Welcome to this CBT Nuggets course on Cisco's Enterprise Networking Core exam,
which we affectionately refer to as the ON Core.
My name is Jeff Kish and I'm going to be one of the instructors that's part of
this course
as we move towards trying to study for and pass the ON Core.
Now many of us are here because we have our eyes on the professional level cert
, the CCNP, and the prize networking.
For those of us who are just getting started on this journey, we're going to
need to pass the core exam as well as
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one of many specialization certifications that Cisco has available.
And once we pass the core exam and one of those specializations, at that point
we will be CCNP Enterprise Networking Certified.
Some of us might have already passed that specialization, others of us are
going to take the ON Core first and then get the specialization.
Cisco doesn't care the order in which we take these exams, it's just a matter
of making sure that we do knock out both of them in order to get the CCNP.
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Now the way this course is structured is like other CBT courses.
We're going to have a list of videos presented in a modular skill-based format
here.
And so each of our pages here on our platform is going to have many videos
along with quiz questions and at the very end of each skill a challenge.
One of the key takeaways I want to have from this conversation is making sure
that we pay attention to those challenges.
Because by the time we get to the end of a skill we might be a little bit tired
and be inclined to just say I'm just going to watch the solution to that and WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
and be inclined to just say I'm just going to watch the solution to that and
move on to the next skill.
If needed, take a break, take a breath, whatever we need to, but make sure that
the challenges are part of our studying.
It's one of the best ways to solidify the knowledge that we gained in that
skill and for that matter to make sure that we understand everything that we
learned.
Because sometimes we might not have absorbed everything quite as much as we
thought.
Furthermore, once you've advanced into the course, you can always come back and WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
Furthermore, once you've advanced into the course, you can always come back and
perform those challenge sections alone just to make sure that that information
is staying fresh in your mind.
So the challenges are a very important part of this course.
I wanted to make sure that we took a moment to address that and to encourage
everybody to not only go through all of the content within the skill.
But yes, that challenge section at the end is going to be a big part of what we
're doing here.
Now as far as this skill is concerned, we are going to start by looking at
domain one of the encore blueprint. WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:900000
domain one of the encore blueprint.
We are going to be taking a look at network design.
Network design is a really fascinating facet to not only just the CCNP course
ware, but also real world scenarios.
A lot of us might one day want to be network architects or maybe you are in the
network architect role already.
And network design is more than just going to Cisco and saying, hey, which
switch should I deploy?
It's a matter of zooming out and making sure that we understand how the big
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Because it's really easy on the CLI to say, okay, I know how to configure
something, but how is a global enterprise network supposed to come together?
And that's exactly what this design section of the encore is going to teach us.
So with that, let's go ahead and dive right into the encore content starting
here with domain one.