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Here Are 10 Cisco Certification Articles You MUST Read! With over 250 Cisco certification tutorials on the main website, it's easy to miss a few! Check out these newly-refreshed CCNA and CCNP certification exam tutorials! CCNA / CCNP Tutorial: Telnet And VTY Passwords CCNA / CCNP Practice Exam: EIGRP Tips For Peak Performance On Your Exam Day CCENT / CCNA Tutorial: How Switches Trunk CCNA / CCNP Tutorial: VTP Revision Numbers Cisco Router Password Recovery Three Myths About Cisco Certification Exams Static Routes And The IP ROUTE Command Mode On Cisco Routers CCNA Exam Tips: RIP Basic Cisco Router Passwords Enjoy! I'll see you later today with a new Cisco training video and a new set of practice exam questions! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Welcome back! :) Coming up later today here on The Bryant Advantage blog... ... The Great Cisco Certification Drive Of 2009 continues with at least one new CCNA / CCNP training video! ... the answers to Wednesday's questions will be posted .... a new set of Cisco practice exam questions will be posted ... and more! In the meantime, be sure to scroll down for several new Cisco training videos, and visit my CCNA/CCNP Certification YouTube channel - over 42,000 Cisco certification candidates just like you already have! And be sure to claim your copy of my new CCNA Security Video Boot Camp - this is your last chance to save $50 on your purchase! Details in the next blog post! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

The Great Cisco Certification Drive Of 2009 Continues With Another Great CCNA/CCENT Video Practice Exam! In this Cisco certification video quiz, you'll be presented with 10 practice exam questions on switching. We'll then review the answers and I'll throw in a few extra study tips as well! When you're done here and with the other practice exams on the blog, head over to my CCNA / CCNP tutorials page - and visit my YouTube Cisco Certification Channel for over 30 more free Cisco certification training video, just as over 40,000 other Cisco certification candidates have done! See you there! Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

The Great Cisco Certification Drive Of 2009 Continues With This Free CCNA / CCENT Training Video! Thanks For Over 40,000 Views Of My YouTube CCNA/CCNP Training Videos - Over 100 New Videos Are On The Way! (That's right, I said over 100!) Frame Relay DLCIs are in just about every WAN around today, and you can bet you'll be asked about them on your CCNA, CCENT, and CCNP exams as well! In this Cisco certification exam training video, we'll discuss the usage of DLCIs and use a common "show" command to determine if DLCI mappings have been dynamically or statically created. There are over 250 fully-illustrated tutorials, practice exams, and more waiting for you on my CCNA / CCNP certification exam tutorials page - and visit my YouTube CCNA/CCNP Certification Channel for over 30 more free Cisco certification training videos! See you there! Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Check Out These Cisco CCNA, CCNP, and CCENT Tutorials And Practice Exams! With over 250 free Cisco certification tutorials on my website, it's easy to miss a few! Here are some newly refreshed articles and practice exams I'm sure you'll enjoy - and I'll have a new CCNA training video right here on the blog for you later tonight! These tutorials are great reading for you CCENT candidates, too! CCNA Practice Exam: Cisco Router Commands CCNA/CCNP Tutorial: Etherchannels And STP CCNA & CCENT Training: Broadcasts And Unicasts CCNA Exam Review: RIP And IP Route Commands Frame Relay DLCIs Explained CCNA Training: Error Recovery Vs. Detection CCNA And CCENT Practice Exam: Frame Relay Enjoy! I'll see you later today with a brand-new Cisco training video! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Master Route Redistribution With My Latest (And Free!) CCNA/CCNP Training Videos! In the second part of our look at route redistribution for the Cisco CCNA and CCNP exams, we'll redistribute RIP routes into OSPF, paying special attention to the defaults and details that you must pay attention to in both the exam room and the real world! The third and final video is now available as well, where we'll redistribute OSPF and connected routes into RIP - and probably bump into some real-world issues there as well! Here's part 1: And part 2 .... ....and part three! There are over 250 fully-illustrated tutorials, practice exams, and more waiting for you on my CCNA / CCNP certification exam tutorials page - and visit my YouTube CCNA/CCNP Certification Channel for over 30 more free Cisco certification training videos! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Tuesday, January 27! CCNA And CCENT Certification: What's the decimal equivalent of the hex value A3d? CCNA Voice: (Voice tutorials begin in February, and my CCNA Voice Study Package will be out in late April!) What role does RSVP play in a VoIP network? CCNA Wireless: What protocol does a WLC use to detect rogue access points? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Name three typical IPv4-to-IPv6 transition methods and briefly describe each. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which somewhat-common router redundancy protocol uses Router Advertisement packets? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Which of the following statements regarding Superviews is true? A. You need to enable AAA before creating views. B. A single IOS command can be contained in more than one view. C. A view can be contained in multiple Superviews. D. Logging into a Superview allows that user to execute all commands contained in all views in that Superview. ...

