This blog has over 500 posts with CCNA content, so it helps to categorize posts in different ways. Here at my blog, “Config Lab” posts detail a self-contained CCNA lab exercise. All you have to do is find a Config Lab post that you like and then use the lab.
We reworked the Config Lab posts in 2021 to include more features, so if you haven’t looked at them in a while, please take a look. Each post has these features:
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- One Lab Per Blog Post: Each Config Lab exists as a single post. The answers and related explanations sit behind buttons and accordions that you can expand when you are ready to view those details to avoid spoiling the answers.
- Configuration Focused: Most labs focus on configuration, with a topology and set of requirements. Your job: Add to the device configurations to meet the requirements.
- Verification Skills: For each Config Lab, verify that you met the lab’s requirements. The lab post also emphasizes additional items to verify.
- Configuration Solutions: The post includes the suggested solution.
- Lab Commentary: Each lab includes a little text to anticipate common questions and further explain what should occur in the lab.
- Scope: By design, Config Labs focus on a small feature set with a small number of devices to configure.
- Time: 10 minutes to understand the initial state of the lab, and 10 minutes to configure the lab, on average – assuming you have already learned the fundamentals of the topic and are now practicing what you already learned.
- Audience: Learners who have already read about the topic and who are ready to practice.