Tuesday, 19 April 2016

UBS Sees Potential In Cisco Systems, Inc. (CSCO) As Vendors Get Picky

CISCO will gain from economies of scale as more businesses turn to fewer but larger technological solutions providers and dive into data analytics

UBS believes that Cisco Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) the most likely become a preferred customer choice, as it has positioned itself well in the network intelligence, mastery of a complex aspect of IT company, enjoy economies of scale. Analyst Steven Milunovich reiterated a buy in the company with a target price of $ 29.
As companies get demanding and is associated with a handful of large suppliers of technological solutions and network, Cisco is likely to gain to provide the beam CSCO Chief Digital Officer Kevin Brandy, observed in 9 months of accession. Since the company integrates and allows operations across different product platforms, is a trusted provider that connects central data and automation applications, networks and security mapping.

Recently, UBS CIO survey revealed that about 66% of users look to Cisco as their supplier data center. The analyst adds, "Another example is the security, where the level of fragmentation is probably unsustainable. Cisco is perhaps the seller in the best position to consolidate the security market given its large budget, dominant position in the network for visibility threat information, and the market share of the first floor."

Chuck Robbins CEO and senior management is more involved in the decision-making process as Cisco technology shapes today's businesses. Analysis of data faster and more accurate are high in demand as companies use them to term decisions and strategy. Manufacturing, financial services and retail are jumping to embrace this technological change. An example application is the Wi-Fi monitoring and analysis of consumer behavior in shopping malls, which provides crucial information. Cisco provides analysis and incorporates security to provide this Wi-Fi. It is expected that the company will announce more short-term analysis.

The most complex aspect of the infrastructure is perhaps the network. However, Cisco's ability to provide the mapping of data flow in such depth is a feat by the IBM SNA. The network properties CSCO benefited enormously. Mr. Brandy said that the acquisition of Jasper led Cisco to become a top Internet platform objects (IO). He has seen objects as the "real business strategy", where intelligence is generated through the collected data network.

Friday, 4 March 2016

Cisco Patches Severe Default Password Security Issue in Network Hardware

Cisco has corrected a serious security issue that would give attackers full access to devices via default credentials.The question is located within the switch of the Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switches and the Nexus 3500 platform, a user account with root access to the bash shell is created during installation and the default setting, the static password can not be changed without damaging the functionality of the device.



The vulnerability "critical" may allow attackers to log on devices with root privileges to access, according to a security advisory published Tuesday. Attackers are able to connect to this account by default with static credentials locally or via telnet or SSH.
Once a cyber attacker has accessed the default account, they do not have administrator privileges and can completely compromise the device.

Cisco has released a software update that eliminates the default account and static credentials. Patches are available for Cisco Nexus 3000 Series switches running versions of the NX-OS 6.0 software (2) U6 (1), 6.0 (2) U6 (2) 6.0 (2) U6 (3), 6.0 (2) U6 (4) and 6.0 (2) U6 (5) and Cisco Nexus 3500 Platform switches running NX-OS software version 6.0 (2) A6 (1), 6.0 (2) A6 (2) 6.0 (2) A6 (3), 6.0 (2) A6 (4), 6.0 (2) A6 (5) and 6.0 (2) A 7 (1).

This is not the first time that Disco has patched this kind of security problems. In January, the technology giant fixes a number of vulnerabilities and has blocked access to the password of the access point of the wireless devices can not be modified. Cisco also took the opportunity to reveal a critical flaw in Access Identity Engine Company (ISE) Services.

Earlier this week, Cisco announced the changes to its business model networks, digital network architecture. The model is composed of virtualization, automation, analysis, management and cloud service using open application programming interfaces for enterprise customers.

Monday, 1 February 2016

Top-level Outputs Are Cisco Pankaj Patel Last To Leave


Pankaj Patel, senior vice president and chief development officer, Cisco has decided to relinquish his role in the second half of this calendar year.

Cisco His departure comes just four months after the release of Chief Technology and Strategy Padmasree Guerrero.

Cisco Patel out the long list of executives multiple outputs after Chuck Robbins was appointed the new CEO of Cisco by the outgoing CEO, John Chambers in May adds. President and COO Gary Moore and President of Sales Development and Rob Lloyd, who considered the best candidates for the role of CEO after Chambers announced his decision to leave most of the management reorganization, both with the launch Cisco, on July 25, 2015, the last day of the exercise of the primary network connection.

