Cisco BCMSN 3.0: Implementing Trunks and the Virtual Trunking Protocol (VTP)


Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
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Overview/Description
To explain the procedure for configuring both 802.1Q and ISL trunking between two switches, how VLAN configuration of switches within a management domain can be automated with VTP, and identify common VLAN configuration errors and explain the solutions to those errors.

Target Audience
Network administrators, network engineers, network managers, systems managers, or network designers.

Prerequisites
Completion of the course Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND)

Expected Duration (hours)
2.8

Lesson Objectives

Cisco BCMSN 3.0: Implementing Trunks and the Virtual Trunking Protocol (VTP)

  • compare the features of the ISL and 802.1Q trunking protocols.
  • identify the VLAN ranges and the commands used to configure a trunk.
  • compare and configure trunk protocols in a given scenario.
  • identify the features of VTP versions, modes, and operations.
  • recognize how to configure and verify VTP.
  • configure VTP on a switch.
  • identify how to resolve the security issues with 802.1Q native VLANs.
  • identify how to resolve the security issues with trunk links.
  • identify best practices for VTP configuration.

    • Course Number:
    242011_eng