CCNA / CCNP Cisco Certification Exam: Frame Relay Encapsulation Types

Frame Relay encapsulation seems simple enough, but for your CCNA and CCNP exams, you've got to know vital details that are often overlooked.  Learn these details from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933.

 CCNA / CCNP Cisco Certification Exam:  Frame Relay Encapsulation Types

CCNA / CCNP Cisco Certification Exam: Cabling Your Home Lab

Putting together a Cisco home lab is a great idea, but sometimes choosing the right cabling can be a little confusing.  Learn the details from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933.

Identify and correct common network problems

Troubleshooting IP addressing is obviously an important skill because running into trouble
somewhere along the way is pretty much a sure thing, and it’s going to happen to you. No—
I’m not a pessimist; I’m just keeping it real. Because of this nasty fact, it will be great when you
can save the day because you can both figure out (diagnose) the problem and fix it on an IP
network whether you’re at work or at home!

Identify and correct common network problems 

So this is where I’m going to show you the “Cisco way” of troubleshooting IP addressing.
Let’s go over the troubleshooting steps that Cisco uses first. These are pretty simple, but
important nonetheless. Pretend that you’re at a customer host and they’re complaining that
their host cannot communicate to a server, which just happens to be on a remote network.
Here are the four troubleshooting steps that Cisco recommends:

Introduction To BGP Attributes|Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification

BGP is one of the most complex topics you’ll tackle in your CCNP studies, but if you break it down to the fundamentals, you’ll pick it up quickly.  Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, has written this free BGP tutorial on BGP attributes to help you do master BGP and pass the exams!

 Introduction To BGP Attributes|Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification

 

BGP is one of the most complex topics you'll study when pursuing your CCNP, if not the most complex. I know from personal experience that when I was earning my CCNP, BGP is the topic that gave me the most trouble at first. One thing I keep reminding today's CCNP candidates about, though, is that no Cisco technology is impossible to understand if you just break it down and understand the basics before you start trying to understand the more complex configurations.

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: HSRP MAC Addresses And Timers

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial:  HSRP MAC Addresses And Timers

Just a few of the HSRP details you must know to earn your CCNA are configuring a MAC address for the virtual router.  Learn how to do so from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933.

To earn your CCNP certification and pass the BCMSN exam, you've got to know what HSRP does and the many configurable options.  While the operation of HSRP is quite simple (and covered in a previous tutorial), you also need to know how HSRP arrives at the MAC address for the virtual router - as well as how to configure a new MAC for this virtual router.  This puts us in the unusual position of creating a physical address for a router that doesn't exist!

The output of show standby for a two-router HSRP configuration is shown below.

R2#show standby

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Getting Started With HSRP

CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial:  Getting Started With HSRP

HSRP seems simple enough, but there are a lot of options you need to know to pass the CCNP exams!  Learn how to get started with HSRP from Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933.


Defined in RFC 2281, HSRP is a Cisco-proprietary protocol in which routers are put into an HSRP router group. Along with dynamic routing protocols and STP, HSRP is considered a high-availability network service, since all three have an almost immediate cutover to a secondary path when the primary path is unavailable.

CCNA / CCNP Home Lab lesson: assemble Your Cisco Home Lab

 At what time you're putting as one your Cisco home lab, you have a group of models to choose from!  Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, shows you how he's built his CCNA / CCNP home labs and offers tips on purchasing your own Cisco routers.

Cisco Home Lab