After a year of on and off again studying of Cisco’s CCNA I can finally say that I am CCNA certified. It’s not an easy exam to pass. The CCNA exam is a lot harder compared to the Network+, which was my last certification. The format between the Comptia and Cisco exams [...]
Virtual LAN Concepts
All LAN devices are in the same broadcast domain.
Common reasons to use vlans:
flexible designs by departments or groups instead of by location
reduce overhead to each host in a vlan by segmenting
reduce workload of STP by limiting a vlan to a single access switch
enforce better security
separate traffic sent from an IP phone
After many days of hard work, studying, memorizing and testing I have successfully passed the Cisco ICND1 portion of the CCNA certification. Over the weekend I felt that I was 100% ready so I decided to bump the test up one day.
I did a lot of reading in order to pass the ICND1 which can [...]
The next steps toward my Cisco CCNA certification is nearing! I’ve decided to take the two test route for two reasons:
Easier to study
Less Pressure
I didn’t want to pack so much information to study for in one test and I feel that doing ICND1 and then ICND2 will be very easy for me. Also, I am [...]
IP addressing is the most important topic of the CCNA. You must know IP addressing inside and out in order to build, modify and troubleshoot a network. The CCNA will test your knowledge in this topic with lots of diagrams. Another core topic to know for the CCNA is routing, of course. This is a [...]
As I progress in my CCNA studies I’ll be posting the notes I write up while reading or watching any CCNA training material. There’s a lot of fundamentals to understand and memorize for the CCNA exam but it also helps to actually know the material so you don’t have to look it up when you’re [...]
When there are multiple routing protocols on a router and metrics do not help, they use the default administrative distance per routing protocol. These are good numbers to memorize for the CCNA test. Cisco may test you on a simple question such as:
What is the administrative distance for RIPv1?
Studying for the CCNA is like studying for a test in high school. But if you’re doing self-study for the Cisco CCNA exam then it’s a bit tough, especially if you are rusty on your studying skills. Recently, I’ve changed how I am studying for the CCNA exam.
I used to just read through the book, [...]
