VLANs & Access Ports: Configure and Verify
Learn the switching fundamentals every CCNA candidate needs: create VLANs, name them, assign access ports and verify your work from the IOS CLI. Hands-on in a simulated Cisco console with show-command checks on every step.
Skills you will practice
- Cisco IOS CLI navigation; VLAN creation and naming; Access-port assignment (switchport mode access / access vlan); Verification with show vlan brief
- show interfaces status and show mac address-table
Certifications this lab maps to
This lab builds hands-on skills that appear on these certification exams. thinQtank Learning runs instructor-led training camps for each — click one to see upcoming classes.
The scenario
You are configuring access-layer switch SW1. Start by getting into privileged mode and seeing the starting state.
What you will do
- Get onto the switch and look around3 steps
Enter privileged EXEC · See the interfaces · Default VLAN
- Create the VLANs5 steps
Create VLAN 10 (Sales) · Create VLAN 20 (Engineering) · Verify the VLANs · Naming a VLAN · …
- Assign access ports6 steps
Fa0/1–Fa0/4 → VLAN 10 · Fa0/5–Fa0/8 → VLAN 20 · Verify port status · Inspect one port · …
- Verify and save6 steps
Review the config · Access port scope · Save the configuration · Why VLANs · …
How this lab works
A real Linux-style console. Commands run against real files, so hashes, hex dumps and comparisons give real results.
A file browser where you can place evidence into the lab, either the file provided or one of your own.
Reset a single step, a whole task or the entire lab. The environment is rebuilt so you can try again cleanly.
Progress saves after every step. Close the tab and come back later; your files and answers are waiting.