Hi Anthony:

In this CCIE Practical Exam, Cisco is using an Enterprise CML software to emulate a physical environment? So there's no more actual physical equipment lab setup? So will there be a situation where a CCIE Engineer need to troubleshoot a real or live equipment om site or on-prem? or are those days gone, everything is cloud base or virtual environment.

Dan L.

Each switch will have it's own special version of the IOS-XE because they are unique to the hardware chassis. Do verify that you've enabled web access to it and you have an IP address on the device that is reachable from the network.

Hey Anthony!
Thanks for the quick reply. It sure would be nice if updated educational materials (Study Guides, Practice tests, etc.) were released when major changes to the tests were made. I would like to put together a lab for some of the technologies. Are you aware which of these are available in an eval license? I would rather not learn AWS (right now) and incur the related costs if possible, but could spin up VMs in my ESXi environment. I have CML Personal but it is really only good for Routing, Switching and ASA.

The current iteration of the CCNA 200-301 exam includes the following:

1.6 Configure and verify IPv4 addressing and subnetting 1.7 Describe the need for private IPv4 addressing

Having said that, notice that these are broad topics and the broadest of topics in this would be in the realm of subnetting. So in that realm includes the contexts of the topics you mentioned...but no in the wording you mention. Never in Cisco terms do we use "supernetting"; we tend to see "summarization" and "aggregation". Even then the context is not a full explanation but more of a scenario...for example. you try to configure 192.168.10.33 255.255.255.240 on interface g0/0...it is not allow you to do so. They show you a diagram with multiple interfaces but on g0/1, you see the ip address has already been configured 192.168.10.11 255.255.255.128 configured. In context of this router, your configuration on g0/0 is within the address range of the network found on g0/1. This is an example of where a smaller subnet is within a larger subnet.

Or you may look at a routing table with show ip route, you realize the subnet you configured for g0/2 doesn't appear in the routing table at all...has the address been aggregated together within a larger subnet but would show if we used something similar to the no summarization commands found in routing protocols.

Hello Junaid!

Since Cisco ISE integrates with so many different technologies - you will discover it comes up a lot in our courses. For example, I just searched our video catalog for Cisco ISE and got a full page of courses.

But it sounds like you are looking for the full documentation and perhaps even a practice lab environment.

The complete configuration guides for Cisco ISE are available here:

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/identity-services-engine/products-installation-and-configuration-guides-list.html

Should you want to get hands-on practice with the device - you can do that here:

https://developer.cisco.com/docs/sandbox/#!security/overview

Thanks so much for choosing ACI Learning and we are always standing by to help.

You will not be able to do that directly through us. As the equipment is very expensive. The learning of Cisco DNA center for you though is possible. I suggestion you can create an account at developer.cisco.com. They have labs that are built to help you understand more about the using the Cisco DNAC.

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Thanks so much for the feedback Ken - and I need to go and watch some of this "legacy" content!

@Adam-Tyler-0,

Unfortunately, Cisco has a very specific list on what qualifies for this:

To recertify with Continuing Education credits, candidates will need to enroll in the program through the Continuing Education Program portal and will be required to accept the Continuing Education Terms and Conditions.

Continuing Education credits can be earned through the following qualifying item categories:

Completing eligible Instructor-Led Training and E-learning courses

Attending Cisco Live technical sessions

Participation in exam item writing

Below is a link for you to login an see the complete approved catalog of CE...
https://ce.cisco.com/

Addendum: I found this link: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/question/0D56e0000CjSqOlCQK/if-you-want-to-get-up-to-32-ce-for-free

@Adam-Tyler-0,

We have some very basic introductory skills that can help you with tasks like this here:

https://app.itpro.tv/course/handson-pythonnetworking-professionals/overview-python-networking

@Samuel-Bumbeh,

Anything that helps you to understand the concepts and workflow of DevOps is something that everyone working in IT that is NOT end user awareness should have some foundation in DevOps.

So regardless of whether it's the AWS DevOps or the Dev Associate from Cisco, it is the future.

