CET 2620 - Enterprise Core Technologies

College of Computer & Information Technology

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Fall 2024 (640)

Requisites

Prerequisite CET 2615 with a minimum grade of C or
CCNA certification

Course Description

This course is designed to provide students with classroom and laboratory experience to sit for the Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR) exam. Instruction includes, but is not limited to, multi-layer switch operations, implementation and troubleshooting of advanced routing protocols, such as Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), route redistribution, route maps, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), wireless infrastructure, network access control, and infrastructure security.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will implement and optimize Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) by:
    1. describing EIGRP best path selection and load balancing functions.
    2. configuring and troubleshooting EIGRP operation.
    3. describing OSPF router roles and area types.
    4. configuring and troubleshooting OSPF in both single and multi-areas.
    5. employing route summarization to reduce routing overhead.
  2. The student will implement technologies to enable and optimize routing in a multi-protocol environment by:
    1. configuring route redistribution to enable routing between autonomous systems.
    2. modifying administrative distance to optimize route path selection.
    3. applying route filters to control routing updates.
    4. configuring route maps to optimize traffic flow.
  3. The student will implement internal and external BGP for a specific network requirement by:
    1. differentiating between Internal BGP (IBGP) and External BGP (EBGP).
    2. establishing neighbor relationships between adjacent IBGP and EBGP routers.
    3. explaining how BGP attributes affect path preference.
    4. troubleshooting BGP wrong next hop and non-synchronization issues.
  4. The student will apply IPsec and virtual private network (VPN) operations in a complex network by:
    1. describing the benefits of end-to-end private networks and VPN technology.
    2. explaining how IPsec is implemented using the IPsec protocol framework.
    3. explaining how client-based and clientless Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) remote access VPN implementations support business requirements.
    4. comparing and contrasting IPsec and SSL remote access VPNs.
  5. The student will secure and monitor network operations using system logging protocol (syslog), extended access lists, and authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) by:
    1. explaining network time protocol (NTP) and syslog.
    2. troubleshooting network problems using logging and debugs.
    3. configuring network access control using extended access lists.
    4. defining and describing the AAA authentication for confirming and tracking users.

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 YrTr 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: 02/17/2024, BOT Approval: 03/19/2024, Effective Term: Fall 2024 (640)

Related Programs

  1. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA-CT) (580) (Active)
  2. Networking Technologies (COMPNET-AS) (640) (Active)
  3. Technology Development & Management (TMGT-TR) (670) (Active)