Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Floating Static Routes by Chris Bryant
Passing the BSCI exam and earning your CCNP certification demands that you add greatly to the networking skills foundation you created when you studied for your CCNA certification. You learned quite a bit about static routing and default static routing when you passed the CCNA test, and it does... When you want to configure a floating static route, you must assign the route an AD higher than that of the primary route. ... One way or the other, 1 and 0 are still less than 110! ... In this case, we've got to create a static route with an AD higher than 110.

Cisco CCNA Certification Exam: Five Frame Relay Details You Must Know by Chris Bryant
When you're studying for your CCNA exam on the way to earning this coveted Cisco certification, the details can seem overwhelming! In this article, I'll point out five Frame Relay details that you must keep in mind when you're on your way to the CCNA exam! ... This last one is for the many of you building CCNA home labs. ... A large number of Status Timeouts indicates that there may be an LMI problem between your router and the frame relay switch. ... A frame relay switch is a great addition to your lab!

Cisco CCNA Certification Training Tutorial: PPP Multilink And ISDN BRI by Chris Bryant
Earning your CCNA certification means you have to notice details about Cisco routers that others might miss, and that's true in the exam room and on the job. In today's tutorial, we'll take a look at multilink PPP - a topic that seems simple enough, but has details that trip up some CCNA... This is just one of the many details you must master in order to earn your CCNA certification. ... R1(config-if)#dialer load-threshold ? ... Look at what IOS Help tells us about this command. ... Load threshold to place another call This value is based on 255, not 100.

How To Choose The Right IT Certification Boot Camps by Natalie Aranda
The field of IT training has become one of the biggest growth areas in the entire employment and training arena. The demand for trained technicians has outstripped the supply for years now, and each passing day and new technological development has made this more acute. ... You need to identify which Certification program is needed first. ... Certification boot camps were the result of this need. ... First, you need to identify your certification needs. ... Many of the Certification programs that were developed were online and suffered from two drawbacks.

IT Certification Exams: 3 Most Popular Mistakes by Divya Chopra
Parallel to the growth of the IT Industry, the value and importance of IT certification exams has also gain significant momentum. More and more people are pursuing these exams and organizations are also encouraging their employees to take these certifications. ... Earning a certification costs very little Majority of people grossly underestimate the effort required to earn a certification. ... An IT certification exam like MCSE or CCNA, may 'help you get a job' but it alone can't give you a job.

Cisco Certification: In What Order Should You Take Your CCNP Exams? by Chris Bryant
When you choose to pursue your Cisco Certified Network Professional certification, you've got some decisions to make right at the beginning. Cisco offers a three-exam path and a four-exam path, and you select the order in which you'll take and pass the exams. ... While there are some topics that will be new to you, such as BGP, many of the BSCI topics will be familiar to you from your CCNA studies. ... It builds nicely with your CCNA skills. ... This exam will demand you put into action the skills you have learned while earning your CCNA and passing the first three exams.

Cisco CCNA Cerfication: Should You Take The One-Exam or Two-Exam Approach? by Chris Bryant
Cisco CCNA Certification: Should you take the one-exam or the two-exam approach? One question I’m often asked by CCNA candidates is whether to take the “one big exam”, or take the two separate exams required by Cisco to achieve the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) exam. ... The question comes up because there are now two separate paths to the CCNA certification. ... If the candidate is a relative newcomer to networking, or hasn’t taken a certification exam before, I recommend they take the two-exam approach.

CCNA / MCSE / CCNP Certification: Making Failure Work For You by Chris Bryant
Whether you're on the road to the CCNA, CCNP, MCSE, or you're on any other computer certification track, the odds are that sooner or later, you're going to fail an exam. It's happened to almost all of us, yours truly included. What you have to keep in mind in these times is that success is not a... That's how you want your certification pursuit and your career to go as well - upward! ... It's how you handle that failure that counts. ... Again, there's nothing wrong with being unhappy about failing an exam.

Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: Prefix Notation by Chris Bryant
When you're preparing to pass the CCNA exam and earn this coveted Cisco certification, you've got to be totally prepared for the many kinds of binary and subnetting questions Cisco may throw at you. You also have to be familiar with the different manners in which a subnet mask can be expressed,... Not only will you see prefix notation in Cisco documentation, but you’ll probably see it on your CCNA exam. ... ("I thought about using a two-fifty-five two-fifty-five two-fifty-five zero mask ,but then decided to use a two-fifty-five two-fifty-five two-fifty-five one-twenty-eight mask...") Be...

CCNA Certification Exam Training: Passwords, Cisco Routers, And Network Security by Chris Bryant
CCNA certification is important, and so is securing our network's Cisco routers! To reflect the importance of network security, your CCNA certification exam is likely going to contain quite a few questions about the various passwords you can set on a Cisco router. ... That's valuable information for both the CCNA certification exam and real-world networks, because there's no worse feeling than typing a password at a Cisco router prompt and then getting another password prompt! ... However, if we want to have the enable password automatically encrypted, we can use the enable secret command.