Campus LAN Basics – Introduction

Welcome to the SWITCH course of the Cisco Certified Network Professional certification program. The focus of this guide is to pick up LAN switching concepts where the Cisco Certified Network Administrator certification program left off, as well as to introduce and explain, in detail, additional LAN switching and other relevant concepts that are mandatory requirements of the current SWITCH certification exam. The foundation topics that will be covered in this chapter are as follows:

• Internetwork Design Fundamentals
• SONA and IIN
• The Hierarchical Design Model
• The Enterprise Network Composite Model
• Campus Switched LAN Topologies
• The Different Types of Switching
• LAN Switching Fundamentals
• Segmenting the LAN
• Catalyst Switch Table Architectures
• Chapter Summary

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