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For you CCNA exam candidates, here are 10 free CCNA exam questions dealing with Distance Vector routing as well as static routing. I'll post the answers on Wednesday! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Thought For The Day If you have the will to win, you have achieved half your success; if you don't, you have achieved half your failure. - David Ambrose Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! All of today's questions are short answer - no choices given! CCNA Exam: R1 and R3 are directly connected at their respective Serial1 interfaces via a DTE / DCE cable. What command will tell you whether the interface is connected to the DTE or DCE end of the cable? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: DUAL has discovered four possible paths to a remote network, with the following metrics: PathA , 1500. PathB , 1500. PathC , 2600. PathD , 3100. What command will allow EIGRP to use the first three paths without using the fourth? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What is the main purpose of IEEE 802.3ac? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which queueing strategy gives priority to interactive, low-bandwidth communications by default? BCMSN Study Package Release D

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Welcome! Here are the answers to Saturday's Cisco certification questions! CCNA Exam: Convert the following binary string into a hexadecimal value: 11110011 Answer: In decimal, that's 243; in hex, that's F3 (or "f3", the case doesn't matter). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What is the range of private AS numbers for BGP? Answer: 64512 - 65535. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which of the following server redundancy protocols is defined by RFC 2338? A. HSRP B. VRRP C. GLBP D. SLB Answer: B. The Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol is defined in RFC 2338. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: The command "random-detect" enables which queueing strategy? A. WFQ B. RED C. WRED D. PQ E. CQ Answer: C. Weighted Random Early Detect (WRED) is enabled by the command random-detect. More questions and answers coming up later today! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Thought For The Day: The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they, while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night. -- Longfellow Here are Saturday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Exam: Convert the following binary string into a hexadecimal value: 11110011 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What is the range of private AS numbers for BGP ? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which of the following server redundancy protocols is defined by RFC 2338? A. HSRP B. VRRP C. GLBP D. SLB CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: The command "random-detect" enables which queueing strategy? A. WFQ B. RED C. WRED D. PQ E. CQ Answers will be posted on Sunday! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Welcome! Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: At what speed does a T1 line run? A. 1.544 BPS B. 1.544 KBPS C. 1.544 MBPS D. None of the above. Answer: C. A T1 line runs at 1.544 MBPS . CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: By default, iBGP routers cannot propagate routes to iBGP neighbors that were originally learned from another iBGP router. Name two methods of circumventing this rule. Answers: Depending on the scenario, you could use route reflectors or BGP confederations. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the true statements regarding SPAN. A. There can be multiple destination ports for a session. B. There can be only one destination port for a session. C. There can be only one source port for a session. D. There can be multiple source ports for a session. Answers: B, D. There can be multiple source ports for a given SPAN session, but only one destination port. CCNP Certification / ONT

Thought For The Day: Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. -- Demosthenes Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Exam: At what speed does a T1 line run? A. 1.544 BPS B. 1.544 KBPS C. 1.544 MBPS D. None of the above. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: By default, iBGP routers cannot propagate routes to iBGP neighbors that were originally learned from another iBGP router. Name two methods of circumventing this rule. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the true statements regarding SPAN. A. There can be multiple destination ports for a session. B. There can be only one destination port for a session. C. There can be only one source port for a session. D. There can be multiple source ports for a session. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following queueing methods poses the greatest threat of TCP Global Synchronization? A. CBWFQ B. PQ C. RED D. WRED New Tutorials And Great Cisco Training Opportunities

Welcome! Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: Which of the following operates at Layer Seven of the OSI model? A. Telnet B. Ping (regular) C. Traceroute D. Ping (extended) Answer: A. Telnet runs at Layer 7 of the OSI model. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Of the following, traffic for which ports is translated from a broadcast to a unicast when the ip helper-address command has been configured? A. 37 B. 49 C. 53 D. 67 E. 513 F. 161 G. 517 H. 434 Answer: A, B, C, D. Here are the ports that are translated from broadcast to unicast with the ip helper-address command: TIME, port 37; TACACS , port 49; DNS , port 53; BOOTP / DHCP Server, port 67; BOOTP / DHCP Client, port 68; TFTP , port 69; NetBIOS name service, port 137; NetBIOS datagram service, port 138 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: Can a switch be configured to open an err-disabled port on its own, rather than require manual

