Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation

Catalog description

This course describes the architectures and considerations related to designing, securing, operating, and troubleshooting enterprise networks. This course covers wide area network technologies and quality of service mechanisms used for secure remote access.  This is the third of three courses designed to prepare the student to take the Cisco Certified Network Associate Exam.  It   also introduces software-defined networking, virtualization, and automation concepts that support the digitalization of network management tools. The students learn key concepts of software-defined networking, including controller-based architectures and how application programming interfaces (APIs) enable network automation.