Wendell's CCENT Skills Blog

This blog post begins with a router triangle, IP addresses, and working interfaces. All routers can ping their own IP addresses, but the routers only know their own connected routes. You job: Add static routes for the LAN subnets. This one fits into the Config Virtual Museum (working title) category. Answer coming in a few [...]

This blog post is the first of what may be a whole new type. Basically, one post (like this one) lists the problem statement for a straightforward configuration exercise. No guile, no tricks, just a chance to exercise. The follow-up post lists the answer, with maybe a few brief comments about why, but not a [...]

The biggest single change to the printed ICND1 and ICND2 Cert Guides Editions 3, which Cisco Press published in 2011, is the subnetting content. This post spells out a few of the whys and wherefores, plus describes what subnetting topics are in the new edition of the book, plus coming with the new CCNA Simulator.

Usually, when we update the ICND1 and ICND2 Cert Guide books, it’s obvious that if you want to pass the new exam, you need to buy the new books. This time, there are no new exams, so I anticipate people will question whether or not they need the new books. The answers are yes and [...]

So I get a call from my buddies at Pearson Education this summer. (They’re the publisher that works with Cisco to create Cisco Press). And they asked if I’d want to work on a new edition of the ICND1 and ICND2 books, even though we knew that Cisco wasn’t going to rev the exams in [...]

Yes, Cisco Press decided to come out with new editions of the ICND1 and ICND2 Official Cert Guides here in the fall of 2011. However, for the first time in the history of these titles, which stretches back to 1999 and the original CCNA exam, the new publication dates do not coincide with a revision [...]