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Thought For The Day: Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. - Emerson Here are today's CCNA and CCNP questions! CCNA Exam: Which of the following operates at Layer Seven of the OSI model? A. Telnet B. Ping (regular) C. Traceroute D. Ping (extended) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Of the following, traffic for which ports is translated from a broadcast to a unicast when the ip helper-address command has been configured? A. 37 B. 49 C. 53 D. 67 E. 513 F. 161 G. 517 H. 434 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: Can a switch be configured to open an err-disabled port on its own, rather than require manual intervention? If so, how? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Short answer: You've just completed a CBWFQ configuration - almost. You want to apply the policy map CCNP to traffic leaving interface serial0. What command on S0 will do this? Answers will be posted on Friday! To your certification exam success, Chris Bry

Welcome back! Here's my latest tutorial, a BCMSN certification exam tutorial on the show interface switchport command! And it's just a few more days until my fully-revised BCMSN Study Package is released - get your copy now and save $20, and you can start studying today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Welcome back! Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco questions! CCNA Exam: A switch has a priority of 32768 and a MAC address of cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc. What does the switch's BID look like ? A. cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc B. 32768 C. 32768:cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc D. cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc:32768 Answer: C. The priority is the first part of the Bridge ID (BID), with the MAC address serving as the second half. The MAC address only plays a part in the root bridge election if there is a tie in priority. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Fill in the blanks: OSPF DRs and BDRs listen for network topology change notifications at the IP address ____________, and then send updates related to these changes at the IP address ____________. Answers: 224.0.0.6, 224.0.0.5 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You've just created VLAN 30 as shown: SW1( vlan )# vlan 30 VLAN 30 added: Name: VLAN 0030 When you run show vlan brief , VLAN 30 does not appear. What's the most likely issue?

Only five more days until my fully revised BCMSN Study Package is released! You can start studying today and save $20 as well - click the link to find out how! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/BCMSNStudyPackage.htm Thought For The Day: My will shall shape the future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force; I can clear any obstacle before me or I can be lost in the maze. My choice; my responsibility; win or lose, only I hold the key to my destiny. -- Elaine Maxwell Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Exam: A switch has a priority of 32768 and a MAC address of cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc. What does the switch's BID look like ? A. cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc B. 32768 C. 32768:cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc D. cc-cc-cc-cc-cc-cc:32768 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Fill in the blanks: OSPF DRs and BDRs listen for network topology change notifications at the IP address ____________, and then send updates related to these changes at the IP ad

Welcome back! Here are the answers to Tuesday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification Exam: By default, what traffic resets the dialer idle-timeout value? A. All traffic. B. No traffic. C. All interesting traffic. D. All IP traffic. E. All traffic defined by the "dialer-list" command. F. All traffic defined by the "dialer-group" command. Answers: C, E. There are two correct answers. The ISDN link will come up when interesting traffic hits the interface - and that traffic is defined by the dialer-list command. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: By default, what percentage of an interface's bandwidth can EIGRP use? A. 25% B. 50% C. 75% D. 100% Answer: B. By default, EIGRP can use up to 50% of an interface's bandwidth. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What command resulted in the following console output? SW1# Name: Fa0/11 Switchport : Enabled Administrative Mode: dynamic desirable Operational Mode: trunk Administrative Trunking

Just a reminder - only six more days until my fully revised BCMSN Study Package is released! You can start studying today and save $20 as well - click the link to find out how! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/BCMSNStudyPackage.htm Thought For The Day: Eighty percent of success is showing up. ~Woody Allen Here are today's Cisco certification exam questions! CCNA Exam : By default, what traffic resets the dialer idle-timeout value? A. All traffic. B. No traffic. C. All interesting traffic. D. All IP traffic. E. All traffic defined by the "dialer-list" command. F. All traffic defined by the "dialer-group" command. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: By default, what percentage of an interface's bandwidth can EIGRP use? A. 25% B. 50% C. 75% D. 100% CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What command resulted in the following console output? SW1# Name: Fa0/11 Switchport : Enabled Administrative Mode: dynamic desirable Operational Mode: trunk Adminis

Welcome! Here are the answers to Monday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: Fill in the blank: You are configuring a switch that is not currently the root for VLAN 23, but you want to make it the root switch. You do not want to set a specific priority. The command is ____________ . Answer: SW1( config )# spanning vlan 23 root primary CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: A BGP route reflector receives a route from a nonclient peer. To what routers will the RR send this route? Answer: When an RR receives routes from nonclient peers, that route is reflected to the RR's clients only. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the correct statements regarding DHCP Snooping. A. All ports are trusted by default. B. All ports are untrusted by default. C. DHCP Snooping is enabled by default. D. DHCP Snooping is disabled by default. E. The switch running DHCP Snooping acts as a DHCP Server as well. F. The switch runnin

