Certified Allied Telesis Professional (CAP-RS)

Professionals who are setting up complex networks based on Allied Telesis core and edge switches. The training is designed to provide to all participants the opportunity to do practical tests and to obtain the necessary knowledge to manage and troubleshoot these products in complex environments.

Certified Allied Telesis Technician (CAT)

This course is aimed at engineers installing and configuring the Allied Telesis core and edge switches. The objective of this 3-day course is to transfer knowledge to those customers who are typically selling installation and maintenance services to their customers and thus need to ensure that they have enough skilled technicians to do so. The course is designed to give the participants the theory behind configuration tasks and the opportunity to try the configurations. Simple networking debugging scenarios will be explained and will be tried.

Attendees will be required to pass an on-line exam on completion of the course. The title of Certified Allied Telesis Professional (CAP) will be awarded to all attendees who receive a passing score on the exam.

After completion of the course the course attendees will be able to:

• Describe the differences between layer 2 and layer 3 switches.
• Understand how networks are architecturally split into the edge and the core sections.
• Identify the key criteria for deploying layer 2 or layer 3 switches in a basic network design
• Understand the operation and utilization of VLANs on all the important Allied Telesis edge and core switches.
• Understand the concepts and implementation of the different Spanning Tree Protocol implements available and how they can improve network stability.
• Understand the concepts of Port Aggregation and how they are implemented on the various Allied Telesis switches.
• Understand the concepts and implementation of various routing protocols on the Allied Telesis core switches and routers.
• Understand and use the different configuration methods available for Allied Telesis edge and core switches, using the CLI.

Introduction Service and Support Hardware overview Operations

• Serial port and client software configuration
• User name and password concept
• levels of access, command line structure, and function keys
• help, command completion
• storage architecture ( running, startup, current, flash, etc). What is booted, etc.
• licensing
• file system and commands, external device support
• reboot, restart of switches
• basic “show” commands
• set, do, exec command concepts
• firmware upgrade
• L2/L3 switching concepts, and how they affect management
• configure initial IP and GUI, and TELNET (SSH)
• port names, ranges and level 1 configurations.
• switching
• IP ICMP commands
• Power-over-Ethernet (edge switches)
• DSL and E1 overview
• Lab session

VLAN

• types, terminology and uses
• VID
• port VLAN
• trunk VLAN
• private VLAN
• Lab session

Spanning Tree

• Concept and description of different types
• RSTP
• MSTP
• Lab session

Trunking/Aggregation

• Terminology and static vs. LACP
• static aggregation configuration
• LACP configuration
• Lab session

Stacking (only the edge switches)

• Different stacking concepts
• configuration
• Lab session

Routing

• short overview IP, subnet, gateway
• static routing concept
• ports, and interface IP configuration syntax
• short dynamic routing overview

DNS, DHCP Internet utilities Debugging and troubleshooting

• event logging
• SNMP
• counters
• enabling debug

On-line certification exam