Cisco CCNA / CCNP / BCMSN Exam Review: Trunking And Trunking Protocols

To earn your CCNA or CCNP certification, you’ve got to understand the basics of trunking. This isn’t just a CCNA topic – you must have an advanced understanding of trunking and etherchannels to pass...

Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: Floating Static Routes

To pass the Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exams, as well as becoming a world-class networker, you’ve got to know how and when to use floating static routes. And if you’re wondering what makes them...

Cisco / Microsoft Computer Certification: Be Ready For Your Opportunity

I was reading The Big Moo: Stop Trying To Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable this morning, and Id recommend a copy of this to anyone who wants to improve their career and their future. And thats all of us, right?...

Cisco / MCSE Exam Study: Creating A Road Map To Success

Planning for success on the CCNA, CCNP, and other Cisco exams is much like taking a trip in your car. You’ve got to plan ahead, accept the occasional detour, and just keep on going until you get there. But what do you do...

Certification Q&A: Types Of Certifications To Consider For Computer-Related Careers

* What kinds of certifications should I consider for a PC Specialist career?

As a PC Specialist, people will rely on your specialized computer training and skills to keep the office running...

* What does certified mean?

There are four accepted meanings of the adjective certified but only two of which satisfy the needed meaning. To be certified means to be endorsed with authority by an institution or a person with higher position after one successfully meets certain...

CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: The BGP Neighbor Process

Like TCP, BGP is connection-oriented. An underlying connection between two BGP speakers is established before any routing information is exchanged. This connection takes place on TCP port 179. As with EIGRP and OSPF,...

CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Stuck-In-Active Routes

Passing the BSCI exam and earning your CCNP is all about knowing the details, and when it comes to EIGRP SIA routes, there are plenty of details to know. A quick check in a search engine for “troubleshoot...

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Server Load Balancing (SLB)

When you’re working on your BCMSN exam on your way to CCNP certification, you’ll read at length about how Cisco routers and multilayer switches can work to provide router redundancy – but...

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: QoS Service Types

To pass the CCNP exams, youve got to master Quality of Service, and the first step in doing so is knowing the differences between the different QoS types.

Now this being Cisco, we can’t just have one kind of QoS!...

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: HSRP MAC Addresses And Timers

To earn your CCNP certification and pass the BCMSN exam, you’ve got to know what HSRP does and the many configurable options. While the operation of HSRP is quite simple (and covered in a previous tutorial),...

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Getting Started With HSRP

Defined in RFC 2281, HSRP is a Cisco-proprietary protocol in which routers are put into an HSRP router group. Along with dynamic routing protocols and STP, HSRP is considered a high-availability network service, since...