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Distance Learning and The Increased Importance of Home Labs

As we all work together through COVID-19, schools slowly start to reopen and progress is made to get things back to being as close to normal as possible, the classroom environments will unquestionably be adapting as well.  Some institutions are setting distance learning in place until we can all safely come directly back to the

CCENT & CCNA Lab Cables – When to use patch vs crossover cables!

In today’s CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) 200-120 and CCENT (Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician) 100-101 blog posting; we are going to follow-up on our last CCNA blog post about cables in a CCNA home lab.  The prior post covered the different types of cables required to connect to your Cisco router or Cisco switch

Cisco CCENT & CCNA Lab Cables Explained!

Today we are going to review some of the common cables you may find in your Cisco Certified Network Associate 200-125 (CCNA) or Cisco  Certified Entry Networking Technician 100-105 (CCENT) home lab so you can connect to your Cisco router or Cisco switch.  Straight-through, crossover, rollover, console, and many more terms can be pretty confusing

What is the best CCENT 100-101 or CCNA 200-120 lab switch?

As students are preparing for their CCENT (Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician) 100-101 or their CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) 200-120 exams, a majority of the successful students opt to build their own CCENT/CCNA home lab.  I stress the word successful as there is a reason it is estimated that the Cisco CCNA exam has

What is the Best CCENT & CCNA Lab Router?

We have written before on what is the best CCENT or CCNA lab router and you know what?  To a certain extent it changes over time as better models come down in price and give you a better bang for the buck!  So being that it has been about 8 months since we wrote a

CCENT & CCNA Subnetting Exam Question

Subnetting is definitely one of the things you need to know inside and out to pass your CCENT 100-101 or CCNA 200-120 exam.  You will see pretty straight forward subnetting questions and you will also see scenario based questions that you will need to employ your subnetting skills to determine where the problem resides. A

CCENT & CCNA Exam Routing Scenario Question

Something new that you will see on the CCENT 100-101 exam and the CCNA 200-120 exam is the topic of Troubleshooting.  I am very glad Cisco added troubleshooting to the CCNA exam series as it helps link the theory that you are learning along with how it actually works in the real world.  IT really

CCENT & CCNA Practice Exam VLAN Question Explained!

We hope you are enjoying our CertificationKits CCNA Blog series and it is giving you great insight into how to prepare for your Cisco CCENT or CCNA exam.  In this series we are covering a variety of real world scenario type questions that you could see on your exam.  These are not simple memorization questions

CCENT – CCNA Exam Practice Question – Detailed

As we have covered in our previous CCNA blog posts, Cisco has made both the Cisco CCENT 100-101 exam, the ICND2 200-101 exam and the CCNA 200-120 exam quite a bit more difficult than the predecessor versions of each exam.  What has happened is Cisco has gone into much more detail on the various CCNA

CCENT / CCNA STP Exam Sample Scenario Question

On the new version of the Cisco CCENT 100-101, Cisco ICND2 200-101 and CCNA 200-120 exams Cisco has made the questions much, much, harder than previous versions of the CCNA exam.  Today we are going to cover an example of a Spanning Tree Protocol scenario type question that you might see on your Cisco CCENT