Saturday, August 23, 2008

Steve, Satuday's Mastermind Mail Is Here!

Steve, 

Welcome to the Saturday, August 23 edition of The Mastermind!   

There are quite a few new features coming your way!   Beginning next week, I'll add CCNA Wireless and Voice questions to the daily questions, and I'll also have one new CCNA or CCNP practice exam or tutorial for you on the main site every day as well!

I've also got quite a few CCNA Security tutorials coming your way, and I've got the next section in my exclusive, fully-illustrated look at how to use SDM to configure one-step lockdown on the website now - there's a link to that tutorial in today's newsletter.

In the meantime.. let's get started!
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A New CCNA Security Tutorial Has Been Posted!

The second part of my exclusive CCNA Security tutorial on using Security Device Manager to configure one-step lockdown has been posted:

CCNA Security Exam Tutorial: SDM And One-Step Lockdown


And There Are Over 200 Free CCNA, CCENT, CCNP, and Security Tutorials And Exams Waiting For You!

The answers to my CCNA/CCENT practice exam on network models have been posted:

CCNA / CCENT Exam: Network Models

I've got quite a few free exams and tutorials for you CCNA and CCENT candidates, and you can find them all on this page:

CCNA And CCENT Exam Practice Exams

Don't feel left out, CCNP candidates - I've got more questions sets and tutorials on the way for you, too, and there are plenty of tutorials for you on the main Tutorials page!

Many of our new visitors might not know about the Tutorials page - this page has links to over 200 articles, tutorials, and practice exams for Cisco certifications along with plenty of articles on improving or starting your IT career!

Cisco Certification Tutorials Page

So get over there and start reading! : )

I'll be back later today with the answers to yesterday's blog questions, a new set of questions here on the blog, a new CCNA Security practice exam and tutorial, and remember - CCNA Wireless and CCNA Voice daily questions begin Monday !


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Thought For The Day:

   "There is a difference between interest and commitment.  When you're interested in doing something, you only do it when it's convenient.  When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results."

                         --  Ken Blanchard
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Here are your questions for today!  All of today's questions are short answer.  Some perhaps not-so-short answers, too!

CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:

We love redundancy, and the following switching diagram certainly gives us that!


Three questions for you:

What potential issue does this topology pose?

What protocol can help avoid that issue?

Assuming the switches are running at their defaults, what do we need to do to enable that protocol?



CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:

What is the net effect of the following configuration?

R1(config)#access-list 110 permit tcp any 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255

R1(config)#ip tcp intercept list 110




CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:

What's the main difference between the following two BGP community values?

NO-EXPORT

NO-ADVERTISE


CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:

What command will assign a MAC address of 11-22-33-44-55-66 to the virtual router in HSRP group 5?


CCNP / ONT Exam: (My ONT Study Package is now available!)

What's the basic purpose of Voice Activity Detection?

Answers right here on Sunday!
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Here are the answers to yesterday's questions!

CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:

Which of the following phrases describes WEP?

A. uses clear-text keys



B. uses dynamically generated keys



C. highly secure encryption scheme



D. two-way authentication similar to CHAP

Answer: A. WEP uses clear-text keys. It does not use dynamic keys, it uses one-way authentication, and it's quite the opposite of "highly secure".





CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:

What SDM Wizard is in use below?




Answer: That brick wall in the middle is a firewall, so we know it's a firewall wizard. Since we're limited to one outside interface and there's no reference to a DMZ, this must be the Basic Firewall Wizard. (The Advanced Firewall Wizard allows the configuration of multiple outside interfaces and a DMZ.)



CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:

The initial bits 1111 1111 indicate what kind of IPv6 address?


A. Multicast

B. Site Local

C. Link Local

D. Broadcast

Answer: A. Those initial bits indicate an IPv6 multicast address.


CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:

Enabling what switching feature results in the following warning?

%Warning: X should only be enabled on ports connected to a single host. Connecting hubs, concentrators, switches, bridges, etc... to this interface when X is enabled, can cause temporary bridging loops. Use with CAUTION

Answer: That's the warning you receive when you enable Portfast.


CCNP / ONT Exam: (My ONT Study Package is now available!)

What's the basic purpose of Call Admission Control?

Answer: CAC prevents an overall degradation of all VOIP calls by limiting the number of overall calls.

That's it for today!   Enjoy your day, and I'll see you Sunday!

To your success,

Chris Bryant
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