Synopsis
Cisco CCDA: Designing LANs provides the procedures to designing a LAN network.

Audience
This course is for anyone preparing for the Cisco CCDA exam or anyone who wants to learn about network design.

Time
4 hours

Product Code: CCDA06
After completing Cisco CCDA: Designing LANs, the user should be able to:

List the limitations of cabling and hardware
Determine the LAN equipment for your design
Design a remote LAN
Design a small LAN
Design a large LAN in one building
Design a campus LAN

10 Mbps Ethernets
Rules of design
Ethernets
10Base5
10Base2
10Base-T
10Base-F
Summary table

100- and 1000-Mbps Ethernets
100Base-T network specifications
100Base-T summary table
Gigabit Ethernet specifications
Gigabit summary table
100VG-AnyLAN specifications
100VG-AnyLAN summary table

Additional Hardware Rules
Rules of design
Token Rings
FDDIs
Summary table

Choosing Hardware
Choices of LAN devices
Cisco Hardware

Examples of LAN Designs
Types of small and mid-sized LANs
An example of long-term designing

This course has the following features:

Exercises that allow users to explore how a course topic applies to network design
A file containing the text of the exercises
Activities that allow users to apply concepts in an interactive questioning environment
A glossary
A Skill Assessment

Cisco CCNA certification or equivalent experience
Cisco CCDA: Internetworking Review (CCDA01)
Cisco CCDA: LAN Networking (CCDA02)
Cisco CCDA: WAN Networking (CCDA03)
Cisco CCDA: Introduction to Design (CCDA04)
Cisco CCDA: Examining Existing Networks (CCDA05)

Cisco CCDA: Designing WANs (CCDA07)
Cisco CCDA: Specific Design Issues (CCDA08)
Cisco CCDA: Optimizing by Design (CCDA09)
Cisco CCDA: Testing and Managing (CCDA10)

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