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Online Professional Develoment for NetAcad Instructors

The February IPD Week is over with a collection of high quality sessions.  The next IPD Week is from 3 to 7 May.

If you missed some of the sessions, you still have till 14 March to review the recordings/download materials and have your participation hours counted for the certificate of attendance.

- Understanding HTTP using Wireshark and Curl
- Network Infrastructure as a Code
- Packet Tracer 8 Physical Mode in CCNA 7.02
- Are you a NetAcad Wizard? Part 2
- New LMS Demo: Recent Enhancements
- Data Privacy, How concerned are you?
- Network Automation using Ansible Part 2 : Roles and Variables
- Streaming Telemetry for Network Infrastructure
- DevNet Associate: Filtering JSON Data (30 min)
- DevNet Associate: Generating JSON Data (30 min)

You can find all the resources here: https://cs.co/ipdcourse21 (login required)

CiscoLive Networking Academy Day - March/April 2021

Being part of Networking Academy gives instructors, teachers and ICT coordinators multiple opportunities per year to follow up the trends in the world of IT Infrastructure and Security, and how to implement it. Depending on your situation you may wish to register for one, two or three days. 

30 March - Networking Academy Day

This year the CiscoLive Networking Academy Day will take place on 30 March 2021.

• Keynote session from 2:30 to 4:30 PM CET 
• Technical Session on from 5 to 6 PM CET

The topics are relevant and inspiring for all active  and future  Cisco Academies. The Networking Academy day is (freely) accessible to anyone related to our program or who wants to learn more.

• Register for Academy Day Keynote
• Register for Academy Day Technical Session
• When registering, you will have access to the CiscoLive NetAcad Webex Event.
  Registrants will receive automated confirmation and a place blocker in their agenda for the sessions they registered for.

31 March and 1 April

• Cisco Live contains free and paid sessions, and are a great opportunity for Instructors that want to attend more in-depth technical sessions. 
• Register for CiscoLive Sessions

Full details and registration links are available on the event website

URL: https://netacad.cventevents.com/event/03cac226-6c80-4527-a0dc-5c005d7cc253/summary

Cisco IOS XE Programmability e-book

Cisco IOS XE Programmability e-book
Cisco IOS XE Programmability Automating Device Lifecycle Management

This book provides a summary of the general concepts of programmability supported by Cisco IOS XE. Many books on programmability assume the reader has a background in software development and understands fundamental concepts about how software is built. This book does not make these assumptions. Instead, it is primarily written for network engineers who are new to programmability and wish to understand the basic concepts be fore moving on to advanced topics. For engineers with some programmability experience, this book will summarize the specic capabilities of Cisco IOS XE.

URL: https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/enterprise-networks/nb-06-ios-xe-prog-ebook-cte-en.pdf

Practical Introduction to DevOps Practices and Tools - DGTL-BRKCLD-1003

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The new Devnet Associate Networking Academy Course and the Industrial Certification are very much related to DevOps, a set of norms and practices that enables the flow of work from development through operations. Here is very good introduction with demos that actually work, taken from CiscoLive. You need to login to CiscoLive to watch the presentation. Enroll for the Cisco NetAcad Europe North Instructor Training Campaign and select the DevASC instructor training.

Contents of the presentation

DevOps practices and tools help IT organizations deploy software releases quicker and with higher quality. We know that there is no magic solution that will prevent bugs from ever happening. However, the tighter alignment of the various groups within the IT organization (i.e. Development, QA, Operations, InfoSec), will get us as close as possible to ideal deployments. DevOps practices and tools will enable your organization to achieve that alignment. This talk will discuss high-level DevOps concepts as well as the tools that DevOps practitioners are using to achieve their goals like containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD piplines. This session will include numerous demonstrations of DevOps technologies to provide context and real-life examples.

