Cisco CCNA Real World Project - Network Upgrade in 5 Days (Udemy.com)
Learn how to upgrade a real network in 5 days and boost your skills in preparation for your Cisco certification exam
Created by: Marious Kuriata
Last updated October 2025
What you will learn
- Identify network project components
- Understand how to upgrade core switches
- Create a network diagram
- Upgrade a SOHO Cisco based network
- Add a new switch to the network
- Implement Etherchannels
- Perform a failover test
- Adjust logging and monitoring
- Implement IP SLA
- Troubleshoot basic network issues
- Create documentation
- Install and test a UPS
How it compares
Against the other 165 rated Udemy courses in Networking on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 38% of them
- Reviews214#112 of 166 by number of reviews
- Length6.5 hoursshorter than 65% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2025more recently than 71% of them
Course Description
UPS, cables, racks, failover tests, network diagrams, troubleshooting... things that you need to know and will struggle to find in a book!
You know that passing a Cisco exam is not enough, right? You need some real world experience. I appreciate it might not be easy. That's why I came up with this unique idea and recorded a real network refresh project. I use a special action camera so you can see all details (racking, cabling etc.).
If you are CCNA certified or you are studying towards that exam, you will get a chance to see a lot of topics from your book in action. This training will show you a network refresh project step by step. When things go wrong... I keep recording. There are no hidden or preconfigured tasks here. You will see everything live!
CCNA Real World Project covers:
Overview of project processes
Network diagrams
MS Project
Replacing core Cisco switches
Stacking Cisco switches
Etherchannels
IP SLA and failover
Firewalls
Adding a new gigabit switch
Racking and cabling
Troubleshooting network issues
Failover tests
Logging and monitoring
SNMP
Back-ups
Documentation
UPS testing & installation
...and much more
Contents and Overview
In over 6 hours of content, including 50 lectures, this course covers the full cycle of a simple network project. You will find quizzes and challenges to allow you to test your knowledge before moving to the next section.
We start from scratch discussing an existing network diagram and our expectations. I show you new devices and how to configure them.
There is a section dedicated to every single day of the project, showing you every task in detail, including hardware installation and cabling.
Check out a real Cisco project. Gain some experience today.
Join now and learn how I completed a real network project in 5 days.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
214 Reviews
Marious Kuriata
Hi, my name is Marious. I have been working in IT for 20 years (web design, networking, security, tutoring, management).
My courses/certifications: MCSE, MCSA, MCTS, MCP, Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCNA Security, CCSP, Zyxel Security Professional,
Postgraduate studies in networking & security. A Master's Degree in Human Resources.
20 years of experience in IT. This has included designing, troubleshooting and installing networks, Cisco routers, switches, access points and firewalls (ASA Firewalls, Aironet, VLANs, routing protocols RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, spanning tree, VPNs, Cyberoam, IPS/IDS, Riverbed), Previous experience includes Microsoft systems, IT Manager, Technical Trainer (Cisco, Comptia, Microsoft) and Private Tutor.
CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate (2009)
CCNP Cisco Certified Network Professional (2010)
CCNA_SEC Cisco Certified Network Associate Security (2012)
CCNA_ASA Cisco ASA Firewalls Specialist: Security and VPNs (2013)
CCSP (CCNP Sec) – Cisco Certified Security Specialist (2013)
ZCNP ZyXEL Certified Network Professional (2012)
MCSE Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (2011)
MCP Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows Server) (2009)
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Reviews
By Stephen Owenson on 6/12/2017
I didn't really find the course useful and at times I found it quite hard to follow. Contains more about the project itself rather than the setting up and configuring of Cisco equipment which was quite disappointing.
By Tarik Jaaka on 4/9/2016
If anyone studying for CCNA or wanted to become a Network Engineer this is a must see Course it has a valuable information That Covers the Network Infrastructure upgrade process step by step. I really Enjoyed watching this course :)
By Ernest Chan on 2/22/2016
Awesome, Five Stars Course! Author showed you how to upgrade the network on his real server cabinet. The project procedures were introduced (Initiation > Planning and Design Executing Monitoring and Controlling > Closing) when you handled a network upgrade project. Besides this, the real live tasks were showed such as analysis, modify & installation of the core switches. Learn a lot from this course and it is worth to enroll!
By Prashant Markose on 11/22/2015
Information & content presented was really informative. It gave me confidence in going ahead with any type of Network Migration involving planning, information collection. The Presenter was really knowledgable and it will be great if he can present on additional topics like cloud security, integration of only specific domain devices. Thanks a lot for the very informative knowledge sharing done with real practical lab.
By Joao Muniz on 7/8/2015
Another excellent course by Marious. As always, a lot of troubleshooting, hard work, up-to-date contents, surprises and tons of fun. Marious is always adding new contents to his courses and answering to every question. This is the right course for any one that wants to become a better network engineer.
By Hyder Khalil on 6/28/2015
This was an enjoyable and informative course. Without going in to too much detail, Marious covers a range of steps that would be taken in performing a typical network upgrade. What I liked best was Marious' teaching style. It's rather like having a more experienced colleague walk you through the procedures, as opposed to the traditional student/lecturer format.
By Carlos Sabino on 6/28/2015
I'm enrolled in various courses of Marious Kurita because they are simply the best in matter of real world networking. As IT Coordinator of a large company present in multiple countries all over the world, this course helped me to keep in mind something really important, "no single point of failure" which is a very importante topic and will make you sleep better! Inspite of my twenty years of experience as IT System Administrator and Security, reviewing this lectures with Marious, with his unique style, never boring, even making us laugh with his stories, helped me to follow and apply some forgotten best practices.
By Bertram Attles on 6/24/2015
I really enjoy Mario's course, as a person getting into networking, you need valuable information for a person who has real world experience. I enjoy listening to Mario who takes time to explain and make you feel comfortable with the information he is presenting. I look forward to taking more courses from him in the future.
By Seb Comas on 6/12/2015
Great course for those who do not have access to real equipment as it will give them the opportunity to get a little bit more familiar with network devices and also learn about network project management life cycle. -ICND1 level or similar recommended in order to be able to follow the course as at some point it even exceeds CCNA level -Marious is always available to answer any question or doubt regarding his courses and to provide support if needed - Quality/price is definitely worth the value like all his other courses
By Cisco on 6/9/2015
The content of this course is superb. It clarified a lot of the questions that I had from reading some the different ccna books,video course that are out there. Being a good teacher is more than just knowing the subject, it also involves being able to communicate the subject to the students. And sir marious definitely excels in both areas.I really appreciate that he doesn't hide behind a PowerPoint he show everything clear.this is a unique real world senario course it help student who didn,t work in real environment yet dont worry after taking this course indivual will fell like master.thanks to marious for having superb course will get more in future as well.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100












