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  • Cisco CCNP BSCI 642-901 Exam: OSPF And Passive Interfaces
  • Your BSCI exam may well be the most challenging of the four exams you must pass to become a CCNP, so you have to have the details of every protocol on the exam mastered! Today, we'...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: EIGRP And Split Horizon
  • EIGRP is a major topic for your CCNA and CCNP studies, and one basic skill you?ll need to pass your Cisco certification exams is to identify situations where you need to enable or ...
  • Cisco CCNP BSCI 642-901 Tutorial: Clear Text OSPF Neighbor Authentication
  • An OSPF adjacency can be authenticated with MD5 (Message Digest 5) or with a clear-text password. I?m not much on clear-text passwords, and hopefully you aren?t either! Whether you...
  • Cisco CCNP 642-901 BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Adjacencies And Secondary Addresses
  • I've read some non-Cisco documentation that EIGRP will not allow adjacencies to form when secondary addresses are used. This is incorrect, but there is one common error that can re...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification BSCI 642-901 Exam Training: The EIGRP Adjacency
  • EIGRP is an important part of real-world networking as well as being a major topic on the 642-901 CCNP BSCI exam. As with any networking topic, before you try to master intermediat...
  • Cisco CCNP CIT Exam Training: Creating A Network Baseline
  • The first thing we've got to do in order to document our network is to create a network baseline. After all, if we don't know our goals, we can't accomplish them. A baseline is rea...
  • Cisco CCNA And CCNP BCRAN Exam Training: Frame Relay PVC, SVC, DLCI, and Map Statements
  • In today's CCNP certification tutorial, we'll concentrate on the BCRAN exam and Frame Relay PVCs, SVC, and DLCIs in particular. There are actually two kinds of virtual circuits ...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: Making The Most Of Cisco's CCNP Program Changes
  • As you probably know by now, Cisco's making some sweeping changes in their Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) program. Two longtime exams are being retired at the end of t...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: Troubleshooting EIGRP
  • Part of earning your CCNA and CCNP - especially passing the difficult CIT exam - is becoming a master network troubleshooter. Today, we'll take a look at troubleshooting EIGRP and ...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Troubleshooting Direct Serial Connections
  • A prime topic of your CCNA and CCNP CIT exams will be connecting Cisco routers directly via their Serial interfaces, and while the configuration is straightforward, there are some ...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Lab: Frame Relay Subinterfaces And Split Horizon
  • Earning your Cisco CCNA and CCNP is a tough proposition, and part of that is the fact that you quickly learn that there?s usually more than one way to do things with Cisco routers ...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Cabling Your Home Lab
  • More CCNA and CCNP candidates than ever before are putting together their own home labs, and there's no better way to learn about Cisco technologies than working with the real thin...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Caller ID Screening And Callback
  • As a CCNA and/or CCNP candidate, you've got to be able to spot situations where Cisco router features can save your client money and time. For example, if a spoke router is calling...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Same Command, Different Results
  • As a CCNA or CCNP, one thing you've got to get used to is that change is constant. Cisco regularly issues new IOS versions, not to mention the many different kinds of hardware they...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Frame Relay Encapsulation Types
  • When you're studying to pass the Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exams, you quickly learn that there's always something else to learn. (You'll really pick up on this in your CCIE...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Frame Relay BECNs and FECNs
  • BECNs and FECNs aren't just important to know for your Cisco CCNA and CCNP certification exams - they're an important part of detecting congestion on a Frame Relay network and allo...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Exam Tutorial: Testing ISDN Links Without Pings
  • To earn your Cisco CCNA and CCNP certifications, you've got to master ISDN - and despite what some people say, there's still a lot of ISDN out there that needs to be supported. And...