Other top-level outputs, first vice president of Cisco Services Edzard Overbeek, director of globalization Wim Elfrink, vice president, Cloud and Managed Services Edison Peres, and Vice President, World Organization membership, Bruce Klein, who left in quick succession last year, except for Overbeek will remain as a strategic advisor to June
rising star

Ironically, Patel, a veteran of Cisco of 19 years and a "rising star" was selected by Robbins to join his new 10-member senior management team in June, before officially taking over as CEO 26 July 2016.

As part of the management team of the application of "next generation" Robbin, Patel was responsible for driving innovation in the network management center and data Cisco architectures, technologies first portfolio of $ 36, 3 billion of the company in an international team of over 26,000 employees.

While Patel's successor has not been named, he will continue working with Robbins on how to accelerate its vision for the next chapter in the Cisco engineering leadership. According to experts from Cisco, Patel replacement will be announced before the summit partners Cisco 2016 begins in San Diego on Feb. 29.

Patel joined Cisco through its acquisition of StrataCom in 1996. He received a Bachelor of Engineering from BITS Pilani and holds a Masters in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

He was previously senior vice president and general manager of Cisco services company..

Tuesday, 15 December 2015

200-101 Sample Question: 15

Question: 15

What command visualizes the general NetFlow data on the command line?

A. show ip flow export
B. show ip flow top-talkers
C. show ip cache flow
D. show mls sampling
E. show mls netflow ip

Answer: C

Thursday, 10 December 2015

200-101 Sample Question: 14

Question: 14

What information does a router running a link-state protocol use to build and maintain its topological database? (Choose two.)

A. hello packets
B. SAP messages sent by other routers
C. LSAs from other routers
D. beacons received on point-to-point links
E. routing tables received from other link-state routers
F. TTL packets from designated routers

Answer: A,C

Explanation:

Link State Routing Protocols
http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=24090&seqNum=4
Link state protocols, sometimes called shortest path first or distributed database protocols,
are built around a well-known algorithm from graph theory, E. W. Dijkstra'a shortest path algorithm. Examples of link state routing protocols are:
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for IP The ISO's Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) for CLNS and IP DEC's DNA Phase V Novell's NetWare Link Services Protocol (NLSP) Although link state protocols are rightly considered more complex than distance vector protocols, the basic functionality is not complex at all:

1. Each router establishes a relationship—an adjacency—with each of its neighbors.
2. Each router sends link state advertisements (LSAs), some
3. Each router stores a copy of all the LSAs it has seen in a database. If all works well, the databases in all routers should be identical.
4. The completed topological database, also called the link state database, describes a graph of the internetwork. Using the Dijkstra algorithm, each router calculates the shortest path to each network and enters this information into the route table.

OSPF Tutorial
http://www.9tut.com/ospf-routing-protocol-tutorial

Thursday, 5 November 2015

200-101 Sample Question : 13

QUESTION 13:

Refer to the exhibit.

Which two statements are true about the loopback address that is configured on
RouterB? (Choose two.)

A. It ensures that data will be forwarded by RouterB.
B. It provides stability for the OSPF process on RouterB.
C. It specifies that the router ID for RouterB should be 10.0.0.1.
D. It decreases the metric for routes that are advertised from RouterB.
E. It indicates that RouterB should be elected the DR for the LAN.

Answer: B, C


Tuesday, 22 September 2015

Struggles in China Push Cisco to Strike Deal

U.S. technology giant to unveil partnership with Chinese server maker

BEIJING US technology giant Cisco Systems Inc. has helped build the Internet in China, working closely with the Chinese government that a spiritual group, once accused him of helping the country warning of its own nationals, a charge denied by Cisco.

Now Cisco, in a development that underlines the difficulties foreign technology companies in China, is preparing to support its business in trouble us joining forces with a Chinese upstart computer company.

The giant network of Silicon Valley-team is expected to announce a partnership with the server manufacturer Inspur Group Co. during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, in Seattle on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the talks. The effort to Cisco to open more doors for its technology in China shows how Western technology companies are struggling to adapt to an increasingly difficult market.

"There are some geopolitical dynamics that we need to explore," said Chuck Robbins, who became chief executive of Cisco, in July, in an interview last week that Inspur not discussed. "It 'been a few difficult years."

On Wednesday, Mr. Xi is scheduled to meet with the leading figures in the technology industry, including Apple Inc. 's Tim Cook and Microsoft Corp.' s Satya Nadella. The presence of many leading technology underlines the importance of the Chinese market is US companies.