Here are the answers to Monday's Cisco practice exam questions! CCNA And CCENT Certification: How many wires actually "cross over" in a crossover cable? A. zero B. two C. four D. eight Answer: C (two pairs of wires cross) CCNA Voice: Short answer: As it relates to the number of channels and their use, describe the basic difference between T1 CCS and T1 CAS. Answer: T1 CAS (Channel Associated Signaling): 24 16-kbps channels, in-band signaling T1 CCS (Common Channel Signaling): 23 16-kbps channels, uses 64kbps for signaling (again, a D-channel) CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What interface types are assigned the following OSPF costs if left at their default speeds? (Answers have been posted after the original choices) A. 1785 - 56 k line B. 10 - Ethernet C. 6 - 16 MBPS token ring (thankfully, a bit of an obscure cost) D. 1 - FDDI, Fast Ethernet CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Short answer: Name the two available UDLD modes and briefly describe the operation of each. Answe...

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Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Wednesday, January 21! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Identify the true statements regarding an OSPF-enabled router. A. A router can be both an ASBR and an ABR. B. A router can be either an ASBR or an ABR, but not both. C. Cisco recommends an OSPF router not have more than 10 neighbors. D. Potential OSPF neighbors must agree on the stub flag setting. CCNA Voice: In a typical VoIP network, what device is generally charged with performing CAC? A. gateway B. gatekeeper C. IP phone D. PBX E. CBX CCNA Wireless: What are WMM's preset priority levels? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What OSPF router type(s) can generate a Type 7 LSA? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What command will change the native VLAN on a trunk port to VLAN 12? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: In the wonderful world of dot1x-based authentication, what is the "supplicant"? Answers right here on Thursday, January 22! To your success, Chris Bry...

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Here are the answers to the Cisco certification practice exam questions posted here on Tuesday, January 20! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Which of the following statements are true regarding OSPF timers on an Ethernet segment? A. The default hello time is 10 seconds. B. The default dead time is 40 seconds. C. If you change the hello time, the dead time will dynamically change as well. D. The only way to change the dead time is to change it manually with the ip ospf deadtime command. Answer: A, B, C. Those are the correct OSPF timers and the dead time will change dynamically if you change the hello time. The OSPF dead time will default to 4x the hello time you configure. CCNA Voice: What protocol is responsible for assigning sequence numbers to VoIP packets? Answer: RTP, the Real Time Protocol. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Configuring an OSPF stub area results in the elimination of what route types? Extra credit: What kind of route replaces those eliminated routes? Answer: Stub areas...

Let's catch up a bit on the Cisco exam training questions posted this week! Here are the answers to Monday's questions... CCNA And CCENT Certification: Of OSPF, EIGRP, and RIP, name the protocol(s) that each of the following choices describes. (Answers have been placed in parens after each choice.) A. Uses DUAL for route calculation (EIGRP) B. Uses Dijkstra algorithm (OSPF) C. Uses Bellman-Ford (RIP) D. Will broadcast or multicast routing updates, depending on version (RIP) E. Uses "successor" and "feasible successors" (EIGRP) F. Updates contain all known routes, rather than just the routes that have changed (RIP) CCNA Voice: What's the basic purpose of Call Admission Control? Answer: CAC prevents a call from being made if placing the call would result in the degradation of other calls that have already been made. CCNA Wireless: What's the main difference between BSS and ESS? Answer: There are two kinds of infrastructure WLANs. While a Basic Service ...

