The #CCNA exam can pack a punch with what looks like a simple question, and this latest practice question is just such an example. The question asks about switch forwarding, but it combines packet encapsulation concepts. Get either wrong, and
You can learn how a LAN switch forwards frames in just a few minutes, and then explore that idea in different contexts throughout your entire span of studying for #CCENT and #CCNA Routing and switching. This latest practice question asks
Can you think abstractly about how layer 2 switching works, and how VLANs and trunks impact their forwarding decisions? Or do you need to see the specific configurations to make sense of it? This latest practice question pulls in a
Layer 2 switching seems easy – but then you must think through how it works in a real network. Applying the ideas proves whether you really understood the concepts or not. This next question gives you that kind of practice
How does a Layer 2 switch choose where to send a frame? Does it think about more than the destination MAC address? One of the common mistakes videos in the new “CCENT ICND1 100-105 Exam Prep LiveLessons” product talks about
This post wraps up the discussion of the to the question listed in this earlier post – a question copied from the exam bank that comes with the ICND1 Official Cert Guide. Today’s post discussed answers D and E, at
Today’s post lists a question that comes with the ICND1 Official Cert Guide from Cisco Press. Here’s the story. I received a reader comment about this question, and I thought, wow, this one has enough little ins and outs to
Wrapping up this set of five #CCENT questions today with the completion of the answers. Sorry it took a while for this last post – work went sideways unexpectedly last week. For those of you who don’t recall the flow:
I got started on this discussion of the previous post’s sample question based on a question from a reader of the ICND2 Cert Guide. For the discussion of the answers, I’d like to focus on the one answer that makes
Today’s post is a question that comes with the ICND2 Official Cert Guide. A reader had sent in an errata email, claiming the question was wrong (it wasn’t in this case), but this question is packed with tons of learning
