Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Steve, Tuesday's Mastermind Mail Is Here!

Steve, 

Welcome to the Tuesday, August 19 edition of The Mastermind!   

There are two new practice exams on the main site, one for CCNA Security candidates and the other for CCENT and CCNA candidates - I'll post the answers to those later on Wednesday (I promise!), and links to the questions are in today's edition.

Also, I'll have a new CCNA, CCNP, or CCNA Security exam on the website every single day for the rest of August, beginning tomorrow - and plenty of CCNA Voice and Wireless exams are on the way in September!

You can still get in on the discounted price for the ONT Study Package:

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The CCNA Security, Wireless, and Voice courses are on their way as well, with plenty of practice exams and tutorials posted on the main site for those exams in the weeks and months ahead! 

In the meantime.... 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: The IOS Firewall

There are several other free practice exams and tutorials on my CCNA Security Resource Page, too!

And a new CCNA / CCENT exam on the OSI and TCP/IP network models:

CCNA And CCENT Training: Network Models

Answers to this week's CCNA OSPF questions have been posted, and the answers include a mini-tutorial on OSPF hello and dead timers - be sure to check this one out!

CCNA Training Questions: OSPF

And when you're done there, take these exams on!

CCNA Security Exam: Network Attacks And Defenses

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:

   "Talent is cheaper than table salt.  What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

                         --  Stephen King
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Here are today's questions!

CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:

What's true of the IP address and DLCI contained in a frame map statement?

A. They both belong to the local router.

B. They both belong to the remote router.

C. The IP address is the local router's, the DLCI is the remote router's

D. The DLCI is the local router's the IP address is the remote router's.



CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:

What is the highest NTP stratum a Cisco server can perform as?

Is that the highest available stratum? If not, what device type fills that role?



CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:

What is the OSPF IPv6 equivalent of OSPF IPv4's clear ip ospf process command?



CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:

With HSRP, what single word allows a Standby router to take over as the Active router while the current Active router is still online?



CCNP / ONT Exam: (My ONT Study Package was released today!)

When SDM is used to create a QoS policy, what two realtime traffic subclasses are created?

I'll have the answers for you right here on Wednesday!
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Here are the answers to yesterday's questions!

CCNA Certification And CCENT Certification:

What does the "200" at the end of this static route d0? Why would we use this kind of route?

R1(config)#ip route 172.12.23.0 255.255.255.224 210.1.1.3 200

Answer: The "200" is the administrative distance of this static route, as illustrated by IOS Help:

R1(config)#ip route 172.12.23.0 255.255.255.224 210.1.1.3 ?
<1-255> Distance metric for this route
name Specify name of the next hop
permanent permanent route
tag Set tag for this route


R1(config)#ip route 172.12.23.0 255.255.255.224 210.1.1.3 200


I'll have a full CCNA tutorial on floating static routes on the main site later this week showing you an example of why we use these routes!



CCNA Security Certification / CCNP ISCW Exam:

What benefit does "GRE over IPSec" offer than IPSec by itself does not?

Answer: By combining GRE and IPSec, each protocol helps to compensate for the other's limitation:

IPSec adds data integrity and confidentiality that GRE does not offer


GRE offers the ability to carry routing protocol traffic, which IPSec does not offer


Why call it "GRE over IPSec" rather than "IPSec over GRE"? Because the GRE encapsulation happens first, and then that encapsulation is encapsulated again, by IPSec. In effect, we have a GRE tunnel inside an IPSec tunnel.



CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam:

Name three popular IPv4-to-IPv6 network conversion methods.

Answer: Dual stack, 6-to-4 tunneling, and NAT-PT. Tutorials on each of these methods are on the way!


CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam:

Name and define the basic purpose of each "A" in AAA.

Answer:

Authentication - Determines who can access the network and who cannot.

Authorization - Determined what Authenticated users can do once they're in the network.

Accounting - Tracking users' actions and resource usage for billing and accountability.



CCNP / ONT Exam: (My ONT Study Package was released yesterday -get over there and save on the regular price!)

Name the major components of a Cisco Autonomous Wireless Network.

Answer: Besides the Autonomous APs, we have the Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) and Wireless Domain Services (WDS).


That's it for today!  I'll see you Wednesday with the answers to the last two question sets posted on the website, along with a new CCNA and CCNP test!  See you then!

To your success,

Chris Bryant
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