Steve,
Welcome to the Thursday, July 31 edition of The Mastermind!
There's a lot of ground to cover today, so with no further ado...
Let's get started!
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Get Ready For Exam Success With These Practice Exams!
Here's your latest CCNA Security practice exam:
CCNA Security Exam: Network Attacks And Defenses
I'll post the answers to those questions on Friday. In the meantime, take on these practice exams as well - answers are at the bottom of each page!
CCNA Security: NTP, Telnet, SSH, And More!
CCNA Certification: Frame Relay Questions
CCNA Certification: HDLC And PPP Questions
CCNA Certification: Static Routing And RIP Questions
CCNA Certification Training Questions: RAM, ROM, Flash, And More!
I'll have more free practice exams, tutorials, and coming later this summer - free video training for your Cisco certification exams and home lab setup!
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Thought For The Day:
"Have you ever noticed that the last six letters in the word 'satisfaction' are a-c-t-i-o-n? In Latin, the word 'satis' means 'enough'. What the ancient Romans understood clearly is that enough action ultimately produces satisfaction."
-- Jack Canfield, The Success Principles
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Cisco Has Announced Three Additional CCNA Certifications!
But To Earn Them, You've Got To Be CCNA Certified, So Get Started Today!
Cisco has announced three brand-new CCNA-level Certifications:
CCNA Security
CCNA Voice
CCNA Wireless
Click those links to go to the new resource pages I've created for each new exam - I'll post practice questions, written tutorials, and video training on those pages in the weeks and months ahead.
There is a new CCNA Security tutorial on using SDM to configure one-step lockdown - the link is on the CCNA Security Resource page.
These new certifications are going to be a tremendous career boost to those who earn them.
Why? Just look at these statistics!
Security: Right now, 46% of companies included in the survey have a position dedicated to security - that's going to almost double over the next five years to 80%.
Voice: Currently, 40% of surveyed customers have a voice specialist. That number will rise to 69% in the next five years.
Wireless: While 33% of surveyed companies currently have a position dedicated to wireless, that value will double over the next five years to 66%.
(Stats were arrived at by Forrester Consulting during a study sponsored by Cisco. You can get a copy here.)
Those statistics tell a simple tale:
Network admins who have knowledge and certification in security, wireless, and voice will have a huge advantage over network admins who do not.
That's why Cisco is introducing these new certifications, and exactly why I'll be releasing Study Packages for all three of these specializations, beginning in September!
There's one detail you need to take care of now, though.
To earn any of these CCNA specialist certifications, you must earn your CCNA first, by either the one-exam (640-802) path or the two exam path (ICND 1 and 2).
This announcement by Cisco makes it more important than ever to be CCNA certified. Be ready to earn these new certifications by earning your CCNA now!
Just imagine how impressive your resume and reputation will be when you're CCNA certified and certified in security, voice, and wireless!
Personally, I'd hire you in a minute, and I've always been tough about who I hire. And if you already worked for me, you'd get the next promotion.
Get ready for these new certifications by starting on your CCNA now. Take five minutes to read this page - it's more important than ever.
The Ultimate CCNA Study Package
Starting this September, I'll be releasing Study Packages for CCNA Security, CCNA Voice, and CCNA Wireless. While I'm working on those, you need to be working on your CCNA to take advantage of these vital new certifications.
Click that link and let's get started!
The Ultimate CCNA Study Package
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Here are your Cisco practice exam questions for today!
CCNA Certification:
You've configured OSPF on four routers on a broadcast segment. You notice that a DR and BDR have been elected, but some adjacencies are stopping at the 2-way state. What should you do?
A. Nothing - that's what you're supposed to see.
B. Use the ip ospf priority 0 command on the appropriate interfaces on the DROTHER routers.
C. Use the ip ospf priority 0 command on the appropriate interfaces on the DR and BDR.
D. Use the neighbor command on the DR and BDR to complete the incomplete adjacencies.
CCENT Certification:
How many wires "roll over" in a rollover cable?
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 6
E. 8
CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:
There are three basic methods IPS uses to identify potentially malicious traffic. Name all three and give a brief definition of each.
CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:
You've run the show ip bgp command and note a value under "LocPrf". If that value is the default, what is it? And what is this particular value used for?
CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:
What command resulted in the following output?
SW1# ?
Port Security : Enabled
Port Status : Secure-up
Violation Mode : Shutdown
Aging Time : 0 mins
Aging Type : Absolute
SecureStatic Address Aging : Disabled
Maximum MAC Addresses : 3
Total MAC Addresses : 2
Configured MAC Addresses : 2
Sticky MAC Addresses : 0
Last Source Address:Vlan : 0000.0000.0000:0
Security Violation Count : 0
CCNP / ONT Exam:
What's the difference between an ad hoc wireless network and an infrastructure wireless network?
I'll have the answers for you on Friday, August 1!
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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.
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Here are the answers to yesterday's questions!
CCNA Certification:
What's the main difference between the default-information originate command with and without the always option? Be specific.
Answer: Let's use IOS Help to look at our options for this command.
R1(config)#router ospf 1
R1(config-router)#default-information originate ?
always Always advertise default route
metric OSPF default metric
metric-type OSPF metric type for default routes
route-map Route-map reference
The always option allows the router to propagate a default route without actually having one in its routing table. Without that option, the router must have a default route in its table in order to advertise one.
CCENT Certification:
You're using Setup Mode to configure a Cisco router. You decide halfway through that you'd rather write the configuration at the CLI. How can you exit Setup Mode and not save the configuration you're in the process of writing?
Answer: Use the ctrl-c keystroke combination to exit Setup Mode without saving your configuration. You'll then be placed back at the command prompt.
CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:
The SA state of your VPN is shown as QM_IDLE. Is this good? If not, what do we need to do to resolve the issue?
Answer: There is no issue - that's what we want the SA state to be!
CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:
What command allows you to add protocols to those forwarded by the ip helper-address command? And just to review, what protocols are forwarded by the helper-address command?
Answer: Nine common UDP service broadcasts are "helped" by default:
TIME, port 37
TACACS, port 49
DNS, port 53
BOOTP/DHCP Server, port 67
BOOTP/DHCP Client, port 68
TFTP, port 69
NetBIOS name service, port 137
NetBIOS datagram service, port 138
IEN-116 name service, port 42
You can use the ip forward-protocol command to add any UDP port number to the list.
To remove protocols from the default list, use the no ip forward-protocol command.
R1(config)#ip forward-protocol udp 123
R1(config)#no ip forward-protocol udp 137
R1(config)#no ip forward-protocol udp 138
CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:
You've just enabled password encryption on a Cisco switch. When you attempt to view the VTP password, what will you see? And what command did you run to see the VTP password?
Answer: You'll see the password clear as day - the password encryption service has no effect on the VTP password. You can view the password with the "top-secret" show vtp password command.
CCNP / ONT Exam:
What's the major difference between RED and WRED? (The answer "one letter" is not acceptable.)
Answer: RED is a major improvement over Tail Drop, but it still doesn't give us a great deal of control over the entire queueing and dropping process. With one simple word, though, we do gain that control - when we use Weighted Random Early Detection (WRED).
That's it for today! Enjoy your day, and I'll see you tomorrow with a new CCNA practice exam and some other surprises!
To your success,
Chris Bryant
CCIE #12933
http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
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