The Great Cisco Certification Drive Of 2009 Continues - With Another Complimentary CCNA / CCNP Certification Training Video! I'll have another new video for both CCNA and CCNP candidates right here on Tuesday! Get ready for your CCENT and CCNA exams with this 10-question Cisco certification practice exam from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933! PAP, CHAP, and Serial interface troubleshooting are also discussed and explained. When you're done watching this video, there are over 250 fully-illustrated tutorials, practice exams, and more waiting for you on my CCNA / CCNP certification exam tutorials page - and visit my YouTube CCNA/CCNP Certification Channel , too! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

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Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Monday, January 19! CCNA Wireless and CCNA Voice questions debut today! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Of OSPF, EIGRP, and RIP, name the protocol(s) that each of the following choices describes. A. Uses DUAL for route calculation B. Uses Dijkstra algorithm C. Uses Bellman-Ford D. Will broadcast or multicast routing updates, depending on version E. Uses "successor" and "feasible successors" F. Updates contain all known routes, rather than just the routes that have changed CCNA Voice: What's the basic purpose of Call Admission Control? CCNA Wireless: What's the main difference between BSS and ESS? Describe the basic operation of each in your answer. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: I'll be the first to say that detecting the reason for SIA routes in EIGRP can be more of an art form than a science. Having said that, give three general reasons a route can go into SIA. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Thanks to IE...

Here are the answers to the Cisco training questions posted this past Friday! Daily questions resume today, and CCNA Voice and Wireless questions debut today as well! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Which of the following must match between prospective OSPF neighbors in order for an adjacency to form? A. The process ID B. The AS number C. The dead timer D. The OSPF Router ID E. The hello timer Answer: C, E. They don't have to agree on the process ID or have the same OSPF RID, and OSPF does not use AS numbers. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What's the administrative distance of ISIS? Answer: 115. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You just noticed the icon in your Aironet System Tray Utility has turned white. What does this indicate? Answer: The client adapter is disabled. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Which of the following SDM features allows you to configure a firewall with multiple inside interfaces? A. Basic Firewall Wizard B. Advanced Fir...

Welcome back ! :) It's Monday, January 19, and coming up later today right here on the blog... .... a new CCNA/CCNP training video that will introduce you to route redistribution ... the answers to Saturday's Cisco practice exam questions ... and coming up later this week, enrollment for my exclusive $197 CCNA Mastermind Webinar series opens again - get over 25 hours of LIVE CCNA instruction from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, over a one-week period of evening and Saturday webinars! That's right - you don't have to take time off from work, and you don't have to spend thousands of dollars. Just $197 for 25+ hours of live CCNA exam training! I'll have full details for you right here in the blog in the next 48 hours. In the meantime, visit my Bryant Advantage YouTube CCNA/CCNP Video Channel - over 35,000 video views so far! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here's Your Opportunity To Work With Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, For One Full Week - All The Way To Your CCNA! In February and March, I'll be spending one full week online with a select group of CCNA students - and this group is restricted to four students in each class! The lectures are fully interactive, and each student then has the opportunity to work with their own, unshared pod of Cisco routers and switches- and each student will then receive personalized feedback and pointers on their lab work from yours truly. These pointers will help you to truly master the skills required to pass the CCNA exam! To learn more about the course and see the online classroom, just click this link! The CCNA Mastermind Online Boot Camp You can see the classroom here as well in a smaller version - of course, the virtual classroom appears much larger on your PC! :) Enroll today, and I'll see you in class! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Friday, January 16! CCNA Wireless and Voice questions return on Monday, along with CCNP ONT questions! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Which of the following must match between prospective OSPF neighbors in order for an adjacency to form? A. The process ID B. The AS number C. The dead timer D. The OSPF Router ID E. The hello timer CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Short answer: What's the administrative distance of ISIS? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You just noticed the icon in your Aironet System Tray Utility has turned white. What does this indicate? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Which of the following SDM features allows you to configure a firewall with multiple inside interfaces? A. Basic Firewall Wizard B. Advanced Firewall Wizard C. Both of these D. Neither of these Answers right here on Saturday, January 17! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to the Cisco practice exam questions posted on Thursday, January 15! CCNA Wireless and Voice questions return on Monday! :) CCNA And CCENT Certification: You've just connected two Cisco routers directly via their Serial interfaces. Which end of the point-to-point connection requires the clockrate command? A. The DTE end B. The DCE end C. Both ends D. The clockrate command is not required in this situation. Answer: B. The DCE must supply a clockrate to the DTE. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which ISIS term describes a "logical segment of the network composed of contiguous routers and their data links"? A. End System B. Intermediate System C. Domain D. Area Answer: D. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You want VLAN 30 to be the VLAN that carries a Remote SPAN's mirrored traffic. How will you do so? Answer: Go into VLAN configuration mode and enter the remote-span command. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Which of the following SD...