Presenter
Christopher Jackson, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Original Session: Cisco Live 2020 Barcelona

 

URL
https://www.ciscolive.com/global/on-demand-library.html?search=BRKCLD-1003#/session/1573153538639001JjnfHyperlink
Log into CiscoLive

 

Further Reading

Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale

• Jez Humble, Joanne Molesky, B. O'Reilly
• Published 2014
• Engineering
• URL: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Lean-Enterprise%3A-How-High-Performance-Organizations-Humble-Molesky/4dc17904c4161d1063fb6f86c853cd2129a9b5b8

The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

• Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
• BizBook Lab
• Published 15 okt. 2014
• 348 p.

The DevOps Handbook:: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations

• Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
• IT Revolution Press
• 2016

Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit 

• Mary Poppendieck, ‎Tom Poppendieck - 2003
• Addison-Wesley
• 2013

 

 

Introduction to Automating ACI with Ansible - DEVNET-1797 - CiscoLive

Ansible plays an important part in the new DevNet Associate Certification. This presentation from CiscoLive gives you a very clear and practical introduction. The presenter is Thomas Renzy, Cisco Systems, Inc
For viewing the training video registration is required

 

URL: https://www.ciscolive.com/global/on-demand-library.html?search=ansible#/session/1564527382872001cBzY

Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is a Data Center Architecture with centralized programmability and policy driven capabilities. Ansible is a simple automation language that uses the concept of playbooks to automate configurations of ACI using modules designed for Ansible for configuration provisioning. In this session, we will introduce Ansible and concepts such as playbooks and modules. We will then look at demo of how Ansible can be used to automate ACI provisioning of Tenants as well as looking at deploying a three tier application. We finally will look at scaling ACI playbooks.

Start your network programmability journey -- Videos

"Start your network programmability journey" is a collection of more than twenty videos available on the Cisco DevNet Developer website. The videos offer overviews and insights into the relevant concepts and are filled with concrete examples. Slides of the presentations are available online. Code examples are available on GitHub.

Start your network programmability journey
URL: https://developer.cisco.com/video/net-prog-basics/
Login with NetAcad ID required

Module 1 - Introduction
How to be a Network Engineer in a Programmable Age - 1 video (16 minutes)

Module 2 - Programming Fundamentals
Data Formats - APIs - REST APIs - 6 videos (190+ minutes)

Module 3 - Network Device APIs
YANG, NETCONF, RESTCONF  - 5 videos -(110+ minutes)

Module 4 - Network Controllers
DNA Center Platform, ACI Programmig, Meraki Cloud - 7 videos (140+ minutes)

Module 5 - Application Hosting and the Network
Cloud, Fog, Edge, Linux  Guest Shell - 4 videos (75 minutes)

Module 6 - NetDevOps
Configuration Management, Orchestration, Ansible - 4 videos (60+ minutes)

 

Useful Python Libraries for Network Engineers -- YouTube

Cisco DevNet, Season 1, Talk 1 of NetDevOps Live! explores several useful Python on libraries for network engineers. Full details at http://bit.ly/2MDnuam 

VMware Learning Zone -- Complementary Offerings

VMware Learning Zone is an online digital library including over 1500 videos, 65 self-paced courses, and 12 Certification Exam Prep courses across all VMware solutions.

VMware Academy Instructors are entitled access to VMware Learning Zone for six months. This  Premium Subscription includes access to valuable content such as:

• The full Learning Zone video library
  - Advanced troubleshooting, configuration, and solution-oriented best practices videos
  - VMware Certified Professional exam preparation with 12 Exam Prep Courses (over 650 videos)

CML/ VIRL Virtual Hands-on Lab Workshop for NetAcad instructors

Cisco Modeling Labs

VIRL VIRTUAL HANDS-ON LAB WORKSHOP -- for NetAcad instructors

DATE: 12 JUNE 2020 via WEBEX -- INSTRUCTOR: ALAIN PIETERS

• GROUP EN - ENGLISH 9-10:30
• GROUP NE - NEDERLANDS 11-12:30
• GROUP FR - FRANCAIS - 14:15:30

Presentation & docs
URL: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BFr6iHNAgmws-Sd3d4svgB_IvPUQ3K0I?usp=sharing

Global IPD Week -- Webinars, Technical Sessions, Deep Dives, Updates, Best Practices

This week on 30 April and next week (until 8 May) there are a series of webinars giving updates for Cisco Networking Academy instructors.

