Cisco Certification Program
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The Center for Continuing Professional Development offers courses that prepare students to obtain
these Cisco certified credentials:
Rutgers University is a Cisco Networking Academy.
Find out about the Cisco Networking Academy program.
Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA&trade)
- This is an official Cisco Networking
Academy course, taught by Cisco certified instructors and using the
Cisco official curriculum. This is a 280-hour program leading to the
CCNA&trade credential, made up of four 70-hour semesters delivered over a
7-month period. Each 70-hour module consists of 42 hours of lecture
sessions and 28 hours of laboratory sessions.
Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA&trade)
Rutgers University Center
for Continuing Professional Development
is an authorized Cisco Networking Academy, using the official Cisco curriculum
for its CCNA&trade program. Upon completing the coursework (168 hours
lecture and 112 hours lab) and study material, students will not only
be adequately prepared to pass the official CCNA&trade exam, but will also have
the knowledge and skills to successfully enter the job market as entry
level network engineers. Students will be provided with access
to the online curriculum and discount vouchers from Cisco* for
the CCNA&trade exam administered by Prometric.
*Discount voucher is given from Cisco upon taking
and passing (70%) the Semester 4 CCNA&trade Practice Exam.
The course listed below makes up the full 280-hour Cisco Networking Academy
CCNA&trade program.
- CIS-300
CCNA&trade Program: Semesters 1 - 4.
- (280 hours) Topics covered include:
NICs, Binary notation, Hexdecimal notation, Layers, Encapsulation, OSI
Model, TCP/IP Model, Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers, Ethernet, Fast
Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, Network Topology, Management, Design and
Trouble Shooting, Structured Cabling Installation and Design, Subnetting,
IP, IPX, ICMP, RARP, ARP, DHCP, DNS, Telnet, FTP, HTTP, Router Configuration,
Cisco IOS, CLI, CDP, RIP, IGRP, LAN Segmentation, Switching modes, Spanning-Tree,
VLANS, Access Control Lists, WAN Design, HDLC, PPP, ISDN, B and D-Channels,
DDR, Frame Relay, subinterfaces, SNMP, IEEE, IETF, EIA/TIA, ISO and
ANSI Standards.
- Experience gained
with the following equipment: Cisco 1600, 2500, and 2600 Series Routers,
Cisco 1900, 2900, and 3500 Series Switches, Wan Interface Cards, SMC
10/100 unmanaged hubs, HP managed hubs, continuity testers, Fluke Cable
Meters, LAN Meters, punch down tools, strippers, crimpers.
- Software involved
with the program: Cisco Network Designer, Fluke Protocol Inspector,
Fluke Network Inspector, Cisco Config Maker, HyperTerminal, Cisco IOS
versions 12.0 and 12.1, Windows Network Configurations, telnet, tracert,
ping, ipconfig, winipcfg, arp, netstat, ftp, ftp daemons, tftp daemons,
telnet daemons, http daemons, subnet calculators, netscape, flash player
- Click here for an Official Curriculum
Outline [PDF].
- Click here to Demo the Curriculum
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