Managing Industrial Networks with Cisco Networking Technologies (IMINS)
Course Prerequisites
It is recommended, but not required, to have the following skills and knowledge before attending this course:
- College degree or non-degreed qualified technician with two to three years’ experience or equivalent industry experience
- Basic understanding of networking and industrial fundamentals or attend ELT to achieve that level:
- Networking Fundamentals for Industrial Control Systems (INICS)
- Control Systems Fundamentals for Industrial Networking (ICINS)
Course Description
Managing Industrial Networks with Cisco Networking Technologies (IMINS) is a lab-based course which helps students with the foundational skills needed for the management and administration of networked industrial control systems. The IMINS course helps plant administrators, control system engineers and traditional network engineers understand networking technologies that are needed in todays connected plants and enterprises. This course also helps you prepare for the Cisco Industrial Networking Specialist Certification exam (exam ID 200-401) and qualify for the Cisco Industrial Networking Specialist certification. This course is job-role specific and enables you to achieve competency and skills to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot industrial network systems while helping to ensure network availability, reliability, and Internet security throughout your company. Students will be exposed to multiple industrial network technologies as well as products from Cisco and other industrial suppliers including Rockwell Automation.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Identify Cisco and Rockwell Automation industrial networking solutions
- Describe Cisco Industrial Ethernet switches, Allen-Bradley Stratix switches from Rockwell Automation, and Cisco Connected Grid switches and routers
- Interpret design and drawings
- Recognize zone and cell topologies
- Install industrial network components
- Deploy industrial network components
- Perform basic maintenance tasks on the network
- Troubleshoot network and control issues
Job Roles
Control system engineers and Traditional network engineers