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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Troubleshooting Directly Connected Serial Interfaces - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
CCNA exam success depends largely on noticing the details, and this is especially true of configurations involving directly connected serial interfaces. And of course, it's not enough to notice these details - you've got to know what to do about them! A Cisco router is a DTE by default, but... Submitted 6 years 66 days ago.
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using OSPF's "Summary-Address" Command - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
BSCI exam success, not to mention earning your CCNP, can come down to your OSPF route summarization skills. There are a few different commands and situations you need to be ready for, and one of these situations is the proper use of the "summary-address" command. The summary-address command... Submitted 6 years 66 days ago.
Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Dynamic Trunking Protocol - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
When you're studying to pass the BCMSN exam on the way to earning your CCNP certification, you're going to add to your CCNA knowledgebase every step of the way. Nowhere is that more than configuring a trunk between two switches. You know that IEEE 802.1Q ("dot1q") and ISL are your two... Submitted 6 years 68 days ago.
CCNA exam success depends on mastering the fundamentals, and two important fundamentals are correctly defining the terms "collision domain" and "broadcast domain" . In this free Cisco tutorial, we'll take a look at the term "collision domain" and how a collision domain is defined. A collision... Submitted 6 years 68 days ago.
Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: A Guide To RAM, ROM, NVRAM, And Flash - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
CCNA exam success depends on knowing the details, and nowhere is this more true than knowing the various components of a Cisco router. This is also where you can quickly start drowning in acronyms! The terms "RAM" and "ROM" probably aren't new to you, but keeping up with "what goes where" with... Submitted 6 years 72 days ago.
DVD Advantage - Many Advantages Less Limitations - Craig Dawber
The article deals with the advantages of DVD both as a medium for data storage and entertainment medium. It appears that the advantages are many and limitations are few, giving it the edge over other alternatives. History of DVD Digital versatile disk (DVD for short) was developed... Submitted 6 years 75 days ago.
How to Create a Mirror Image of Your Hard Drive - mcottier
The computer that you use has a hard drive in it, which stores everything that you put on it, plus all the settings that you prefer. You can then imagine how difficult it would be if you were to lose all of your data and have to set everything back up again. That is why a full hard drive backup... Submitted 6 years 80 days ago.
How to Speed Up your Network Performance in Windows XP - For Real - Howdidya
There are so many programs that will tweak your TCP/IP settings. The truth is changing your MTU or time to live (TTL) settings will only do so much. Windows XP is already set for broadband connections so there is really not much to do.. Most of the time regular use, installing programs and... Submitted 6 years 85 days ago.
Speed up Internet Explorer 6 - Howdidya
Internet Explorer 6 has been around for a while and its been a good browser. Since new alternatives like Firefox and Opera have come out we now know that, yes there is faster browsing out there. Internet Explorer can be as fast after trying out a few tips in this article. Step 1: Default is... Submitted 6 years 85 days ago.
Microsoft Computer Certification: Farewell To The MCSE - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
Microsoft is in the middle of a major push to overhaul its certification program. Last year, they announced the new Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA) certification, which is not a written exam but rather a practical exam that will be graded by a board of examiners. Just applying for the... Submitted 6 years 88 days ago.
To pass your CCNA exam and earn this coveted certification, you've got to master the seven layers of the OSI model and what each layer does. For those of you taking the two-exam path, you can expect quite a few OSI model questions on the Intro exam. In this seven-part series, we'll spend some... Submitted 6 years 93 days ago.
Cisco CCNA / CCNP Training: Using Video Boot Camps To Earn Your Certification - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
When you're studying for the CCNA and CCNP exams, you've got a lot of different choices when it comes to training. One popular choice is choosing one of the many "boot camps" that are out there. I've taught quite a few of these, and while many of them are good, they do have drawbacks. Of... Submitted 6 years 100 days ago.
Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification: Creating A Roadmap For Success - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
Whether you're just starting to think about passing the CCNA or CCNP exams, or you've been on the certification track for a while, you've got to have a plan for success. If you wanted to drive your car from Florida to California, you'd create a plan to get there. You'd get a map and decide how... Submitted 6 years 100 days ago.
Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam: What's A "Floating Static Route"? - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
Passing the BSCI exam and earning your CCNP certification demands that you add greatly to the networking skills foundation you created when you studied for your CCNA certification. You learned quite a bit about static routing and default static routing when you passed the CCNA test, and it does... Submitted 6 years 101 days ago.
Cisco CCNP Exam / BSCI Tutorial: Summarizing RIP And EIGRP Routes - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
To pass your BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, you've got to master route summarization. When you get to the BSCI level, actually breaking the routes down into binary strings and performing summarization is second nature to you. (If it isn't, get some more practice!) What makes CCNP /... Submitted 6 years 102 days ago.
Cisco CCNA Certification: Static And Default Static Routes - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
In studying for your CCNA exam and preparing to earn this valuable certification, you may be tempted to spend little time studying static routing and head right for the more exciting dynamic routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF. This is an understandable mistake, but still a mistake.... Submitted 6 years 102 days ago.
Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: The Roles Of The ASBR - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, you've got to master the (many) details of OSPF. You might have thought there were quite a few OSPF details in your CCNA studies, but you'll now build on that foundation on the way to earning your CCNP. One such detail is the role of the... Submitted 6 years 103 days ago.
Cisco CCNA Certification: Segmenting Your Network - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
When you're getting started on your CCNA studies on your way to earning this certification, you're swamped with network device types that you're familiar with, but not quite sure how to use. Let's look at these networking devices and their main purposes. Hubs and repeaters operate at Layer One... Submitted 6 years 103 days ago.
Cisco BSCI / CCNP / BGP Tutorial: Route Reflectors - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
When you're studying for your BSCI exam and CCNP certification, you quickly realize that BGP is a whole new world from anything you've previously studies. One topic that sometimes confuses CCNP candidates is when a BGP route reflector needs to be configured. In the following examples, the... Submitted 6 years 107 days ago.
Cisco CCNA Certification: Defining And Creating Collision Domains - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
When you're studying to pass the CCNA exam and earn your certification, you're introduced to a great many terms that are either totally new to you or seem familiar, but you're not quite sure what they are. The term "collision domain" falls into the latter category for many CCNA candidates. ... Submitted 6 years 107 days ago.
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: Route Redistribution And The Seed Metric - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
In the first part of this free CCNP / BSCI tutorial, we looked at how leaving one simple word out of our route redistribution configuration - "subnets" - resulted in an incomplete routing table when redistributing routes from RIP to OSPF. (If you missed that part of the tutorial, visit my... Submitted 6 years 108 days ago.
Cisco CCNA Certification: Defining And Creating Broadcast Domains - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
When you're studying to pass the CCNA exam and earn your certification, you're introduced to a great many terms that are either totally new to you or seem familiar, but you're not quite sure what they are. The term "broadcast domain" falls into the latter category for many CCNA candidates. A... Submitted 6 years 108 days ago.
If there's one CCNP / BSCI topic that looks so easy but can lead to a real headache, it's route redistribution. I'm not even talking about the routing loops and suboptimal routing that can result when route redistribution is done without proper planning - I'm talking about the basic commands... Submitted 6 years 109 days ago.
Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Starting Over - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
When you're preparing for success on your CCNA or CCNP certification exams, sooner or later you're going to want to start totally from scratch on your Cisco routers and switches. It's easy enough to type "write erase" and "reload", but there are a few details you have to watch if you want your... Submitted 6 years 113 days ago.
Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification: Deciphering PING Returns - Chris Bryant CCIE 12933
As you study for your CCNA and CCNP exams, particularly if you're getting hands-on practice in your home lab or rack rental service, you're going to be sending a lot of pings. As a CCNA or CCNP candidate, you know that five exclamation points (!!!!!) as a ping return indicates that you have IP... Submitted 6 years 115 days ago.
