RPI-Schenectady Academy Support Center Instructor Training Center Academy Update October 6, 2015 David Kotfila, Bernadette O’Brien, Marie Zwickert

2 RPI-Schenectady Academy Update - Agenda  Introductions  Professional Development  Summer Training  Conference  New Curriculum Update Introduction to Networks 5.1 CCNA-Security v2.0 IT Essentials  Marie –Cisco Update  Equipment  Netspace  Questions

3 RPI-Schenectady Introductions RPI-Schenectady ASC ITC David Kotfila - RPI Bernadette O’Brien – Schenectady Marie Zwickert – Cisco Networking Academy Instructor Trainers Karen Woodard, Michael Knichel, John Rullan, Robert Cannistra, Arnold Ramsaran, Aaron Conn, John Mowry, Kevin Shannon

4 RPI-Schenectady Professional Development  Tuesday October 27, IPv6 3:30 pm  November 4, Ipv6 3:30 pm  Delivered via WEBEX. Headset needed for best participation  Registration for all classes at Additional PDs offered starting in January.

5 RPI-Schenectady RPI-Schenectady Conference June 14-15, 2016  RPI Campus, Troy, NY  Cost: $150--includes breakfast and lunch both days and instructor appreciation event.  Technical topics include: CCNA and IT Essentials Labs, IPv6, EtherChannel, Security, ACLs, New technologies, Updates from Cisco, Best Practices, and much more...  Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn, Troy, NY  SAVE THE DATE!

6 RPI-Schenectady Conference Questions?  Registration Site will be available early in 2016  Questions?

7 RPI-Schenectady Summer Training 2016  IT Essentials June 27 – July 1  CCNA Security TBA  CCNA 1 Introduction to Networks July  CCNA 2 Routing and Switching Essentials July 18 – 22  CCNA 3 Scaling Networks July  CCNA 4 Connecting Networks August  CCNA Virtual Boot Camp August (FREE)

8 RPI-Schenectady Free Summer 2016 Instructor Camps  CCNA Virtual instructor boot camp for those who want to pass the cert exam (or enhance their skills and interact with other instructors) Discount vouchers for CCENT and CCNA for participants.  CCNA Security instructor class at RPI.  Trained instructors may attend any new instructor class to retool on the new curriculum.

9 RPI-Schenectady Feedback about Instructor Camps?  What do you want?  How can we meet your needs?

10 RPI-Schenectady Curriculum Update Introduction to Networks v5.1 In response to the concerns from the community. The academy released an updated version of Introduction to Networks.  Streamlined -Reduction in the length of the course Extra material beyond the scope of the ITN put in an appendix Labs shortened  Extensive use of short videos to demonstrate key topics  Removal of duplicate content  Some content rewritten to reduce the number of words

11 RPI-Schenectady Curriculum Update Introduction to Networks v5.1  Graphics reworked and improved  Sections rewritten to provide more clarity  All labs and Packet Tracer activities designated as either recommended or optional (find this listing in the Planning guides)  Transport Layer chapter moved to after the Network Layer chapters  All changes documented in the Release Notes – found in Instructor resources

12 RPI-Schenectady Curriculum Update Introduction to Networks v5.1 Release Notes

13 RPI-Schenectady Curriculum Update Introduction to Networks v5.1  All assessments have been updated  Appendix content not assessed Where to find resources-demo  Release Notes  Scope and Sequence  Activity Map  Instructor Planning Guides  Instructor Power Points

14 RPI-Schenectady Curriculum Update CCNA-Security v2.0  Academy curriculum is updated and released.  Book is released.  ate/ccna_security/index.html ate/ccna_security/index.html  Last day to test on the old exam: November 30, 2015

15 RPI-Schenectady CCNA-Security v2.0 Topics  ons/security_ccna/iins-v3/exam- topics?utm_source=cdc&utm_medium=lnk&utm_camp aign=cdc-inbnd ons/security_ccna/iins-v3/exam- topics?utm_source=cdc&utm_medium=lnk&utm_camp aign=cdc-inbnd

16 RPI-Schenectady IT Essentials Training and Mapping to CompTIA A+ 801/802 Certification  Model: 6 weeks long, 5 days a week, 8 hours a day for a total of 240 hours  Still having students fail even after 3 attempts  What is the percentage overlap between ITE and 801/2?  What testing software do you use? How successful?

17 RPI-Schenectady Marie Zwickert See separate slide deck

18 RPI-Schenectady Equipment

19 RPI-Schenectady Equipment Example: routers running IOS 15.x and switches for a total of $ networking devices for $3000! Another vendor selling 2811 routers running IOS 15.x for $80 each. $100 for Enterprise version of the software switches for $60

20 RPI-Schenectady NetSpace  Importance of using NetSpace.  Where are the Course Resources?  Chrome no longer supports java so therefore does not allow the use of the packet tracer questions in the assessments.  Recommended - recent versions of Firefox and IE  Change in how to re-enable incomplete assessments  Problems with site in September have been addressed  Add Bernadette as an ASC support specialist at your academy.

21 RPI-Schenectady Questions?

22 RPI-Schenectady Corporate Partners  Atrion  Red River  Core BTS  Nfrastructure  Annese & Associates  CloudSmartz  Custom Computers  These companies cannot hire enough qualified individuals!

23 RPI-Schenectady Contact Us  David Kotfila  Bernadette O’Brien  Marie Zwickert