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In this article I am going to expose the best resources according to me there are on the market that help you study for the new CCNA 200-301 exam. Before the Cisco certification renovation, I reviewed a couple of video training products. Unfortunately, there is still not enough training material for the new 200-301 exam out there. Sure there is the Cisco Press book. But, speaking from my experience, it would be not enough to pass a Cisco exam that just came fresh out of the oven with only the official study guide… Cisco New CCNA 200-301 Vol1 and Vol2 Deluxe, by Laz Diaz The good news is that Lazaro Diaz, a popular name in the Cisco video training industry, is publishing, in pre-release, the new updated Cisco 200-301 video course on Globed.net . Course cover © Laz Diaz As of 01.03.2020, the course is still on pre-sale for about 249$ and the promotional code is “NEWCERT”. And every few weeks, the price will change until it reaches the full price of $2,200.00! Who is Laz...

In this article, I’ll review the platform used in the Cisco On-Demand E-learning courses such as ICND1 v2.0, and ICND2 v2.0. Cisco E-learning platform prerequisites What you will need to learn in this course is a computer, a browser and an Internet connection. That’s all. You need to install nothing. It’s all in the web. That means you can access your learning environment from a PC, a smartphone, a tablet,…and have your learning environment accessible to you any time. Navigating the Cisco On-Demand E-learning Platform When you launch any Cisco on-demand E-learning course, you’ll find there are two main areas: the content area and the navigation area. The content area is where the course meat is. The navigation area contains the list of topics you will learn. There are also “Next” and “Back” shortcuts in the upper part of the content area. I took the example of the Cisco ICND1 v2.0 course and I broke down the...

Just like there are road shortcuts, there are IOS display shortcuts too. They are based on Cisco IOS Regex (Regular Expressions) operators. Here are some basic Regex examples that can be useful in your day-to-day network administration. Display the list of interfaces on your device Figure: Displaying the list of interfaces on the device. Display all IP interfaces on the device. Figure: Displaying all IP interfaces Display all IP interfaces that are in the “up…up” state Figure: Displaying all IP interfaces that are in the “up..up” state Display all IP interfaces that are in the “up…down” state Figure: Displaying all IP interfaces that are in the “up..down” state Count the interfaces that have “line is up” or “line protocol is up” Figure: Counting the number of interfaces that either have “line is up” or “line protocol is up” Count the interfaces that are in the “up…down...

In this post, we will discuss a hot topic among new comers to the computer network industry: how to study for the CCNA exam without prior experience. Here is a list of suggestions based on my experience: Learn each topic individually: studying for the CCNA without having any type of networking experience seems like facing a pyramid and trying to climb it. Sure it is intimidating at first. But once you break it down into topics, things will be easier Learn to chunk: for each topic, try to break it down into smaller parts. For example, If you are learning a routing protocol, you can break it into these parts: Type: link state, distance vector, hybrid… Mechanism: sending complete routing information to neighbors, sending only link states to neighbors,… Tables used: neighbor table, adjacency table,… timers: Hello timers, Dead timers,… etc. Do not hurry. in my experience, once you are half-way in your studies, you become less patient and wants to finish quickly and si...

There is a useful command that every network administrator needs to know on Cisco IOS, which is default interface . This command resets the interface to its default settings, in case you face a networking issue or you don’t understand what’s going on after you made an interface configuration change. To run the Cisco default interface command: Place yourself at the global configuration level, issue the following command: default interface {interfaceID}. Here is an example of running the default interface command on a Catalyst 6500 switch. Beware that, in the case of a Catalyst 6500 switch, setting an interface back to its default configuration makes it a L3 interface back again! See the no switchport under the interface.

This is the first time I see black-colored Catalyst switches from Cisco. Yes, these are Catalyst 3650 switches, which look elegant and remind me of the old Juniper EX4200 switches. They have 48 PoE Ethernet Gigabit interfaces and four 1G SFP ports for copper/fiber uplinks. A Cisco Catalyst 3650 switch contains two Cisco stacking ports that sit on the rear panel. When put in a stack and entered the stack master election, the switch that becomes the stack master will have a constant green ACTV LED. However, the switch that is put in Standby role will have a blinking green ACTV LED. Sample IOS command on a Catalyst 3650 Let us suppose we want to check whether there still is enough amount of PoE energy, on a Catalyst 3650 switch. We need to issue the following command first: show power inline then check the Remaining Watt value: Catalyst 3650 switch stacking benefits and commands When put in a stack, Cisco Catalyst 3650 switches form a single switch. And the stack cabling form what is c...