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. Also, I am [...]

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Windows Police Pro – How To Remove From Windows

by The Network Technician

There’s nothing like frustrating over removing malware from a Windows PC. This blog post will give you directions, although time consuming, on how to remove Windows Police Pro. Below are four different thumbnails of what Windows Police Pro looks like.

Windows Police Pro masks itself as an anti-virus or malware remover application. It’s [...]

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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?

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Exchange 2007 Not Receiving Emails From a Domain

by The Network Technician

I’ve had issues where one of our users will claim that they do not receive any emails from an outside domain. Internally, the email will get sent out and the user confirms with the external user at a different company, via the phone, that they received the email. But when that particular user at a [...]

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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 book, [...]

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How To Configure a Router-on-a-Stick

by The Network Technician

The example I am showing you was built using the RouterSim Network Visualizer. I’m doing this as part of my CCNA studies to get me familiar with configuring a router and switch together and also making sure computers on different subnets can actually communicate with each other.
Here is the virtual hardware used in this virtual [...]

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