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| Be Certifiable! The Basics Of MCSE And MCP |
It is not always who you know, but what you know. That is why obtaining Microsoft certification can be a valuable asset to your career. Of course, it does depend on what career path you want to take as to whether you want to get either MCSE training or MCP training or anything else for that |
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| Boost Your Career And Benefit From A Microsoft Certification Or Two Or Three! |
You went to college and thought you were prepared for the job market. If you are going for entry-level work, yeah, you are prepared. However, to really get ahead, you need Microsoft certification, whether it is an MCP, MCSA, MCSE or any other string of letters. Quite a few people will go for |
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| CCNA |
CCNA stands for Cisco Certified Network Associate - a certification for IT professionals that is issued by Cisco Systems, Inc., one of the most successful computer networking companies. Cisco manufactures and markets a wide range of devices for both enterprises and telecommunications carrie |
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| (Published: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:39:07 +0000) |
| CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
Cisco Switching Modes |
To pass the CCNA exam and earn this important certification, you’ve got to know switching inside and out. While you’re learning all the basic switching theory, make sure to spend some time with the one of three switching modes Cisco routers can use.
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| (Published: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:39:07 +0000) |
| CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial:
Assembling Your Cisco Home Lab |
A CCNA or CCNP candidate who wants to be totally prepared for their exams is going to put together a home lab to practice on. With used Cisco routers and switches more affordable and plentiful then ever before, there's really no excuse to not have one!
With the many different m |
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| CCNA / 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 us, yours truly included. What you have to keep in mind in these times is that success i |
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| 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 all three have an almost immediate cutover to a secondary path when the pr |
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| 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), you also need to know how HSRP arrives at the MAC address for the virtual router - |
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| CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial:
QoS Service Types |
To pass the CCNP exams, you’ve 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! We've got best-effort delivery, Integrated Services, and Differen |
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| 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 there's another helpful service, Server Load Balancing, that does the same for servers. While HSRP, VRRP |
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| 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 SIA" will bring up quite a few matches. Troubleshooting SIA routes is very challengin i |
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| 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, keepalive messages are sent out by the BGP speakers in order to keep this |
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| CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) |
Passing the BCMSN exam and getting one step closer to the CCNP certification means learning and noticing details that you were not presented with in your CCNA studies. (Yes, I know – you had more than enough details then, right?) One protocol you’ve got to learn more details about is VTP, |
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| CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial:
Route Summarization And The OSPF Null Interface |
CCNP exam success, particularly on the BSCI exam, demands you understand the details of route summarization. This skill not only requires that you have a comfort level with binary conversions, but you have to know how and where to apply route summarization with each individual protocol.
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| Certification Q&A: The Basics Of Certification |
* 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 |
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| 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 smoothly. You must have the following certifications:
• PC Specialist Certif |
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| Cisco 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 quite a few OSI model questions on the Intro exam. In this seven-part series, we'll spend s |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: The OSPF RID |
OSPF is a major topic on your CCNA exam, as well it should be. OSPF is a widely-used WAN protocol, and you need to learn the fundamentals before moving on to more complicated configurations. One such detail is the OSPF Router ID, or RID.
The RID is the dotted decimal value by wh |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
Access List Details You Must Know! |
To pass the CCNA exam, you have to be able to write and troubleshoot access lists. As you climb the ladder toward the CCNP and CCIE, you'll see more and more uses for ACLs. Therefore, you had better know the basics!
The use of "host" and "any" confuses some newcomers to ACLs, so |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
Configuring And Troubleshooting VTP |
Not only is your CCNA exam going to have questions on VLAN trunking protocol, almost any network that has more than one VLAN is going to have VTP running. Whether you're planning on passing the CCNA exam or just brushing up on your networking skills, this VTP tutorial will help you learn t |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
Configuring Dialer Profiles |
The most common method of configuring ISDN is with dialer maps, but dial information can also be configured on a logical interface. To pass the CCNA exam, you must know how to configure and troubleshoot both dialer maps and dialer profiles.
Dialer Profiles allow differe |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
Distance Vector Command Review |
Part of studying for CCNA exam success is keeping all these new commands straight in your head! And let's face it, there are a lot of commands you need to know in order to pass the CCNA exam and earn that certification. Here's a review of some very important distance vector and static routin |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
DNS And The IP Name-Server Command |
DNS behaviors of a Cisco router are important topics for both the CCNA exam and real-world production networks, and you probably didn't know there were so many DNS details before you began studying for the exam! In this tutorial, we'll look at the ip name-server command and its proper usage. |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
Frame Relay DLCIs And Mappings |
Passing the CCNA is tough, and one of the toughest parts is keeping all the acronyms straight! Frame Relay has plenty of those, and today we're going to examine what DLCIs do and how they're mapped on a Cisco router.
Frame Relay VCs use Data-Link Connection Identifiers (DLCI - |
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| Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial:
ISDN Details You Must Know |
CCNA exam success depends partially on knowing the details of ISDN, and there are plenty of them! To help you review for your CCNA exam, here are a few ISDN details that you must know on exam day. (They help in the real world, too – and there are still plenty of ISDN networks out there!
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