Overview
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CCNA Virtual Lab Gold Edition
If you’re serious about passing the CCNA exam, you need extensive hands-on experience with routers and switches. Until now, this has required access to expensive network equipment—not to mention the freedom to experiment with it. The CCNA Virtual Lab Gold Edition from Sybex gives you everything you need, and more!. You can practice with this, “equipment” on your own, use it in conjunction with suggested labs that cover CCNA exam objectives, or even design custom labs. An affordable alternative to products and courses costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, the CCNA Virtual Lab Gold Edition allows you to work at your own pace, on your own time, so you get the most out of your exam preparation efforts.
Equip Yourself with the Knowledge and Skills You Need to Pass the CCNA Exam:
- Logging into a router
- Starting and saving router configurations
- Setting passwords, hostname, bandwidth, IP address, and clock rate
- Static routes and default routes
- Dynamic routing with RIP and IGRP
- Backing up, upgrading or restoring your router IOS
- Telnet
- IP name resolution
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
- Internetworking Packet eXchange (IPX)
- Secondary network addresses and frame types
- Configuring Frame Relay
Synopsis
If you're serious about passing the new CCNA exam (#640-607), you need hands-on experience with routers and switches. Until now, this has required access to expensive network equipment--not to mention the freedom to experiment with it. The CCNA Virtual Lab, Gold Edition gives you everything you need and more to tackle Cisco's challenging simulation format questions. You can practice with this, "equipment" on your own, use it in conjunction with suggested labs that cover CCNA exam objectives, or even design custom labs. An enhanced version of Sybex's best-selling CCNA Virtual Lab, this program simulates a network environment consisting of four routers, two switches, and four hosts, this program provides hands-on practice for the following topics and more:
- Logging in to a router
- Starting and saving router configurations
- Setting passwords, hostname, IP address, and clock rate
- Static routes and default routes
- Dynamic routing with RIP and IGRP
- Backing up, upgrading or restoring your router IOS
- Telnet
- IP name resolution
- Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
- Internetworking Packet eXchange (IPX)
- Secondary network addresses and frame types
- Configuring frame relay
Editorials
From Barnes & Noble
The Barnes & Noble ReviewBy now you know that the CCNA exam is the gateway to a hugely rewarding career in Cisco internetworking. Some of this tough exam is what they used to call "book larnin'" -- but much of it requires hands-on experience with Cisco routers and switches. And the more practice, the better. That's where CCNA Virtual Lab, Gold Edition comes in.
In this package, Todd Lammle and Bill Tedder have souped up their previous CCNA Virtual Lab with even more lab configuration projects (29 in all) based on a more complex internetwork (4 routers, 2 switches, 4 hosts).
It's just like the real thing, except you don't have to worry about typing the wrong command and crashing the network -- and you can use it anywhere there's a PC. Just click on the Network Visualizer tab, and you see your customized lab, complete with suggested network settings and IP addresses. You'll have router configuration screens that look and work just like the real thing. Hundreds of IOS commands are supported -- everything you'd be likely to encounter on the CCNA, and then some. It's the most thorough CCNA practice we've yet seen on CD-ROM.(Bill Camarda)
--Bill Camarda is a consultant, writer, and web/multimedia content developer with nearly 20 years' experience in helping technology companies deploy and market advanced products and services. He served for nearly ten years as vice president of a New Jersey-based marketing company, where he supervised a wide range of graphics and web design projects. His 15 books include Special Edition Using Word 2000