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| teedsg 2002-10-21, 8:20 am |
| Hello, everyone, I am new to taking the ccna test and would love to pass it on the first try, not by cramming, but by really knowing the material and being able to land a great job in the technical industry. I have a little background in cisco, but I want to be a whiz at it. Any suggestions on good study materials? Thanks in advance everyone. | |
| Sexy Lexy 2002-10-21, 8:55 am |
| Both the Sybex and official Cisco book at aimed toward the 607 exam. If you can hold of a 2500 series router even better as you will need hands on for the labs in the test.
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| davidbeecken 2002-10-21, 11:35 am |
| Even better would be 2 2500's
Its a matter of applying what you know, that how you become good. | |
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| edmonds_robert 2002-10-21, 12:43 pm |
| The CCNP switching exam really focuses on the CLI based switches, such as the 4000, 5000 and 6000 series. You will also need to know about the different route processors and how they are configured to work with MLS (Multilayer Switching), among other things. | |
| Sexy Lexy 2002-10-21, 4:16 pm |
| Sorry, but I have never used a switch other than the 2900 series.
What is the difference between the 2900 series and the 4000, 5000 and 6000 series (I take it that the CLI plays an important role?)
Do you have a link?
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| edmonds_robert 2002-10-21, 10:50 pm |
| The CLI plays a very important role. It operates quite a bit differently than an IOS based switch. The most noteable difference is the command structure. CLI based commands start with "set". Like "set ip address x.x.x.x", etc. Also, by default they require no save. Once you have entered a command using set whatever however, it is saved, no need for a copy run start or write mem or any of that tomfoolery (always wanted to use that word in a sentence).
Anyway, it would be a good idea to get ahold of a CLI based switch or simulator for practice. The CLI takes some getting used to, but once you're used to it, I think you'll prefer it. Oh, and another thing, there's not 4, but 2 config modes in CLI. Exec and privileged exec, that's it. All the interface commands are, again, set commands. And you can configure 48 interfaces at once. Like this: set vlan 1 3/1-48. That sets ports 1-48 on module 3 to VLAN 1. Whew, I'm ready for a beer after configuring 48 ports, how about you?
Hope that gets you started. Have fun.
Robert | |
| dumfart 2002-10-21, 11:34 pm |
| Cisco is moving towards IOS based commands; for example, the Supervisor III for the 4006 is IOS based instead of set-based like the Supervisor II and the CCIE lab test will be using IOS-based 3550s instead of the Cat 5000 switches. It is still important to know Cat-OS commands because it will be awhile before they disappear completely. Most of the newer IOS-based switches have the command "interface range" which allows you to configure multiple interfaces at once so the set-based switches no longer have that advantage. | |
| thecomeons 2002-10-22, 4:59 am |
| i bet you got a cool job where you work dumfart? | |
| Sexy Lexy 2002-10-22, 5:21 am |
| Another helpful post as always.
You don't gain airmails for your postcount. | |
| twister166 2002-10-22, 10:44 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by Sexy Lexy
Another helpful post as always.
You don't gain airmails for your postcount.
shhhh... I am moving up on the top 20 list quietly... | |
| drdirt 2002-10-22, 3:48 pm |
| back to the subject at hand...sez dr killjoy dirt...
What is a reasonable price for online lab access per hour? Are there any that are better than others?
My CCNA needs are probably met, I used Lamle/Sybex virtual lab, R1R2, and the boson simulator. These are too limited to really cover the multitude of CCNP devices and configurations.
So who has the variety of routers, switches, and combinations to really bone-up for the CCNP and CCIE??? |
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