Topics

• Understanding DNS using Wireshark - 6 May 2020
• Windows 10 Networking in IT Essentials - 7 May 2020
• Best Practices for Remote Instruction - 30 April 2020
• New CCNA Community Developed Packet Tracer Labs - 5 May 2020
• Webex Teams API and Hands-on with Python SDK - 6 May 2020
• CCNP Deep Dive - 7 May 2020
• Understanding Kill Chain - 7 May 2020
• Webex Teams API and Hands-on with Python SDK - 6 May 2020
• In-depth look at the DevNet Associate Certification - 7 May 2020

Register via NetAcad.com/ I'm Learning/ IPD Week: https://1040239.netacad.com/courses/863485

Topics offered by BiASC -- available  online on-demand 

• In-depth look at the DevNet Associate Certification & prepare for the DevAsc NetAcad Training
• In-depth look at the CyberSecurity Operations Certification & prepare for the CyberOps NetAcad Training

Register by email to <yvan.rooseleer@odisee.be>

 

IT ACADEMY DAY - NAMUR - 27 MARCH

BIASC members are invited to the IT Academy Day for coordinators and instructors organized by Henallux in Namur.
Every year we offer one opportunity to meet with experts regarding important IT Academy programmes for higher education and professional competence centers.

In view of health and safety issues BiASC is looking into possible alternatives for the event. Please continue registering and you will be informed in due time.

Schedule of the day

• 9h00: Breakfast
• 9h20: Palo Alto Networks Academy overview (Keith Cantillon, Palo Alto Networks)
• 10h00: Coffee & Networking
• 10h20: Red Hat Academy overview (Sandra Moldoveanu, Red Hat)
• 11h00-11h40: Introduction to VMWare NSX (Frederick Verduyckt, VMware)
• 12h00: Lunch & Networking
• 13h00: Workshop VMWare NSX (Frederick Verduyckt, VMware)
• 14h00: Workshop Red Hat (Rik Megens, Red Hat)
• 15h00: Workshop Palo Alto Networks App-ID (Keith Cantillon, Palo Alto Networks)
• 16h00: Closing Drink

Venue

Haute École de Namur-Liège-Luxembourg
Département technique IESN
Rue Joseph Calozet 19
5000 Namur
+32 (0)81 46 86 10

Registration
It is possible to enroll by clicking on this hyperlink 

 

Talent Connection Event - Be NetAcad Day - 24 April 2020 - Cisco BeLux

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In view of health and safety issues BiASC and Cisco NetAcad are looking into possible alternatives for the event planned on 24 April.  You will be informed of a new event in due time.

BiASC invites NetAcad students seeking for an internship or a job to the Talent Connection Event at the Cisco BeLux Office in Diegem on 24 April 2020.

On the same day there are numerous opportunities for Academy Coordinators and Instructors to connect to Cisco partners or attend specific deep dive technical sessions by experienced Cisco engineers.

All participants will be able to visit the Cisco TAC Labs and interact with real Cisco TAC professionals. There will be a student challenge to win 100% CCNA Certification Vouchers. 

Cisco Registration Tool for students, instructors and academy coordinators: http://tce20.chap-public.crate.farm/signup

List of all BiASC events for Networking Academies in the spring of 2020

URL: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2019/12/biasc-activities-workshops-conference-spring-2020.html

BiASC .be NetAcad Roadshow & Workshops 2020 -- Presentations

Here are the presentations for instructors and coordinators used at the .be NetAcad Roadshow 2020 

