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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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

CCENT & CCNA Skill: A Cisco Router’s IOS Modes

A CCNA's Guide To Traversing a Cisco Router’s IOS Modes One the first day of self-study or boot camp training, some CCENT and CCNA students say they are a bit intimidated by the console session and how to navigate around it.  So we wanted to write a quick primer for those CCENT and CCNA exam

CCENT & CCNA Exam Static Routing Overview

As you prepare for your Cisco CCENT and CCNA exams you will need to understand much more than the basics of how routers work.  But you have to start somewhere so let's look at the CCENT/CCNA topic of Static Routing. Routers learn about remote networks either dynamically using routing protocols or manually using static routes.