Today we will summarize our training and consider what we will study in the remaining series of video tutorials. Since we use Cisco training materials, we will visit the company's website, located at to see how much we have learned and how much is left before the course is completed.
Translator's note: since this video was posted on 28.11.2015/13.04.2019/XNUMX, the design of the Cisco website and the content of the exams have changed, so the following screenshots show the site as of XNUMX/XNUMX/XNUMX, and the actual edits have been made to the text of the lecture.
To view training course materials, click on the Learning Locator link and go to the Training & Events page.
Next, on the Training & Events page, select the Cisco Certification link in the right menu.
On the Cisco Certification page, you can find all Cisco certifications grouped by professional level: Entry (Technician), Associate (Specialist), Professional (Professional), Expert (Expert) and Architect (Architect).
The CCNA certification corresponds to the Associate's basic certification level, which certifies that you have the knowledge necessary to install, configure, and manage medium-sized LANs and WANs.
The Entry level includes CCENT (Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician) and CCT (Technician) certifications. If you click on CCENT, you will be taken to a page detailing the certificate and stating that it does not require any prerequisites. To obtain such a certificate, you need to pass exam 100-105 ICND1. The Associate level consists of various specializations, and the Professional, Expert and Architect levels are similarly composed.
When we talk about the CCNA certificate, we mean that it is a specialization in the field of routing and network communication - CCNA Routing & Switching. It is clear that a specialist with such a certificate will deal with Cisco routers and switches. This is the most general specialization provided by Cisco.
If you look at the CCNA Security Network Security Specialist certification, you can see that the condition for obtaining it is to have a valid CCENT, CCNA Routing & Switching, or any CCIE certification. It can be noted that the CCNA R&S certificate is the basis for obtaining many other specialized certificates.
The situation for obtaining professional level certifications is similar: if you need CCNP R & S, you must already have a CCNA R & S certificate. Similarly, to obtain CCNP Security, you must have CCNA Security.
Previously, you only had to pass 1 exam to get a CCNA R&S certification, but Cisco made a change a couple of years ago. Pre-trained people can continue to take one exam 200-125 CCNA but if you don't have enough technical background you can try 2 exams: 100-105 ICND1 which is the same exam as CCENT and exam 200-105 ICND2. Passing both of these exams can lead to CCNA certification.
As we have already said, there are no prerequisites for passing these exams, that is, for obtaining a certificate. The single exam is abbreviated as CCNAX, or "accelerated". You can ask about the cost of certifications: Cisco CCNA costs $295 if you take one exam 200-125 CCNA. Each of the other two exams will cost you $150. Thus, when passing 2 exams, you overpay $ 5 for the fact that they are easier to pass than one exam. You choose how best to take exams. I would advise taking 2 exams in turn.
Let's see what the exam 100-105 ICND1 is, for which we click on it and go to the description page. There are four tabs: Exam Overview, Exam Preparation, Taking the Take Exam, and Exam Policies. In order to take the exam, you need to register with Pearson VUE.
Clicking the Register at Pearson VU button will take you to home.pearsonvue.com/cisco and on the right side of the page you will see the Sign In and Create Account buttons. After you register on the site, you enter the exam number 100-105 into the search form, and then search for a suitable date, the Cisco center located near you, register for the exam, and then you can make an online payment. To find a nearby test center, you click on the link Find a test center and enter your address in the search bar.
Cisco examination centers are located everywhere, and I do not know even the smallest village where there would not be at least one such center. It is possible that such places exist, but personally I have not seen one of them.
Let's search for the city of Coventry, because I studied in Coventry, West Midlands, England. This is a very small town, but as you can see, in Coventry itself there is 1 such center and 4 more are located at a distance of 16-17 miles. If you click on the "Show more exam centers" button, you will see a few more places further away from Coventry, such as Birmingham. Having chosen the center, you go there to take the exam.
The exam consists of 45-55 multiple choice questions, usually four, to be answered within 90 minutes. It's quite easy, the exam is taken on computers, the only thing you need is a good practice in solving such problems before taking the exam, as the time for passing is limited. For each answer, you are given no more than 2 minutes, so you should not “hang” on one question for a long time - if you do not know the answer, move on to the next one.
Let's take a look at the topics of the ISND1 exam questions by clicking on the Exam topics button.
(translator's note: instead of the example of the outdated exam 100-101, to which the author of the lecture refers, the screen shots show a new version of exam 100-105 with the corresponding amendments to the text of the lecture).
You see the topics of the ICND1 exam, and as soon as I finish the video lesson on the topics of this exam, I will move on to the topics of the ICND2 exam, and after 50 or 60 video lessons, you will completely study the entire topic of the CCNA course. You can take a closer look at the first topic, "Network Fundamentals," by clicking on the Show Details link.
This is a comparison and difference between OSI and TCP / IP models, TCP and UDP protocols, a description of the components of the working network infrastructure, a comparison and difference between network topologies, and so on - we covered all these topics in previous lessons.
This is followed by the topic "Basics of LAN Switching", which occupies 26% of the course. It includes a description and definition of the concept of communication, a description of the format of Ethernet frames, and much more, which we also discussed. If I didn’t tell you about something, then I’ll return to these questions. Thus, if you look at these topics, you will see which of them we have already studied and which have not yet been considered. We will shortly discuss some of the issues related to IP addressing, and we will return to a detailed discussion of IPv6. We also covered network device security, Native VLAN, sticky mode, MAC address restrictions, and so on.
From the next video tutorial, we will start learning the basics of routing Routing Fundamentals.
You can print out the list of topics and mark the ones we have already covered. As we explore the course further, we'll check this list to see what we've already covered and what we need to learn more. To prepare for the exam, you must study all these questions topic by topic.
So, we have finished studying the switches and have a little look at the work of routers. I will talk a little more about problems with switches, and I hope that after about the 30th video lesson, you will be ready to take the ICND1 exam. I think that we will completely finish the preparation on the 31,32st, 33nd or XNUMXrd video and then we will see if you are ready for this exam. On my website, I will post practical tasks that you can complete.
After we are done with all this, you can register for the Pearson VUE service and take the 100-105 ICND1 exam. Then we will return to the video lessons again and start studying the exam questions for the course 200-105 ICND2.
We will start by looking at LAN switching technologies, where we will consider the operation of STP protocols, then we will move on to routing technologies and consider various versions of the OSPF protocol, and so on.
You can visit the specified site and make sure that everything is quite easy and simple. First, I will ask you to try to keep your own notes while watching my video tutorials, which will help you a lot. Secondly, you need to do practice tasks, type commands on your own laptop, use Cisco Packet Tracer or GNS3 or physical devices if possible. You should practice using the commands to create your own network, because without practice you won't be ready to take the Cisco exams.
So that's all the information I wanted to share. Feel free to ask me questions via email or in the comments below this video.
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