Category Archives: Computer Certification

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Split Horizon And Hub-And-Spoke Networks

For CCNA exam success, you had better know what split horizon is, how to turn it off, and when to turn it off. Knowing when to turn split horizon off is also important in production networks, because it can cause a hub-and-spoke network to have incomplete routing tables on the spokes. Split horizon exists for […]

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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization

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 just […]

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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Password Recovery Procedures

It might happen on your CCNA exam, it might happen on your production network – but sooner or later, you’re going to have to perform password recovery on a Cisco router or switch. This involves manipulating the router’s configuration register, and that is enough to make some CCNA candidates and network administrators really nervous! It’s […]

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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Mapping The OSI Model To The TCPIP Model

The OSI model is the model that most networking personnel are familiar with, but to earn your CCNA, you need to know the OSI model, the TCP/IP model, and how the two map to each other. The four layers of the TCP/IP architecture can be compared to certain levels of the OSI model. It’s important […]

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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: IGRP And Equal Cost Load Balancing

To pass the CCNA exam, you’ve got to know the role of the bandwidth command with IGRP and EIGRP and when to use it. In this tutorial, we’ll configure IGRP over a frame relay hub-and-spoke network using the following networks: R1 (the hub), R2, and R3 are running IGRP over the 172.12.123.0 /24 network. This […]

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Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Five OSPF Hub-And-Spoke Details You Must Know!

CCNA exam success depends greatly on knowing the details, and if there’s one protocol that has a lot of details, it’s OSPF! This is true particularly of hub-and-spoke networks, so in this CCNA OSPF tutorial we’ll take a look at some of the more important hub-and-spoke OSPF details. This will help you in working with […]

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