Singh / Anderson Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions 200-301 CCNA Exam Guide

Everything you need to pass the 200-301 CCNA v1.1 exam and advance your career as a network engineer
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-83588-749-3
Verlag: Packt Publishing
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 700 Seiten

Kickstart your networking career with confidence by acing the CCNA exam on your first try. The Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification opens doors to high-demand roles in networking and security. This fully updated second edition makes exam success achievable, even if you're just starting out. Aligned with the latest Cisco blueprint, this CCNA 200-301 exam guide combines real-world examples, step-by-step labs, and clear explanations to help you master all six exam domains.
You'll build a solid foundation in switching, routing, IP addressing, network services, wireless technologies, security, and automation. Along the way, you'll sharpen your skills with hands-on configuration tasks, visual diagrams, and simulation exercises using Cisco Packet Tracer.
Each chapter includes review questions that reflect actual exam difficulty, helping you stay on track and gauge your readiness. You'll also get access to online extras: over 170 practice questions, two full-length mock exams, interactive flashcards, exam tips from Cisco experts, and more than 30 practice labs.
From exam strategies to high-demand skills, this guide offers everything you need to get certified, hired, or grow in your network engineering and security administration roles.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singh, Glen D.

Anderson, Neil

Leseproben

Preface

focuses on a range of Cisco technologies that will help you gain a firm understanding of networking, IP connectivity, IP services, security, network programmability, and automation.

Throughout this book, you will be exposed to various networking components and discover how they all work together in an enterprise network. You will also learn how to configure Cisco devices using the command-line interface (CLI) to provide network access, services, security, connectivity, and management.

During the course of this book, you will come across different hands-on labs with real-world scenarios that are designed to help you gain essential on-the-job skills and experience. Furthermore, this book will teach you networking technologies and solutions to implement and administer enterprise networks and infrastructure using Cisco solutions.

By the end of this book, you will have gained the confidence to pass the examination and be well versed in a variety of network administration and security engineering solutions.

Who This Book Is For

This book is designed for beginners who are interested in starting a career in the field of networking and students who are pursuing the . In addition, this book is also for any IT professional who is interested in gaining a career boost and learning how to implement and administer Cisco solutions in small to medium-sized networks.

What This Book Covers

, , introduces the concepts of network models and the role and function of common networking devices.

, , demonstrates how to set up a small Cisco environment, perform basic device configurations, and set up remote access.

, , covers the fundamentals of common network architectures such as the 2-Tier, 3-Tier, and Spine-Leaf models. In addition, this chapter covers common cabling types and interface issues.

, , explores the fundamentals of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, types of addresses, and how to convert an IPv4 address between binary and decimal.

, , provides an in-depth and practical discussion on how to get started with designing an IPv4 address scheme for an organization and demonstrates how to perform subnetting.

, , covers the fundamentals of Cisco wireless architectures and common operating modes of access points. Additionally, this chapter explores the importance of using virtualization within an IT environment.

, , introduces the concepts of creating virtual local area networks and the importance of logically segmenting a physical network. This chapter also covers how to extend VLANs over a Layer 2 network and how to set up inter-VLAN routing.

, , explores the importance of using link aggregation between switches such as EtherChannels. This chapter also covers common Layer 2 protocols used by network professionals to discover connected networking devices.

, , covers the role and function of Spanning Tree within a network and demonstrates how to configure and troubleshoot Spanning Tree within a Cisco environment.

, , explains the fundamentals of routing and the various components of a routing table within a Cisco router.

, , explains how to configure static routing and dynamic routing within a Cisco environment. In addition, this chapter explains the importance and use cases of first-hop redundancy on a network.

, , explains the importance of NAT within an organization and provides the hands-on skills needed to administer and troubleshoot various NAT implementations.

, , explains and demonstrates how to set up common network services such as Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), and Syslog on a Cisco network.

, , explores the fundamentals and importance of network security concepts.

, , demonstrates how to secure Cisco IOS devices and establish site-to-site and remote access VPNs using Cisco devices.

, , covers the importance of using ACLs on a network to perform Layer 3 and Layer 4 traffic filtering between networks using Cisco IOS routers.

, , covers how to set up common Layer 2 security features on Cisco IOS switches to prevent common attacks such as man-in-the-middle, CAM table flooding, MAC address spoofing, and rogue DHCP on a network.

, , broaches the fact that the world of networking is moving toward automation, and network engineers will now need to learn how automation can improve efficiency in network deployment and management. This chapter introduces you to network automation techniques and programmability.

How to Get the Most Out of This Book

This book is crafted to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in the exam through memorable explanations of major domain topics. It covers the five critical core domains for implementing and administering Cisco solutions that candidates must be proficient in to pass the exam. For each domain, you’ll work through content that reflects real-world network administration challenges. At certain points in the book, you will assess your understanding by taking chapter-specific quizzes. This not only prepares you for the exam but also allows you to dive deeper into a topic as needed based on your results.

Online Practice Resources

With this book, you will unlock unlimited access to our online exam-prep platform (). This is your place to practice everything you learn in the book.

How to Access These Materials

To learn how to access the online resources, refer to , at the end of this book.

Figure 0.1: Online exam-prep platform on a desktop device

Sharpen your knowledge of CCNA concepts with multiple sets of mock exams, interactive flashcards, and exam tips accessible from all modern web browsers.

Download the practice lab files

You can download the practice lab files for this book from GitHub at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Implementing-and-Administering-Cisco-Solutions-200-301-CCNA-Exam-Guide-Second-Edition. If there's an update to the lab files, it will be updated in the GitHub repository.

We also have other code bundles from our rich catalog of books and videos available at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/. Check them out!

Conventions Used

There are several text conventions used throughout this book.

Code in text: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and X (formerly Twitter) handles. Here is an example: “Assign DHCP snooping for either a single VLAN or a range of VLANs by using the ip dhcp snooping vlan vlan-id command in global configuration mode.

A block of code is set as follows:

GigabitEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up (connected)   Description: Connected to Wide Area Network (WAN)   Internet address is 172.16.1.1/24

Bold: Indicates a new term or an important word. Here is an example: “Since DHCP clients are expected to send only DHCP Discover and DHCP Request messages into an untrusted port, if an...