  • 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 wonde...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: Configuring PPP Callback
  • You may run into situations where a router in a remote location needs to dial in to a central router, but the toll charges are much higher if the remote router makes the call. This...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: Dialer Watch
  • Dialer Watch is a vital part of your CCNA and CCNP studies, particularly for the BCRAN exam, but it's one of the most misunderstood technologies as well. To help you pass the CCNA ...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Tutorial: Frame Relay End-To-End Keepalives
  • One of the first things you learned about Frame is that the LMI also serves as a keepalive, or a heartbeat - and if three consecutive LMIs are missed, the line protocol goes down. ...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Review: Protocol Basics
  • To earn your Cisco CCNA certification and pass the BSCI CCNP exam, you have to know your protocol basics like the back of your hand! To help you review these important concepts, he...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Tutorial: ISDN And Multilink PPP
  • ISDN is a huge topic on both your Cisco CCNA and BCRAN CCNP exams. While many ISDN topics seem straightforward, it?s the details that make the difference in the exam room and worki...
  • 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 eth...
  • 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 redundanc...
  • 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 T...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: An Introduction To BGP
  • When you're studying for the BSCI exam on the way to earning your CCNP certification, it's safe to say that BGP is like nothing you?ve studied to this point. BGP is an external rou...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: The HSRP MAC Address
  • To pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP, you've got to know HSRP inside and out! Part of that is knowing how the MAC address of the virtual router is derived, and another part is...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Changing The Active Router In HSRP
  • To pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP certification, you've got to know HSRP inside and out. While the operation and basic commands of HSRP are pretty simple, there are some im...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Ten IP Routing Details You Must Know!
  • To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP, you've got to keep a lot of details in mind. It's easy to overlook the "simpler" protocols and services such as static routing and distanc...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 cover...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 hig...
  • 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,...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Writing QoS Policy
  • QoS - Quality of Service - is a huge topic on both the BCMSN exam and real-world networks. QoS is so big today that Cisco's created separate specialist certifications that cover no...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCSI Exam Tutorial: Broadcasts And The IP Helper-Address Command
  • While routers accept and generate broadcasts, they do not forward them. This can be quite a problem when a broadcast needs to get to a device such as a DHCP or TFTP server that's o...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Switches, QoS, And Cisco's Networking Model
  • QoS is a big topic on your BCMSN and CCNP exams, and for good reason. As more and more traffic flows through today's networks, accurately applying QoS to both your routers and swit...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: The 2501 Router
  • To be truly prepared for your CCNA and CCNP exams, you need real hands-on experience with real Cisco routers and switches. However, a production network is a really bad place to pr...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Configuring CGMP On Routers & Switches
  • If a Layer Two switch doesn't have the capabilities to run IGMP Snooping, it will be able to run CGMP - Cisco Group Membership Protocol. CGMP allows the multicast router to work wi...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Multicasting And Reserved Addresses
  • Ever since you picked up your first CCNA book, you've heard about multicasting, gotten a fair idea of what it is, and you've memorized a couple of reserved multicasting addresses. ...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: OSPF Route Redistribution Review
  • OSPF route redistribution is an important topic on the BSCI exam, and it's a topic full of details and defaults that you need to know for the exam room and the job. To help you pas...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: The Core Layer Of Cisco's Three-Layer Model
  • In this section, you're going to be reintroduced to a networking model you first saw in your CCNA studies. No, it's not the OSI model or the TCP/IP model - it's the Cisco Three-Lay...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: The Passive Interface Command And OSPF
  • To pass the BSCI exam and become a CCNP, you have to be aware of the proper use of passive interfaces. You learned about passive interfaces in your CCNA studies, but here we?ll rev...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Uplinkfast
  • You remember from your CCNA studies that when a port goes through the transition from blocking to forwarding, you're looking at a 50-second delay before that port can actually begi...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: ISIS Hellos And Adjacencies
  • In my last ISIS tutorial, I mentioned that while ISIS and OSPF are both link state protocols, their actual operation differs greatly. To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP, you'...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Configuring PortFast And BPDU Guard
