CCNA Courses 1 through 4 of the Academy program, equivalent to 280 hours of instruction, provide students with a basic foundation in networking. Students who successfully complete this portion of the program are eligible to earn Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification and will be awarded a Marketable Skills Achievement Award from Northwest Vista College.
Students will learn to operate the router and switch IOS, configure DHCP, NAT, frame relay, and a host of other protocols in a simulated local area and wide area networked environment. Students will learn how to manage these local and wide area networks, using the latest WAN technologies.
* Note: Cisco courses are normally taken concurrently each semester, but in Flex sessions. For example: ITCC 1302 CCNA 1 Flex I, ITCC 1306 CCNA 2 Flex II for Semester I; ITCC 1342 CCNA 3 Flex I, ITCC 1346 CCNA 4 Flex II for Semester II.
CCNP Courses 1 through 4 of the Academy program, equivalent to 300 hours of instruction, provide students with advanced knowledge in Wide Area Networking technologies and routing protocols. Students who successfully complete this portion of the program are eligible to earn Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification and will be awarded a Marketable Skills Achievement Award from Northwest Vista College.
Students will learn to work with interior and exterior routing protocols, remote access, layer 3 switching, and advanced wide-area networking troubleshooting techniques.
In addition, students can obtain the first two levels of a Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP) certification through our combined Router Security/PIX Firewall class (note: Prerequisite is ITCC 1346).
For more questions about the Cisco Networking Academy , please contact:
Fabius Bascon
348-2388
fbascon@mail.accd.edu
or
Bobby Yeater
348-2475
ryeater1@mail.accd.edu
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