6 - 238 CCNA 2: Routers and Routing Basics v3.1 Instructor Guide – Course Overview Copyright © 2004, Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Connect router Fast Ethernet, serial WAN, and console ports
• Perform, save, and test an initial configuration on a router
• Configure additional administrative functionality on a router
• Use embedded data-link layer functionality to perform network neighbor discovery
and analysis from the router console
• Use embedded Layer 3 through Layer 7 protocols to establish, test, suspend, or
disconnect connectivity to remote devices from the router console
• Identify the stages of the router boot-up sequence and show how the configuration
register and boot system commands modify that sequence
• Manage system image and device configuration files
• Describe the operation of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) and
identify the reasons, types, and format of associated error and control messages
• Identify, configure, and verify the use of static and default routes
• Evaluate the characteristics of routing protocols
• Identify, analyze, and show how to rectify inherent problems associated with
distance vector routing protocols
• Configure, verify, analyze, and troubleshoot simple distance vector routing
protocols
• Use commands incorporated within IOS to analyze and rectify network problems
• Describe the operation of the major transport layer protocols and the interaction
and carriage of application layer data
• Identify the application of packet control through the use of various access control
lists
• Analyze, configure, implement, verify, and rectify access control lists within a
router configuration
Course Overview The course has been designed for 70 contact hours. Approximately 35 hours will be
designated to lab activities and 35 hours will be designated to curriculum content. A case
study on routing is required. The format and timing should be determined by the Local
Academy.