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1). Be Certifiable! The Basics Of MCSE And MCP By : James Croydon
It is not always who you know, but what you know. That is why obtaining Microsoft certification can be a valuable asset to your career. Of course, it does depend on what career path you want to take as to whether you want to get either MCSE training or MCP training or anything else for that matter. So what do those abbreviations MCSE and MCP stand ...
2). Boost Your Career And Benefit From A Microsoft Certification Or Two Or Three! By : James Croydon
You went to college and thought you were prepared for the job market. If you are going for entry-level work, yeah, you are prepared. However, to really get ahead, you need Microsoft certification, whether it is an MCP, MCSA, MCSE or any other string of letters. Quite a few people will go for multiple certifications to broaden their experience and s...
3). CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Assembling Your Cisco Home Lab By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
A CCNA or CCNP candidate who wants to be totally prepared for their exams is going to put together a home lab to practice on. With used Cisco routers and switches more affordable and plentiful then ever before, there's really no excuse to not have one!
With the many different models available, there is some understandable confusion amo...
4). CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: The VLAN.DAT File By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
CCNA and CCNP candidates who have their own Cisco home labs often email me about an odd situation that occurs when they erase a switch's configuration. Their startup configuration is gone, as they expect, but the VLAN and VTP information is still there!
Sounds strange, doesn't it? Let's look at an example. On SW1, we run show vlan brie...
5). CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: Cisco Switching Modes By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
To pass the CCNA exam and earn this important certification, you’ve got to know switching inside and out. While you’re learning all the basic switching theory, make sure to spend some time with the one of three switching modes Cisco routers can use.
Store-and-Forward is exactly what it sounds like. The entire frame will be stored befor...
6). CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Passing the BCMSN exam and getting one step closer to the CCNP certification means learning and noticing details that you were not presented with in your CCNA studies. (Yes, I know – you had more than enough details then, right?) One protocol you’ve got to learn more details about is VTP, which seemed simple enough in your CCNA studies! Part of lea...
7). CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization And The OSPF Null Interface By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
CCNP exam success, particularly on the BSCI exam, demands you understand the details of route summarization. This skill not only requires that you have a comfort level with binary conversions, but you have to know how and where to apply route summarization with each individual protocol.
You also have to know the "side effects" of route...
8). CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Getting Started With HSRP By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Defined in RFC 2281, HSRP is a Cisco-proprietary protocol in which routers are put into an HSRP router group. Along with dynamic routing protocols and STP, HSRP is considered a high-availability network service, since all three have an almost immediate cutover to a secondary path when the primary path is unavailable.
One of the routers...
9). CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: HSRP MAC Addresses And Timers By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
To earn your CCNP certification and pass the BCMSN exam, you've got to know what HSRP does and the many configurable options. While the operation of HSRP is quite simple (and covered in a previous tutorial), you also need to know how HSRP arrives at the MAC address for the virtual router - as well as how to configure a new MAC for this virtual rout...
10). CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: QoS Service Types By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
To pass the CCNP exams, you’ve got to master Quality of Service, and the first step in doing so is knowing the differences between the different QoS types.
Now this being Cisco, we can't just have one kind of QoS! We've got best-effort delivery, Integrated Services, and Differentiated Services. Let's take a quick look at all three.
11). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Stuck-In-Active Routes By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Passing the BSCI exam and earning your CCNP is all about knowing the details, and when it comes to EIGRP SIA routes, there are plenty of details to know. A quick check in a search engine for "troubleshoot SIA" will bring up quite a few matches. Troubleshooting SIA routes is very challengin in that there's no one reason they occur.
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12). Certification Q&A: Types Of Certifications To Consider For Computer-Related Careers By : Cai Einarson
* What kinds of certifications should I consider for a PC Specialist career?
As a PC Specialist, people will rely on your specialized computer training and skills to keep the office running smoothly. You must have the following certifications:
• PC Specialist Certificate
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
•...
13). Cisco / MCSE Exam Study: Creating A Road Map To Success By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Planning for success on the CCNA, CCNP, and other Cisco exams is much like taking a trip in your car. You've got to plan ahead, accept the occasional detour, and just keep on going until you get there. But what do you do before you get started?
Create a road map - for success.
If you were driving from one side of the count...
14). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Attending A Video Boot Camp By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
When you're studying for the CCNA and CCNP exams, you've got a lot of different choices when it comes to training. One popular choice is choosing one of the many "boot camps" and five-day in-person courses that are out there. I've taught quite a few of these, and while many of them are good, they do have drawbacks.
Of course, one is c...
15). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Creating A Study Plan By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Whether you're just starting to think about passing the CCNA or CCNP exams, or you've been on the certification track for a while, you've got to have a plan for success. If you wanted to drive your car from Florida to California, you'd create a plan to get there. You'd get a map and decide how far you wanted to drive per day, and maybe even make so...
16). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification: Introduction To BGP Attributes By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
BGP is one of the most complex topics you'll study when pursuing your CCNP, if not the most complex. I know from personal experience that when I was earning my CCNP, BGP is the topic that gave me the most trouble at first. One thing I keep reminding today's CCNP candidates about, though, is that no Cisco technology is impossible to understand if yo...
17). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification: OSPF E2 vs. E1 Routes By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
OSPF is a major topic on both the CCNA and CCNP exams, and it's also the topic that requires the most attention to detail. Where dynamic routing protocols such as RIP and IGRP have only one router type, a look at a Cisco routing table shows several different OSPF route types.
R1#show ip route
Codes: C - connected, S - static, I - IGRP, ...
18). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification: How And Why To Build An Etherchannel By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
CCNA and CCNP candidates are well-versed in Spanning-Tree Protocol, and one of the great things about STP is that it works well with little or no additional configuration. There is one situation where STP works against us just a bit while it prevents switching loops, and that is the situation where two switches have multiple physical connections.
19). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Exam Tutorial: Five Debugs You Must Know By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
To pass the BSCI exam and move one step closer to CCNP certification success, you've got to know how and when to use debug commands to troubleshoot and verify network operations. While you should never practice debug commands on a production network, it's important to get some hands-on experience with them and not rely on "router simulators" and bo...
20). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Setup: How To Configure Reverse Telnet By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Occasionally, during your CCNA and CCNP studies, you'll run into a term that just doesn't quite make sense to you. (Okay, more than occasionally!) One such term is "reverse telnet". As a Cisco certification candidate, you know that telnet is simply a protocol that allows you to remotely connect to a networking device such as a router or switch. But...
21). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Buying And Configuring An Access Server By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
A Cisco access server is generally the last item a CCNA or CCNP candidate has on their mind when they're putting together a home lab. The thinking tends to be that since this router isn't really doing anything in the production part of your practice lab, it's not really important.
Once you have more than two devices in your home lab, t...
22). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Cabling Your Access Server By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
A Cisco home lab is an invaluable study tool when you're preparing for CCNA and CCNP exam success. Once you've gotten a couple of routers and switches, you'll quickly get tired of moving that blue console cable every time you want to configure a different device. The solution to this problem is purchasing and configuring an access server (AS).
23). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Configuring An Access Server By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
As your CCNA / CCNP home lab expands, an access server such as the Cisco 2509 or 2511 is one of the best investments you can make. In this article, we'll look at the basic configuration for an access server and discuss how to connect to the other routers and switches in your pod through the AS.
Here's part of a configuration from one o...
24). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Planning Ahead For IE Study By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Candidates preparing to pass the CCNP exams are putting together Cisco home labs like never before. With CCNA and CCNP home lab equipment more affordable than ever, candidates have realized the importance of working on real Cisco routers and switches on the way to earning their certifications.
One question I get often from CCNP candida...
25). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Routing On A Frame Relay Switch By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
When you're preparing for CCNA and CCNP exam success, the best investment you can make is to put together your own home lab. There is no better way to learn Cisco technologies and prepare for the CCNA, BSCI, BCMSN, CIT, and other exams than by working with the many protocols and services you'll need to master in order to pass the exams.
26). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: The (Many) Cable Types And Their Purposes By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
One of the most common questions I get from CCNA and CCNP candidates who are setting up their own home labs is "What cables will I need?" The answer is "It depends." As you know from your exam studies, the physical layout of your lab is what determines the cables you'll need. Let's take a look at the most common home lab cable types and when you wi...
27). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: The 2503 Router By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
I know from experience that part of the excitement and anxiety of putting together your own CCNA / CCNP home lab is deciding what to buy! While you can make a workable home lab out of almost any combination of Cisco routers and switches, some routers are better suited for home lab work than others because they can fill multiple roles.
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28). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Using 2520 Routers By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
I know from experience that part of the excitement and anxiety of putting together your own CCNA / CCNP home lab is deciding what to buy! While you can make a workable home lab out of almost any combination of Cisco routers and switches, some routers are better suited for home lab work than others because they can fill multiple roles.
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29). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Starting Over By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
When you're preparing for success on your CCNA or CCNP certification exams, sooner or later you're going to want to start totally from scratch on your Cisco routers and switches. It's easy enough to type "write erase" and "reload", but there are a few details you have to watch if you want your home lab or rack rental devices to act as though they j...
30). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: The 2501 Router By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
To be truly prepared for your CCNA and CCNP exams, you need real hands-on experience with real Cisco routers and switches. However, a production network is a really bad place to practice your configurations, but an excellent way to get fired and/or sued. The key to becoming a true CCNA and CCNP is assembling your own Cisco home lab.
Yo...
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