Only 7 more days until my BCMSN Study Package, fully revised for the new exam, comes out - but why wait? Save $20 and start studying today! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/BCMSNStudyPackage.htm Thought For The Day: Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win. -- Bernadette Devlin Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: Fill in the blank: You are configuring a switch that is not currently the root for VLAN 23, but you want to make it the root switch. The command is ____________ . Do not specify a particular priority value. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: A BGP route reflector receives a route from a nonclient peer. To what routers will the RR send this route? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Identify the correct statements regarding DHCP Snooping. A. All ports are trusted by default. B. All ports are untrusted by default. C. DHCP Snooping is enabled by default. D. DHCP Snooping is disabled by default. E

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Welcome! Here are the answers to Sunday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: A frame is about to be transmitted over a trunk. What term describes the process of identifying the destination VLAN ? A. forwarding B. flooding C. unicasting D. tagging E. multicasting F. trunking Answer: D. That process is known as "tagging". CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What does the " eigrp stub" command limit? A. The number of dynamic routes in the routing table. B. The number of LSAs flooding the network. C. The number of DUAL queries. D. The number of Hello packets sent to the hub. Answer: C. EIGRP Stub routers are not send Dual queries when a Successor route is lost, therefore the overall number of DUAL queries on the network is reduced. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: What's the purpose of a switched virtual interface? Answer: An SVI represents a VLAN on a L3 switch. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: You'v

Just a reminder - only 8 more days until my fully revised BCMSN Study Package is available! Save $20 by ordering today! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/BCMSNStudyPackage.htm Thought For The Day: Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well. - Benjamin Franklin Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Certification: A frame is about to be transmitted over a trunk. What term describes the process of identifying the destination VLAN ? A. forwarding B. flooding C. unicasting D. tagging E. multicasting F. trunking CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What does the " eigrp stub" command limit? A. The number of dynamic routes in the routing table. B. The number of LSAs flooding the network. C. The number of DUAL queries. D. The number of Hello packets sent to the hub. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: What's the purpose of a switched virtual interface? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: You've cr

Welcome! For some reason, Saturday's questions didn't get posted here in Blogger, so we'll "reset" today. Let's catch up on Friday's answers first! CCNA Certification: Short answer: You have two routers that will be running frame relay to communicate with each other. Your frame provider issues you a single DLCI number, 123, to use on both routers. What problem will this cause? Answer: No problem at all. DLCIs are locally significant only, so you can reuse the numbers on multiple routers. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: In the following EIGRP configuration, what metric is set to 100? R2(config)#router eigrp 100 R2(config-router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1544 100 1 255 1500 Answer: Delay. There are two "100s" in the configuration, but the first one is the Autonomous System (AS) number, not a metric. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: By default, in what trunking mode do ports on a 2950 run? Answer: Dynamic d

Just a reminder - only 10 more days until my fully revised BCMSN Study Package is available! Save $20 by ordering today! http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/BCMSNStudyPackage.htm Thought For The Day: Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. - Michael Korda Here are Friday's CCNA and CCNP questions! CCNA Certification: Short answer: You have two routers that will be running frame relay to communicate with each other. Your frame provider issues you a single DLCI number, 123, to use on both routers. What problem will this cause? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: In the following EIGRP configuration, what metric is set to 100? R2( config )#router eigrp 100 R2( config -router)#redistribute ospf 1 metric 1544 100 1 255 1500 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: By default, in what trunking mode do ports on a

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Welcome! Here are the answers to Thursday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification: You have four OSPF areas: 0, 12, 14, 15. How many of these can be made stub areas? A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3 E. 4 Answer: D. You cannot make Area 0 a stub area of any kind. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Identify the methods of cutting over from IPv 4 to IPv 6. A. Zero compression B. NAT-PT C. 6to4 Tunneling D. 6to4 Bridging E. Leading Zero Compression F. Dual Stack Answer: B, C, F. Of course, listing them is easier than doing them! :) CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In what VTP modes can VLANs be created? A. Server B. Client C. Transparent Answer: A, C. You can actually create VLANs in two VTP modes - Server and Transparent. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following queueing solutions uses the concept of "conversations"? A. WFQ B. PQ C. CQ D. FIFO Answer: A. Flow-based Weighted Fair Queueing uses the concept of conv

