31 Days Before Your CCNA Routing & Switching Exam A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the ICND1/CCENT (100-105), ICND2 (200-105), and CCNA (200-125) Certification Exams

31 Days Before Your CCNA Routing & Switching Exam  offers a friendly, practical way to understand the CCNA Routing & Switching certification process, commit to taking the ICND1 (100-105) and ICND2 (200-105) exams or the CCNA (200-125) exam, and finish your preparation using a variety of Primary and Supplemental study resources.

These fully updated CCNA exams test knowledge and skills needed to successfully deploy LAN switching, IPv4 and IPv6 routing, WANs, and infrastructure services; and to secure and manage modern network infrastructure.

Sign up for your exam(s) and use this book’s day-by-day guide and checklist to organize, prepare, and review. Each day in this guide breaks down an exam topic into a manageable bit of information to review using short summaries. Daily Study Resources sections provide quick references for locating more in-depth treatment within Primary and Supplemental resources.

This book’s features help you fit exam preparation into a busy schedule:

·         Visual tear-card calendar summarizing each day’s study topic

·         Checklist providing advice on preparation activities leading up to the exam

·         Descriptions of ICND1 (100-105), ICND2 (200-105), and CCNA (200-125) exam organization and sign-up processes

·         Strategies to prepare mentally, organizationally, and physically for exam day

·         Conversational tone to make study more enjoyable

Allan Johnson entered the academic world in 1999 after 10 years as a business owner/operator to follow his passion for teaching. He holds both an MBA and an M.Ed. in Occupational Training and Development. Allan taught CCNA courses at the high school level for 7 years and has taught both CCNA and CCNP courses at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2003, Allan began to commit much of his time and energy to the CCNA Instructional Support Team, providing services to Networking Academy instructors worldwide and creating training materials. He now works full time for Cisco Networking Academy as a Learning Systems Developer.

Introduction

Day 31: Network Devices, Components, and Applications

Day 30: Networking Models and Data Flow

Day 29: Ethernet and Media Access Control

Day 28: Switching Concepts and Operation

Day 27: Basic Switch Configuration

Day 26: VLAN Concepts

Day 25: VLAN and Trunking Configuration

Day 24: The IPv4 Address

Day 23: IPv4 Subnetting and VLSM

Day 22: IPv6 Addressing Concepts

Day 21: Implementing IPv6 Addressing

Day 20: Basic Routing Concepts

Day 19: Dynamic Routing Protocols

Day 18: Basic Router Configuration: IPv4

Day 17: Basic Router Configuration: IPv6

Day 16: Static and Default Route Configuration

Day 15: Single-Area OSPFv2

Day 14: Single-Area OSPFv3

Day 13: Inter-VLAN Routing Configuration

Day 12: DHCP Configuration

Day 11: ACL Concepts

Day 10: Basic ACL Configuration

Day 9: NAT

Day 8: Basic Device Security

Day 7: Switch Security Configuration

Day 6: Troubleshoot IP Addressing Issues

Day 5: Troubleshoot VLAN Issues

Day 4: Troubleshoot Trunking Issues

Day 3: Troubleshoot ACL Issues

Day 2: Troubleshoot Layer 1 Issues

Day 1: CCENT Skills Review and Practice

Exam Day

Post-Exam Information

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