CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Library

Chapter 7. Configuring and Verifying Switch Interfaces

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

1.0 Network Fundamentals

1.1 Explain the role and function of network components

1.1.b L2 and L3 switches

1.4 Describe switching concepts

So far in this part, you have learned the skills to navigate the command-line interface (CLI) and use commands that configure and verify switch features. You learned about the primary purpose of a switch—forwarding Ethernet frames—and learned how to see that process in action by looking at the switch MAC address table. After learning about the switch data plane in Chapter 5, “Analyzing Ethernet LAN Switching,” you learned a few management plane features in Chapter 6, “Configuring Basic Switch Management,” ...