Great news for you CCNP candidates working on (or getting ready to work on!) your BCMSN exam - I've got a new tutorial for you on TCN BPDUs : http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CCNPBCMSNExamTCNBPDU.htm And I've got quite a few BCMSN tutorials on the following page: http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CCNPCertificationBCMSNExamTraining.htm Enjoy! To your CCNP exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Thought For The Day: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Here are today's CCNA and CCNP questions! CCNA Certification: You have four OSPF areas: 0, 12, 14, 15. How many of these can be made stub areas? A. 0 B. 1 C. 2 D. 3 E. 4 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Identify the methods of cutting over from IPv 4 to IPv 6. A. Zero compression B. NAT-PT C. 6to4 Tunneling D. 6to4 Bridging E. Leading Zero Compression F. Dual Stack CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: In what VTP modes can VLANs be created? A. Server B. Client C. Transparent CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Which of the following queueing solutions uses the concept of "conversations"? A. WFQ B. PQ C. CQ D. FIFO Answers will be posted tomorrow! I'll have a new BCMSN exam tutorial for you later tonight - and don't forget that you can get the jump on your BCMSN studies and save money, and also get my fully revised BCMSN S

Welcome! Here are the answers to Wednesday's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Exam: Starting from the center and going outward, the three layers of the Cisco three-layer hierarchical model are the ____________, ____________, and ____________ layers. Answer: Core, Distribution, Access. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A BGP route displays a code of "?". What does this most likely mean? A. The route is corrupt. B. The route is being computed by BGP's routing algorithm and should be available in just a moment. C. The route was learned by BGP via redistribution. D. The route was discovered by BGP with no help from another protocol. Answer: C. The BGP origin code "?" indicates a route learned via redistribution. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: For what purpose is VMPS used? Answer: VLAN Management Policy Server is used to dynamically assign VLANs to hosts. CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. It helps t

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Thought For The Day: A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him. - Sidney Greenberg Here are today's CCNA and CCNP practice questions! CCNA Exam: Starting from the center and going outward, the three layers of the Cisco three-layer hierarchical model are the ____________, ____________, and ____________ layers. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A BGP route displays a code of "?". What does this most likely mean? A. The route is corrupt. B. The route is being computed by BGP's routing algorithm and should be available in just a moment. C. The route was learned by BGP via redistribution. D. The route was discovered by BGP with no help from another protocol. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: For what purpose is VMPS used? CCNP Certification / ONT Exam: Identify the true statements regarding RED. A. It helps to prevent TCP Global Synchronization. B. It is a cause of TCP Global Synchronization. C. RED takes a pr

Welcome! Here are the answers to Tuesday's Cisco certification practice questions! CCNA Certification: By default, what traffic does a Cisco router consider to be "interesting"? A. All traffic. B. All pings. C. All routing protocol packets. D. None. Answer: D. Interesting traffic is the traffic that brings up an ISDN connection, and by default no traffic is considered interesting. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the output of "show ip bgp summary", you see a peer state listed as "Idle". Identify the most accurate statement. A. The peer relationship is up, but it's not in use right now. B. The local router has sent an Open packet to the neighbor, but has received no response. C. The peer relationship has been terminated by the neighbor. D. The local router has no idea how to reach the neighbor's specified IP address. Answer: D. The most likely cause of an "Idle" peer state is that the local router has no idea how to get to

Thought For The Day: Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - Theodore Roosevelt Here are Tuesday's CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA Certification: By default, what traffic does a Cisco router consider to be "interesting"? A. All traffic. B. All pings. C. All routing protocol packets. D. None. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In the output of "show ip bgp summary", you see a peer state listed as "Idle". Identify the most accurate statement. A. The peer relationship is up, but it's not in use right now. B. The local router has sent an Open packet to the neighbor, but has received no response. C. The peer relationship has been terminated by the neighbor. D. The local router has no idea how to rea

Here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam practice questions. Keep scrolling down for quite a few more, and I'll have more bonus sets of questions later today! CCNA Exam: Identify the true statements regarding infrared wireless connections. A. Infrared has a high data rate. B. Infrared has a low data rate. C. Infrared signals carry for long distances. D. Infrared signals carry for short distances. Answers: A, D. Infrared has a high data rate. The tradeoff is that it will carry for very short distances. This short distance transmission does make it more difficult for the data to be intercepted, but infrared does not encrypt the data. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A BGP router has two possible paths to a remote destination. The weights are unchanged. What is the next deciding factor? A. Path with the highest local preference is preferred. B. Path with the lowest local preference is preferred. C. Path with the shortest AS_PATH is preferred. D. Path

