What Does This Book Cover?
This book covers aggregate you charge to apperceive in adjustment to accept the CCNA exam
objective commands. However, demography the time to abstraction and convenance with routers or a router
simulator is the absolute key to success.
You will apprentice the afterward advice in this book:
Chapter 1 introduces you to the Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) and
command-line interface (CLI). In this affiliate you will apprentice how to about-face on a router and configure
the basics of the IOS, including ambience passwords, banners, and more. IP configuration
using the Secure Device Manager (SDM) will be discussed in Affiliate 12.
Chapter 2 provides you with the administration abilities bare to run a Cisco IOS network.
Backing up and abating the IOS, as able-bodied as router configuration, are covered, as are the
troubleshooting command accoutrement all-important to accumulate a arrangement up and running. Affiliate 12
will accommodate you the SDM agreement covered in this chapter.
Chapter 3 teaches you about IP routing. This is an important chapter, because you will learn
how to body a network, add IP addresses, and avenue abstracts amid routers. You will also
learn about static, default, and activating acquisition application RIP and RIPv2 (with a baby touch
of IGRP).
Chapter 4 dives into added circuitous activating acquisition with Enhanced IGRP and OSPF
routing.
Chapter 5 gives you a accomplishments on layer-2 switching and how switches perform
address acquirements and accomplish forwarding and clarification decisions. Arrangement loops and how to
avoid them with the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) will be discussed, as able-bodied as the 802.1w
STP version.
Chapter 6 covers basal LANs and how you can use them in your internetwork. This
chapter additionally covers the nitty-gritty of VLANs and the altered concepts and protocols
used with VLANs, as able-bodied as troubleshooting.
Chapter 7 covers aegis and admission lists, which are created on routers to clarify the network.
IP standard, extended, and called admission lists are covered in detail.
Chapter 8 covers Arrangement Address Translation (NAT). New advice and all the configuration
commands, troubleshooting, and analysis commands bare to understand
the NAT CCNA objectives are covered in this chapter.
Chapter 9 covers wireless technologies. This is an anterior affiliate apropos wireless
technologies as Cisco angle wireless. Accomplish abiding you accept your basal wireless technologies
such as admission credibility and audience as able-bodied as the aberration amid 802.11a, b, and g.
This affiliate is added technology based than agreement based to awning the current
CCNA objectives.
Chapter 10 covers IPv6. This is a actual fun affiliate and has some abundant information.
IPv6 is not the big, bad alarming monster that best bodies anticipate it is. IPv6 is an objective
on this new exam, so abstraction this affiliate carefully. This affiliate is added technology
based again agreement based to awning the accepted CCNA objectives. Accumulate an eye out at
www.lammle.com
for up-to-the-minute updates.
Chapter 11 concentrates on Cisco advanced breadth arrangement (WAN) protocols. This affiliate covers
HDLC, PPP, and Frame Relay in depth. You charge be accomplished in all these protocols
to be acknowledged on the CCNA exam.
Chapter 12 covers SDM for basal router configures that we covered in Chapters 1, 2, 3,
and 4.
For up-to-the minute updates accoutrement additions or modifications to the CCNA
certification exams, as able-bodied as added abstraction accoutrement and analysis questions,
be abiding to appointment the Todd Lammle appointment and website at
www.lammle.com
or
www.sybex.com/go/ccnafastpass