CCENT study

Deathmage

Jon_Cisco wrote: »

Nice setup.
I want to get a couple non cisco switches just to be familiar with the basics of managing them. That's a project for next year but something to look forward to.

this whole lab wasn't very pricey at all. the rack was $189, the two 610's were about $310 each with 16 GB's of RAM, and the other switches and routers were maybe $300 total so far. The Sonicwalls and HP Procruves and Dell PowerConnects I've had for much longer. I just think of the price for all this as an investment into my future and continued education; plus it's one thing to break a lab than break servers at work, lol

Deathmage

Here is a visio flowchart of the home labs topology:

Deathmage

well I found the practice tests over at subnetting.net and I just got a 90% on the Switching part and a 89% on the Routing part and a 82% on the subnetting micro quiz. reviewing the quiz I saw the ones I got wrong were stupid mistakes because I second guessed myself.

I'm going to do a comprehensive quiz and see how I do; but maybe studying for 3 months and as of the late with the VMware 5.1 class been doing the subnetting.net subnetting stuff for like 20 minutes a day and breeze reading my study books for an hour has paid off. The terminology is like soaked into my brain....

I'm pondering when I've done enough studying and I can take the test....

Deathmage

and now I'm going to stalk this forum now until this is done.... Don't miss me too much Essesdon

looking back on these posts from a few months ago I'm surprised by how much I remember, even in the CLi.

Reading the CCNA R&S Deluxe by Todd and William now.

JoJoCal19

Good luck Deathmage. I'm prepping for the CCENT right now too. I've just switched to Paul Browning's Cisco CCNA in 60 Days. Liking it a lot so far.

JoJoCal19

Also wanted to add, I feel like I'm getting more and more interested in the network security side of things.