Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Dynamic VLANs and VMPS

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Knowledge of Dynamic VLANs and VMPS is important in your efforts to pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP, and it's also a great skill to have for your networking career.
As a CCNA and CCNP candidate, you know how and why to configure static VLANs. Static VLANs can be a powerful tool for [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using The OSPF Command “Area Range”

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Your BSCI and CCNP exam success depends on knowing the details, and one such detail is knowing the proper way to summarize routes in OSPF. Route summarization is not just a test of your binary conversion abilities, but knowing where and when to summarize routes. It will not surprise any CCNA or [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using OSPF’s “Summary-Address” Command

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

BSCI exam success, not to mention earning your CCNP, can come down to your OSPF route summarization skills. There are a few different commands and situations you need to be ready for, and one of these situations is the proper use of the "summary-address" command.
The summary-address command should be used on an ASBR in order [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: IP Version 6 Zero Compression

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

BSCI exam success is all part of becoming a CCNP, and part of that success is now learning the basics of IP Version 6, or IPv6. One of the most difficult parts of learning IPv6 concepts is the radically different addressing scheme that IPv6 uses as compared to IPv4. Just look at these sample [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Route Summarization

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Summarizing routes is a vital skill to learn to pass the BSCI exam and get one step closer to earning your CCNP. The actual binary conversions are only part of the test, though! You've got to know how to correctly apply the summary routes, and that differs from one protocol to the next. [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: A Guide To Ipv6 Addressing

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Learning IPv6 is paramount in your efforts to pass the BSCI exam and go on to earn your CCNP, and it's going to help in your real-world networking career as well. IPv6 can be confusing at first, but it's like anything else in Cisco or networking as a whole - learn one part at [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Preparing to pass the BSCI exam and earn your Cisco CCNP? Route summarization is just one of the many skills you'll have to master in order to earn your CCNP. Whether it's RIP version 2, OSPF, or EIGRP, the BSCI exam will demand that you can flawlessly configure route summarization.
Route summarization isn't just important for [...]

Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Review: Protocol Basics

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

To earn your Cisco CCNA certification and pass the BSCI CCNP exam, you have to know your protocol basics like the back of your hand! To help you review these important concepts, here's a quick look at the basics of RIPv1, RIPv2, IGRP, and EIGRP.
RIPv1: Broadcasts updates every 30 seconds to the address [...]

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

Preparing to pass the CCNA exam and earn this important Cisco certification? Route summarization is just one of the many skills you'll have to master in order to earn your CCNA. Whether it's RIP version 2, OSPF, or EIGRP, the CCNA exam will demand that you can flawlessly configure route summarization.
Route summarization isn't [...]

Cisco CCNP / BCSI Exam Tutorial: Broadcasts And The IP Helper-Address Command

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

While routers accept and generate broadcasts, they do not forward them. This can be quite a problem when a broadcast needs to get to a device such as a DHCP or TFTP server that's on one side of a router with other subnets on the other side.
If a PC attempts to locate a [...]