 Normal and extended range VLANs
3 VLAN configuration
4 Access and trunk link configuration
5 Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
6 Native, data and voice VLAN

1 Inter-VLAN routing operation
2 Router-on-a-Stick Inter-vlan routing
3 Router subinterfaces
4 Inter-vlan routing with L3 switch (multilayer switch)
5 Switch Virtual Interface (SVI)

1 Purpose of Spanning Tree Protocol
2 BPDU messages between STP running switches
3 Spanning tree algorithm explanation
4 STP port roles and states
5 Rapid STP protocol concepts
6 Portfast and bpduguard feature

1 Etherchannel operation
2 Configure etherchannel
3 Verify and troubleshoot etherchannel
4 Link aggregation (etherchannel) and STP
5 L2 and L3 etherchannel
6 Etherchannel protocols (LACP and PAgP)

1 DHCPv4 concepts
2 DHCPv4 configuration
3 DHCPv6 operation steps
4 Stateless and stateful DHCPv6 operation
5 DHCPv6 configuration

1 FHRP protocol types
2 HSRP protocol overview
3 HSRP configuration and troubleshooting

1 Wireless topology modes
2 RF overview and Wireless bands/ channels
3 Wireless standards
4 Wireless Access Points and Controllers
5 Different Wireless Deployments
6 WLAN security and threats
7 WLAN configuration in Cisco Wireless Controller

1 General routing process
2 Host - end device routing process
3 IP Routing table
4 Static and dynamic routing
5 Router’s forwarding decision (longest match, administrative distance, metric)

1 Static routing (default, floating) configuration
2 IPv6 routing in Cisco routers
3 Troubleshooting IPv4 static and default routes

1 OSPF concepts and overview
2 OSPF neighborship and neighbor states
3 OSPF DR/BDR election
4 OSPF route calculation and OSPF metric (cost)

1 Point-to-point and multiaccess OSPF networks
2 Single Area OSPF configuration
3 OSPF Router-ID
4 OSPF default route propagation

1 Purpose of ACL
2 How ACL is applied for traffic filtering
3 ACL types (standard, extended, named and numbered)
4 Standard and extended ACL configuration
5 Editing existing ACLs
6 How ACL is applied for VTY line security

1 NAT concept and terms
2 Static NAT (one-to-one)
3 Dynamic NAT (many-to-many)
4 PAT (many-to-one)
5 NAT64

1 WAN Topologies
2 WAN connectivity types (MPLS, VPN)
3 Site-to-site and remote-access VPNs
4 IPSec VPN concepts
5 Confidentiality, integrity, authentication

1 Explanation of bandwidth, delay, jitter, loss
2 Traffic classification and marking
3 Queueing
4 Congestion and congestion avoidance tools
5 Shaping and policing

1 CDP and LLDP protocols
2 NTP protocol
3 SNMP protocol
4 Syslog protocol
5 IOS image management
6 Router boot process
7 Configuration-register value in Cisco IOS
8 Password recovery procedure

1 Cloud computing services and models
2 Server virtualization and networking in virtual environment
3 Hypervisors types
4 Cloud computing and networking in cloud environment
5 Controllers and Software Defined Networks (SDN) architecture

1 Automation impact in networking
2 REST API
3 Data formats (JSON, YAML, XML)
4 Automation tools (ansible, puppet, chef)

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May 24, 2026

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Days: Mon- Thu
Hours: 19:00 - 21:00

Instructors

Suleyman Babayev

Head of Network Infrastructure

AZAL - Azerbaijan Airlines

Rizvan Bayramov

Cyber Security Architect

Cyberpoint