CCNA: Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials is the second official course in Cisco’s three-part CCNA curriculum, focusing on local area network (LAN) switching, routing operations, wireless networks, and security concepts.
Core Course Topics
- Switching Technologies: VLANs, trunking, inter-VLAN routing, and Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) concepts for loop-free topologies.
- Routing Operations: Static routing and basic dynamic routing concepts.
- Redundancy & Availability: First-hop redundancy protocols and link aggregation.
- Wireless LANs (WLANs): Wireless principles, configuration, and security.
- LAN Security: Mitigating threats through port security, DHCP snooping, and other hardening techniques.
Hands-On Practice
- Students complete up to 45 practice activities and around 21 hours of hands-on labs using real Cisco gear or Cisco Packet Tracer.
- Prepares learners for associate-level roles like Network Administrator or Network Engineer, and builds toward the official 200-301 CCNA exam