  • In your CCNA studies, you learned about PortFast and the trouble it can cause if configured on the wrong port! Suitable only for switch ports connected directly to a single host, P...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Filtering BGP Updates With Prefix Lists
  • A major part of your BSCI and CCNP exam success is mastering BGP, and that includes filtering BGP routing updates. In this tutorial, we'll take a look at how to filter BGP updates ...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Configuring And Troubleshooting OSPF Virtual Links
  • Knowing when and how to create an OSPF virtual link is an essential skill for BSCI and CCNP exam success, not to mention how important it can be on your job! As a CCNA and CCNP can...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: The BGP Attribute MED
  • Your BSCI exam and CCNP certification success depend on mastering BGP, and a big part of that is knowing how and when to use the many BGP attributes. And for those of you with an e...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: The Four (Or Five) STP Port States
  • As a CCNP candidate and a CCNA, you may be tempted to skip or just browse the many details of Spanning Tree Protocol. After all, you learned all of that in your CCNA studies, right...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) Timers
  • In your BCMSN / CCNP exam study, it's easy to overlook some of the details of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). After all, you learned all of that in your CCNA studies, right? Not nece...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using Distribute Lists
  • To be successful on the BSCI exam and in earning your CCNP, you've got to master route redistribution. This isn't as easy as it sounds, because configuring route redistribution is ...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Changing Root Bridge Election Results
  • Your BCMSN and CCNP studies will include mastering the details of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). While you learned some of these details in your CCNA studies, quite a bit of it may ...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Introduction To Policy Routing
  • Policy routing is a major topic on your BSCI exam, and you'll find quite a bit of policy routing going on in today's production networks. But what exactly is policy routing? Pol...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: BGP Adjacency States
  • To pass the BSCI exam, earn your CCNP certification, and become an outstanding networker, you've got to master the many details of BGP - and trust me, there are a lot of details to...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCSI Exam Tutorial: Configuring EIGRP Packet Authentication
  • Configuring RIPv2 and EIGRP authentication with key chains can be tricky at first, and the syntax isn't exactly easy to remember. But for BSCI and CCNP exam success, we've got to b...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: RIP Update Packet Authentication
  • When you earned your CCNA, you thought you learned everything there is to know about RIP. Close, but not quite! There are some additional details you need to know to pass the BSCI ...
  • 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...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Route Summarization
  • Summarizing routes is a vital skill to learn to pass the BSCI exam and get one step closer to earning your CCNP. The actual binary conversions are only part of the test, though! Yo...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using OSPF's "Summary-Address" Command
  • 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 f...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP)
  • 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 mor...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: A Guide To Ipv6 Addressing
  • Learning IPv6 is paramount in your efforts to pass the BSCI exam and go on to earn your CCNP, and it's going to help in your real-world networking career as well. IPv6 can be confu...
  • Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Static VLANs
  • BCMSN exam success and earning your CCNP certification requires you to add to your knowledge of VLAN configuration. When you studied for your CCNA exam, you learned how to place po...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Configuring An Access Server
  • As your CCNA / CCNP home lab expands, an access server such as the Cisco 2509 or 2511 is one of the best investments you can make. In this article, we'll look at the basic configur...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Cabling Your Access Server
  • A Cisco home lab is an invaluable study tool when you're preparing for CCNA and CCNP exam success. Once you've gotten a couple of routers and switches, you'll quickly get tired of ...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Planning Ahead For IE Study
  • Candidates preparing to pass the CCNP exams are putting together Cisco home labs like never before. With CCNA and CCNP home lab equipment more affordable than ever, candidates have...
  • Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization
  • Preparing to pass the BSCI exam and earn your Cisco CCNP? Route summarization is just one of the many skills you'll have to master in order to earn your CCNP. Whether it's RIP vers...
  • Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization Basics
  • As you earn your CCNA and CCNP certification, you're going to have to get comfortable with manually summarizing routes. This isn't just another reason to learn binary math (althoug...
  • Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Creating A Study Plan
  • 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 wan...

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