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Building a Network Design

This training will familiarize you with all the fundamental best practices of planning, setting up, and implementing a network design. You'll learn how to apply proper design strategies in planning (PMP), Layer 2 (switching), wireless networks, firewalls, monitoring, and diagramming.

Updated August 2014

1Skills
16Videos
5h 27mTotal
16 videos5h 27m

Who This Course Is For

This Building a Network Design training should be considered engineer-level networking training, which means it was designed for network engineers or senior systems administrators. This network design skills course is designed for network engineers with three to five years of experience with network infrastructure.

Skills Your Team Will Gain

  • Understanding the elements of a sound network design
  • Planning for how cabling can make or break a network
  • Switching: core design, VLAN design, and STP design
  • Anticipating how subnetting will affect the network
  • Configuring Layer 3 switches
  • Configuring the network and monitoring servers
  • Planning for the placement and use of WAPs

Course Curriculum

  • Premium skill.Professional Course: Building a Network Design that Works5h 27m

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Confirm prerequisite knowledge before training begins

A short placement assessment on the CBT Nuggets assessments platform measures whether a learner already has the foundation this course assumes. IT Directors use it to put the right people in the right training — and any learner can take it right now to make sure they'll get full value from day one.

  • Questions generated from this course's own lesson transcripts — what gets measured is exactly what gets taught
  • Instant, per-learner results that show whether the prerequisite foundation is in place
  • Results roll up into team readiness reporting, so training hours go where they change outcomes

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