Welcome to the Saturday, September 20 edition of The Mastermind!
I've added another YouTube video for you, this one dealing with the decision to take the two-exam or one-exam path to the CCNA.
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CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Video: Frame Relay Switch Theory
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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
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CCNA / CCENT Study Package Video Tour
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Thought For The Day
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
-- William James
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CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:
Take a look at the following configuration and answer these questions:
1. What's the escape sequence mentioned in the first line?
2. What two commands combined to create this output?
3. What is a more common name for "ICMP Echos"?
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 172.12.123.2, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (5/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 136/139/152 ms
R3#
IP: s=172.12.123.3 (local), d=172.12.123.2 (Serial0), len 100, sending
IP: s=172.12.123.1 (Serial0), d=172.12.123.3 (Serial0), len 56, rcvd 3
IP: s=172.12.123.2 (Serial0), d=172.12.123.3 (Serial0), len 100, rcvd 3
IP: s=172.12.123.3 (local), d=172.12.123.2 (Serial0), len 100, sending
CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:
Which of the following does IKE *not* negotiate?
A. IKE keys
B. IPSec Security Agreements
C. QM_IDLE mode (Tunnel or Transport)
D. authentication of IPSec peers
Define the term modulation, and discuss briefly what the term means in today's wireless networks.
Which of the following is *not* a VoIP signaling protocol?
A. SCCP
B. SIP
C. YAGI
D. MGCP
E. UNI
CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:
What message should you expect the router to display immediately after entering the following configuration?
R1(config)#router ospf 1
R1(config-router)#redistribute connected
CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:
What command resulted in the output shown below?
SW1# ?
Session 1
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Type : Local Session
Source Ports :
Both : Fa0/1-5
Destination Ports : Fa0/6
Encapsulation : Native
Ingress: Disabled
CCNP / ONT Exam:
Name the three drop behaviors that RED can carry out.
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What is the meaning of the term microsegmentation as it relates to switching?
Answer: Microsegmentation is a term sometimes used in Cisco documentation to describe the "one host, one collision domain" topology resulting from each host being connected to its own switch port.
CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:
Which of the following can the IOS Firewall set perform?
A. Application Inspection
B. Stateful Packet Inspection
C. Authentication Proxy
D. Java Blocking
E. URL filtering
Answers: A, B, C, D, E. The IOS Firewall Set can perform all of these actions.
CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:
In the following output, which metric is the feasible distance? Which is the advertised distance? And what is the difference between the two? (No charge for the extra questions!)
R3# <>
P 172.23.0.0/16, 2 successors, FD is 2195456
via 172.12.123.2 (2195456/281600), Serial0
via 172.12.123.3 (2195456/281600), Serial0
Answer: The first number, 2195456, is the route's feasible distance. This is the full metric of the route to the destination network.
The second number, 281600, is the route's advertised distance. This is the metric from the next-hop router to the destination network.
CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:
You want to copy the contents of your Cisco switch's startup configuration file to the running configuration file. What's the exact syntax of the global command that will do this?
Answer: copy start run for short. You can see the full syntax in the following IOS Help readout. Remember, the first location in the command is what you're copying, and the second location is where you're copying to.
BRYANT_ADVANTAGE_1#copy ?
flash Copy from system flash
flh-log Copy FLH log file to server
mop Copy from a MOP server
rcp Copy from an rcp server
running-config Copy from current system configuration
startup-config Copy from startup configuration
tftp Copy from a TFTP server
BRYANT_ADVANTAGE_1#copy startup-config ?
rcp Copy to an rcp server
running-config Update (merge with) current system configuration
tftp Copy to a TFTP server
BRYANT_ADVANTAGE_1#copy startup-config running-config
CCNP / ONT Exam:
R1(config-pmap-c)#shape peak ?
<8000-154400000> Target Bit Rate (bits per second), the value needs to be multiple of 8000
Answer: We're configuring traffic shaping, and this particular section of the configuration is a policy map.
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