Companies such as International Business Machines Corp., Microsoft and Symantec Corp., once a leader in the Chinese market, are running against their local rivals, with a government committed to helping Beijing.

Over the past two years, the business cold deepened after allegations of former NSA contractor Edward Snowden US American products of high-tech enterprises "have been used by the US government to spy on China. China's leaders have said government departments and enterprises State to buy more team, while developing higher standards for equipment manufacturers foreign and accelerate investment in domestic technology.

Technology companies are responding to Western alliances with headwind China rivals.The China were particularly strong for Cisco, a company founded in 1984 that popularized routing devices that direct traffic on the Internet. The company, routers No. 1 selling around the world, systems and other key network switching tubes, served as a key supplier when China built its first Internet backbone.

But Cisco has suffered from security problems and local competitors after Snowden, such as the market share of Huawei Technologies Co. Cisco routers sold in China amounted to only 10.8% in the second quarter of 2015, while Huawei It It accounted for 67% market research firm IHS estimates. Cisco accounted for more than half of the sales of the router is about ten years ago, estimates of Bernstein Research.

Cisco does not provide sales data for specific countries. Dell'Oro Group, a market research firm, estimates that revenues for Cisco in China reached a peak of $ 2040000000 in fiscal 2012, and has fallen nearly 30% since then.

Things got a bit 'better lately, said CEO of Cisco, Mr. Robbins. Equipment orders in China, compared with 20% in the third fiscal quarter of Cisco, has been reduced to only 3% during the latest quarter ending in July, the best performance in eight quarters.

Thursday, 3 September 2015

VMware was Surprised to Find out that its Biggest Rival, Cisco, Owned 5% of its Company

Cisco and VMware technology two great rivals, clashed class this week.

In one corner, VMware had its largest customer conference, VMworld, where more than 23,000 people flocked to San Francisco. One thing we hear: how VMware plans to overthrow the king Cisco network industry.In the other corner, Cisco had its largest expo Global Sales Experience in Las Vegas, where the sales force of 20,000 strong is pumped to exit and sell (and beat VMware).

In pre-show interview with Business Insider, the VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said that among several new businesses VMware billion dollars of potential up-and-coming, who is more excited about the product NSX, which competes with Cisco. "This is an industry that operates under essentially the same architecture for 25 years," said Gelsinger. NSX described as "radical".

NSX wine $ acquiring a company called Nicira US1.25 billion a year in which VMware exceeded Cisco to launch VMware ago, and in the process destroyed the relationship with your partner once near Cisco, EMC. (EMC is the parent company of VMware.) Cisco, John Chambers, was trash talking VMware and Nicira treatment since then.

This week, Gelsinger said in essence that the network cameras worldwide resentment EMC CEO Joe Tucci, because the acquisition. "The relationship between Joe [Tucci, CEO of EMC] and John, this was a very exciting one another. Personally, I am anxious and looking for a more collaborative relationship with Chuck [Robbins, new CEO of Cisco] because this was a deeply personal issue between John and Joe emerged ".

And there's a good reason why Gelsinger want to make friends with Robbins. While the two companies clash in the market, Cisco has quietly been buying a large stake in VMware.A biggest game he knew of VMware.

A month later, VMware has released its annual proxy statement earlier this year, VMware has had to upgrade because they "realized" that Cisco now has more than 5% of VMware, 6.5 million shares, VMware said.This participation does not give sufficient voting Cisco to say, overthrow the board of VMware and VMware does kill the product NSX. But an activist investor is trying to get a fix to sell EMC VMware. And if that wins investors, Cisco is sitting pretty.

Monday, 24 August 2015

200-101 Sample Question : 12

QUESTION 12:
Refer to the exhibit
Which switch provides the spanning-tree designated port role for the network segment that services the printers?

A. Switch1
B. Switch2
C. Switch3
D. Switch4

Answer: C





Wednesday, 12 August 2015

Chuck Robbins to Report His First Quarter as Cisco’s CEO

When Cisco reports its fourth-quarter earnings today after the markets close, it will be the first time that the company makes with the CEO Chuck Robbins fully in charge.


 Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Cisco to report earnings of 56 cents a share, on revenue of $ 12700000000. And while meeting the expectations of the quarterly Via will be seen as a key reference point for the beginning of the mandate of Robbins there will be plenty more to see the report and the conference call to follow not only the figures.