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New BSCI Exam Questions Up On The Main Page! I've got 10 new Cisco CCNP BSCI questions for you, all on the topic of multi-area OSPF . Just click on that link and enjoy! Answers will be posted on that same page on Tuesday. To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

New CCNA Frame Relay Questions On The Main Site! I've got 10 new Frame Relay questions for you CCNA candidates - hop on over there and test your skills! Answers to those questions will be posted Tuesday. New BSCI questions coming up later tonight! To your CCNA and CCNP success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Thought For The Day: The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication. - Cecil B. DeMille Here are today's CCNA and CCNP certification exam practice questions! CCNA Exam: Identify the true statements regarding infrared wireless connections. A. Infrared has a high data rate. B. Infrared has a low data rate. C. Infrared signals carry for long distances. D. Infrared signals carry for short distances. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: A BGP router has two possible paths to a remote destination. The weights are unchanged. What is the next deciding factor? A. Path with the highest local preference is preferred. B. Path with the lowest local preference is preferred. C. Path with the shortest AS_PATH is preferred. D. Path with the longest AS_PATH is preferred. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: How many UDLD frames must a device send with no response before shutting the port do

Here are the answers to Sunday's CCNA and CCNP certification questions! CCNA Certification: What command will display the OSPF neighbor creation process in action? Answer: debug ip ospf adj CCNP Certification / BCSI Exam: Cisco OSPF design guidelines state that a router should be in no more than how many areas? Answer: Three. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What interface-level command, configured on a switch port, will tell the IP Phone not to trust any CoS values sent from a PC connected to the phone? Answer: The command " switchport priority extend cos x" tells the phone to overwrite the CoS value coming in from the PC. Setting "x" to zero is effectively telling the phone not to trust the incoming CoS value. See you later today with more CCNA and CCNP questions, including the start of my ONT question series! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Welcome back! Coming up later today -- -- the answers to yesterday's CCNA and CCNP questions -- bonus sets of CCNA , BSCI , and BCMSN questions posted on the website (with links posted here) And later this week.... -- Several new additions to the Microsoft Vista tutorial series -- ONT questions added to the free daily questions here -- and more! See you later today! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com

Thought For The Day: Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability. - John Wooden Here are today's CCNA and CCNP questions - and don't forget, CCNP ONT questions will be posted beginning Monday! All of today's questions are short answer. CCNA Certification: What command will display the OSPF neighbor creation process in action? CCNP Certification / BCSI Exam: Cisco OSPF design guidelines state that a router should be in no more than how many areas? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What interface-level command, configured on a switch port, will tell the IP Phone not to trust any CoS values sent from a PC connected to the phone? It's Time For You To Get CCNA Certified - With The Ultimate CCNA Study Package! Congratulations to Mark Blevins, Joel Pagaran , and Joao Paulo Pinheiro , who recently joined the thousands worldwide who have used my Ultimate CCNA Study Package to earn

Here are the answers to Friday's Cisco certification exam practice questions! All of Friday's questions were short answer. CCNA Certification: By default, how many paths does RIP use for unequal-cost load-sharing? Answer: None. RIP does use four paths by default for equal-cost load-sharing, though. CCNP Certification / BCSI Exam: What command allows an OSPF ASBR to advertise a default route, even if it doesn't have one in its routing table? Answer: default-information originate always. If you leave the always option off, the default route will be advertised by the ASBR only if one actually exists in the ASBR's routing table. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What is the net effect of the following command? SW2( config -if)# switchport nonegotiate Answer: This command makes the port an unconditional trunk port, and also prevents the transmission of Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) packets. See you later today with today's CCNA and CCNP practice quest

Hi gang! My apologies for the lack of updates yesterday - just a little Blogger issue. :) Later today, I'll have -- -- a new set of CCNA and CCNP questions -- bonus sets of CCNA and CCNP questions on the website -- and more! See you later today! And coming up later this week -- -- My Microsoft Vista tutorial series starts back up -- CCNP ONT questions added to the free daily questions -- CCNP BCMSN tutorials will be posted -- and more! To your certification exam success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/