It is said that with change, comes new opportunity. Well in April of this year, Cisco announced an upgrade to the ICND1 and ICND2 courses. This update was from version 1.1 to 2. Cisco has always been very good at updating its’ courses due to changes in technologies and student abilities and expectations.
With the advent of Cisco revising ICND1 & 2, some major changes have taken place in the courses which will provide new and exciting opportunities for students. In my opinion Cisco made these revisions because most current students entering Cisco training are more experienced with the network infrastructure. The new courses focus more on Cisco base routing and switching technologies and less on network infracture theory.
In my opinion this is a great direction Cisco is heading in its training. Since students have had exposure in their jobs to Cisco why not provide more hands on training. It is not to say that the networking theory information is less important. In fact it is vitally important in learning Cisco technologies. Its just that today’s students have been exposed to this information in either other vendor training (ie. Comptia Network+, Microsoft) or have learned about it in everyday network experience.
With the advent of Cisco revising ICND1 & 2, some major changes have taken place in the courses which will provide new and exciting opportunities for students. In my opinion Cisco made these revisions because most current students entering Cisco training are more experienced with the network infrastructure. The new courses focus more on Cisco base routing and switching technologies and less on network infracture theory.
In my opinion this is a great direction Cisco is heading in its training. Since students have had exposure in their jobs to Cisco why not provide more hands on training. It is not to say that the networking theory information is less important. In fact it is vitally important in learning Cisco technologies. Its just that today’s students have been exposed to this information in either other vendor training (ie. Comptia Network+, Microsoft) or have learned about it in everyday network experience.
So what are the new changes in the courses?
Here is a summary of the new version 2 of ICND1 offers:
1) Access Control Lists - previously in ICND2, for filtering ip protocol
2) No SDM gui - replaced SDM with Cisco Configuration Professional
3) Vlans - previously in ICND2, creating and managing
4) Vlan Trunking Protocol 802.1q - need to know for managing VLAN traffic
5) Routing between VLAN’s - no layer 3 switch routing, router on a stick
6) NAT and the CLI - NAT is now configured with ACL’s in CLI
7) DHCP configured in CLI - DHCP is no longer done with SDM
8) Variable Length Subnet Masking - previously in ICND2, conserve IP addresses
9) OSPF single and multiple area - previously in ICND2, replaces RIP
10) IPv6 - previously in ICND2
11) OSPFv3 - routing with IPv6
12) No wireless - has been moved to CCNA Wireless
13) More troubleshooting labs - better for understanding real world issues
Here is a summary of the new version 2 of ICND2 offers:
1) EtherChannel - creating redundancy in media
2) Hot Standing Router Protocol - provides fault tolerant for default gateway
3) Load Balancing - provides better throughput for traffic
4) ACL IPv6 - Access Control Lists using IPv6
5) EIGRP - using EIGRP with IPv6
6) OSPF Multi Area - more from ICND1 on OSPF
9) GRE Tunnel - an ip tunnel created between routers
10) Syslog, SNMP and Netflow - management of routers and switches
So as you can see there is quite a bit of new information for both courses.
One
of the questions I have already been asked is “Where or how can I get
some of that base network information needed for ICND1v2 if I am new to
Cisco or do not have a lot of experience?” My answer has been if
possible to take Network+. Yes, I know its a basic introduction to
networking, however all of the concepts not covered in ICNDv1 are
covered in Network+.
Network+
provides a great opportunity for those who may be new to networking or
do not have a great deal of experience with networking. I realize it is
an extra course for some, but I do think its invaluable. I teach
Network+ for Centriq
and include a lot of information for those who are going into Cisco. I
am probably a bit biased in my Network+ training because I am a Cisco
Certified Systems Instructor.
I hope this update on ICND1v2 and ICND2v2 helps and I look forward to seeing you in class at Centriq.
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