Course details:

This is a blended course which is made up of classes and laboratories on campus and live online lectures to complement. It takes place over 24 weeks with one class per week in the evening, typically a Tuesday evening.

Code	Programme	NFQ Level	Duration	Mode	Location	Contact
TU5282	CISCO Networking	6	1 year	Part Time	Tallaght Campus	ccna.tallaght@tudublin.ie engineeringadmin.tallaght@tudublin.ie

Cisco Academy 

Students of this course will receive access to the Cisco Networking Academy via TUD (Tallaght) Campus, providing online courseware and assessments. 

Hardware Laboratories

Students also have access to our state of the art hardware laboratories at our Tallaght Campus, where they will be guided and tutored on how to configure cisco hardware.

Certification

Certification can be achieved in two ways

• When students complete and pass their online assessments and hardware laboratory exams, they will receive a certificate from the cisco academy, stating that they have completed and passed the CCNA course under TUD-Tallaght Campus supervision.
• Separately the student can arrange to sit the official Cisco exam (200-301 CCNA) at one of the Pearson Vue exam centres. The exam costs 274 euros (not included in the course fee) and is 120 minutes long. A link to one of the Pearson Vue centres can be seen here as an example here.
• The syllabus and other information for this exam can be found at cisco.com (syllabus)
• Sample questions can be seen at the bottom of the page.

 

Structure of the course

24 Weekly sessions

In total there are four modules, each with a supervised end of module assessment. There is also a practical hardware lab exam at the end of each module. Students must pass all of these exams to receive their certification from the cisco academy.

Classroom

The classroom time includes lectures to cover the more difficult course material,  packet tracer labs to enhance the theory, cisco hardware practice labs to prepare students for the hardware exam, online end of module supervised assessments (three x 1.5 hour exams), end of module supervised hardware labs (three x 2 hours) and Mock CCNA exam.

Online academy

Students will receive access to the cisco academy on-line material which they will progress through at home. Online lessons include integrated assessment material. On completion of a lesson, students will receive access to an online lesson assessment which can be completed in their own time. The purpose of the lesson assessment is to prepare them for the supervised end-of-module exam which will ultimately contribute to their score.

Online Live

Some of the teaching sessions will be live online lectures.

 

Academy Course Content

The course is split into three Cisco Academy courses as follows:

 

Course	Course 1	Course 2	Course 3
Name	Introduction to Networks	Switching Routing and Wireless Essentials	Enterprise Network Security and Automation
	1. Introduction 2. Basic Switch and end device configuration 3. Protocols and models 4. Physical Layer 5. Number Systems 6. Data Link Layer 7. Ethernet Switching 8. Network Layer 9. Address resolution 10. Basic Router Configuration 11. IPv4 addressing 12. IPv6 addressing 13. ICMP 14. Transport Layer 15. Application Layer 16. Network Security Fundamentals 17. Build a Small network	1. Basic device configuration 2. Switching concepts 3. VLANS 4. Inter-VLAN routing 5. STP concepts 6. EtherChannel 7. DHCPv4 8. SLAAC and DHCPv6 9. FHRP concepts 10. LAN security Concepts 11. Switch security configuration 12. WLAN concepts 13. WLAN configuration 14. Routing concepts 15. IP static routing 16. Troubleshoot Static and default routes	1. Single-Area OSPFv2 Concepts 2. Single Area OSPFv2 configuration 3. Network Security Concepts 4. ACL concepts 5. ACLs for IPv4 Configuration 6. NAT for IPv4 7. WAN concepts 8. VPN and IPSec Concepts 9. QoS concepts 10. Network Management 11. Network Design 12. Network Troubleshooting 13. Network Virtualisation 14. Network Automation

 Sample Questions

Q1: In an OSPFv2 configuration, what is the effect of entering the command network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.255 area 0 ?

A. It changes the router ID of the router to 192.168.1.1.

B. It enables OSPF on all interfaces on the router.

C. It tells the router which interface to turn on for the OSPF routing process.

D. It allows the 192.168.1.0/24 network to be advertised.

 

Q2:As the network administrator you have been asked to implement EtherChannel on the corporate network. What does this configuration consist of?

A. providing redundant links that dynamically block or forward traffic

B. grouping multiple physical ports to increase bandwidth between two switches

C.grouping two devices to share a virtual IP address

D. providing redundant devices to allow traffic to flow in the event of device failure

 

Q3:

What happens when a switch receives a frame and the calculated CRC value is different than the value that is in the FCS field?

A. The switch places the new CRC value in the FCS field and forwards the frame.

B. The switch notifies the source of the bad frame.

C. The switch drops the frame.

D. The switch floods the frame to all ports except the port through which the frame arrived to notify the hosts of the error.

 

 Q4: 

When JSON data format is being used, what characters are used to hold objects?

A. double braces { }

B. double brackets [ ]

C. double quotations " "

D. double colons : :

 

 

 

 

 

 

Answer Q1: D Q2:B Q3: C Q4: A

 

The aim of this programme is to give participants an understanding of the management principles of quality assurance/control in a manufacturing or service organisation.

Part 1: General management principles of quality. It will also explain the methodology of quality improvement and the various tools and techniques for analysis.

Part 2: For technical staff, supervisors, and managers who are already familiar with the principles of Quality Management, and who wish to further their learning.

This programme runs one evening per week.

Code	Programme	NFQ Level	Duration	Mode	Location	Contact
TU5516	EIQA Diploma in Quality Management Systems	6	2 years	Part Time	Tallaght Campus	Hugh.Claffey@tudublin.ie  engineeringadmin.tallaght@tudublin.ie