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Routing and Switching Essentials Course Booklet
Your Cisco® Networking Academy® Course Booklet is designed as a study resource you can easily read, highlight, and review on the go, wherever the Internet is not available or practical:
• The text is extracted directly, word-for-word, from the online course so you can highlight important points and take notes in the “Your Chapter Notes” section.
• Headings with the exact page correlations provide a quick reference to the online course for your classroom discussions and exam preparation.
• An icon system directs you to the online curriculum to take full advantage of the images embedded within the Networking Academy online course interface and reminds you to perform the labs, Class Activities, interactive activities, Packet Tracer activities, chapter quizzes, and exams.
The Course Booklet is a basic, economical paper-based resource to help you succeed with the Cisco Networking Academy online course.
Related titles:
Routing and Switching Essentials Companion Guide
book: 978-1-58713-318-3
eBook: 978-0-13-347622-4
Routing and Switching Essentials Lab Manual
book: 978-1-58713-320-6
CCENT Practice and Study Guide
book: 978-1-58713-345-9
eBook: 978-0-13-351765-1
CCNA Routing and Switching Portable Command Guide
book: 978-1-58720-430-2
eBook: 978-0-13-338136-8
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Chapter 0 Course Introduction 1
0.0 Welcome to Routing and Switching Essentials 1
0.0.1 Message to the Student 1
0.0.1.1 Welcome 1
0.0.1.2 A Global Community 1
0.0.1.3 More Than Just Information 1
0.0.1.4 How We Teach 2
0.0.1.5 Practice Leads to Mastery 2
0.0.1.6 Mind Wide Open 2
0.0.1.7 Engineering Journals 2
0.0.1.8 Explore the World of Networking 2
0.0.1.9 Create Your Own Worlds 3
0.0.1.10 How Packet Tracer Helps Master Concepts 3
0.0.1.11 Course Overview 3
0.1.1.1 Course GUI Tutorial 4
Your Chapter Notes 5
Chapter 1 Introduction to Switched Networks 7
1.0 Introduction 7
1.0.1.1 Introduction 7
1.0.1.2 Class Activity Sent or Received Instructions 7
1.1 LAN Design 8
1.1.1 Converged Networks 8
1.1.1.1 Growing Complexity of Networks 8
1.1.1.2 Elements of a Converged Network 8
1.1.1.3 Borderless Switched Networks 9
1.1.1.4 Hierarchy in the Borderless Switched Network 9
1.1.1.5 Core Distribution Access 10
1.1.1.6 Activity - Identify Switched Network Terminology 11
1.1.2 Switched Networks 11
1.1.2.1 Role of Switched Networks 11
1.1.2.2 Form Factors 11
1.1.2.3 Activity - Identify Switch Hardware 12
1.2 The Switched Environment 12
1.2.1 Frame Forwarding 12
1.2.1.1 Switching as a General Concept in Networking and Telecommunications 12
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