BiASC .Be NetAcad 2020 Roadshow 

PDF: Download BiASC .Be NetAcad 2020 Roadshow -- Feb-May 2020 -- v3-1

CCNA 7.0 Program Update Sep 2019

PPT: Download Program Update Special Session - CCNA v7

CCNA v7 - UI_Assessments and Other Features

PPT: Download CCNA v7 - UI_Assessments and Other Features

Packet Tracer v7.3 Presentation

PPT: Download Presentation Packet Tracer 7.3 for CCNAv7

ETW Python JSON DevNet DNA-C

PDF: Download Coding 1002-Getting Started with Python-DEVNET-1893a
PDF: Download Coding 1002 - Getting Started with Python- DEVNET-1893c
PPT: Download ETW DevNet Experimenting w Net Automation
PPT: Download REST API and JSON Encoded Data
PDF: Download Nb-06-ios-xe-prog-ebook-cte-en
PDF: Download Introduction to Cisco DNA-DEVNET-1234
PDF: Download Introduction to Cisco DNA-DEVNET-1234

CCNA Security 

PPT: Download CCNA7 Switch Security Configuration
ZIP: Download VPN and IPSec VPN Concepts
ZIP: Download Network Security Concepts

Competences & Skills

PDF: Download Getting the Skill Mix Right for the 20s-DEVLIT-4025

 

Formation d'instructeurs netacad - 2020

Netacad est un programme interactif de formation qui propose des contenus en lien avec de nombreuses thématiques de l'IT telles que l'infrastructure, la sécurité, la programmation et les systèmes d'exploitation.

L'accès que les académies netacad peuvent proposer à leurs apprenants nécessite que les instructeurs qui dispensent le contenu disposent d'une accréditation.

Les instructeurs accrédités se voient bénéficier de plusieurs atouts pour déployer une formation flexible au regard du profil de leurs apprenants: cours en ligne multilingues, évaluations alignées sur les contenus, préparations de cours, dont les supports de projection et les laboratoires pratiques. Le contenu et la formation bénéficient d'une mise à jour régulière et sont internationalement reconnus. Par ailleurs, les accréditations ont une validité mondiale.

En Wallonie, le programme se verrait accéléré si davantage d'instructeurs étaient accrédités. Soutenu par Digital Wallonia et par Cisco CSR, BiASC est en mesure de proposer à de nombreux instructeurs de participer à un programme d'accréditation, et ce, à des conditions particulièrement intéressantes, sans frais dans la plupart des cas.

IT Essentials, CCNA et CCNA security sont les programmes ciblés par cette action d'intensification.

Les profils de formateurs ciblés sont des formateurs liés à une académie netacad existante, des enseignants du secondaire, du supérieur, mais aussi des anciens étudiants ayant finalisé un parcours scolaire à finalité informatique.

N'hésitez pas à vous manifester afin d'obtenir d'information: Yvan Rooseleer <yvan.rooseleer@biasc.be>

BiASC Activities, Workshops & Conferences - Spring 2020

It is possible to enroll for workshops by clicking on this hyperlink 
More information clicking the link below.

In view of health and safety issues BiASC is looking into possible alternatives for the planned events. Please continue registering and you will be informed in due time.

During the spring season of 2020 BiASC will organize activities and workshops to prepare NetAcad instructors for the new curriculum. Also, we will take part in NetAcad Days at Cisco Live Barcelona and at the Cisco Offices in Amsterdam, Brussels and Iceland. 

It is strategically important that Networking Academy Instructors can train their students for the certification level to make sure they are empowered with up to date skills and ready for the job market, thus increasing their employability.

Instructors attending the bridging workshops and the ".Be Netacad" conference on 24 April (or equivalent) will be ready to teach the new materials of CCNAv7. Workshops are organized at multiple dates.  It is possible to specifically propose a date and location for groups of 6 attendees.

 

Invitation for Belgian Academies by Cisco and BiASC on 7 November

Image taken at previous Cisco NetAcad meeting in Cisco BeLux Office in June 2019

On 7 November 2019 BiASC and Cisco Networking Academy intend to organize plenary sessions and technical workshops in order to inform Cisco Networking Academies about the ongoing evolution in the certification landscape. The date has changed from 8 to 7 november.

SAVE THE DATE

• The main driving force of this event is the evolution of Cisco certification tracks and Networking Academy content.
• Apart from the keynotes the conference will be very practical with breakout sessions. 
• Sessions will be in three languages (Dutch, English and French)
  As English is the official language of Cisco Systems it is possible that international speakers will use the English language.
• Another similar event in the Dutch language will be organized at Cisco Amsterdam on 30 October. Also Belgian Academies are welcome there.

