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Author :: Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933  |
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| Article Title :: Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: OSPF Route Redistribution Review |
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| OSPF route redistribution is an important topic on the BSCI exam, and it's a topic full of details and defaults that you need to know for the exam room and the job. To help you pass the BSCI exam, here's a quick review of some of the OSPF route redistribution basics.
To see if a router is an ABR or ASBR, run show ip ospf. This also displays any routes being redistributed into OSPF on this router.
R1#show ip ospf
Routing Process "ospf 1" with ID 1.1.1.1
Supports only single TOS(TOS0) routes
Supports opaque LSA
It is an area border and autonomous system boundary router
Redistributing External Routes from (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933 |
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| Article Title :: Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Multicasting And Reserved Addresses |
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| Ever since you picked up your first CCNA book, you've heard about multicasting, gotten a fair idea of what it is, and you've memorized a couple of reserved multicasting addresses. Now as you prepare to pass the BCMSN exam and become a CCNP, you've got to take that knowledge to the next level and gain a true understanding of multicasting. Those of you with an eye on the CCIE will truly have to become multicasting experts!
Having said that, we're going to briefly review the basics of multicasting first, and then future tutorials will look at the different ways in which multicasting can be configured on Cisco routers and switches.
What Is Multicasting?
A (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: MCSE Certification - A Lifetime Of Educating |
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| In this article we're going to focus on the downside of getting an MCSE certification as far as what it will mean to the lifetime of your career.Let's be honest, Microsoft is the king of computer everything, from software to networking. Once upon a time Novell was the only real networking super power. Now Microsoft dominates the industry, though it is debatable as to whether or not they actually have the better product.As a result, just about every company has a Microsoft network. Just the fact that this makes it easier to run your online applications, since most software is Windows based, makes it almost suicidal to go with anything else but Microsoft. Therefore, if yo (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: MCSE Certification - Purpose Or Profit |
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| In this article we're going to take a shot at the entire MCSE certification process to determine if there is really a purpose to the procedure other than for Microsoft to make a profit.When networking was in its infancy certifications were a luxury to say the least. Only a very few were certified, with Novell being the leader in the field. In the early days the Novell system was very stable and didn't change much from year to year. The reason this is brought up is because when Microsoft worked its way into the networking arena, stability was the last thing that the Microsoft systems had. From year to year their systems would change so drastically that within a very short period (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: MCSE Certification - Requirements And Courses |
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| In this article we're going to go over the current requirements for getting an MCSE certification. Please keep in mind that these requirements could be old news by the time you read this. No knock on Microsoft intended.So, you want to get an MCSE certification. Well, in order to do so you're going to have to pass a series of exams. As of this article, seven to be exact. Five of the exams are what they call core exams and the last two are called elective exams.The five core exams consist of four operating system exams and one design exam. The four operating system exams offer the following choices. The first of the operating system exams is the client operating system. (read full article) |
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Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: MCSE Certification - An Insiders View |
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| In this article I am going to present an insider's view of this process. What you are about to read is the experience of an associate of mine. He is an MCSE, or at least he was. I'll let him tell his story in his own words. You should find this interesting.Hi. My name is Steven. I am 48 years old and out of work. That may seem strange considering that I have a number of certifications including a Novell CNA and a Microsoft MCSE. So what's the problem?To answer that question you need to have some background information.I originally went to school for Accounting but lost interest. I eventually graduated with a degree in business, which at the time was good for (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Eran Malloch |
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| Article Title :: Cisco Certifications Overview - Career Path Options |
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| When considering a Cisco Certification, you need to understand how they structure their programmes, so that they match up with your career requirements (depending on where you are at right now).There are 3 levels of Cisco Certification, based on your increasing level of experience and expertise: Entry level is the Associate, mid-level is the Professional and the highest level is the Expert.There are also a range of Specialist Cisco certifications available to showcase your knowledge in specific technologies, solutions or job roles.General Certifications: Three Levels of Certification* Cisco Associate. The first step in (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Chris Bryant |
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| Article Title :: Cisco CCNA Certification: The (Many) Different Kinds Of Switching |
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| When you're studying for your CCNA exam, whether you're taking the Intro-ICND path or the single-exam path, you're quickly introduced to the fact that switching occurs at Layer 2 of the OSI model. No problem there, but then other terms involving switching are thrown in, and some of them can be more than a little confusing. What is "cell switching"? What is "circuit switching"? Most confusing of all, how can you have "packet switching"? Packets are found at Layer 3, but switching occurs at Layer 2. How can packets be switched?Relax! As you'll see in this article, the terms aren't that hard to keep straight. Packet switching, for example, describes a protocol that divides a (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Michael Russell |
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| Article Title :: MCSE Certification - Better Than Novell? |
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| In this article we're going to cover the pros and cons of getting a Microsoft Certification as opposed to getting a Novell certification. To start with, the arguments as to which networking software is actually better will no doubt go on for as long as these two companies are in business. The purpose of this article in not to determine which system is better. The purpose is to point out the differences between the two in relation to how easy or hard it will be to get a certification and hold a job.The first glaring difference between a Novell certification and an MCSE certification is the intensity of the courses required for each certification. As was pointed out in an earlier (read full article) |
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| Category :: Computer Certification Articles |
Author :: Chris Bryant |
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| Article Title :: Cisco CCNP Certification: The BGP Weight Attribute |
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| When you're studying for the CCNP certification, especially the BSCI exam, you must gain a solid understanding of BGP. BGP isn't just one of the biggest topics on the BSCI exam, it's one of the largest. BGP has a great many details that must be mastered for BSCI success, and those of you with one eye on the CCIE must learn the fundamentals of BGP now in order to build on those fundamentals at a later time.Path attributes are a unique feature of BGP. With interior gateway protocols such as OSPF and EIGRP, administrative distance is used as a tiebreaker when two routes to the same destination had different next-hop IP addresses but the same prefix length. BGP uses path attributes (read full article) |
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