Credit Hours and Mode of study
Each module takes 70 contact hours of theory classes and lab practical sessions.
KU Cisco Networking academy offers both full time and part time classes.
To complete a module, it takes four weeks while studying full time while the same module takes 6 weeks to complete while studying part-time. Full time classes are 3.5 hours daily from Monday to Friday while part time classes are a combination of evening and Saturday classes.
All modules whether undertaken in full time or part time are offered on a continuous monthly basis.
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Cisco Health Information Networking (HIN)
- The Cisco Health Information Networking (HIN) course helps students prepare for healthcare ICT and networking jobs by teaching them how to design, implement, monitor, and troubleshoot networks in healthcare environments.
- This course complements the Cisco CCNA curriculum and is designed for students who would like to expand their networking abilities by developing specialized healthcare networking skills.
- Hands-on labs throughout the course help students gain practical experience, including procedural and troubleshooting labs, skills integration challenges, and model building. Most chapters also include Cisco Packet Tracer skills integration challenges.
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CCNA 4: Connecting Networks
- Understand and describe different WAN technologies and their benefits.
- Understand and describe the operations and benefits of VPNs and tunnelling
- Understand, configure and troubleshoot serial connections
- Understand ,configure and troubleshoot broadband connections
- Understand configure and troubleshoot tunnelling operations
- Understand, configure and troubleshoot network address translation (NAT) operations.
- Monitor and troubleshoot network operations using syslog, SNMP and Netflow
- Understand and describe network architectures
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Cyber Security.
- Describe the security threats facing modern network infrastructures
- Secure network device access
- Implement AAA on network using ACLs
- Implement secure network management and reporting
- Mitigate common Layer 2 attacks
- Implement the Cisco IOS firewall feature set
- Implement an ASA
- Implement the Cisco IOS IPS feature set
- Implement site-to-site IPsec VPNs
- Administer effective security policies
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CCNA 3: Switching
- Understand ,configure and troubleshoot enhanced switching technologies such as VLANs, Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol(RSTP),Per VLAN Spanning Tree Plus Protocol (PVST+) and EtherChannel
- Understand, configure and troubleshoot first hop redundancy protocols (HSRP) in a switched network
- Understand ,configure and troubleshoot wireless routers and wireless clients
- Configure and troubleshoot routers in a complex routed IPv4 or IPv6 network using single-area OSPF ,multiarea OSPF and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol(EIGRP)
- Manage Cisco IOS software licensing and configuration files
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COORDINATOR - IPTCC
Dr. Elizaphan Muuro Maina(PhD),
Senior Lecturer, Department of Computing & Information Technology,
Coordinator Postgraduate Program, School of Engineering & Technology