The Great Cisco Certification Drive Of 2009 Continues - With Another Complimentary CCNA / CCNP Certification Training Video! This CCNA And CCNP Cisco training video is also available on the website! By the way, only a few spots remain in my CCNA Boot Camp Online Mastermind Training courses for February and March - work with yours truly personally for one full week in the comfort of your own home and earn your CCNA! There are some odd defaults for the OSPF Router ID (RID), and you need to have them down cold for your certification exams and to work with OSPF in the real world. You also need to know how to change those defaults - and how to make those changes take effect! In today's video, I'll show you all of this and just a bit more! When you're done watching this video, there are over 250 fully-illustrated tutorials, practice exams, and more waiting for you on my CCNA / CCNP certification exam tutorials page - and visit my YouTube CCNA/CCNP Certification Channel , too! ...

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Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Thursday, January 15! CCNA And CCENT Certification: You've just connected two Cisco routers directly via their Serial interfaces. Which end of the point-to-point connection requires the clockrate command? A. The DTE end B. The DCE end C. Both ends D. The clockrate command is not required in this situation. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Which ISIS term describes a "logical segment of the network composed of contiguous routers and their data links"? A. End System B. Intermediate System C. Domain D. Area CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You want VLAN 30 to be the VLAN that carries a Remote SPAN's mirrored traffic. How will you do so? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Which of the following SDM features allows you to create a DMZ? A. Basic Firewall Wizard B. Advanced Firewall Wizard C. Both of these D. Neither of these Answers right here on Friday, January 16! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 htt...

Here are the answers to the Cisco certification practice exam questions posted on Wednesday, January 14! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Arrange the following in order of their administrative distance, from lowest to highest. A. OSPF B. EIGRP (internal route) C. EIGRP (external route) D. RIP version 1 E. RIP version 2 F. static route Answer: Static route, EIGRP Internal, OSPF, RIP versions 1 and 2 (the same for both versions), EIGRP External. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: The ip helper-address command takes certain broadcasts and translates then into unicasts in order to allow the router to forward them. Name six of them. Answer: Here's the full list: 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 services, port 138 CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: IEEE 802.1q adds how much overhead for a frame intended for the native VLAN? Answer: None. No dot1q header is attached to a f...

It's Monday, January 12, and here's today's CCNA / CCNP Cisco training video! Be sure to scroll down in the blog for more videos and links to my YouTube Cisco Certification Channel - over 31,000 views and growing! :) For both the exam room and your Cisco home lab, you have to know which cables are best suited for each connection! In this video, we'll take a look at the cables you'll need for your home lab - straight-through, crossover, rollover, and DTE/DCE - and typical uses for each. I'll also remind of you of two important adapters you'll need for your home lab and to work with real-world networks! When you're done, be sure to visit my CCNA And CCNP Tutorials for over 25 Cisco home lab tutorials,including sample access server and frame relay switch configurations. Over 200 more Cisco certification tutorials are available there, too! Enjoy! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Monday, January 12! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Which of the following can successfully be used to complete an ip route command? A. next-hop IP address B. local exit interface C. next-hop router's interface that will receive the packets D. 0.0.0.0 E. 255.255.255.255 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What's the purpose of TCP port 179? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What switch redundancy feature uses the Root Link Query protocol? CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: You've just run the Autosecure feature and accepted all of Cisco's best practices. As a result, how long must passwords be that are configured on that router? Answers right here on Tuesday, January 13! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Hey, I owe you some answers - the answers to this past Friday's Cisco practice exam questions, that is! :) Here they are! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Identify the destination address of each of the following. (Addresses have been listed to the right of each.) A. broadcast frame - ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff B. RIPv1 routing update packet - 255.255.255.255 C. broadcast packet - 255.255.255.255 D. RIPv2 routing update packet -- 224.0.0.9 E. EIGRP Hello packet -- 224.0.0.10 CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Describe a situation in which you may need the BGP command ebgp-multihop. Answer: If you choose to use loopback addresses in your neighbor statements on two routers, they are not considered directly connected even if they share a common subnet. The ebgp-multihop command is necessary to configure eBGP peering relationships where the addresses used to form the adjacency are not on the same segment. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: The CiscoWorks WLSE acts as the manager of the autonomous APs. ...

