Cisco Has Announced Three Additional CCNA Certifications - But To Earn Them, You've Got To Be CCNA Certified, So Get Started Today! Cisco has announced three brand-new CCNA-level Certifications: CCNA Security CCNA Voice CCNA Wireless Those links go to new resource pages on the main website, where I'll post free tutorials and video training for all three certifications in the days and weeks ahead - be sure to bookmark them! (There's a new CCNA Security tutorial on that particular page.) These new certifications are going to be a tremendous career boost to those who earn them. Why? Just look at these statistics! Security: Right now, 46% of companies included in the survey have a position dedicated to security - that's going to almost double over the next five years to 80%. Voice: Currently, 40% of surveyed customers have a voice specialist. That number will rise to 69% in the next five years. Wireless: While 33% of surveyed companies currently have a position dedicate
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It's Thursday, July 31, and here are your free Cisco certification exam training questions for today! Be sure to read today and yesterday's blog postings for new practice exams and tutorials that have been posted on the main site! CCNA Certification : You've configured OSPF on four routers on a broadcast segment. You notice that a DR and BDR have been elected, but some adjacencies are stopping at the 2-way state. What should you do? A. Nothing - that's what you're supposed to see. B. Use the ip ospf priority 0 command on the appropriate interfaces on the DROTHER routers. C. Use the ip ospf priority 0 command on the appropriate interfaces on the DR and BDR. D. Use the neighbor command on the DR and BDR to complete the incomplete adjacencies. CCENT Certification : How many wires "roll over" in a rollover cable? A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 6 E. 8 CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : There are three basic methods IPS uses to identify potentially malicious
It's Thursday, July 31, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions! Be sure to check out yesterday's blog postings as well for links to new tutorials and practice exams that have been posted on the main site. All of yesterday's questions were short answer - some were not-so-short answer, so let's get started! CCNA Certification : What's the main difference between the default-information originate command with and without the always option? Be specific. Answer: Let's use IOS Help to look at our options for this command. R1(config)#router ospf 1 R1(config-router)#default-information originate ? always Always advertise default route metric OSPF default metric metric-type OSPF metric type for default routes route-map Route-map reference The always option allows the router to propagate a default route without actually having one in its routing table. Without that option, the router must have a default route in its table in order to
Check Out These Practice Exams And Network Challenges! Over on the main site, I've got over 250 free tutorials, practice exams, and other goodies! Here are some Network Troubleshooting Challenges posted earlier this summer, and some recent CCNA and CCENT practice exams as well. Enjoy! Network Troubleshooting Exercises CCNA Practice Exam: Frame Relay CCNA Practice Exam: HDLC, PPP, And Debugs CCNA Practice Exam: Static Routing And RIP CCNA / CCENT Practice Exam: Router Commands And Memory And on my Cisco Tutorials page, you'll find over 250 tutorials, exams, and articles on everything from the new CCNA certifications to getting an IT career started. Get over there and start reading! :) To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
Here's a brand-new CCNA Security training exam for you... CCNA Security Exam: Network Attacks And Defenses I'll be back later today with a new CCNA / CCENT exam, the answers to yesterday's blog questions, a new set of Cisco training questions, and more! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
It's Wednesday, July 30, and here are your free Cisco certification exam training questions for today! Be sure to read today and yesterday's blog postings for new CCNA and CCNA Security exams that have been posted on the main site! All of today's questions are short answer. No need to thank me! ;) CCNA Certification : What's the main difference between the default-information originate command with and without the always option? Be specific. CCENT Certification : You're using Setup Mode to configure a Cisco router. You decide halfway through that you'd rather write the configuration at the CLI. How can you exit Setup Mode and not save the configuration you're in the process of writing? CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : The SA state of your VPN is shown as QM_IDLE. Is this good? If not, what do we need to do to resolve the issue? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : What command allows you to add protocols to those forwarded by the ip helper-addre
It's Wednesday, July 30, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions! I posted a new CCNA Security practice exam yesterday, and I'll have a new CCNA / CCENT practice test for you today as well! Answers to both exams will be posted Friday on those pages. CCNA Certification : How do you hardcode RIP to accept and send only Version 2 updates? Extra credit: What is RIP's default for versions sent and accepted? Answer: Use the version 2 command under the RIP process, as shown here: BRYANT_ADV_5(config)#router rip BRYANT_ADV_5(config-router)#version 2 The default for RIP is to send Version 1 updates only, but to accept either Version 1 or 2 updates. CCENT Certification : What Virtual LANs, if any, cannot be deleted from a Cisco switch? A. VLAN 1 B. VLAN 100 C. VLAN 0 D. No VLANs are exempt from deletion. Answer: A. You cannot delete VLAN 1. CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : Short answer: In SDM, you might see a green square next to a s
Here are your Cisco certification exam training questions for Tuesday, July 29! Be sure to read today's other blog posts for new CCNA Security questions, and I'll have a new CCNA / CCENT question set on the main site for you later today! CCNA Certification : How do you hardcode RIP to accept and send only Version 2 updates? Extra credit: What is RIP's default for versions sent and accepted? CCENT Certification : What Virtual LANs, if any, cannot be deleted from a Cisco switch? A. VLAN 1 B. VLAN 100 C. VLAN 0 D. No VLANs are exempt from deletion. CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : Short answer: In SDM, you might see a green square next to a signature. What does that symbol indicate? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : What two symbols should you expect to see next to a valid and best BGP path in the output of show ip bgp ? A. ^ B. $ C. > D. < E. * F. + CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam : HSRP uses the concept of an Active router. What is VRRP's equivalent t
Here are the answers to the Cisco certification exam practice questions posted on Monday, July 28. Be sure to read today's other blog posts for links to new practice exam question sets posted on the main website! CCNA Certification : What single command would double every RIP value show in the following command output? R1#show ip protocols Routing Protocol is "rip" Sending updates every 30 seconds Invalid after 180 seconds, hold down 180, flushed after 240 Answer: Use the timers basic command to change RIP values. IOS Help shows how to use this command to double each value: R1(config)#router rip R1(config-router)#timers basic R1(config-router)#timers basic ? <0-4294967295> Interval between updates R1(config-router)#timers basic 60 ? <1-4294967295> Invalid R1(config-router)#timers basic 60 360 ? <0-4294967295> Holddown R1(config-router)#timers basic 60 360 360 ? <1-4294967295> Flush R1(config-router)#timers basic 60 360 360 480 CCENT Certification
Welcome! It's Tuesday, July 29, and I've got several new features coming up for you later today... -- A brand-new CCNA Security practice exam / tutorial (link goes to the CCNA Security Resource Page) -- A brand-new CCNA / CCENT practice exam (link goes to my CCNA / CCENT Practice Exam Page) -- The answers to yesterday's questions posted here on the blog, as well as a brand-new set of CCNA, CCNP, CCENT, and CCNA Security questions .. and anything else I can think of! There's plenty for you to read in the meantime, both on the above links and well over 200 free Cisco tutorials on my website! Enjoy, and I'll see you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
Here are your Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCENT, and CCNA Security practice exam questions for today! Be sure to read today and yesterday's blog postings for... -- The answers to last week's CCNA Security practice exam -- The answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam practice questions -- A new CCNA / CCENT practice exam Let's get to work with today's questions! CCNA Certification : What single command would double every RIP value show in the following command output? R1#show ip protocols Routing Protocol is "rip" Sending updates every 30 seconds Invalid after 180 seconds, hold down 180, flushed after 240 CCENT Certification : You're configuring a Cisco switch and attempt to place a port into a VLAN that has not yet been created. What will happen, and what message should you expect to see? CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : You're working in SDM to configure an Easy VPN Server. You'll have three options for authenticating your Easy
I've posted the answers to this week's CCNA Security practice exam: CCNA Security Exam: Passwords, Telnet, SSH, And SDM I'll have a new CCNA / CCENT practice question set for you later today, a new CCNA Security exam for you later this week, and some other surprises are on the way! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
Welcome back! It's Monday, July 28, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions. Be sure to read today's other blog posts for links to the answers to my latest CCNA Security exam, a new CCNA / CCENT practice exam, and other surprises! CCNA Certification : Examine the following output and tell me what defaults have been changed. R1#show ip protocols Routing Protocol is "rip" Sending updates every 30 seconds Invalid after 180 seconds, hold down 180, flushed after 240 Answer: None of the RIP default timers have been changed. CCENT Certification : At which layer of the OSI model do the following protocols run? SMTP, Telnet, HTTP, FTP, SNMP Answer: They all run at the Transport layer - Layer 7 - of the OSI model. CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : You're working in SDM to create a VPN. What service must be running on the router to do so? (Hint: If the router isn't already running it, SDM will prompt you to activate it.) An