In the next few weeks you will be informed about the details of the Networking Academy meetings.

 

 

Invited by Cisco Amsterdam on 30 October

Photo taken at the previous Cisco NetAcad meeting in Amsterdam in January 2019

All Cisco Academies in the Benelux are invited by Cisco Networking Academy at the Cisco Main Office in Amsterdam on 30 October 2019.  SAVE THE DATE

• The main driving force of this event is the evolution of Cisco certification tracks and Networking Academy content.
• The target audience of this event is higher education. You have to be a teacher in higher education to attend. There will another event for other target groups.
• Apart from the keynotes the conference in Amsterdam will be very practical with breakout sessions. 
• All sessions will be in Dutch.
• More details about the event will be published soon

For Belgian Instructors the date of 30 October is not ideal, but all Benelux Cisco Academies are invited. A similar conference will be organized in Belgium on 8 November. SAVE THE DATE. One part of the day will be in French, another part will be in Dutch.
As English is the official language of Cisco Systems it is possible that international speakers will use the English language.

Unified CCNA Training for NetAcad Instructors

Existing NetAcad instructors will need to get acquainted with new topics of the new “unified CCNA” 

There exist recorded training sessions related to the new topics:

• Network programmability
• Wireless
• Security

To access the sessions register to the IPD week class and click on Technical sessions and locate the following topics:

• Puppet, Chef And Ansible
• Wireless Security
• Getting to know Cisco DNS center
• REST API & JSON Encoded Data
• WLAN Fundamentals

The PowerPoint materials and video recording are available for you to train yourself and prepare.

 

More sessions will be recorded and they will cover the new “ Unified CCNA”.  

Takeways from Cisco NetAcad Workshop Day - 14 June 2019

NetAcad Workshop Day at Cisco BeLux Office

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On 14 June about 70 Cisco Academy instructors, advisors and experts from Belgium and Luxemburg were present at the Cisco NetAcad Workshop Day. Key presenters were both Cisco specialists as well as NetAcad Instructors.

ALL PICS: https://photos.app.goo.gl/tRppwVzbZJoS7AHy6

Takeaways from the Keynotes and Breakout Sessions

• We are entering a new wave in Cisco industrial certification, CCNA becoming more generic, and allowing professionals to choose a specialism. What you have learned until now remains relevant.
• Career specializations are divided in the following groups: Enterprise; Security; Collaboration; DataCenter & Service Provider.
• The main Cisco NetAcad learning tracks will be divided in two groups: exploration and career-oriented.
• The career-ready tracks will be CCNA Enterprise; Security & CyberSecurity; Internet of Things & DevNet.

Next Academic Year 2019-2020

• Cisco Academies do not have to adapt their planned schedule for the following academic year.
• In November the new online courses will be ready for evaluation.
• BiASC and Cisco NetAcad will be providing timely information to member academies.
• From November onwards specific workshops will be planned by Cisco and BiASC to help everyone through the transition.

 

 

IoT Security Game

The IoT Security Game will be demonstrated during the next NetAcad event at the Cisco BeLux office on 14 June 2019
URL: https://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2019/03/cisco-belux-netacad-workshop-day-agenda-schedule.html

Cisco NetAcad into Gamification

The IoT Security Game is a Catch The Flag type of cybersecurity game, that helps students to reinforce their existing cybersecurity skills by applying them into an isolated networking environment with an end to end IoT System. In the game, students re-use all the White Hat Hacker skills they have learned in the IoT Security course to discover threats and recommend mitigation strategies in a set of challenging missions that mimic real world situations. To successfully solve the missions, students need to actively collaborate within their team, but to win, they need to compete on the score points with other teams. The competition aspects and the game dynamics create a fun and exciting activity that motivates students to learn more.

Elements necessary for the game

• Game Controller Raspberry Pi 
• Cloud Services Simulator Raspberry Pi 
• Kali Linux VM
• End Device
• Game Central Switch