Steve,
Welcome to the Wednesday, July 16 edition of The Mastermind!
Let's go straight to the big news of the day...
You Can Start Working With My CCNA Security Study Package right now!
I've been around Cisco certifications for over 10 years, and I've never seen anything like the positive response to the new CCNA certifications, especially CCNA Security.
As you know, you've got to earn your CCNA before you can take these new exams, and plenty of you are doing that right now - more of you than ever before!
My inbox has been flooded with emails wanting to know how long it'll be before my CCNA Security Study Package is ready.
I've got big news for my newsletter and blog readers - you have the opportunity to start studying for your exam with my CCNA Security Study Package right now.
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Thought For The Day:
"Failure is not an option."
- Gene Kranz
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Enjoy These CCNA And CCENT Practice Exam Questions!
I've got four sets of CCNA and CCENT questions for you over on the main site - enjoy! I'll have a new CCNA and CCNA Security question set later this week.
CCNA Certification: Frame Relay Questions
CCNA Certification: HDLC And PPP Questions
CCNA Certification: Static Routing And RIP Questions
The questions on static routing and RIP includes a tutorial on floating static routes that you CCNP candidates should read as well!
CCNA Certification Training Questions: RAM, ROM, Flash, And More!
Enjoy!
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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!
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Here are your Cisco certification exam questions for Wednesday, July 16!
CCENT Exam:
Name the header fields that a UDP segment and TCP segment have in common.
CCNA Exam:
Put these four DHCP packet types in the order in which they're sent during a typical IP address acquisition.
A. Ack
B. Offer
C. Discovery
D. Request
CCNA Security Exam and CCNP / ISCW Exam Question:
You've just written and applied an ACL, and you notice your Network Time Protocol deployment is no longer working correctly. What port should your ACL permit to allow NTP to begin working again?
CCNP / BSCI Exam:
You want to disable a Cisco router's ability to serve as a DHCP server. What CLI command will do so?
When you configure Multiple Spanning Tree (MST), the switches in a given MST Region must agree on three values. What are they? A. Queueing B. Processing C. Serialization D. Propagation Answer: A. A hub is simply a multiport repeater. Both hubs and repeaters work at the Physical layer (Layer 1) of the OSI model. Answers: B, D, F. We know this is the output of show ip ospf neighbor. Since the two neighbors are both DROTHERS and the adjacencies have been formed over Serial interfaces, that's a tipoff that we are on the hub of a hub-and-spoke network. In a hub-and-spoke OSPF network the spokes will usually have their OSPF interface priority changed to zero from the default of 1. CCNP / ONT Exam: Answer: Ads for loans and credit cards often mention that you've been "pre-qualified" for that loan or card, which means that you're guaranteed to get the credit without having to go through a long approval process. (No, I'm not about to ask you to sign up for a credit card.) QoS Preclassification is something like that, since the original packet will be guaranteed to keep its original QoS value without copying that value to its new IP header.
CCNP / ONT Exam:
Of the following four delay types, identify the fixed-length and variable-length delays.
Answers right here on Thursday, July 16!
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Here are the answers to yesterday's questions!
CCENT Exam:
What's the main difference between a hub and a repeater?
A. A hub has more ports than a repeater.
B. A repeater has more ports than a hub.
C. A hub works at Layer 2 of the OSI model, where a repeater works at Layer 1.
D. A repeater works at Layer 2 of the OSI model, where a repeater works at Layer 1.
CCNA Exam:
This isn't a Cisco command, but you still need to know it - what command resulted in the following output on a typical PC?
C:\> ?
Internet Address Physical Address Type
10.1.1.2 bb-bb-bb-bb-bb-bb dynamic
Answer: That's the output of arp -a.
CCNA Security Exam and CCNP / ISCW Exam Question:
Describe an IP Spoofing attack.
Answer: You may remember from your ISDN studies that when an ISDN line was pretending to be up, it was said to be spoofing.
When a network intruder uses the IP address of a trusted device in order to gain access to your network, that's IP Spoofing.
IP Spoofing can be used against your network in several ways:
1. To inject a stream of malicious code and/or commands into your network
2. To trick legitimate network hosts into sending sensitive data to the attacker
3. As part of a reconnaissance attack, an attack that in itself may not be damaging, but is used to gather information for future, more destructive attacks.
CCNP / BSCI Exam:
Examine the following output and identify the true statements.
Neighbor ID Pri State Dead Time Address Interface
3.3.3.3 0 FULL/DROTHER 00:01:43 172.12.123.3 Serial0
2.2.2.2 0 FULL/DROTHER 00:01:35 172.12.123.2 Serial0
A. This output is the result of the show ip ospf command.
B. This output is the result of the show ip ospf neighbor command.
C. This output is the result of the show ip ospf all command.
D. R1 is likely the hub of a hub-and-spoke network.
E. R1 is likely a spoke of a hub-and-spoke network.
F. The OSPF interface priorities have been changed on the remote routers.
G. The OSPF interface priorities have not been changed.
CCNP / BCMSN Exam:
What's the purpose of the following command?
SW1#show spanning-tree backbonefast
BackboneFast is enabled
Answer: The Cisco-proprietary feature Backbonefast can be used to help recover from indirect link failures.
The key word there is indirect. If a core switch detects an indirect link failure - a failure of a link that is not directly connected to the core switch in question - Backbonefast goes into action.
What's the purpose of QoS preclassification?
That's it for today! Enjoy your day, and I'll see you Thursday!
To your success,
Chris Bryant
CCIE #12933
http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/
The Bryant Advantage, 9429 Apple Blossom Drive, Mechanicsville, VA 23116, USA
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