By James Hanback
If you’re like me, the first thing you want to do when you get your hands on a new toy or technology is to toss the instructions aside and figure out on your own what you can make it do. Sometimes the best way to figure out something new is to find ways to apply it to your existing knowledge or skill set. I remember the first time I tinkered with a Doom level creator way back in the 90s. Without seeking help or tutorials, I immediately started trying to build a Doom-world replica of the interior of my house.
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In the two preceding blog posts of this series (Section 3.3 Part 1 and Part 2), we discussed how to identify legitimate practice-exam products and recognize braindumps. Another important issue in those posts was how to determine which legitimate products are better than others. In this post, we’ll take a brief tour of Boson’s ExSim-Max for Microsoft line of products.
By Andrew Messier
NetSim 10.6 has been released. This update includes 3 new CCENT labs for configuring basic network services and troubleshooting Domain Name Systems (DNS), 5 new CCNA labs for troubleshooting Access Control Lists (ACLs) and Frame-Relay, and minor output updates to several lab documents. We added support for configuring interfaces with non-contiguous ranges, applying ACLs to Virtual Terminal Lines (VTY), and configuring Network Address Translation (NAT) on subinterfaces. Finally, this release includes bug fixes for NAT, static routing, Address Resolution Protocol (ARP), and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) named-mode. A complete list of all eight new labs is below:
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NetSim 10.5 was released today. This is primarily an update for NetSim’s routing and switching engine which adds support for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol version 6 (DHCPv6), fixes several minor DHCP bugs, and fixes an activation issue affecting some NetSim and NetSimX (BEE) customers. Three new CCNP labs are included to cover this new technology. Five new CCNA labs are also included which offer additional Access Control Lists (ACL) practice. All eight labs are listed below:
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By Val Bakh
In the first two blog posts of this series, we discussed Microsoft certifications and touched upon a couple of study options. It turned out that Microsoft’s online technical libraries and product documentation are no longer suitable as primary exam preparation tools. In this blog post, we’ll explore practice exam products: what they are and how to find the ones that are worth your money and effort.
3.3.1. The Ancient Adage
“Read the manual first!” is an ancient adage that has been haunting humankind since the days when we invented printing. Seems pretty obvious, doesn’t it? And still, often times, we buy some new high-tech gizmo, bring it home, unpack it, and then immediately start pushing its buttons and playing with whatever other controls it might have. But somehow it always seems to happen that we can’t make the thing do at least some of what we expect it to do. We scratch our heads, we push more buttons, and only after exhausting our creative zeal, we recall having seen a small brochure that came with the thing: the instruction manual. We dig it out from the depths of the packaging garbage and … slap our foreheads in exasperation. It turns out it was so easy and we were pushing all the wrong buttons. It’s all right here, in black and white: press Button A and then press Button B. Next time, we swear, we will read the instructions first. But by the time we buy another toy, the promise is long forgotten and the new buttons look a lot more appealing to our itchy fingers than an unobtrusive booklet, almost lost somewhere at the bottom of the box.
By Bryan Baize
A new problem has arisen in CCNA class: We have a lab that asks the students to enable a debug command; the debug overruns the console buffer to the extent that commands cannot be entered, and this goes on for more than an hour!
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By Andrew Messier
NetSim 10.2 is released. It’s a minor update for NetSim’s routing and switching engine. The team added support for manual Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) bindings and improved support for Routing Information Protocol next-generation (RIPng). The update addresses bugs for DHCP and RIP. This release also includes 5 new CCNP labs which are listed below: