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Hey friends, on Monday 28th of February 2011 , I cleared my CCNA (640-802) exam with 86% . My Cisco ID is CSCO 11925708. Well now my Plans are for CCNP (Routing and Switching). Although it looks like just another certification but it actually took best out of U.
Currently enrolled in Telecommunication Engineering and suffering with the Dilemma of Final Year Project, so in small sentence, LIFE is going FULL Throttle.
Lots of friends ask me about the question appeared in final CCNA Industrial exam and asked me about the hot topics, like LABS, Simlets, and MCQs. Even on the day of my exam in the testing center , some candidates asked me about which GUESS PAPERs I opted for the preparation.
Well Dear friends, to be honest with u, there is no short cut in the CCNA exam. No matter what guess papers u went through or questions u thought are most of the times will appear, the PAPER has its many ways to make your JAWS wide open.
Only one thing will let u through your exam and that is Practice. Practice like HELL. I think its better to phrase like it.
I didn’t mean to say that don’t refer to the GUESS papers , but people have the habit of relying on the DUMS and in actual, they are just for the candidate’s reference. One more thing, Packet Tracer is the key to the LAB of CCNA Exam. Only chance of getting out of the LAB scenario is to get an excellent command on the Packet Tracer use and CLI commands.
Cisco always asks about their Proprietary Stuffs like RSTP, EIGRP and etc. There are some key points which should be on the finger tips of the CCNA Candidate. Here are some of them.
Currently enrolled in Telecommunication Engineering and suffering with the Dilemma of Final Year Project, so in small sentence, LIFE is going FULL Throttle.
Lots of friends ask me about the question appeared in final CCNA Industrial exam and asked me about the hot topics, like LABS, Simlets, and MCQs. Even on the day of my exam in the testing center , some candidates asked me about which GUESS PAPERs I opted for the preparation.
Well Dear friends, to be honest with u, there is no short cut in the CCNA exam. No matter what guess papers u went through or questions u thought are most of the times will appear, the PAPER has its many ways to make your JAWS wide open.
Only one thing will let u through your exam and that is Practice. Practice like HELL. I think its better to phrase like it.
I didn’t mean to say that don’t refer to the GUESS papers , but people have the habit of relying on the DUMS and in actual, they are just for the candidate’s reference. One more thing, Packet Tracer is the key to the LAB of CCNA Exam. Only chance of getting out of the LAB scenario is to get an excellent command on the Packet Tracer use and CLI commands.
Cisco always asks about their Proprietary Stuffs like RSTP, EIGRP and etc. There are some key points which should be on the finger tips of the CCNA Candidate. Here are some of them.
These are the stuffs u should have on your finger tips
• Switch bridge priority is based upon 2 factors , Lowest Priority value and Lowest MAC address of the Interface
• OSPF uses multicast address 224.0.0.5 for routing updates.
• RIPv2 uses multicast address 224.0.0.9 for routing updates.
• EIGRP uses multicast address 224.0.0.10 for routing updates.
• WPA uses PSK while WPA2 uses AES-CCMP for data encryption.
• In Frame-relay, the Frame don’t have MAC address, they have DLCI.
• In layer-4 if the window size is 3 , then the acknowledge sent will be ACK-4.
• 802.1b (WLAN) uses DSS technology.
• Wired media uses CSMA/CD while wireless media uses CSMA/CA.
• DHCP server uses ping to detect address conflict.
• “Extended PING” can be specified with a time-out value.
• “MTU 1500 bytes” indicates max packet size of 1500 bytes can pass this interface.
• “show version” command shows configuration register of router.
• VTP Client doesn’t save VLAN in NVRAM.
• “show flash” shows the content of the Flash memory.
• IDS and IPS are the security appliances used in the network.
• If no configuration is found in NVRAM, router will use TFTP server, and if no file is on TFTP server, router will initiate Setup Dialogue.
• 2 IOS image can be preserved in FLASH.
• 802.1q requires FCS to be recomputed.
• DNS uses both TCP/UDP ports.
• Amber LED blinking indicates Device Malfunctioning.
• RSTP (802.1w) is compatible with IEEE 802.1d STP.
• In Frame-Relay, LMI is globally significant while DLCI is locally significant.
• DLCI represents a logical circuit b/w DTE and Frame-Relay Switch.
• HDLC is developed from SDLC.
• HDLC is Cisco Proprietary.
• HDLC provided Flow and Error control and NO AUTHENTICATION.
• Router provides “PATH SELECTION” & “PACKET FORWARDING”.
• Switch provides “LOOP AVODIANCE”, “ADDRESS LEARNING” & “FORWARD/FILTER DECISION”.
• Switch populates MAC-Addresses in 2 states only, “FORWARDING” & “LISTENING”.
• Default switch priority is 32768.
• RSTP (802.1d) is Cisco Proprietary.
• OSPF don’t summarize address at class full boundaries while RIPv1, RIPv2, EIGRP summarize by default.
NOTE: GIVE EXTRA FOCUS ON ALL ROUTING PROTOCOLS, VLANS, VTP, ACL, FRAME-RELAY, PPP, NAT & DHCP.
• OSPF uses multicast address 224.0.0.5 for routing updates.
• RIPv2 uses multicast address 224.0.0.9 for routing updates.
• EIGRP uses multicast address 224.0.0.10 for routing updates.
• WPA uses PSK while WPA2 uses AES-CCMP for data encryption.
• In Frame-relay, the Frame don’t have MAC address, they have DLCI.
• In layer-4 if the window size is 3 , then the acknowledge sent will be ACK-4.
• 802.1b (WLAN) uses DSS technology.
• Wired media uses CSMA/CD while wireless media uses CSMA/CA.
• DHCP server uses ping to detect address conflict.
• “Extended PING” can be specified with a time-out value.
• “MTU 1500 bytes” indicates max packet size of 1500 bytes can pass this interface.
• “show version” command shows configuration register of router.
• VTP Client doesn’t save VLAN in NVRAM.
• “show flash” shows the content of the Flash memory.
• IDS and IPS are the security appliances used in the network.
• If no configuration is found in NVRAM, router will use TFTP server, and if no file is on TFTP server, router will initiate Setup Dialogue.
• 2 IOS image can be preserved in FLASH.
• 802.1q requires FCS to be recomputed.
• DNS uses both TCP/UDP ports.
• Amber LED blinking indicates Device Malfunctioning.
• RSTP (802.1w) is compatible with IEEE 802.1d STP.
• In Frame-Relay, LMI is globally significant while DLCI is locally significant.
• DLCI represents a logical circuit b/w DTE and Frame-Relay Switch.
• HDLC is developed from SDLC.
• HDLC is Cisco Proprietary.
• HDLC provided Flow and Error control and NO AUTHENTICATION.
• Router provides “PATH SELECTION” & “PACKET FORWARDING”.
• Switch provides “LOOP AVODIANCE”, “ADDRESS LEARNING” & “FORWARD/FILTER DECISION”.
• Switch populates MAC-Addresses in 2 states only, “FORWARDING” & “LISTENING”.
• Default switch priority is 32768.
• RSTP (802.1d) is Cisco Proprietary.
• OSPF don’t summarize address at class full boundaries while RIPv1, RIPv2, EIGRP summarize by default.
NOTE: GIVE EXTRA FOCUS ON ALL ROUTING PROTOCOLS, VLANS, VTP, ACL, FRAME-RELAY, PPP, NAT & DHCP.
I hope this will give some boost to your exam prep, there are Packet Tracers Scenarios I can provide on demand. Good Luck and have a Nice TIME .
