Welcome to the Wednesday, September 24 edition of The Mastermind!
The parade of Cisco Certification success continues! We've received one email after another from those of you who have recently earned your CCNA and CCNP - congratulations to every single one of you!
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Four New Bryant Advantage CCNA / CCNP Videos Have Just Been Posted On YouTube!
Even if you're not working on a home lab right now, I strongly recommend these videos for all CCENT and CCNA candidates, as these videos also review some important Frame Relay concepts:
CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Video: Frame Relay Switch Theory
The second video shows you how to configure a Frame Relay switch, along with verification and troubleshooting procedures:
CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Video: Frame Relay Switch Configuration
I'm often asked whether I recommend the one-exam or two-exam path to the CCNA. Here's a video to help you decide:
The Path(s) To CCNA And CCENT Success
And if you'd like to take a video tour of my CCNA / CCENT Study Package, I have that ready for you as well!
CCNA / CCENT Study Package Video Tour
While you're there, be sure to click "subscribe" to be the first to know about future Cisco certification videos I'll be posting regularly on YouTube, including in-depth looks at the new Security, Wireless and Voice videos, along with study tips and a lot more!
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Thought For The Day
"Believe in the hard work. Believe in the preparation. It's not a matter of whether it will work; it's a matter of when it will work."
-- Tony Sparano
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CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:
List the three steps in the TCP 3-way handshake and briefly describe what happens in each step.
CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:
Define each "A" in AAA and briefly describe the purpose of each.
CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:
What exactly does the default-information originate command do, and under what conditions?
CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:
What purpose does DHCP Option 43 serve?
CCNP / ONT Exam:
What's the main difference between the two available versions of WLSE?
Answers will be posted right here on Friday, September 25!
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"Chris, I would like to thank you very much about the outstanding study guides. Extremely clear, concise and to the point. I nailed up my CCNP using your BSCI, BCMSN and ISCW study guides.
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"I would like to update you on my progress on the CCNP scene but before that again I would like to thank you again personally for the great BSCI, BCMSN and ISCW guides.
"I have scored 968 for the composite exam (I figure that I would like to see if I could do both the BSCI and BCMSN in one shot using your guides and boy was I not disappointed ;-)). I scored a perfect 1000 in my ISCW exam, too!" -- Nickelby Thane
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CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:
The category is WANs:
$ 20 - It's the default encapsulation for a Serial interface
What is HDLC?
$ 40 - This is the net result to the physical and logical point-to-point connections when encap types don't match
What is "the physical line stays up, but the line protocol goes down?"
$ 60 - This protocol is considered the "manager" of a PPP connection
What is LCP, the Link Control Protocol?
$ 80 - These are the three default Frame Relay LMI types
What are Cisco, ansi, and q933a?
$ 100 - You forgot to do this if you see a dynamic frame mapping to "0.0.0.0"
What is "disable Inverse ARP"?
CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:
The category is .... the IOS Firewall Set:
$20 - In a typical firewall-protected network, you have three logical areas - "inside", "outside", and this
What is a DMZ?
$40 - To create the answer to the $20 question with SDM, you must use this
What is the Advanced Firewall Wizard? (The Basic wizard does not support DMZs.)
$60 - These three commands must be on a router before SDM can be used
What are "ip http server", "ip http secure-server", and "ip http authentication local"? (For one of these, you could have said that a username/password combination granting a privilege level of 15 is needed as well.)
$80 - These three "V"s must be considered when configuring firewalls
What are voice, VPNs, and video?
$100 - It's this command that defines the time allowed for a TCP handshake to reach the Established stage
What is "ip inspect tcp synwait-time"?
CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:
The subject is... BGP.
$40 - In the neighbor command, these are the two required numeric values
$60 - They're the two well-known discretionary BGP attributes
$80 - The BGP attribute Local Preference uses this for a default setting
$100 - Assuming Cisco routers are in use, this is the 4th tiebreaker in the BGP best-path selection process
$40 - Other terms for this include "Layer 3 engine" and "Layer 3 forwarding engine"
$60 - Defined in RFC 1256, IRDP routers and hosts send these two kinds of packets to facilitate the router redundancy process
$80 - It's the well-known virtual MAC address used by the protocol defined by RFC 2281
$100 - Of routed ports, SVIs, and Layer 3 port-channels, these are the interface types that support HSRP on a multilayer switch
The subject is.... queuing. (Or queueing, depending on which book you're reading!)
$20 - It's the default queuing scheme for interfaces running at over E1 speed
What is FIFO, or "first in, first out"?
$40 - The default capacity of the default queue used in Priority Queuing
What is 60 packets?
$60 - Three of the four criteria commonly used to define a WFQ traffic flow
What are "source or destination IP address", "source or destination port number", "protocol number", and "ToS"?
$80 - The maximum number of queues available in CBWFQ
What is 64?
$100 - These two common CBWFQ commands can't be used in the same policy map
What are "bandwidth" and "bandwidth percent"?I hope you did well! Don't forget to pick up your promotional gift ...
Chris Bryant
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