CCNA Security Practice Exam Answers Have Been Posted! Here's my latest practice exam, a 10-question set of CCNA Security questions. CCNA Security: NTP, Telnet, SSH, And More! The answers to those questions have just been posted. When you're done there, tackle these practice exams as well! CCNA Certification: Frame Relay Questions CCNA Certification: HDLC And PPP Questions CCNA Certification: Static Routing And RIP Questions The questions on static routing and RIP includes a tutorial on floating static routes that you CCNP candidates should read as well! CCNA Certification Training Questions: RAM, ROM, Flash, And More! I'll have more free practice exams, tutorials, and coming later this summer - free video training for your Cisco certification exams and home lab setup! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
It's Sunday, July 27, and there's a lot going on here today at The Bryant Advantage! -- The answers to my first CCNA Security practice exam -- The answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam practice questions (posted earlier today) -- A new CCNA / CCENT practice exam -- And the following brand-new set of CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP questions! All questions today are short answer. CCNA Certification : Examine the following output and tell me what defaults have been changed. R1#show ip protocols Routing Protocol is "rip" Sending updates every 30 seconds Invalid after 180 seconds, hold down 180, flushed after 240 CCENT Certification : At which layer of the OSI model do the following protocols run? SMTP, Telnet, HTTP, FTP, SNMP CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : You're working in SDM to create a VPN. What service must be running on the router to do so? (Hint: If the router isn't already running it, SDM will prompt you to activate it.) CCN
Here are the answers to yesterday's questions! All questions were short answer. CCNA Certification : Identify the numeric ranges for standard and extended ACLs. Answer: Here's the IOS Help readout that shows all of our ACL ranges. Standard ranges are bolded. R1(config)#access-list ? <1-99> IP standard access list <100-199> IP extended access list <1100-1199> Extended 48-bit MAC address access list <1300-1999> IP standard access list (expanded range) <200-299> Protocol type-code access list <2000-2699> IP extended access list (expanded range) <700-799> 48-bit MAC address access list dynamic-extended Extend the dynamic ACL absolute timer rate-limit Simple rate-limit specific access list CCENT Certification : What's the basic purpose of the exec-timeout 0 0 command? Answer: This disables the console session default inactivity timeout of 5 minutes and 0 seconds. If you want to change that timer rather than disabling it, the first number
Hi there! It's Sunday, July 27, and coming up later today.... The answers to last week's CCNA Security practice exam A brand-new CCNA and CCENT practice exam (link goes to a page with several previous exams and their answers) The answers to yesterday's Cisco certification exam training questions A new CCNP ONT exam tutorial A new set of practice questions posted here on the blog ... and more! It's a busy day, so I'm getting back to work - see you later today! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
It's Saturday, July 26, and here are your Cisco certification practice exam questions for today! Today's questions are all short answer. CCNA Certification : Identify the numeric ranges for standard and extended ACLs. CCENT Certification : What's the basic purpose of the exec-timeout command? CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : What's the purpose of the ip inspect tcp idle-time command? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : When you enter the command shown below, what is the first thing that will happen? R1(config)#interface serial0 R1(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrp 100 16.0.0.0 252.0.0.0 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam : What is the net effect of the following command? SW2(config)#errdisable recovery cause all CCNP / ONT Exam : Define per-hop behavior as the term relates to DiffServ. I'll have the answers for you on Sunday, July 26! Visit my CCNA Security Certification Resource Page for new practice exams and fully-illustrated tutorials! To your suc
Welcome back! It's Saturday, July 26, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions! Coming up later today.... 1. The answers to my latest CCNA Security practice exam - the answers will be posted on that page, not here in the blog. 2. A new CCNA practice exam, this one on routing protocols. 3. A new set of practice exam questions right here in the blog .... and anything else I can think of! :) CCNA Certification : What command results in the following output? R3# 00:11:37: RIP: received v2 update from 172.12.123.1 on Serial0 00:11:37: 172.12.123.0/24 via 0.0.0.0 in 1 hops Answer: That's the output of debug ip rip. CCENT Certification : What's the basic purpose of the logging synchronous command? When the router wants you to know something, it wants you to know right now. If the router sends a message to the console while you're entering a command, by default the router will interrupt your work to show you this message. In the following examp
