Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab: Why You Need An ISDN Simulator

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

ISDN is a vital topic for today’s CCNA and CCNP candidates, especially for the ICND and Intro exams - you’ve got to know ISDN inside and out to pass those exams. Naturally you want to include it in your home lab. What many candidates don’t realize is that you can’t connect two Cisco routers directly [...]

Cisco CCNA Certification: The (Many) Different Kinds Of Switching

Monday, January 7th, 2008

When you’re studying for your CCNA exam, whether you’re taking the Intro-ICND path or the single-exam path, you’re quickly introduced to the fact that switching occurs at Layer 2 of the OSI model. No problem there, but then other terms involving switching are thrown in, and some of them can be more than a [...]

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Five OSPF Hub-And-Spoke Details You Must Know!

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

CCNA exam success depends greatly on knowing the details, and if there’s one protocol that has a lot of details, it’s OSPF! This is true particularly of hub-and-spoke networks, so in this CCNA OSPF tutorial we’ll take a look at some of the more important hub-and-spoke OSPF details. This will help you in [...]

Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: Dialer Watch

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Dialer Watch is a vital part of your CCNA and CCNP studies, particularly for the BCRAN exam, but it’s one of the most misunderstood technologies as well. To help you pass the CCNA and CCNP certification exams, here’s a detailed look at Dialer Watch.
Dialer Watch allows you to configure a route or routes as “watched” [...]

Cisco CCNA / CCNP Exam Tutorial: Testing ISDN Links Without Pings

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

To earn your Cisco CCNA and CCNP certifications, you’ve got to master ISDN - and despite what some people say, there’s still a lot of ISDN out there that needs to be supported. And when it comes to troubleshooting ISDN, there’s a lot to look at. Is the correct ISDN switchtype configured? Are [...]

Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: ISDN Details You Must Know

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

CCNA exam success depends partially on knowing the details of ISDN, and there are plenty of them! To help you review for your CCNA exam, here are a few ISDN details that you must know on exam day. (They help in the real world, too &ndash and there are still plenty of ISDN networks [...]