Cisco CCNA Associate & CyberOps Associate Training Boot Camp with Dual Certification
Transform your career in 7 days
Course essentials
CCNA Associate and Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate training at a glance
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Method
Live online, in-person, team onsite
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Duration
7 days
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Experience
0-1 year of professional experience
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Average salary
$93,071
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Meets 8570.1
DoD information assurance requirements
What you'll learn
Who should attend Cisco CCNA training
Our seven-day CCNA boot camp provides students with hands-on experience and comprehensive CCNA training to prepare for the CCNA Associate and Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate exams.
When you attend our CCNA certification training, our expert instructors guide you through practical labs within our Networking Cyber Range. Advance your career with this course, which covers the following topics to help you earn two valuable certifications:
- Networking fundamentals
- Network security
- Automation
Who should attend
Our CCNA Dual Certification Boot Camp is ideal for you if you want to enhance your network skills and advance your career:
- Network engineers
- Network administrators
- Systems administrators
- System engineers
- IT managers/directors
- Anyone looking to improve their network skills
Regardless of your background, this CCNA Boot Camp leaves you with the necessary skills to make you a front-runner in the world of networking.
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What's included
Everything you need to know about CCNA certification training
- 90-day extended access to Boot Camp components, including class recordings
- 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
- Exam Pass Guarantee
- Exam voucher
- Free 90-day Infosec Skills subscription (access to 1,400+ additional courses and labs)
- Hands-on cyber ranges and labs
- Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
- Onsite proctoring of exam
- Pre-study learning path
- Unlimited practice exam attempts
What makes the Infosec CCNA prep course different?
You can rest assured that the CCNA training materials are fully updated and synced with the latest version of the exam. In addition, you’ll gain access to a CCNA prep course the moment you enroll, so you can prepare for and get the most out of your boot camp. You'll also get CCNA prep exam questions to help prepare for your CCNA accreditation exam.
With 20 years of training experience, we stand by our CCNA training with an Exam Pass Guarantee. This means if you don’t pass the exam on the first attempt, we’ll pay for your second exam at no additional cost to you!
Before your boot camp
Prerequisites
Syllabus
Training schedule
Preparation (before the boot camp starts)
CCNA prep course
Day 1
Network fundamentals
- Role and function of network components
- Characteristics of network topology architectures
- Compare and contrast network topologies
- Physical interface and cabling types
- Interface and cable issues (collisions, errors, mismatch duplex, and/or speed)
- TCP and UDP
- Configuring and verifying IPv4 addressing and subnetting
- The need for private IPv4 addressing
- Configuring and verifying IPv6 addressing and prefix
- IPv6 address types
- Verifying IP parameters for client OS (Windows, Mac OS, Linux)
- Wireless principles
- Virtualization fundamentals (virtual machines)
- Switching concepts
Network fundamentals continued
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 2
Network access
- Configuring and verifying VLANs (normal range) spanning multiple switches
- Configuring and verifying interswitch connectivity
- Trunk ports
- 802.1Q
- Native VLAN
- Configuring and verifying Layer 2 discovery protocols (Cisco Discovery Protocol and LLDP)
- Configuring and verifying (Layer 2/Layer 3) EtherChannel (LACP)
- The need for and basic operations of Rapid PVST+ Spanning Tree Protocol
- Cisco Wireless Architectures and AP modes
- Physical infrastructure connections of WLAN components
- AP and WLC management access connections
- Configuring the components of a wireless LAN access for client connectivity
Network access continued
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 3
IP connectivity
- Components of routing table
- Determining how a router makes a forwarding decision by default
- Configuring and verifying IPv4 and IPv6 static routing
- Configuring and verifying single area OSPFv2
- The purpose of first hop redundancy protocol
- Configuring and verifying inside source NAT using static and pools
- Configuring and verifying NTP operating in a client and server mode
- Role of DHCP and DNS within the network Function of SNMP in network operations
- Use of syslog features including facilities and levels
- Configuring and verifying DHCP client and relay
- Understanding the forwarding per-hop behavior (PHB) for QoS such as classification, marking, queuing, congestion, policing, shaping
- Configuring network devices for remote access using SSH
- Capabilities and function of TFTP/FTP in the network
IP connectivity continued
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 4
IP services
Security fundamentals
- Security program elements
- Configuring device access control using local passwords
- Security password policies elements
- Remote access and site-to-site VPNs
- Configuring and verifying access control lists
- Configuring Layer 2 security features
- Authentication, authorization and accounting
- Wireless security protocols (WPA, WPA2 and WPA3)
- Configuring WLAN using WPA2 PSK using the GUI
- Traditional networks vs. controller-based networking
- Controller-based and software defined architectures
- Traditional campus device management vs. Cisco DNA Center enabled device management
- Characteristics of REST-based APIs (CRUD, HTTP verbs and data encoding)
- Capabilities of configuration management mechanisms Puppet, Chef and Ansible
- Interpreting JSON encoded data
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 5
Automation and programmability
Exam prep
Take CCNA 200-301 exam
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 6
Security concepts
- Describe the CIA triad
- Compare security deployments & concepts
- Describe the principles of the defense-in-depth strategy
- Compare access control models
- Describe terms as defined in CVSS
- Identify the challenges of data visibility (network, host, and cloud) in detection
- Identify potential data loss from provided traffic profiles
- Interpret the 5-tuple approach to isolate a compromised host in a grouped set of logs
- Compare rule-based detection vs. behavioral and statistical detection
Security monitoring
- Compare attack surface and vulnerability
- Identify the types, impact and users of data provided by these technologies
- Describe network, web application, social engineering and endpoint-based attacks
- Describe evasion and obfuscation techniques, such as tunneling, encryption and proxies
- Describe the impact of certificates on security (includes PKI, public/private crossing the network, asymmetric/symmetric)
- Identify the certificate components in a given scenario
- Cipher-suite
Host-based & network intrusion analysis
- Describe the functionality of endpoint technologies in regard to security monitoring
- Identify components of an operating system (such as Windows and Linux) in a given scenario
