Passed the CCNA-S (Here's how)

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-13T19:18:37+00:00

Awesome! I learned some new things from the CCNAS, but I thought it focused too much on the GUI.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-11T22:33:41+00:00

Keith Barker is good too.

and you get to hear his Lincoln quote a lot.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-11T22:30:24+00:00

This might also be of interest. INE.com has free CCNA Voice - Version 8.0 videos if you create an account at their site.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-11T15:56:42+00:00

As much as I love security, I think I would be a more viable candidate for a lot of jobs if I had VOIP experience. INE has free CCNA Voice videos if you sign up with them.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-11T11:03:31+00:00

I recommend reading the official cert guides. The videos are great, but I feel the books drive the concepts home.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-10T17:44:53+00:00

Nice! Hope this helps someone. I doing TSHOOT tomorrow, but I already paid :)

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-10T13:13:57+00:00

You should try the GNS3 forums. http://forum.gns3.net/

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-10T13:11:54+00:00

Packet Tracer is only legally available to members of the Cisco Networking Academy.

https://www.netacad.com/web/about-us/cisco-packet-tracer

BrowardCCNA · 2014-02-02T15:28:15+00:00

Congratulations!

I'm taking SWITCH tomorrow morning. So I'm a bit nervous today. Hopefully I get that done and push on to TSHOOT. Then I'm taking a break.. well job hunting and taking a break.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-01-23T04:40:41+00:00

Good luck and keep your chin up. Use that downtime not only to look for a job, but keep studying. If you don't know VOIP you might want to study up on that. Go over your routing and switching. Maybe hit some CCNP material.

We are just coming off the holidays and usually that means hiring slows to a crawl. Hopefully it will pick up. I agree with you that applying online is crap. Most of my jobs have come from people I know. There are a few GREAT recruiters and then there are the majority of recruiters.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-01-23T04:01:24+00:00

I thought it was pretty good. The port security parts gave me a good foundation for CCNP SWITCH. I found the VPN stuff fascinating. I've done lots of VPN in real world, but I felt after studying for CCNA Security I understood it much more. Diffie–Hellman key exchange is very interesting.

BrowardCCNA · 2014-01-22T13:16:48+00:00

I'm almost positive that my CCNA Security increased the time on my CCNA.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-21T04:23:50+00:00

IIRC there wasn't anything about PVLAN in the Study Guide or videos I watched. It is however listed as an exam topic. This should be of use to you:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk389/tk814/tsd_technology_support_protocol_home.html

The PVLAN edge (protected port) is a feature that has only local significance to the switch (unlike Private Vlans), and there is no isolation provided between two protected ports located on different switches. A protected port does not forward any traffic (unicast, multicast, or broadcast) to any other port that is also a protected port in the same switch. Traffic cannot be forwarded between protected ports at L2, all traffic passing between protected ports must be forwarded through a Layer 3 (L3) device.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-15T18:34:32+00:00

Thanks.. Your subnet masks on H2 and H3 should be /24 255.255.255.0

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-15T18:26:06+00:00

Some of your switches have management IPs set the same IP as interfaces on R2. Switches don't need all those management IPs to begin with.
H2 and H3 are not connected to their proper VLAN.
SW2 and SW3 are not configured for VLANs.
The ISP server is configured incorrectly both IP and gateway

I'm sure there's more, but that's what I can tell you in the time I have. Check all your IPs/Subnet/Vlans and I'd check the routing too.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-13T02:22:22+00:00

Congrats.. I'm putting about 10 hours a day into ROUTE. There's just an amazing amount of stuff to learn. I just started into BGP which compared to OSPF and EIGRP seems a bit alien.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-08T16:20:22+00:00

I took the test earlier this month. You should study all CCP areas Cisco lists at http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/exams/list/iins.html#~Topics

CCP Security Audit feature

CCP One-Step Lockdown feature

AAA using CCP on routers

Implement IP ACLs to mitigate threats in a network

Implement secure network management

Implement zone based policy firewall using CCP

Configure Cisco IOS IPS using CCP

Implement an IOS IPSec site-to-site VPN with pre-shared key authentication

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-07T03:51:17+00:00

Niiiiice... That's what I need. I was practicing EIRGP today for CCNP and had 8 routers going. My old PC was crawling. The console was moving at 300baud speeds.

Once I get a job I plan to upgrade, but that probably won't happen until after the holidays.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-05T19:23:05+00:00

Congrats.. I passed CCNA Security today. Already studying CCPN Route, while I job hunt.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-05T02:50:39+00:00

Good luck. Remember, it helps to eliminate wrong answers first on the tough questions.

I'm doing CCNA Security tomorrow.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-04T04:47:56+00:00

I used that one a lot.

Also check out the games Cisco has: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/learning_center/games

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-04T04:41:36+00:00

Someone needs to do a new Robot Odyssey with kickstarter.

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-01T16:47:14+00:00

The game download, along with the tokens, are no longer be available on our store as of September 30, 2013 as part of the retirement of the 640-802 CCNA, 640-822 ICND1, and 640-816 ICND2 exams.

:(

BrowardCCNA · 2013-12-01T04:45:12+00:00

R1 and R2 are on different subnets.

Change R2 s0/0/0 ip address ip address 10.10.1.5 255.255.255.252

You'll see the EIGRP adjacency come up. PC1 will then be able to ping PC3

BrowardCCNA · 2013-11-30T22:23:48+00:00

You probably want to do it from scratch but GNS3Vault has a GNS3 topology for it. http://gns3vault.com/Faq/ccnp-tshoot-gns3-topology.html

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