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The networking notebook

63 days.
A network of knowledge.

CCNA study notes based primarily on Jeremy’s IT Lab learning videos. Credit to Jeremy’s IT Lab for the lessons, explanations, and diagrams that helped shape these notes.

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63study days
66lesson parts
7topic groups

63 of 63 days

Network foundations

Days 1–15
Day 01

Network Devices

1 lessonDay 02

Interfaces and Cables

1 lessonDay 03

TCP/IP Model

1 lessonDay 04

Intro to the CLI

1 lessonDay 05

Ethernet LAN Switching (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 06

Ethernet LAN Switching (pt 2)

1 lessonDay 07

IPv4 Addressing (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 08

IPv4 Addressing (pt 2)

1 lessonDay 09

Switch Interfaces

1 lessonDay 10

IPv4 Header

1 lessonDay 11

Routing Fundamentals (pt 1) / Static Routing (pt 2)

2 lessonsDay 12

The life of a packet

1 lessonDay 13

Subnetting (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 14

Subnetting (pt 2)

1 lessonDay 15

Subnetting (pt 3 VLSM)

1 lesson

Switching & VLANs

Days 16–23
Day 16

(VlANs pt 1)

1 lessonDay 17

(VlANs pt 2)

1 lessonDay 18

(VlANs pt 3)

1 lessonDay 19

DTP / VTP (Not in Syllabus)

1 lessonDay 20

Spanning Tree Protocol (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 21

Spanning Tree Protocol (pt 2)

1 lessonDay 22

Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol

1 lessonDay 23

Etherchannel

1 lesson

Routing & addressing

Days 24–35
Day 24

Dynamic Routing

1 lessonDay 25

RIP & EIGRP

1 lessonDay 26

OSPF (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 27

OSPF (pt 2)

1 lessonDay 28

OSPF (pt 3)

1 lessonDay 29

First Hop Redundancy Protocols

1 lessonDay 30

TCP & UDP

1 lessonDay 31

IPV6 (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 32

IPV6 (pt 2)

1 lessonDay 33

IPV6 (pt 3)

1 lessonDay 34

Standard ACLs

1 lessonDay 35

Extended ACLs

1 lesson

Network services

Days 36–47
Day 36

CDP & LLDP

1 lessonDay 37

NTP

1 lessonDay 38

DNS

1 lessonDay 39

DHCP

1 lessonDay 40

SNMP

1 lessonDay 41

Syslog

1 lessonDay 42

SSH

1 lessonDay 43

FTP & TFTP

1 lessonDay 44

NAT (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 45

NAT (pt 2)

1 lessonDay 46

QoS (pt 1)

1 lessonDay 47

QoS (pt 2)

1 lesson

Network security

Days 48–51
Day 48

Security Fundamentals

1 lessonDay 49

Port Security

1 lessonDay 50

DHCP Snooping

1 lessonDay 51

Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI)

1 lesson

Architecture & wireless

Days 52–58
Day 52

LAN Architectures

1 lessonDay 53

WAN Architectures

1 lessonDay 54

Virtualization & Cloud / Containers / VRF

3 lessonsDay 55

Wireless Fundamentals

1 lessonDay 56

Wireless Architectures

1 lessonDay 57

Wireless Security

1 lessonDay 58

Wireless Configuration

1 lesson

Network automation

Days 59–63
Day 59

Intro to Network Automation

1 lessonDay 60

JSON, XML, & YAML

1 lessonDay 61

REST API

1 lessonDay 62

Software-Defined Networking

1 lessonDay 63

Ansible, Puppet, Chef, & Terraform

1 lesson

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