- Describe the role of attribution in an investigation
- Identify type of evidence used based on provided logs
- Compare tampered and untampered disk image
- Interpret operating system, application, or command line logs to identify an event
- Interpret the output report of a malware analysis tool (such as a detonation chamber or sandbox)
- Compare deep packet inspection with packet filtering and stateful firewall operation
- Compare inline traffic interrogation and taps or traffic monitoring
- Compare the characteristics of data obtained from taps or traffic monitoring and transactional data (NetFlow) in the analysis of network traffic
- Extract files from a TCP stream when given a PCAP file and Wireshark
- Identify key elements in an intrusion from a given PCAP file
- Interpret the fields in protocol headers as related to intrusion analysis
- Interpret common artifact elements from an event to identify an alert
- Interpret basic regular expressions
Optional group & individual study
Schedule may vary from class to class
Day 7
Security policies and procedures
- Describe the elements in an incident response plan as stated in NIST.SP800-61
- Apply the incident handling process (such as NIST.SP800-61) to an event
- Map elements to these steps of analysis based on the NIST.SP800-61
- Map the organization stakeholders against the NIST IR categories (CMMC, NIST.SP800-61)
- Describe concepts as documented in NIST.SP800-86
- Identify these elements used for network profiling
- Identify these elements used for server profiling
- Classify intrusion events into categories as defined by security models
- Describe the relationship of SOC metrics to scope analysis
Exam prep
Take 200-201 exam
What's next?
After you finish the CCNA Dual Certification Boot Camp
After completing the boot camp, you will be certified with the following Cisco certifications:
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CCNA
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Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate
Completing these certifications will allow you to explore cybersecurity analyst roles. The CCNA certification is a foundation for all the other exams in the Cisco certification program. The Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification prepares you to work as a part of a Security Operations Center (SOC) team to detect and respond to network security threats.
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Exam Prep
What tips should I know when preparing for the CCNA and Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate exam?
You should review the exam topics and format to best prepare for these exams. You’ll want to practice answering the type of questions and content with practice exams. The CCNA exam covers:
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Network fundamentals
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IP connectivity
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IP services
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Security fundamentals
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Network access
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Automation and programmability
Not sure where to get started? Get an overview of the exam: what it covers, how many questions, how it's changed, and more.
The Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate exam expands upon these topics, covering:
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Security concepts
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Security monitoring
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Host-based analysis
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Network intrusion analysis
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Security policies and procedures
Career Opportunities
What are the career opportunities like for CCNA certified professionals?
As organizations' reliance on networking grows, the demand for skilled CCNA professionals is on the rise. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of computer system administrators is projected to grow 3% from 2021 to 2031. You can pursue roles such as:
- Network engineer
- Senior network engineer
- Network administrator
- Information technology manager
- Information technology director
With your dual certification in hand, you open doors to previously unavailable CCNA career opportunities.
What job titles are most common for people with CCNA certification?
Some common positions that this certification can help you land include:
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Network administrators
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Systems administrators
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IT managers/directors
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Network engineers
Average Salary
CCNA certification salary expectations
CCNA professionals earn competitive salaries. While salaries vary based on experience, location and industry, CCNA professionals on average earn $93,071 annually. Read our CCNA salary information article to access the latest data and see the earning potential in this field.
Guaranteed results
Our boot camp guarantees
Exam Pass Guarantee
If you don’t pass your exam on the first attempt, get a second attempt for free. Includes the ability to re-sit the course for free for up to one year (does not apply to CMMC-AB boot camps).
100% Satisfaction Guarantee
If you’re not 100% satisfied with your training at the end of the first day, you may withdraw and enroll in a different online or in-person course.
Knowledge Transfer Guarantee
If an employee leaves within three months of obtaining certification, Infosec will train a different employee at the same organization tuition-free for up to one year.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What's the value in earning the CCNA certification?
The CCNA is one of the most highly regarded entry-level IT certifications on the market today. Earning the CCNA proves to colleagues and employers that you are an educated networking professional who can manage small to medium-sized networks in the real world.
What are the pre-requirements for earning the CCNA?
The CCNA exam itself has no prerequisites, and there are no specific degree requirements to hold the certification. However, it is recommended that you have at least two years of real-world networking experience so you can more easily learn CCNA concepts and prepare for the exam.. Familiarity with networking basics like routing, switching and TCP/IP protocol will go a long way. Check out our TechExams article about the Cisco certification changes.
How does the CCNA examination process work?
What format are the exam questions? What do I need to score to pass?
How long is the CCNA certification good after you pass the test? What are the renewal requirements?
CCNA certifications are valid for three years after their date of issue, and you can renew before their expiration date by passing the designated recertification exam(s). See Cisco’s Career Certifications page for more information on CCNA recertification.
What does CCNA boot camp cost?
Visit our CCNA boot camp pricing page to learn more about costs and financing for your CCNA study.
Meets 8570.1 requirements
Attention DoD Information Assurance workers! This boot camp helps meet U.S. Department of Defense Directive 8570.1 requirements for department employees or contractors engaged in work related to information security.
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