In terms of whether it a certification will make you good at something is all up to you. It will at least make you competent in the main areas. I say this, not flippantly, for example DevOps itself will not make you good at Active Directory configuration and troubleshooting. You will have to become good at it. It may help you to understand how policies are implemented but maybe not whether this is effective. So this will have to be experience. that drive.

First, you'll have to decide on which CCNP you want to begin: There are several: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/exams/current-list.html#~certification-exams

then take a look at the exam topic coverage for each to know whether or not your plan will work for you.

In terms of what to do after CCNA for certification? I think you should take a look at the job you're aiming for or promotion or etc. to decide what is next. That is the best wisest use of your time, effort and even resources, imho.

Thanks for being a member!

@Samuel-Bumbeh,

The best way, at least in my experience, for preparing for Cisco certification exam is not so much to depend on given notes but making notes and on muscle memory.

The exam itself gives you a single pass through; You realistically have approximately 1 min per question. You may or may not have access to the help commands from the CLI.

I would watch the videos and where there are labs that require detailed steps, those will be there. But where this an opportunity. Use the lab environment or your own labs and practice those small commands that make you faster.

Many of the learner notes, I only provided the key take aways unless there were many lines that had to be manually typed.

@User5-IT-Tpdom,

There is not a very easy way to do this as it requires hardware to do so. That is why I try to show what I can to make it easier.

In theory is an AWS appliance or even an Azure appliance I believe. The issues with that is that

there are no clients if you don't know how to set it up, it not as easy to get configured or GUI access as turning it on.
and Theory is more key here than the configuration for the exam.

So this is a speciality area, they really want you to know more about the theory that configuration.

@SIMON-TAPLIN,

Our key for course creation has to do with demand for these courses. Please make your request via the chat bubble on the website for this course. This will be officially our content team will track, evaluate, an determine what courses will be made.

Thanks for being a member!

Wow - that is exciting stuff - be sure to report back with your thoughts on the exam - no specifics of course - we must honor the NDA. :-) Also - I will be standing by in the forum for any other questions that you might have,

@Benjamin-Frame,

The terminology is different on Cisco switches. When referring to "tagged" ports, Cisco calls those "trunk ports."

Tagged ports allow for multiple vlans to use that connection even if that connection is only a single link...let's say between switches. Without the tagging, Each VLAN on SW1 would need to have direct link to same VLAN on SW2. So if your SW1 had 10 VLANs and SW2 had the same 10 VLANs, they could only communicate between ports if there is a direct connection between those VLANs. In this case a minimum of 10 links across those 2 switches.

You do not need to tag ports are really only supposed service that one device within the same vlan (e.g., workstation or server in VLAN 110). But if you need that port to carry traffic for multiple vlans, then it must be tagged.

@Troy-Dickerson,

That is all dependent upon how you like to proceed. Yes, it's true that the labs that I created were created by me in the show. The Practice-labs environment is designed based on the exact same exam objectives by someone else.

This ideally gives you my demonstration and the the way someone else intepreted the same concepts.

Some, like to use the labs as supplemental to the course material. Others like to use it by watching an entire section of our videos, then seek out the practice labs that line up to those videos. Others will choose to watch a video or two and then try to do a similar lab to cement concepts.

Hi Ronnie,

Thanks for the explanation !

Have a nice day,

Nicolas.

@Daniel-Barber said in PAT:

I've been researching PAT and I was wondering if it is possible to set up a static table where you can input what port is assigned to what IP addresses when the translation occurs?

For example if I wanted 192.168.0.1 to always be assigned UDP port 50011.

Usually that is how it works. You have a particular traffic from an IP address that always need to go to 192.168.0.1 on UPD 50011. NAT can do that for you with port forwarding.

@Derek-Russell,

This is first but there are none that I know of that are called out on any of the objectives at the CCNA level.

But usually the one that is referred to most often would have to Private IP Addresses -- RFC 1918.

I can't think of any other right now. But someone else may know some.

@Joshua-Tschuor,

All of our Cisco courses revolve around the official exam objectives. I do not remember anything dealing with reporting in those objectives. Having said that I'm not exactly sure what you're looking for. Are you looking for a network administration tool? Your example, leads me to believe you're looking for a network design course.