Cisco is already some measures of a different company than when Robbins was elected in May to replace John Chambers. First, the entire leadership team has changed.Moreover, he added and subtracted from its business lines. In June, Cisco has invested $ 635 million to acquire the company OpenDNS cloud security.

In July, the company sells its television business set-top boxes of Technicolor in France, in a blow to conduct one of the largest deals of Chambers of the time, the $ 7000000000 acquisition of Scientific Atlanta, completed in 2005. It has also recently made another agreement on Invicta, a business unit of storage composed Whiptail heritage, boot storage flash memory Cisco acquired in 2013 for $ 415 million.

Robbins said it is contemplating the most significant changes in Cisco, using phrases such as "operational rigor" in public discussions about their plans, a suggestion that most of the business units and jobs could be on the table cut. Today is the first time you face probing questions from analysts on how these plans are taking shape. It seems that the changes so far have been small and larger are on the way.

There is still much work to do. Cisco continues to struggle with silos that harm their business efficiency and confuse customers. And there is still a significant investment in software that, in time, basically remake the networking industry at the top of which is currently located. These are just two ideas, and here are a few more. The Robbins was beginning.

Tuesday, 2 June 2015

200-101 Sample Question : 11

QUESTION 11:

Refer to the exhibit.


Why has this switch not been elected the root bridge for VLAN1?

A. It has more than one interface that is connected to the root network segment.
B. It is running RSTP while the elected root bridge is running 802.1d spanning tree.
C. It has a higher MAC address than the elected root bridge.
D. It has a higher bridge ID than the elected root bridge.

Answer: D

Thursday, 28 May 2015

8 Challenges For Cisco's Next CEO Chuck Robbins


It's not an easy road:

One of the most difficult challenges for a new CEO can fill executive vacancies. Cisco incoming CEO Chuck Robbins Wednesday met this challenge by naming 20 years Cisco veteran Chris Dedicoat to succeed him as head of worldwide sales.

When Robbins steps in his new position on July 26 to replace longtime leader John Chambers, who is expected to drive growth for the networking giant based in San Jose California ,.
The partners told CRN a difficult task waiting for Robbins gives to the challenges of a rapidly changing environment, such as security, networking and computing center stage InterCloud offer cloud software defined by Cisco. Here's a look at some of the challenges marketers to see Robbins, as he prepares to enter his new role.

1. Safety, safety, safety:

The No. 1 challenge Robbins Cisco is making a more recognizable brand in the security sector, according to the partners. Although Cisco has recently introduced a number of new offerings, partners are crying for greater investment in security.

2. Rinse Cloud:


"[InterCloud] still a bit" confused ", said the CEO of a solution provider on the East Coast, who asked not to be identified.Although Cisco executives are being turbulent in signatory InterCloud partners as providers, solution providers are still trying to analyze the proposal exact value for channel partners.

3. Too late to revive the EMC relationship:



With cameras leaving office, the partners are now worried about the already tense relationship between Cisco and EMC.Cisco in October most of its stake was sold EMC and VCE now owns approximately 10 percent of the joint venture. EMC also announced this month, a new line of systems infrastructure hyper-VCE converged server using white box instead of Cisco Unified Computing System, which is used in VCE Vblock systems and VxBlock.

4. Streamline Development, Break Down Silos:



The partners say they did not flee the Cisco product lines can be overlapping and confusion for customers at times. It can be difficult to keep up with the constant stream of acquisitions and implementations, upgrades and new product lines of the company, according to the partners.
Robbins mentioned partners should focus on two areas: a more integrated "holistic" supply security and network strategy more clearly defined by the software.

5. A new model of selling compensation:

 
As Cisco continues to press its partners to build cloud and managed services business, solution providers want to see an effort by Cisco, too. Although Robbins said the company will increase the fee for vendors who sell direct services to members, several manufacturers have said they want to know exactly what Cisco is setting the compensation and how long it will take place.

6. Keep acquisitions from:



Software and the acquisition of Cisco security strategy favorably played many partners, citing the successful integration of companies such as Cisco and Sourcefire Metacloud as examples. Cisco has been on a tear recently with the acquisition of software, which accounts for 9 their last 10 acquisitions.

7. Implementation of the entire portfolio:



Cameras Robbins has referred to as "machine running".
Partners said Robbins has proven its ability to perform in sales and in the canal side of the business, but it is unclear how successful it may be across the board as leader, solution providers said.
"Their biggest challenge is the realization of all they have in their entire portfolio," said Chris Bottger, senior vice president of collaboration services IVCi, a solution provider based in New York Hauppauge, and Cisco partners, the ranked No. 201 in the 2014 CRN SP500.

