By James Hanback
You've spent endless nights poring over CCNA Voice IT certification training guides, answering CCNA Voice practice questions, and searching—perhaps in vain—for a CCNA Voice lab simulation environment where you can get your hands on a shiny used Cisco Unified Communications 500 (UC500) that you can use to practice everything that you memorized from study guide screen shots and CCNA practice exam hearsay. Thinking you're all primed to obtain your latest Cisco certification, you sit for the CCNA Voice exam and, to your horror, discover that what you studied for is yesterday's news, cold bath water, stale bread, or pick your own metaphor. The rumors of the death of the UC500 topic in the CCNA Voice exam have not been exaggerated at all.
Changes to the CCNA Voice Certification Exam
Apr 5, 2011 9:00:00 AM / by Kelly Mansfield posted in Cisco Network Simulator, CCNA Voice, Cisco certification
Microsoft Windows 7 Tips and Tricks | Activation Part 1
Mar 28, 2011 12:33:00 PM / by Kelly Mansfield posted in Windows 7, Microsoft, practice exam, Microsoft certification
2.2 Activation
2.2.1 Volume Activation
Each installation of Windows 7 must be activated. It is a legal requirement for ensuring that an instance of the operating system is legitimate. There is a 30-day initial grace period, during which you can make up your mind. If you are using Windows 7 for evaluation, testing, or software development and you need to frequently reinstall it and start afresh, you can extend the grace period up to three times by running the following command:
7 Question Types on Cisco Certification Exams
Mar 23, 2011 9:00:00 AM / by Kelly Mansfield posted in practice question, Cisco certification, certification practice exams, ccna exam questions
By Michael Aldridge
I am often asked by people who are studying for the Cisco CCNA certification exam about what kinds of questions they can expect to see. Cisco exams can include the following question types:
CCNP SWITCH Exam - Router Redundancy Protocols
Feb 9, 2011 8:31:00 AM / by Kelson Lawrence posted in GLBP, networking, VRRP, SWITCH, router, CCNP, router protocols, HSRP, redundancy
By Josh E.
Being able to implement first hop router redundancy protocols is one of the objectives listed for Cisco’s 642-813 SWITCH exam. Cisco supports three first hop redundancy protocols: Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP), Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP), and Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP). This article provides an overview of each of these protocols.
Why Create your own Lab Packs in Boson NetSim?
Feb 8, 2011 10:26:00 AM / by Kelson Lawrence posted in labs, NetSim, NetSim 8, ccna class
By Brian Scheibe
I had a chance to talk to a customer on the telephone this week who was planning to teach a CCNA 640-802 class to students located around the country. His plan was to use laptops configured with NetSim for CCNA in the classroom so that he did not have to transport bulky Cisco equipment.
TSHOOT - How to Tackle Cisco's 642-832 Exam
Feb 8, 2011 10:26:00 AM / by Kelson Lawrence posted in practice exam, TSHOOT, CCNP, Cisco certification, simulation, certification exam
By Michael Aldridge
Hi! I'm Michael Aldridge, Senior Content Developer at Boson Software. We've recently released our new ExSim-Max for TSHOOT product, and I'd like to share with you some thoughts about how to prepare for Cisco's new 642-832 TSHOOT exam.
CCNA Certification Tools and Easter Eggs
Feb 8, 2011 10:26:00 AM / by Kelson Lawrence posted in subnetting, CCNA Certification Tools, subnet calculator
By Brian Scheibe
For those of you who don’t know, an Easter Egg is an undocumented feature, freebie, or some other type of good thing that is available if you can find it. Do you look for them when you visit Web sites? For those of you studying to attain a CCNA certification there are Easter Eggs at boson.com. Several people find these Easter Eggs every day using search engines and I bet you want to know what and where they are.
A Case Study on EIGRP Graceful Shutdown
Feb 8, 2011 10:25:00 AM / by Kelson Lawrence posted in EIGRP, graceful shutdown, router, Eigrp graceful shutdown, case study, router protocols
By Andrew Messier
The topology for this study consists of two routers connected on a LAN. FastEthernet 0/0 on Router1 connects to FastEthernet 0/0 on Router2. Full connectivity exists between both routers, and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) using Autonomous System (AS) 100 is configured to run on both FastEthernet ports. Below is sample configuration for this setup:
EIGRP Timer Talk
Feb 8, 2011 10:25:00 AM / by Kelson Lawrence posted in EIGRP, timer, router configuration
By Andrew Messier
The topology for this study consists of two routers connected on a LAN. FastEthernet 0/0 on Router1 connects to FastEthernet 0/0 on Router2. Full connectivity exists between both routers, and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) using Autonomous System (AS) 100 is configured to run on both FastEthernet ports. Below is sample configuration for this setup:
NAT and PAT - What's the Difference?
Feb 8, 2011 10:22:00 AM / by Kelson Lawrence posted in networking, NAT, PAT
By Brian Scheibe
Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT) both map IP addresses on an internal network to IP addresses on an external network. Which method of address translation you use depends on the types of networks that you are translating and the number of available IP addresses that you have.