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Network Administration and Troubleshooting

Networks are blamed for every problem nobody else can explain, and an administrator who cannot prove otherwise spends their career on other people's faults. This course builds that capability. Delegates work through addressing, subnetting and routing to the depth daily work requires, switching, virtual networks and the spanning tree behaviour that causes intermittent faults, and wireless deployment and interference. Services that everything depends on are covered: name resolution, address assignment and time. Structured troubleshooting is the core of the course, working from the symptom through layers to evidence rather than by guesswork. Monitoring, capacity and documentation follow. The course closes on change control and on the outages caused by a change nobody recorded.

5 day course

Course objectives

  • Apply addressing, subnetting and routing to daily work
  • Configure switching and virtual networks, and diagnose loop behaviour
  • Deploy wireless and diagnose interference and coverage problems
  • Administer name resolution, address assignment and time services
  • Troubleshoot from symptom through layers using evidence
  • Monitor capacity and document a network usefully
  • Apply change control so outages can be traced to a cause

Who should attend

  • Network administrators and technicians
  • IT support and infrastructure staff
  • System administrators with network responsibility
  • Security staff needing network fundamentals
  • Technicians moving into network roles

Course outline

  1. 01Blamed for everything nobody can explain
  2. 02Addressing, subnetting and routing
  3. 03Switching and virtual networks
  4. 04Intermittent faults and loop behaviour
  5. 05Wireless deployment and interference
  6. 06Name resolution, addressing and time services
  7. 07Structured troubleshooting
  8. 08Monitoring, documentation and change control

Scheduled sessions

Scheduled sessions for Network Administration and Troubleshooting
DatesVenueFormatPriceRegister
30 November to 4 December 2026Kampala, UgandaClassroomUSD 1,325 per delegate
14 to 18 December 2026Lusaka, ZambiaClassroomUSD 1,325 per delegate
21 to 25 December 2026Accra, GhanaClassroomUSD 1,325 per delegate
28 December 2026 to 1 January 2027OnlineOnlineR8,500 per delegate
15 to 19 March 2027Johannesburg, South AfricaClassroomR19,950 per delegate

Network Administration and Troubleshooting

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