8. Maintaining the momentum:


After an enthusiastic partner of Cisco Summit in Montreal last month that brought many new services and offers for the channel, it is important that Robbins maintains momentum with Cisco.Cisco reported strong earnings for the second fiscal quarter in February, recording percent year over year sales growth of 7 and positive results for the third quarter this month with gains of up to 12 percent and earnings more than 5 percent over the previous year.The partners also believe Cisco is ahead of the competition in the emerging market and potentially lucrative Internet-of-things.

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

200-101 Sample Question : 10

QUESTION 10:

At which layer of the OSI model is RSTP used to prevent loops?

A. physical
B. data link
C. network
D. transport

Answer: B

Tuesday, 19 May 2015

MiSEC Achieves Cisco Premier Certification in South Africa

Johannesburg, PTY Ltd Advisory Music announced today that it has achieved certification from Cisco Prime. For a Premier certification, MiSEC had to meet standards of networking competency, service, support, and statement by Cisco customer satisfaction.


Edwin M. Musa, director of technical services, MiSEC adviser said. "This certification demonstrates our commitment and expertise and confidence in Cisco technologies as a basis for any computer network will continue to focus on growing our experience Cisco is the first brand of most of our solutions and implementations.

Our risk-sensitive approach to providing solutions and support will ensure that the customer's premises are always provided in the law or standards. The road we started in Internet of Things sand is a prelude to solutions that allow security companies to customers the opportunity to take advantage of the company from anywhere an Internet connection exists. "

As a Cisco Premier Certified Partner, music demonstrates a range of expertise. To achieve Cisco Premier Certification MiSEC is necessary to achieve the Cisco Express Foundation Specialization. This specialization includes tests with expertise in core routing and switching integration, wireless LANs and security technologies. In addition, MiSEC was necessary to incorporate a basic level of Cisco Lifecycle Services into their offerings and demonstrate measurably high levels of customer satisfaction based on customer satisfaction surveys independently verified.

Cisco Resale Channel Program provides partners with the training required to build sales, technical and Cisco Lifecycle skills services. Cisco resale partner certifications-Gold, Silver, Premier and Select - represent an increasing breadth of skills in key technologies and a partner's ability to deliver integrated networking solutions. Cisco resale partner specializations - Master, Advanced and Express - reflect an increasing depth of sales, technical and service expertise in particular technologies.


About MiSEC :

MiSEC is an IT service provider and specialized solutions based computing security and technical solutions. MiSEC currently operates in several countries in Africa south of the Sahara namely Africa. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.
Although the product agnostic, music services and solutions support world-class technology and provider associations. The founders of music are over 35 years of combined experience in IT across the south, east and west Africa.

Sunday, 17 May 2015

200-101 Sample Question : 9

QUESTION 9:

Which three statements about RSTP are true? (Choose three.)

A. RSTP significantly reduces topology reconverging time after a link failure.
B. RSTP expands the STP port roles by adding the alternate and backup roles.
C. RSTP port states are blocking, discarding, learning, or forwarding.
D. RSTP provides a faster transition to the forwarding state on point-to-point links than STP does.
E. RSTP also uses the STP proposal-agreement sequence.
F. RSTP uses the same timer-based process as STP on point-to-point links.

Answer: A, B, D

Thursday, 14 May 2015

FireEye Falls After Cisco Slaps Down Buyout Rumors


Wednesday was not the first time rumors circulated that the security company FireEye was the target of a takeover bid by giant Cisco Systems network. And probably not the last.But this time the rumor had enough traction not only in Goose FireEye share of about 5 percent, exceeding $ 43.68, but also cause a rare public response by Cisco CEO John Chambers, as he spoke in a conference call.

While admitting he was "breaking my own rule" against Respond to Market rumors, he did just that. "I would not bet on that you have heard today," he said, clearly referring to shares FireEye.FireEye quickly turned most of trading after hours of the day, the stock fell more than 3 percent and noon.

But there is another reason why an agreement with Cisco or other person is not coming. FireEye is not for sale. According to sources close to the management of the company sources, who are not ready to consider offers to buy before reaching $ 1 billion in annual revenue.Nearly $ 426 million was recorded last year, analysts expected to be approximately $ 630 million this year and about $ 865 million in 2016. If FireEye management sticks to his guns, which means that will push the offers, or at least rumors of bids, at least until 2017.

