CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: The VLAN.DAT File
CCNA and CCNP candidates who have their own Cisco home labs often email me about an odd situation that occurs when they erase a switch’s configuration. Their startup configuration is gone, as they...
View ArticleCCNA / MCSE / CCNP Certification: Making Failure Work For You
Whether you’re on the road to the CCNA, CCNP, MCSE, or you’re on any other computer certification track, the odds are that sooner or later, you’re going to fail an exam. It’s happened to almost all of...
View ArticleCisco CCNA Certification: Broadcasts, Unicasts, And Multicasts
When you begin your CCNA studies, you get hit with a lot of different networking terms right away that you might not be familiar with. What makes it a little more confusing is that a lot of these terms...
View ArticleCisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: The OSI Model’s Physical Layer
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...
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