It's Friday, July 25, and here are your Cisco certification practice exam questions for today! Like yesterday, all of today's questions are short answer. Be sure to read today's other blog posts for links to brand-new CCNA Security practice exams and tutorials! CCNA Certification : What command results in the following output? R3# 00:11:37: RIP: received v2 update from 172.12.123.1 on Serial0 00:11:37: 172.12.123.0/24 via 0.0.0.0 in 1 hops CCENT Certification : What's the basic purpose of the logging synchronous command? CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : When configuring a basic firewall in SDM, what are the three options for the preconfigured security levels? Can you create your own custom security levels? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : In the following output, describe.... 1. Why we would use this command in the first place 2. The meaning of "100" 3. The meaning of "300" 4. The default setting for this particular value, and what w
It's Friday, July 25, and here are the answers to yesterday's complimentary Cisco certification practice exam questions! CCNA Certification : What command disables Proxy ARP on a Cisco router interface? Answer: no ip proxy-arp CCENT Certification : What single word describes a major advantage of using UDP over TCP? Answer: Overhead. There's much more overhead to using TCP as compared to UDP. CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : In terms of network security, what purpose does a honeypot serve? Answer: A honeypot is a network device that is purposely left open to attack. The attack methods are then analyzed in order to develop a defense against that attack type. (Obviously, this will not be a production server!) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : In the following output, describe.... 1. The meaning of "EX" 2. The value replaced by the question mark 3. The default setting of the value replaced by the question mark 4. The meaning of "2195456&qu
It's Thursday, July 24, and here are your Cisco certification practice exam questions for today! Just for fun, all questions today are short answer. After all, there's no multiple choice on the command line! Be sure to read today's other blog posts for links to brand-new CCNA Security practice exams and tutorials! CCNA Certification : What command disables Proxy ARP on a Cisco router interface? CCENT Certification : What single word describes a major advantage of using UDP over TCP? CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : In terms of network security, what purpose does a honeypot serve? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : In the following output, describe.... 1. The meaning of "EX" 2. The value replaced by the question mark 3. The default setting of the value replaced by the question mark 4. The meaning of "2195456" D EX 14.14.14.14 [ ? /2195456] via 172.12.123.1, 00:11:41, Serial0 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam : What command resulted i
Welcome back! It's Thursday, July 24, and here are the answers to yesterday's free Cisco certification practice exam questions! CCNA Certification : In an OSPF hub-and-spoke NBMA network, which router(s) require the neighbor command? A. The DR B. The DROthers C. The BDR D. All of these E. None of these Answer: A. The DR requires the neighbor command. It will not hurt anything to have it configured on the DROthers in real-world networks, but I wouldn't put it there on exam day. There are no BDRs in an OSPF hub-and-spoke network. CCENT Certification : What mode is the following router in? Router1(config)# Answer: Global configuration mode. CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : You're configuring IPS in SDM, and you just enabled the Fail Closed option. What's the net effect? Answer: Here's the exact description of Fail Closed from SDM itself: "By default, while IOS compiles a new signature for a particular engine, it allows packets to pass through wi
Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Wednesday, July 23! CCNA Certification : In an OSPF hub-and-spoke NBMA network, which router(s) require the neighbor command? A. The DR B. The DROthers C. The BDR D. All of these E. None of these CCENT Certification : What mode is the following router in? Router1(config)# CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : You're configuring IPS in SDM, and you just enabled the Fail Closed option. What's the net effect? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : Which of the following are Cisco recommendations for OSPF deployments? A. No router in more than three areas. B. No area should contain more than 50 routers. C. No router should have more than 60 neighbors. D. No ABR should run more than one OSPF process. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam : You're examining the lights on a Cisco Aironet card. The green light is blinking slowly, the amber light is off. What does this generally indicate? CCNP / ONT Exam : What is Global Syn
