Cisco Live, aka #CLUS on Twitter, celebrated its 25th year this year at the show in San Francisco. The show has grown and grown over the years, both in size and quality. If I could only spend one [...]

Here’s the answer and explanation for Monday’s seemingly simple ping question. This one is a bit tougher than most, though, because it opens up the possibilities to pretty much [...]

After reviewing this simple #CCNA question, I wondered if it was too difficult. But it’s a blog – we can always discuss the pieces. Today’s post has a multi-choice question [...]

Here’s the answer to the question I posted late last week. Ask’em if you’re got’em! Details below to fold to avoid spoiling it.

Sometimes #CCNA and #CCENT candidates struggle the first few times they have to apply layer 2 switching concepts and layer 3 routing concepts in the same question. That’s normal – [...]

Today’s post wraps up this latest sample #CCENT exam question. Answer is below the fold. Relevant Links: The original question Related analysis of the question Other Q&A in this blog

In many ways, the #CCENT and #CCNA are all about practice. Yes, you need to learn, but you need to practice applying what you learned if you want to do well on the exams. Today’s post looks at [...]

For #CCENT and #CCNA, you need to know how switches learn, plus you need to know how switches forward frames. Sometimes, combining the two concepts (learning and forwarding) for the first time [...]