Yet FireEye would make a tempting target for several potential suitors, including Cisco, Hewlett-Packard and IBM, all of which play in different aspects of the security company. Its current market capitalization is approximately $ 6.6 billion.FireEye specialized in filtering technology in real time protecting corporate networks. Secret ingredient is a virtual machine (software that acts as a physical machine) that is installed on the customer's network to check all incoming traffic for malware.

This virtual machine acts as a kind of mail / sluice room where each package is opened before it is delivered to the recipient. If an email arrives with an attachment containing a virus, which opened its doors and has published, where he can not hurt anything. If it contains malware, the incident was reported to the FireEye cloud command center, which oversees about $ 50 billion of such incidents every day. If it is safe, it is forwarded to the recipient.

FireEye emerged as a power back-and-forth in computer security early last year, when weeks after its IPO in 2013 spent $ 1 billion acquiring Mandiant, specializing in incident response - help investigate and clean disaster after a major security breach. His most famous case was the attack by North Korean hackers against Sony Pictures Entertainment.


Sunday, 10 May 2015

200-101 Sample Question : 8

QUESTION 8:

Which two states are the port states when RSTP has converged? (Choose two.)

A. discarding
B. listening
C. learning
D. forwarding
E. disabled

Answer: A, D

Thursday, 7 May 2015

Cisco Snags Tropo Communications Development Platform


When you think of Cisco, it is easy to classify as a network equipment company Cisco, but also has a communication and collaboration side, including WebEx. Today announced its intention to purchase Trope, a Twilio communications platform like to add telephony, messaging and other communication tools for any application.

As I wrote yesterday, APIs make it easier for developers to add functionality to a range of applications quickly and include developers based love is an ability to communicate. At TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon last weekend, most applications include the ability to trigger a text message when something important happened in the application.

Twilio is probably the best known of the communication API, but buying Tropo Cisco provides immediate access to a community of over 200,000 developers (according to figures provided by Cisco). Tropo offers its product for free to developers and made money each communication via Tropo platform. It is unclear whether Cisco will continue to use the same pricing model.


Tropos team will join Cisco Collaboration and Communication. The tricky part here is not only integrates a team that has been independent in a large organization, without sucking the spirit of it, it also has to integrate a loyal community and try to keep it without alienating. This is the major challenge for companies when buying such development tools.

Is the same kind of challenge facing IBM after buying the AlchemyAPI earlier this year. He was also an instrument with a large community of faithful who buy major supplier of traditional IT.In a blog entry Tropo friendly staff, Cisco said he certainly believes you can do it all. "Together we will help extend the Cisco platform for terminals and third-party applications via modern API and enable Cisco to better serve the developer community." Ultimately, however, this is more than a statement of objective fact.

This purchase gives a Cisco platform to attract developers to the broader ecosystem, which is important for a mature company like Cisco, trying to avoid the brutality of the interruption.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed.




Wednesday, 6 May 2015

200-101 Sample Question : 7

QUESTION 7:

Which two of these statements regarding RSTP are correct? (Choose two.)

A. RSTP cannot operate with PVST+.
B. RSTP defines new port roles.
C. RSTP defines no new port states.
D. RSTP is a proprietary implementation of IEEE 802.1D STP.
E. RSTP is compatible with the original IEEE 802.1D STP.

Answer: B, E

Friday, 24 April 2015

CBT Nuggets Releases Cisco CCNA ICND2 200-101 Training Series

New video training series with Jeremy Cioara covers objectives for Cisco's newly revised exam:

CBT Nuggets announces a new series of training, "Cisco CCNA 200-101 ICND2."

Earlier this year, Cisco has examined the two exams on the CCNA certification. Both the ICND1 (Exam 100-101) and ICND2 (200-101) test now cover more topics. In this new series of training, trainer Jeremy Cioara covers all the new exam objectives ICND2, including VPN, EIGRP, HSRP, GLBP, OSPF, and of course, the IPv6.

Cioara, one of the world's most popular trainers Cisco has also completed a series on the new exam ICND1 for CBT Nuggets. With these two sets of CCNA Video available now, CCNA candidates can find all the training they need in one place.

About CBT Nuggets: CBT Nuggets is a technology-based company specializing in cutting-edge computer training online project management and productivity in the office. Founded in 1999, the CBT Nuggets provides learning fast, easy and convenient to instructors conferred on individuals, small groups and large organizations.