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INET 2101 - Enterprise Networking, Security and Automation (CCNA-3)

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 2 Lab 2
Internship hours per week 0
Course Description: This course is the third of three courses designed to prepare students for Cisco CCNA certification. This course describes the architecture, components, and operations of routers and switches in larger and more complex networks.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): INET 1201  with a grade of C or higher
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content
  1. Single Area OSPF (Open Shortest Path First)
  2. Network Security Concepts
  3. Access Control List (ACL) Concepts
  4. ACLs for IPv4
  5. NAT (Network Address Translation) for IPv6
  6. WAN (Wide Area Network) concepts
  7. QoS (Quality of Service) concepts
  8. Network Management
  9. Network Design
  10. Network Troubleshooting
  11. Network Virtualization
  12. Network Automation

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

  1. implement single-area OSPFv2 in both point-to-point and broadcast multiaccess networks.
  2. explain how vulnerabilities, threats, and exploits can be mitigated to enhance network security.
  3. configure IPv4 Access Control Lists to filter traffic given network security requirements.
  4. configure NAT using the CLI.
  5. select an appropriate WAN access technology given business communication requirements.
  6. describe how networking devices implement QoS.
  7. explain scalable and hierarchical network architectures.
  8. explain the purpose and characteristics of network virtualization.
  9. explain how network automation is enabled through RESTful APIs and configuration management tools.

Minnesota Transfer Curriculum (MnTC): Goals and Competencies
Competency Goals (MnTC Goals 1-6)
None
Theme Goals (MnTC Goals 7-10)
None


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