Welcome back! It's Wednesday, July 23, and here are the answers to yesterday's Cisco practice exam questions! CCNA Certification : In the world of wireless networking, what's the basic difference between an ESS and a BSS? Answer: While a Basic Service Set (BSS) will have a single AP, Extended Service Set WLANs (ESS) have multiple access points. CCENT Certification : Give the port numbers for each of these TCP-based protocols. (Answers are now listed.) FTP, port 20 and 21 SMTP, port 25 Telnet, port 23 HTTP, port 80 DNS, port 53 POP3, port 110 NNTP, port 119 CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : In SDM, what does an asterisk indicate when it's used in a graphical representation of an ACL? Answer: An asterisk represents the ACL option "any". CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : What is the shortest possible legal representation of the following IP version 6 address? 1234:1234:0000:0000:0000:0000:3456:3434 Answer: If you have consecutive fields of zeroes, a
It's Tuesday, July 22, and here are your Cisco practice exam questions for today! CCNA Certification : In the world of wireless networking, what's the basic difference between an ESS and a BSS? CCENT Certification : Give the port numbers for each of these TCP-based protocols. FTP SMTP Telnet HTTP DNS POP3 NNTP CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : In SDM, what does an asterisk indicate when it's used in a graphical representation of an ACL? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam : What is the shortest possible legal representation of the following IP version 6 address? 1234:1234:0000:0000:0000:0000:3456:3434 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam : The use of Dynamic ARP Inspection is used to defend our network's switches against what network attack? CCNP / ONT Exam : What are the four basic steps of the analog-to-digital signal conversion process? Answers posted right here on Wednesday, July 23! Be sure to read today's other blog posts for exciting news about the new CC
Here are the answers to Monday's CCNA, CCNP, CCENT, and CCNA Security practice exam questions! Be sure to read yesterday's posts for a link to a new CCNA Security practice exam! CCNA Certification : What configuration register value boots the router into ROM Monitor mode? A. 0x2142 B. 0x2100 C. 0x2001 D. 0x2102 Answer: B. The config register setting 0x2100 will have the router boot into ROM Monitor mode. 0x2142 will have the router ignore the contents of NVRAM when it boots; that means the starting configuration is ignored. The default config register setting is 0x2102, which means the router will look in NVRAM for a valid startup configuration file and to Flash for a valid IOS image. CCENT Certification : If an IP address has a first octet of 127, what can you assume regarding that address? A. The address is reserved for loopbacks. B. The address is from one of the reserved address ranges for Class A, B, and C addresses. C. The address can be assigned to a Cisco router's l
New CCNA Security Training Questions Have Been Posted! CCNA Security Training: 10 Questions On NTP And Passwords Be sure to bookmark the CCNA Security Resource Page for links to fully-illustrated tutorials and practice exam questions! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
My YouTube Channel Is On The Way, And Videos Will Be Added To The Main Website As Well -- What Training Videos Would YOU Like To See? I'll be adding quite a bit of video content on my new YouTube channel over the next few months, and to the main website as well. Are there specific topics or non-certification videos you'd like to see covered in video format? I'm planning to start a series of CCNA and CCNP home lab videos to compliment the website's written content (which you can access by clicking that link!) - showing you how to configure a frame relay switch, cabling a pod, etc. If you have ideas on what you'd like to see in these videos (literally!), feel free to comment here on the blog, or even better, drop me a line at cbryant@bryantinstruction.com . After all, it's not just my website - it's yours, too! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
It's Monday, July 21, and here are your CCNA, CCENT, CCNP, and CCNA Security questions for today! CCNA Wireless and Voice questions join the daily question posts on August 1! Also, look for a new CCNA Security tutorial later today as well. Click that link to read the first in this ongoing series. CCNA Certification : What configuration register value boots the router into ROM Monitor mode? A. 0x2142 B. 0x2100 C. 0x2001 D. 0x2102 CCENT Certification : If an IP address has a first octet of 127, what can you assume regarding that address? A. The address is reserved for loopbacks. B. The address is from one of the reserved address ranges for Class A, B, and C addresses. C. The address can be assigned to a Cisco router's loopback interface. D. The address is not a reserved address of any kind. CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam : Name two major differences between the capabilties between the Basic and Advanced Firewall Wizards in Security Device Manager. CCNP Certificatio