Welcome back! It's Monday, January 12, and coming up later here at The Bryant Advantage... ... the announcement of my upcoming February and March CCNA Mastermind Online Course dates, where you work with me personally for one full week online to help you prepare for CCNA exam success! ... the answers to Friday's Cisco practice exam questions .... a new set of Cisco training questions, including the debut of daily CCNA Voice and CCNA Wireless questions ... and more! Be sure to scroll down for several new (and free!) CCNA and CCNP training videos I posted last week, and visit my YouTube Cisco Certification Channel for plenty of free Cisco CCENT, CCNA, and CCNP training videos - over 30,000 views so far and counting! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

It's Saturday, January 10, and the Great Cisco Certification Drive Of 2009 Continues - With Yet Another Free CCNA / CCNP Training Video! Learning EIGRP and OSPF makes RIP seem simple, but we've got two different kinds of RIP to contend with in the exam room and in today's networks. In this video, we'll take a look at the key differences and similarities between RIP versions 1 and 2. And as a bonus, here's my exclusive RIP Video Quiz to help you get ready for your CCNA exam! Enjoy! And when you're done, head over to my CCNA / CCNP Cisco Certification tutorial page - over 250 free videos, practice exams, and fully-illustrated tutorials are waiting for you there! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here's Your Free Cisco Certification Training Video For Friday, January 9! One of the toughest parts of getting started with your Cisco certification exam studies is learning the many different networking terms - and then keeping them straight! :) In this video, we'll discuss the operation and differences between multicasts, broadcasts, and unicasts, and how each is used in today's networks. When you're done watching this video, there are over 250 fully-illustrated tutorials, practice exams, and more waiting for you on my CCNA / CCNP certification exam tutorials page! Also, scroll down in the blog for links to my YouTube Cisco certification channel - I've got over 20 videos waiting for you there as well! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to the Cisco practice exam questions posted this past Wednesday! Be sure to scroll down in the blog to links to all of my YouTube Cisco certification videos - over 30,000 views so far! : ) CCNA Voice and Wireless questions start this upcoming Monday, and I'll have a new Cisco video on my YouTube channel and on my blog every day in January - don't miss 'em! CCNA And CCENT Certification: What command hard-codes a Cisco 2950 switch port to full-duplex mode? Answer: duplex full. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Name the "reliable" EIGRP packet types. Answer: Update, Query, and Reply. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which of the following accurately describe potential SPAN destination ports? A. Can be part of an Etherchannel B. Can be a source SPAN port C. Can participate in multiple SPAN sessions D. Does not participate in STP Answer: D. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Describe the basic operation of DHCP Snooping. Answer: DHC...

Here's Your Free Cisco Certification Training Video For Friday, January 9! One of the toughest parts of getting started with your Cisco certification exam studies is learning the many different networking terms - and then keeping them straight! :) In this video, we'll discuss the operation and differences between multicasts, broadcasts, and unicasts, and how each is used in today's networks. When you're done watching this video, there are over 250 fully-illustrated tutorials, practice exams, and more waiting for you on my CCNA / CCNP certification exam tutorials page! Also, scroll down in the blog for links to my YouTube Cisco certification channel - I've got over 20 videos waiting for you there as well! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here's yet another free Cisco training video for you - the third and final part of my exclusive video series on static routing! CCNA and CCNP candidates alike will enjoy this video - not only do we configure and remove static routes, but we'll also send some pings around the network and run some IP debugs as well. If you missed the first two parts of the series, just scroll down in the blog or visit my YouTube CCNA / CCNP certification exam video training channel! For over 250 free Cisco exam videos, fully-illustrated tutorials, practice exams, and more, visit my CCNA / CCNP certification exam tutorials page! I'll see you later today with a new set of Cisco practice exam questions, and just maybe another video as well! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

