After completing Cisco CCDA: Optimizing by Design, the user should be able to:

	Improve network security
	Enhance QoS
	Provide special features such as queuing and load balancing
	Provide redundancy
	Provide alternative paths

Quality of Service

	Defining QoS
	The stages of QoS implementation

Implementing QoS

	QoS in the network
	Queuing
	FIFO
	Priority
	Custom
	Weighted Fair
	IP Precedence
	Traffic shaping
	Traffic policing
	RSVP
	QoS examples

Cisco-Specific Optimizing

	QoS
	Load balancing

This course has the following features:

	Exercises that allow users to explore how a course topic applies to network design
	A file containing the text of the exercises
	Activities that allow users to apply concepts in an interactive questioning environment
	A glossary
	A Skill Assessment

	Cisco CCNA certification or equivalent experience
	Cisco CCDA: Internetworking Review (CCDA01)
	Cisco CCDA: LAN Networking (CCDA02)
	Cisco CCDA: WAN Networking (CCDA03)
	Cisco CCDA: Introduction to Design (CCDA04)
	Cisco CCDA: Examining Existing Networks (CCDA05)
	Cisco CCDA: Designing LANs (CCDA06)
	Cisco CCDA: Designing WANs (CCDA07)
	Cisco CCDA: Specific Design Issues (CCDA08)

Cisco CCDA: Testing and Managing (CCDA10)

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