CBT Nuggets - 640-864 Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions

This series provides you with all of the information you will need to interview a customer (who might be your boss!), identify networking solutions that meet the needs discovered in the interview, and then design a network infrastructure that meets those needs! The current CCDA ensures the latest popular technologies are included, for example, wireless, VoIP, and data center architectures. As a byproduct of the skills learned, the student is completely ready to pass the 640-864 DESGN exam from Cisco Systems.

You'll proceed at your own pace, with trainer Anthony Sequeira as your guide. The videos in this series break down the CCDA certification process and required skills into bite-sized Nuggets. Video by video, you'll learn how to build upon an increasingly complex network design that can truly meet the needs of an organization.

Get Ready Get Set for CCDA!
In this first video of the CCDA series, Anthony Sequeira provides information on exactly what the CCDA certification is all about. He details the requirements for this certification, and provides students with the steps required to determine what is tested and how they can help guarantee a first time pass!
00:11:11

Trends Driving Network Designs
Are there specific trends that are driving typical network designs in organizations? There sure are! In this Nugget, Anthony walks you through the business and technical factors that are having the biggest influence on modern network designs. This video also provides some valuable metrics that you can use to gauge the effectiveness of your completed design.
00:22:26

Network - This Is Your Life
In this Nugget, Anthony discusses the PPDIOO Network Life Cycle Model from Cisco and shows how you can draw a very powerful design model from this overall life cycle. This video also provides specific guidance on how you can best extract the network and organizational requirements from your customer.
00:16:55

Characterizing the Existing Network
In this Nugget, you examine the steps the can ensure you characterize the existing network of a customer as thoroughly as possible. This involves obtaining the existing documentation, querying the customer on this documentation, and using your tools and the customer's tools to carry out a network audit and possibly traffic analysis.
00:16:14

The Top Down Network Design Approach
In this Nugget, you learn a powerful approach to network design and learn about valuable tools like decision tables, pilots, and prototypes. This Nugget also emphasizes the importance of scope in a network design.
00:14:40

Make IT Modular
In this Nugget, you learn the importance of modularity in network design. Not only for the equipment itself, but also for the network services that are popular today like Wireless, VoIP, and Security. This Nugget teaches the Network Hierarchical Model, as well as the important Cisco Network Architecture for the Enterprise model.
00:31:06

Some Network Management Protocols
This Nugget examines some popular and important network management protocols including SNMP, RMON, NetFlow, CDP, and Syslog Accounting.
00:29:24

Designing the Campus
This Nugget details the design factors for the Campus module in general. It then walks students through particular design elements that are important in the Access, Distribution, and Core modules.
00:22:18

Designing the Data Center
This Nugget has four major sections. First, it describes technologies and trends that exist in modern data centers. It then details the challenges that have lead to these trends. The Nugget also provides the Cisco Data Center Enterprise Architecture model, and the video wraps up with a look at virtualization technologies.
00:17:55

Designing Remote Access
In this Nugget, the complex world of Wide Area Networking (WAN) technologies and designs are discussed. This Nugget includes an exploration of specific technologies as well as a look at the WAN module design and its many submodules.
00:36:20

IPv4/v6 Addressing Designs
This Nugget presents critical design options for both IPv4 and IPv6 addressing environments. The emphasis is placed on IPv6 as this is a brand new world for most!
00:33:49

Routing Protocol Design
Choosing the correct routing protocol for your enterprise design is a critical step in the overall process. This Nugget makes this choice a simple matter.
00:31:58

Designing Security Solutions
It is no secret that Anthony Sequeira loves network security. In this amazingly interesting Nugget, Anthony leads viewers through the ins and outs of network security design.
00:55:58

Voice and Video Designs
One of the most complex areas of networking is designing for voice and video in the modern converged network. This Nugget makes this complex area simple.
00:59:17

Designing Wireless Solutions
Cables? We don't need no stinking cables! In this Nugget, you learn to design highly available, peak performance wireless networking infrastructures.