It's Tuesday, January 6, and here's another Cisco certification exam training video for you! Yesterday, we took a look at the theory and potential real-world application of static routing. Today, we'll start a lab that includes static routing, troubleshooting, pings, and debugs - so even if you CCENT and CCNA candidates think you know static routing, you still need to watch this video! Enjoy, and be sure to scroll down in the blog for other Cisco training videos! Visit my Cisco Certification Tutorials page and my YouTube CCNA / CCNP training video channel, too - subscribers are the first to know about new videos! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Tuesday, January 6! Be sure to scroll down for plenty of free Cisco training videos, and visit my YouTube Cisco certification exam channel! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Which layers of the OSI model map to the Presentation layer of the TCP/IP model? CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Name the two EIGRP packet types that are considered "unreliable". CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Which of the following accurately describe potential SPAN source ports? A. Can be part of an Etherchannel B. Can be a destination SPAN port C. Can be monitored in multiple SPAN sessions simultaneously D. Can be a Gigabit Ethernet port CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Describe the basic operation of IP Source Guard. Answers right here on Wednesday, January 7! CCNA Wireless and Voice questions debut on Wednesday as well! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

It's Tuesday, January 6 and here are the answers to Monday's Cisco practice exam questions! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Short answer: Roughly equivalent to the frame-relay map command, what point-to-point subinterface command indicates the local DLCI to be used by traffic leaving that interface? Answer: frame-relay interface-dlci. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: Routes redistributed into ISIS are assigned what seed metric? Answer: Zero. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: Advanced QoS is generally performed at what level of the Cisco Hierarchical Switching model? Answer: The Core layer. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: Describe the basic operation of a smurf attack. Answer: Smurf attacks use the IP address of the intended victim as the source address of a virtual flood of ICMP Echo packets. The destinations are IP broadcast addresses, virtually guaranteeing a large number of ICMP Echo Reply packets being sent to the victim. New questions posted later today! ...

Here's Another Free CCNA / CCNP Exam Training Video For You! Knowing how to configure static routing is important for your CCENT and CCNA exam success, and you've also got to know when and why to use them in the real world! In the first part of my multi-video series on static routing, we'll cover important theory for your Cisco certification exams and discuss how to use static routes in the real world as well. I'll post the rest of this series beginning Tuesday, including the configuration of default and host static routes - and maybe, just maybe, a little networking troubleshooting along the way! In the meantime, enjoy this video, and I'll have another one waiting for you right here on Tuesday. Be sure to scroll down in the blog for links to my other Cisco certification videos, and visit my CCNA / CCNP certification tutorial page and my CCNA / CCNP YouTube channel ! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to the Cisco certification practice exam questions posted here on Sunday! CCNA And CCENT Certification: What are the default settings for port security for each of the following? A. number of secure MAC addresses B. security mode C. action taken upon receipt of a non-secure MAC address Answers: The defaults are ..... one secure MAC address, shutdown mode, and the port will be put into err-disabled mode and a syslog message generated. CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: In BGP, what command would double the default weight of all routes received from a neighbor at 172.12.1.1? Answer: Well, I meant to ask about another BGP metric, since the default weight of a route received from another router is zero. So if you caught that - great work! :) CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: You've just connected two 2950 switches with a crossover cable. Assuming all ports are at their default setting, what else do you need to do for a trunk to form? Answer: Nothing, since both ports w...

Here's Your Cisco Certification Training Video For Monday, January 5! Knowing how to configure static routing is important for your CCENT and CCNA exam success, and you've also got to know when and why to use them in the real world! In the first part of my multi-video series on static routing, we'll cover important theory for your Cisco certification exams and discuss how to use static routes in the real world as well. I'll post the rest of this series beginning Tuesday, including the configuration of default and host static routes - and maybe, just maybe, a little networking troubleshooting along the way! In the meantime, enjoy this video, and I'll have another one waiting for you right here on Tuesday. Be sure to scroll down in the blog for links to my other Cisco certification videos, and visit my CCNA / CCNP certification tutorial page, too - over 250 Cisco tutorials are waiting for you there! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvant...

