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Network Administration

Run a network day to day: configure switches and routers, manage addressing and services, and diagnose faults methodically.

Levels
04
Skill Range
Beginner Expert
Track
Networking
Lifetime Access
Network Administration
From 279CREDS

Administration is where networking theory meets a ticket queue. This course covers the work: configuring switches and routers from the command line, planning and managing addressing schemes that survive growth, and running the services everything depends on, including DHCP, DNS, and NTP. You will set up VLANs and inter-VLAN routing, configure static and dynamic routing, and implement redundancy so a single failure is not an outage. Monitoring is covered with SNMP, syslog, and flow data, along with the baselines that make an anomaly visible. A substantial part of the course is structured troubleshooting: a repeatable method for isolating faults at the right layer instead of changing things until it works.

Curriculum

Learning Path

Each level is enrolled separately. Work through them in order, or start at the level that matches your experience.

  1. Level 01

    Beginner

    279 CREDS

    Purpose

    Configure switches and routers from the command line, the daily work of running a network.

    Outcome

    You can configure switches and routers for a basic network.

    What You'll Learn
    • Configure interfaces, VLANs, and basic routing on real devices or a lab.
    • Save, review, and restore configurations safely.
    • Read a running configuration and understand what it does.
  2. Level 02

    Intermediate

    412 CREDS

    Purpose

    Run the services everything else depends on.

    Outcome

    You can run the core services a network relies on.

    What You'll Learn
    • Set up and manage DHCP, DNS, and NTP for a network.
    • Configure VLANs and inter-VLAN routing.
    • Plan addressing that survives the network growing.
  3. Level 03

    Advanced

    735 CREDS

    Purpose

    Build in redundancy so a single failure is not an outage.

    Outcome

    You can build a network that keeps running through a single failure.

    What You'll Learn
    • Configure static and dynamic routing with a failover path.
    • Implement redundancy so one device or link can fail safely.
    • Monitor with SNMP, syslog, and flow data against a baseline.
  4. Level 04

    Expert

    998 CREDS

    Purpose

    Troubleshoot methodically, isolating a fault at the right layer instead of changing things until it works.

    Outcome

    You can find the root cause of a network fault systematically.

    What You'll Learn
    • Apply a repeatable method to isolate a fault to a single layer.
    • Diagnose an intermittent problem from monitoring data.
    • Document a root cause so the same fault is recognised next time.