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My ExamCram CCENT ICND1 100-105 is Here!

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100-105

It is an amazing feeling when you actually get to hold your latest book in your hands after all that hard work in a virtual place! Huge thank you to Keith Barker of CBT Nuggets for his incredibly in-depth edits on this remarkable text.

What does this text provide you?

CramSheets

The first thing you will note in this text is a laminated set of CramSheets you can tear out of the text introduction. This allows you to carry it with you right to the testing center and contains key charts, notes, and configurations you want to have committed to memory. An example would be the binary conversion chart! I really crammed the CramSheet – in fact, the publishers made me trim it down I was trying to get so many goodies in there. Remember, leave it in the locker before your actual test – you would breaks the rules bringing it to the testing PC! 🙂

Chapters and Topics

The Chapter and Topic layout follows the Cisco Exam Blueprint letter for letter! Worried about a certain area of the exam coverage? No problem – go right to that section of my text and have your fears put to rest!

Essential Terms and Components

Each chapter begins with a list of essential terms and components you must master if you are to have any success in the exam environment. Of course, each chapter hammers and highlights these.

CramSavers

Before every topic begins, this text presents you with a CramSaver. What is the point here? To challenge you with difficult fill in the blank style questions to pre-test you. Perhaps you already have mastery in this topic domain and would prefer to skip it!

ExamAlerts

These occur where required and highlight key pieces of exam relevant information you just MUST know in order to succeed.

CramQuiz

Of course every topic area must end with a CramQuiz. These are in multiple choice format since this is the majority of what you will face in the actual exam.

Review Questions

Each chapter wraps up with intense review questions. This is a nice feature as it gives you confidence in testing on all of the topics that make up a chapter. Keep in mind that some of the chapters might have as many as four or five intense topic domains.

Additional Resources

This section has never existed in an ExamCram text before. I wanted to include videos and documents to supplement each chapter. Videos includes the works of such greats as Jeremy Cioara, Keith Barker, and others.

Command Reference

I also added this ingredient never before added to the Cisco ExamCrams. At this level, students love a quick review of the commands they must master.

Practice Exams

Two full practice exams of 60 questions each challenge the learner big time! These include questions that mirror the simulations found in the actual exam!

Glossary

OK – yeah – there is a glossary of important terms. 🙂

Whew – listing all of this sure makes me recall the hard work that went into this text. I hope you find it as special as those of us that poured our hearts into it did! Enjoy!

 ExamCram CCENT ICND1 100-105
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IPv4 Access Lists in the CCIE Lab Exam

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Security

I am getting ready for my Nugget on the above subject and I wanted to provide some thoughts and notes here on the blog on this important subject.

I am currently training for a half-marathon. Yes, and thanks for putting up with all of my RunKeeper Tweets on the subject. 🙂 With the training, there are certain metrics you need to hit in order to really determine if you can finish on race day. It is the same way the CCIE. One metric is ACLs. If you do not have them mastered, you are in big trouble on race day. Think about it, you use them for traffic filtering, and then traffic identification for a whole host of features on the devices. QoS, network management, the list goes on and on.

The traffic filtering part gets really scary. Drop one in that is not doctored up for the other traffic required in your lab scenario and you can easily break things well enough to fail. And when you are building the lists, you must really take your time to ensure that you are meeting their specific directions. Are you getting the EXACT traffic they want, in the correct direction?

Here is a list of tips and things to think about for this important topic. These are in no particular order:

  • Read so carefully if you need to build an ACL traffic filter. Often, you will be asked to block something extremely specific, for example, echo-replies. Should you block too generally, like requests and replies, you fail the task.
  • Drawing out the scenario on your scratch paper will often help you with what specifically to match and in what direction.
  • You certainly would want to avoid this in production, but in the lab it is fine to end your ACLs with deny ip any any log-input. This will allow you to see just what you broke in your lab with your ACL!
  • Remember that an outbound ACL will not impact traffic generated by that local router.
  • access-group is used for traffic filtering on your interfaces, while access-class is used for your VTY lines. Remember with the access-class out command, it is controlling where someone can Telnet out of your router AFTER they have already Telnetted into it.