CCENT

• Allows you to achieve your certification in half the time of 'traditional training' while delivering industry-leading exam passing percentages


• Helps students grasp complex technical concepts more easily by identifying and catering to individual student learning styles through a mixed visual, auditory and kinaesthetic-tactual delivery system


• Enhances retention by employing accelerated learning techniques focused on committing information to long-term memory

Cisco - CCENT - Benefits
Reasons for Cisco certification include career advancement, personal improvement, skills enhancement, higher earnings, and increased on-the-job productivity.
Why Cisco Certifications?

• Cisco Certified Professionals are among the highest paid in the world.


• Cisco Certification gives you respect in IT Industry by allowing you to provide great value and service to any organization you work for.


• Cisco Certification validates an individual's achievement, thereby increasing the holder's professional credibility by ensuring high standards of technical expertise.


• Industry trend shows that with each certification there is an increase in salary of the certificate holders. Additionally, multiple certifications directly correlate to further increases.

Build Your Skills And Your Career: Certify Yourself
The Cisco CCENT certification lays the foundation for all other Cisco certifications.
This certification solidifies and markets your knowledge of installing, configuring, and operating routed LANs and WANs. Optimising WAN traffic through Internet access solutions that reduce bandwidth, and reducing WAN costs using features such as access list filters are also professional tasks of a CCENT.
Cisco certifications also afford you special membership benefits

• A certificate of accomplishment.


• A wallet card, logo and designation for your personal promotion to clients or potential employers.


• Access to the secure Cisco on-line tracking system so you can download logos, and track your Cisco certification progress throughout your career.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.Other training providers rely heavily on lecture, self-testing and self-study.
Our approach is highly varied and interactive to keep your attention, promote teamwork, and reinforce knowledge gained through hands-on learning.
You will:
Be Immersed into a distraction-free environment - escaping your normal routine and focusing purely on learning.
Experience Accelerated Learning methods – designed to help you learn much more quickly, spend less time out of the office, and see returns from your investment straight away.
Be Measured through on-site exam testing - creating a complete feedback loop that ensures you understand the subject thoroughly.
With Firebrand Training, you will learn more.
This information has been provided as a helpful tool for candidates considering certification. Benefits of certification determined through studies do not guarantee any particular personal successes. Firebrand Training provides a guarantee of obtaining certification at the camp, but does not make any guarantees about personal successes or benefits of obtaining certification.







Cisco - CCENT - Curriculum
The Cisco CCENT certification validates the skills required for entry-level network support positions, the starting point for many successful careers in networking.
Candidates should have the knowledge and skill to install, operate and troubleshoot a small enterprise branch network, including basic network security. CCENT certification is the first step toward achieving CCNA, which covers medium size enterprise branch networks with more complex connections.
Course Content - ICND v.10
Operation of Data Networks

• Purpose and functions of network devices


• OSI and TCP/IP models


• Common networking applications


• Impact of voice and video on a network

Implementing a small switched network

• Layer 2 LAN technologies


• Network segmentation and traffic management


• Basic switch and operation of Cisco switches


• Implement basic switch security

Implementing a an IP addressing scheme

• Assignment of valid IP addresses in a network


• Introduction to NAT


• Introduction to DNS


• Private & Public addressing


• Using Cisco SDM for DHCP and DNS

Implementing a small routed network

• Basic router concepts


• Operation of Cisco routers


• Configure RIPv2 protocol


• Verify router operation using standard utilities


• Configure Static routes


• Manage IOS configuration files


• Implement router security

Concepts of Wireless LANs

• Wireless standards


• Components in a wireless network


• Configure a wireless network


• Wireless security

Identifying security threats to a network

• Current security threats


• Threat mitigation


• Introduction to security appliances


• Recommended security practices

Introducing WAN links

• Connectivity methods


• Configure a basic WAN serial connection

Cisco - CCENT - Exam Track
Exams
The CCENT qualification will be achieved by passing the following exam:
640-822 Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1







Cisco - CCENT - What's Included
With Firebrand, you benefit from top-quality education in an all-inclusive course package specifically designed for the needs and ease of our students. We attend to every detail so you can focus solely on your studies and certification goals.
You’ll get a robust set of course materials that cater to each of our three key individual learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic-tactile) - critical for a successful learning experience.
And there's more. Along with daily lectures, exercises, and review sessions, you’ll also get:
Our Certification Programs include*

• Intensive Hands-on Training Utilising our (Lecture | Lab | Review)TM Delivery


• Comprehensive study materials and courseware - we adapt official curriculum to address the demands of accelerated learners


• Self-testing software and/or mock exam papers
  
• Fully instructor-led program with 24 hour lab access


• Exam vouchers


• On site testing


• Accommodation, all meals, drinks and snacks


• Our Certification Guarantee - because we're sure you'll pass first time, if don’t pass your exams, come back to the course within a year and you only pay for accommodation and exam vouchers - everything else is free

* Please note:

• Our ISC(2) Cissp CBK Review program differs from normal course delivery. For more details, speak to us on 080 80 800 888.


• Exam vouchers for our (ISC)2 certifications need to be purchased directly from (ISC)2


• On site testing is not included in our Scrum, ISACA or PMI certifications

Our instructors teach to accommodate every student's learning needs through individualised instruction, hands-on labs, lab partner and group exercises, independent study, self-testing, and question/answer drills.
Firebrand Training has dedicated, well-equipped educational facilities where you will attend instruction and labs and have access to comfortable study and lounging rooms. Our students consistently say our facilities are second-to-none.
Examination Passing Policy
Should a student complete a Firebrand Training Program without having successfully passed all vendor examinations, the student may re-attend that program for a period of one year.  Students will only be responsible for accommodations and vendor exam fees.








Cisco - CCENT - Prerequisites
Delegates are required to meet the following prerequisites:

• Experience of a desktop operating system


• Knowledge of networking fundamentals

We interview all applicants for the course on their technical background, degrees and certifications held, and general suitability. If you get through this screening process, it means you stand a great chance of passing.
Firebrand Training is an immersive training environment. You must be committed to the course. The above prerequisites are guidelines, but many students with less experience have other background or traits that have enabled their success in accelerated training through Firebrand Training.