One of the major changes I made to this 4th edition for Version 2 of the Certifications was to rather dramatically break up the chapters! One of the things that has always bothered me in official ICND1 curriculums is these chapters that run about 200 pages long that cover a wealth of networking concepts all at once. I believe in studying a topic like this in small bite-sized chunks that are very focused to a particular technology.

Here is the list of chapters that resulted. This also gave me a great opportunity to create HD videos for each chapter, and to ensure there were plenty of review and Production Network Simulation questions for each topic.

Chapter 1 The Functions of Networking

Chapter 2 The OSI and TCP/IP Models

Chapter 3 LANS and Ethernet

Chapter 4 Operating Cisco IOS Software

Chapter 5 Switch Technologies

Chapter 6 VLANs and Trunks

Chapter 7 The TCP/IP Internet Layer

Chapter 8 IP Addressing and Subnets

Chapter 9 The TCP/IP Transport Layer

Chapter 10 The Functions of Routing

Chapter 11 The Packet Delivery Process

Chapter 12 Configuring a Cisco Router

Chapter 13 Static Routing

Chapter 14 Dynamic Routing Protocols

Chapter 15 OSPF

Chapter 16 DHCP and NAT

Chapter 17 Securing Cisco Devices

Chapter 18 Access Control Lists

Chapter 19 Introducing WAN Technologies

Chapter 20 Introducing IPv6