For most people, the Cisco CCNA certification has been the first certification for which you learned about two core networking concepts: LAN switching (as performed by switches) and IP routing (as performed by routers). Of course, in real life, the
Layer 3 switches can be configured with a couple of different kinds of layer 3 interfaces: Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs), also called VLAN interfaces, as well as routed interfaces. Today’s lab gives you practice with both features, along with L3
Layer 3 switches, SVIs, routed ports, and L3 EtherChannels. Those topics alone make this lab fairly advanced for CCNA prep, not to mention that the L3 EtherChannel and routed ports are new to CCNA for this latest (2016) version of