Welcome back! :) It's Monday, January 5, and coming up later today here at The Bryant Advantage... .... the debut of daily CCNA Voice and Wireless questions ... a new (and free!) CCNA / CCNP training video ... the answers to Sunday's practice exam questions .... and more! In the meantime, be sure to scroll down for links to my 20+ free Cisco CCNA and CCNP training videos, and a link to my YouTube channel, where I'll be posting more than 100 additional videos over the next three months! And be here next Monday for a blockbuster announcement regarding my online CCNA Mastermind training course! 2009's going to be your best and biggest year yet - and I'm ready to help you get there! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Sharpen Your EIGRP Knowledge With This Free Cisco CCNA / CCNP Video Exam! EIGRP appears on the CCNA and CCNP BSCI exam - so to help you master the basics of EIGRP for your Cisco certification exams, here's my latest Cisco certification video pop quiz! You'll be presented with 10 EIGRP practice exam questions, in both multiple choice and short answer format. I'll then give you the answers and explanations for those answers at the end of the video. Enjoy this free Cisco training, and check out my other CCNA / CCNP training videos on YouTube when you're done! Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel to be the first to know of my newest Cisco training videos - I'll be posting over 100 new videos over the next few months! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

All right, got a little catching up to do before the first full week of the New Year! And speaking of Monday, January 5, look for these new features right here on the blog and on my YouTube channel starting on Monday! -- daily CCNA Voice questions -- daily CCNA Wireless questions -- a new CCNA / CCNP training video every single day in January .... and more! 2009's going to be the best and biggest year yet here at The Bryant Advantage, and I'm ready to do everything I can to help you earn your Cisco - and Microsoft 2008 - certifications! In the meantime, let's take a look at the answers to Friday's Cisco practice exam questions! Here are the answers to Friday's questions! CNA And CCENT Certification: Give the multicast or broadcast destination address associated with each of the following. A. EIGRP Hello - 224.0.0.10 B. MAC broadcast frame - ff-ff-ff-ff-ff-ff C. RIP v1 Routing Update Packet - 255.255.255.255 D. RIP v2 Routing Update Packet - 224.0.0.9 E. OSPF Hello 2...

Welcome back! :) Blogger had some "issues" yesterday, and I apologize for the lack of posts - I'll have new questions and answers for you later today! Be sure to scroll down in the blog for links to my YouTube Cisco training video section, an exclusive offer from Trainsignal, and more! To your success in 2009, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for Friday, January 2! CCNP ONT questions return on Monday, and CCNA Voice and Wireless certification exam practice questions begin on Monday, January 5 as well! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Give the multicast or broadcast destination address associated with each of the following. A. EIGRP Hello B. MAC broadcast frame C. RIP v1 Routing Update Packet D. RIP v2 Routing Update Packet E. OSPF Hello CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What's the basic purpose of the MED in BGP? CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: When an interface is running dot1x-based authentication, only three protocols can pass through an unauthorized port. Name them. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: When using a TACACS+ server for authentication, there are four possible reply types from that server. Name them. Answers right here on Saturday, January 3! To your success, Chris Bryant CCIE #12933 http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/

Here are the answers to the Cisco practice exam questions posted on Thursday, January 1! ONT questions return on Monday, and daily CCNA Wireless and Voice questions begin that day as well! CCNA And CCENT Certification: What's the hex equivalent of the binary string 11110011? Answer: The decimal equivalent is 243; the hex equivalent is F3 (fifteen units of 16, three units of 1). CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What additional code is assigned by default to a route redistributed into OSPF? Answer: E2. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What is the default Hello time of HSRP? What basic HSRP verification command can be used to find this value? Answer: HSRP's default Hello time is 3 seconds; you can monitor this and other important HSRP information with the show standby command. CCNP Certification / ISCW Exam & CCNA Security: What SDM feature allows you to find potential vulnerabilities in a Cisco router without actually making the changes without your input? Answer: The Securit...

Welcome back, and Happy New Year! Let's make 2009 your year for Cisco certification success - and we'll start by checking the answers to this past Tuesday's questions! CCNA And CCENT Certification: Without peeking at a Cisco router :), tell me what two numeric ranges are acceptable for extended ACLs. Answer: I did peek at a Cisco router, and here's what I saw.... R1(config)#access-list ? IP standard access list IP extended access list Extended 48-bit MAC address access list IP standard access list (expanded range) Protocol type-code access list IP extended access list (expanded range) 48-bit MAC address access list CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What is the default administrative distance of an OSPF route that was learned via redistribution? Answer: The same as any other OSPF route - 110. CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam: What is the overall net effect of the following commands? SW2(config)#errdisable recovery cause all SW2(config)#errdisable recovery interval 30...