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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 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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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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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 [...]

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How To Install GNS3 in Ubuntu 9.04

by The Network Technician

As I am currently studying for my CCNA, I find it very helpful to be able to practice creating networks in a non-destructive environment. Thus, GNS3 provides that solution. At first it was a little difficult installing it because you simply can’t type in sudo apt-get install GNS3 That’s not even half of it. So [...]

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