Practical learning · 9 projects
Computer Networking (CCNA level): projects and labs
Learn by doing: labs for each module, a project for each level, a capstone and a project exam. Every step is checked, and your work stays on this device.
Beginner
- Lab1 h · 4 stepsLab: map your own networkUse four everyday commands on your own laptop or PC to map the network you are on: your IP address, your default gateway, the DNS server that turns names into addresses, and the routers your traffic passes through on the way to a website.Not started
- Lab1.5 h · 5 stepsLab: set up a small office switchIn Cisco Packet Tracer, set up the switch for a two-desk travel agency office: give it a name and passwords, save the configuration, connect two PCs, and watch the switch learn their MAC addresses and the PCs learn each other through ARP. Then write a small Python helper that finds which port a MAC address is on.Not started
- Lab1.5 h · 5 stepsLab: check a clinic's IP address sheetA diagnostic clinic in Pune keeps its device addresses in a sheet, and some PCs cannot reach the internet. Write the IPv4 maths yourself (masks, network and broadcast addresses, host ranges, same-subnet checks), then use it to find every wrong entry in the sheet.Not started
- Lab2 h · 5 stepsLab: a VLSM plan for a collegeAn engineering college in Coimbatore has one /24 for its two computer labs, the staff room, the office and a router link. Size each subnet, split blocks into equal subnets, build a VLSM plan largest first, list the gateway for each subnet, and number the IPv6 /64 LANs from the college's /48.Not started
- Project5 h · 7 stepsProject: IP plan and network for a CA firmA chartered accountancy firm in Ahmedabad is moving into a new office with three rooms: partners and staff, the articled assistants, and the front desk. Plan its addresses with VLSM in Python and fix an addressing policy, then build the network in Packet Tracer with one router, three switches and a PC per room, and prove that every room can reach the others.Not started
Expert
- Project7 h · 7 stepsProject: secure a bank branch networkA co-operative bank branch in Kolhapur has a staff LAN, a guest Wi-Fi for customers and one internet link. Write an ACL engine in Python that decides permit or deny the way a router does, then secure the branch in Packet Tracer: SSH version 2 only, port security on staff desks, an extended ACL that keeps guests away from staff systems, and PAT for the internet. Finish by reading the router's interfaces from a RESTCONF JSON reply.Not started
- Capstone14 h · 12 stepsCapstone: a college campus networkDesign, build, secure and document the network for a college campus in Bhubaneswar: staff, students, a computer lab and switch management on separate VLANs across two switches, a core router doing inter-VLAN routing and DHCP, OSPF to an edge router that runs PAT to the internet provider, an ACL that keeps students out of staff and management subnets, SSH-only management and port security. Plan it in Python first, and hand over a design document with the saved Packet Tracer file.Not started
- Project exam1.5 h · 8 tasksProject exam: CCNA practiceA timed, hands-on practice exam in the style of the CCNA 200-301: four calculation tasks in Python (subnetting, VLSM, route selection and EUI-64) and four configuration tasks in Packet Tracer for a logistics company in Chennai (VLANs and a trunk, OSPF, PAT and SSH). You have 90 minutes; no hints or answers are shown until you hand it in.Not taken