How to Network Tip of the Week #38th – 22nd May 2008
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Welcome to the thirty-eighth www.howtonetwork.net tip of
the week.
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Members Passing Their CCNA
Congratulations to Dass Narayanan who a flew through his
CCNA last week. Great job Dass.
If you use the howtonetwork.net materials, watch the
videos, do the exams and get some hands on with live
routers and switches you will be fine.
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Live Rack Coming
There have been a lot of delays getting the rack built
but we will be installing it in the first week of June
in the UK and then asking 5 members to test it before it
does live.
When it goes live all members will have 24*7 access to
one of three live racks of routers and switches. You
will be able to book slots and connect to the equipment
over the web.
There is a basic rack of 5 routers and a switch. A
switching rack for VLANs and trunking and an advanced
routing rack.
This will make howtonetwork.net the only resource you will
ever need to pass your CCNA or CCENT. All only for $9.97
per month.
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Are You Using a Router Simulator?
I am writing a round up of router sims. I don’t really
recommend them but I do accept that it may be hard to get
your hands on live kit at times.
I will be reviewing as many sims as possible so please
send me details of any you are using so I can include it.
I will be covering some by large companies such as Boson
and some written by one man bands which seem very good to
me.
Contact me at help@howtonetwork.net
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Cisco Foundation Security Exam
There are some cool new certs you may want to consider
taking to improve your skill set and marketability.
Cisco have the new Securing Cisco Network Devices (SND)
exam available. It is aimed at those of you who have
passed your CCNA.
This exam qualifies you as a Cisco Information Security
Specialist
We may be adding study material for this if there is
enough interest.
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Cisco Exam – Router Sim Questions
As you know. During the CCNA and CCENT exam you will have
to configure routers and switches using their router sim.
This presents a problem because of course it will not
behave exactly like a live router or switch.
Here are some common questions about the sim with my
answers. Please note that we cannot tell you what you
will be asked in the exam but we do want to prepare you
for the actual exam the best we can.
If we have missed anything off or have got it wrong please
let us know.
http://www.howtonetwork.net/public/department85.cfm
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Affiliates Required
We will be launching an affiliate scheme in the next few
weeks. To join you must be a member (because you can’t
recommend what you have not used).
I am very keen to hear from those of you at the Cisco
Academy who can recommend the site to your friends or
those of you who work in an IT department who can refer
the site to your work colleagues.
More news soon.
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Video Request?
We are happy to add content about various Cisco subjects
which you may find useful. They don’t have to be included
in the CCNA syllabus but should be general enough to be of
use to a lot of people who visit the site.
Please drop us a line at:
help@howtonetwork.net
Video Request?
We are happy to add content about various Cisco subjects
which you may find useful. They don’t have to be included
in the CCNA syllabus but should be general enough to be of
use to a lot of people who visit the site.
Please drop us a line at:
help@howtonetwork.net
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CCNA Weekend Bootcamps – UK
We have added a course in Birmingham in the UK. If you live
nearby then we would love to see you.
We plan to run courses in the USA later this year as well
as train up trainers who can run our weekend CCNA boot camp
model in various US cities.
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