Chris Bryant, CCIE (TM) #12933, has been active in the Cisco certification community for years. He worked his way up from the CCNA to the CCIE, and knows what CCNA and CCNP candidates need to know to be effective on the job and in the exam room. He is the owner of , where he sells his popular CCNA and CCNP study aids, including his unique Flash Card Books. He also teaches CCNA and CCNP courses to small groups of exam candidates, ensuring they each receive the individual attention they deserve. Classes are offered over the Internet and in person in select cities. Chris has custom-written the Study Guide and Lab Workbook used in each course - no third-party training materials or simulators are used. You're invited to visit our site and check out our CCNA and CCNP Courses, Flash Card Books, and to sign up for our weekly newsletter written personally by Chris. Chris is always glad to hear from Cisco certification candidates at .
Cisco CCNA Certification Training: PPP Multilink, ISDN BRI Earning your CCNA certification means you have to notice details about Cisco routers that others might miss, and that's true in the exam room and on the job. In today's tutorial, we'll take a look at multilink PPP - a topic that seems simple enough, but has details that trip up some CCNA certification candidates.ISDN BRI (Basic Rate Interface) has two B-channels that both carry data,...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNA Certification: Etherchannels, Spanning Tree Protocol Cisco CCNA certification looks great on your resume, and it also teaches you vital real-world networking skills. One exam topic that you'll definitely see in today's networks is the configuration of an Etherchannel on a Cisco router. You need to know how to build and verify one - so let's build one right now!In this Cisco training tutorial, we'll use two switches that are connected at...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNA CCNP Exam Training: Frame Relay PVC, Map Statements In today's CCNP certification tutorial, we'll concentrate on the BCRAN exam and Frame Relay PVCs, SVC, and DLCIs in particular.There are actually two kinds of virtual circuits - Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVCs) and Switched Virtual Circuits (SVCs). An SVC doesn't have anything to do with an L2 switch - it's a VC that is built only under predefined circumstances, similar to an ISDN...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNP Certification Exam Training: EIGRP Adjacency EIGRP is an important part of real-world networking as well as being a major topic on the 642-901 CCNP BSCI exam. As with any networking topic, before you try to master intermediate and advanced skills, you must master the fundamentals. It doesn’t get any more fundamental than the EIGRP adjacency process – and it doesn’t get any more important, because without that adjacency, we don’t...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNP Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Adjacency & Secondary Address I've read some non-Cisco documentation that EIGRP will not allow adjacencies to form when secondary addresses are used. This is incorrect, but there is one common error that can result if both addresses are not secondary. To fully prepare for the 642-901 BSCI exam, you should know about this error. Let's take a look at R2 and R3, which will be using secondary addresses to form an...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNP Tutorial: Clear Text OSPF Neighbor Authentication An OSPF adjacency can be authenticated with MD5 (Message Digest 5) or with a clear-text password.? I’m not much on clear-text passwords, and hopefully you aren’t either!? Whether you’re working in the real world or the certification exam room, though, it’s always a good idea to know more than one way to do things.? Let’s take a look at how to configure clear-text authentication of an OSPF neighbor...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: EIGRP, Split Horizon EIGRP is a major topic for your CCNA and CCNP studies, and one basic skill you’ll need to pass your Cisco certification exams is to identify situations where you need to enable or disable split horizon.? EIGRP commands tend to be a little different than those used with other protocols, so let’s take a look at how EIGRP and split horizon interoperate.R1 is our hub router, with R2 and R3 as the...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNP BSCI 642-901 Exam: OSPF And Passive Interfaces Your BSCI exam may well be the most challenging of the four exams you must pass to become a CCNP, so you have to have the details of every protocol on the exam mastered!? Today, we'll look at the passive-interface command as it relates to OSPF. Passive interfaces accept routing updates, but do not send them.? Regarding OSPF, even though OSPF does not sent "routing updates" in the form that RIP,...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: DHCP Snooping An important part of passing the Cisco CCNP BCMSN exam and protecting your network from intruders is to recognize that even everyday protocols and services can work against us once that intruder is in our network.It may be hard to believe, but something as innocent as DHCP can actually lead to trouble for your network.??When a host sends out a?DHCPDiscovery packet, it listens for DHCPOffer packets...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco Certification: Introduction To Multilayer Switching & SVIs Sure, you have to know all about SVIs and multilayer switching to earn your CCNP, but you also need to know about them because they’re so commonplace in today’s networks! Why?? We can use an SVI to allow inter-VLAN communication on a multilayer switch, eliminating the need for a separate router to get involved.In this example, we have Host_1 in VLAN 11 and Host_3 in VLAN 33.? Before we begin...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNA Certification Exam FAQ: 640-801 & 640-802 Discussions The prestigious Cisco CCNA certification is going to become even more prestigious later this year - and from all accounts, even more difficult!? The current 640-801 exam will be phased out on November 6, giving candidates plenty of time to prepare for that exam.? The new 640-802 exam is actually being introduced August 1, giving CCNA candidates an option as to which exam to take.Naturally, CCNA...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNA Certification Exam- Get Certified Now If you’re working on the Cisco CCNA right now, or even thinking about it, there are changes coming to the CCNA program in November that you need to know about.? No reason to worry, these changes are all good news for CCNA candidates. And the first bit of good news is that you have plenty of time to take and pass the current CCNA exams. In this article, I will outline several advantages to taking...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCNP Certification Training: Priority Queuing For ONT Exam You can’t earn your CCNP certification without passing the Cisco ONT exam, and queuing is a huge topic on that exam!? Priority queuing, LLQ, weighted fair queuing – you’ll see them all and more on your ONT exam.?? Today, we’ll take a close look at priority queuing theory.Priority queuing is unique in that it has four pre-configured queues, and while we have some control over those queues, we can’t...... Similar Editorial : by www.SemSim.com. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCENT Certification Exam Tutorial: Broadcast Storms The Cisco CCENT exam demands that you master the fundamentals of networking, and it doesn’t get much more fundamental than broadcasts!? Every network has them, and every network administrator needs to be aware of what broadcasts are and their potential impact on network performance.When a device on a network generates a message, it’s one of three types – a unicast, a multicast, or a broadcast.?? A...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
Cisco CCENT Certification Exam Tutorial: TCP & UDP Headers During your Cisco CCENT and CCNA studies, you'll see that so many great TCP features - the three-way handshake, windowing, sequence numbering, error detection and recovery - are strictly TCP features.? UDP doesn't use any of them.? Two questions come to mind:Why doesn't UDP offer these features? Why in the world do we use UDP for anything? UDP can't perform any of those TCP features because UDP...... Similar Editorial : by Chris Bryant. | Source : Wireless Network Printer
