CCENT: Cisco® Certified Entry Networking Technician Study Guide

Chapter 7. Layer 2 Switching

IMPLEMENT A SMALL SWITCHED NETWORK

• Explain network segmentation and basic traffic management concepts

• Explain the operation of Cisco switches and basic switching concepts

• Perform, save, and verify initial switch configuration tasks including remote access management

• Verify network status and switch operation using basic utilities (including: ping, traceroute, telnet, SSH, arp, ipconfig), SHOW & DEBUG commands

• Implement and verify basic security for a switch (port security, deactivate ports)

• Identify, prescribe, and resolve common switched network media issues, configuration issues, autonegotiation, and switch hardware failures

You know that switching breaks large collision domains into smaller ones and that a collision domain ...