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Understand networking fundamentals concepts, including network components, network topology architectures, physical interfaces and cabling types, TCP and UDP, wireless principals, switching concepts, and virtualization fundamentals
Master IPv4 addressing and subnetting and configure IPv6
Configure and verify VLANs, interswitch connectivity, and Layer 2 discovery protocols
Describe Rapid PVST+ Spanning Tree Protocol
Compare Cisco Wireless Architectures and AP Modes
Enable security technologies including device access control, site-to-site and remote access VPNs, ACLs, Layer 2 security features, and wireless security protocols
Configure and verify IPv4 and IPv6 static routing and single area OSPF
Understand DHCP, DNS, and other networking services like SNMP, syslog, SSH, and TFTP/FTP
Configure and verify inside source NAT and NTP
Understand how automation affects network management, controller-based and software-defined architectures, and Cisco DNA Center-enabled device management
Understand network programmability concepts, including characteristics of REST-based APIs (CRUD, HTTP verbs, and data encoding); configuration management mechanisms such as Puppet, Chef, and Ansible; and learn to Interpret JSON encoded data