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CCNA

Passing the CCNA Exam

by The Network Technician

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 are definitely different. [...]

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Virtual LANs Notes

by The Network Technician

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 [...]

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I Successfully Passed the Cisco ICND1 Exam!

by The Network Technician

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 [...]

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CCNA ICND1 Test is Scheduled!

by The Network Technician

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. [...]

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CCNA Notes – IP Addressing and Routing

by The Network Technician

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 [...]

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CCNA Notes on the Basics of WANs

by The Network Technician

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 [...]

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CCNA IP Routing – Administrative Distance

by The Network Technician

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? Share and Enjoy:

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How To Study For the CCNA Exam

by The Network Technician

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 [...]

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