CET 2615 - Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation

College of Computer & Information Technology

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2020 (580)

Requisites

Prerequisite CET 1610 with a minimum grade of C or
CCNA certification

Course Description

This is the last of three courses designed to provide students with classroom and laboratory experience to achieve professional certification as a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA). The focus of this course is on the operations of routers and switches in larger, more complex networks. Instruction includes dynamic routing protocols, access list (ACL) design and implementation, network address translation (NAT), virtual private networks (VPNs), network operations monitoring, and network automation.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will interpret advanced operations of routers and implement routing protocols by:
    1. explaining the purpose of single-area open shortest path first (OSPF) and how it establishes neighbor adjacencies in a routed network.
    2. configuring and verifying OSPF operation in a routed network.
    3. configuring OSPF priority to influence the designated router/backup router (DR/BDR) election in a multi-access network.
    4. configuring OSPF to propagate a default route.
    5. verifying a single-area OSPF implementation.
  2. The student will implement access lists (ACLs) to secure administrative access and meet network requirements by:
    1. explaining how ACLs are used as part of network security policy.
    2. comparing standard and extended IPv4 ACLs.
    3. calculating appropriate wildcard masks based on ACL functionality requirements.
    4. explaining the structure of an extended access control entry (ACE).
    5. configuring ACLs to filter traffic according to networking requirements.
  3. The student will implement NAT services on the edge router to provide IPv4 address scalability by:
    1. explaining the purpose and the function of NAT.
    2. defining the benefits and drawbacks of implementing NAT in a routed network.
    3. describing NAT operations as it relates to static and dynamic NAT and NAT with overloading.
    4. configuring static and dynamic NAT, port address translation (PAT), and port forwarding.
  4. The student will apply VPN and IPsec operations to secure site-to-site and remote access connectivity by:
    1. describing the benefits of end-to-end private networks and VPN technology.
    2. describing the different types of VPNs.
    3. explaining how the IPsec framework is used to secure network traffic.
  5. The student will implement network management protocols to monitor the network by:
    1. using Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) to map a network topology.
    2. employing Network Time Protocol (NTP) between an NTP client and NTP server.
    3. explaining syslog and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) operation.
    4. using commands to back up and restore an Internetwork Operating System (IOS) configuration file.
    5. performing an upgrade to an IOS image file.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I 4/27/99, DBT 5/18/99 Effective Session 19983. C&I 5/22/01, DBT 6/25/01 Effective Yr Tr 20011. 3 Year Review 2004. Effective 20091(0415). C&I Approval: 11/10/2008, BOT Approval: 12/16/2008, Effective Term: Fall 2009 (415). C&I Approval: 11/21/2014, BOT Approval: 02/17/2015, Effective Term: Fall 2015 (505).
C&I Approval: 02/21/2020, BOT Approval: 03/17/2020, Effective Term: Fall 2020 (580)

Related Programs

  1. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (to CCNA-CT) (CCNA3IC-AR) (605) (Active)
  2. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (to COMPNET-AS) (CCNA1IC-AR) (650) (Active)
  3. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA-CT) (580) (Active)
  4. Networking Technologies (COMPNET-AS) (640) (Active)
  5. Technology Development & Management (TMGT-TR) (670) (Active)