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LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide

 
LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide
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LAN Switching and Wireless CCNA Exploration Companion Guide

 

Wayne Lewis, Ph.D.

 

LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the LAN Switching and Wireless course in the Cisco Networking Academy CCNA® Exploration curriculum version 4. This course provides a comprehensive approach to learning the technologies and protocols needed to design and implement a converged switched network. The Companion Guide, written and edited by a Networking Academy instructor, is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere. The book’s features reinforce the material in the course to help you focus on important concepts and organize your study time for exams.

 

New and improved features help you study and succeed in this course:

  • Chapter objectives: Review core concepts by answering the questions listed at the beginning of each chapter.
  • Key terms: Refer to the updated lists of networking vocabulary introduced and turn to the highlighted terms in context in each chapter.
  • Glossary: Consult the all-new comprehensive glossary with more than 190 terms.
  • Check Your Understanding questions and answer key: Evaluate your readiness with the updated end-of-chapter questions that match the style of questions you see on the online course quizzes. The answer key explains each answer.
  • Challenge questions and activities: Strive to ace more challenging review questions and activities designed to prepare you for the complex styles of questions you might see on the CCNA exam. The answer key explains each answer.

 

Wayne Lewis is the Cisco Academy Manager for the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training (PCATT), based at Honolulu Community College.

 

How To: Look for this icon to study the steps that you need to learn to perform certain tasks.

 

Packet Tracer Activities: Explore networking concepts in activities interspersed throughout some chapters using Packet Tracer v4.1 developed by Cisco. The files for these activities are on the accompanying CD-ROM.

 

Also available for the LAN Switching and Wireless course:

LAN Switching and Wireless, CCNA Exploration Labs and Study Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58713-202-8

ISBN-13: 978-1-58713-202-5

 

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM provides many useful tools and information to support your education:

  • Packet Tracer Activity exercise files
  • A Guide to Using a Networker’s Journal booklet
  • Taking Notes: A .txt file of the chapter objectives
  • More IT Career Information
  • Tips on Lifelong Learning in Networking

 

This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking online curriculum.

 

Product Details:
Author: Wayne Lewis
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press
Publication Date: May 08, 2008
Language: English
ISBN: 1587132079
Product Width: 202.0 centimeters
Product Height: 232.0 centimeters
Product Weight: 2.5 pounds
Package Length: 9.9 inches
Package Width: 8.4 inches
Package Height: 1.5 inches
Package Weight: 2.5 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 16 reviews
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4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

5CCNA leads the way in networkingJan 17, 2011
By Terry McManus
This is the third book of four in the Cisco's CCNA Exploration. The book is very thorough and covers all areas needed to prepare for the CCNA exam. The quality of the material is very professional, and the writers were very knowledgeable. I recommend this book to everybody who is planning on taking the CCNA exam. The book covers in detail VLAN, VLAN Trunking, Spanning Tree Protocol, and many other important areas of Layer 2 and layer 3 switching configuration. The book also has a very low price compared to other books of the same quality.

1 of 1 found the following review helpful:

5Great study book!Feb 27, 2010
By Jansel Matos
Great book. It has everything you need to take the 3rd course of the CCNA curriculum. It's always better to have the book for this classes instead of the online material only.

2 of 3 found the following review helpful:

5Text BookFeb 01, 2010
By Frank Defrancesco
My son needed this book for his CCNA Class. He thinks it is very helpful. He's getting pretty good grades.

4key ideas = VLAN and wireless LANMar 30, 2012
By W Boudville
The book is meant to let you pass the corresponding Cisco switching exam. For this ends, it furnishes a good and comprehensive discussion of the subject. The equipment covered is naturally Cisco's. Typically the text describes steps you take at the command terminal hooked up to a switch. Ah, but one very important case emphasised is the remote access of the switch, using a virtual terminal (vty). Naturally, a cracker could break in across the network. So you need to secure all the vty lines.

A key idea is the privileged EXEC mode. Once a user gets that, she can configure anything on the switch. It seems that earlier verions of the switch stored the password to EXEC in a readable text string inside a startup configuration file. So someone who could read that file could ascend to EXEC at a later time. Hmm! While the book does not outright admit it, this was a flaw in those earlier operating systems. To anyone experienced with computers, and not necessarily with switches in particular, this part of the text comes across clearly. Anyway, Cisco upped its game. Now there is an option to encrypt the password. Wonder why it took so long?

Another major idea in the book is the virtual LAN [VLAN]. You can have multiple IP networks on the same switching network. It gives tremendous flexibility when your company or organisation has disparate subgroups with different needs. This is one of the important sections of the text. Because regardless of passing the exam, if you have to administer a real world network, being able to make VLANs can greatly improve the performance and security of your overall network.

The text goes on to show how to perform routing between 2 or more VLANs. More complex administration but the task will be inevitable if you have to set up several VLANs.

Separate from all the above is the last section of the book, on running a wireless LAN. The discussion here is quite good, with well drawn diagrams that illustrate frequent geographical or topological issues when deploying a wireless access point or router. You can also anticipate that maintaining such a router will be a common chore. The book cautions that the intrinsic wireless nature of the LAN means that it can be more vulnerable to attacks, since the attacker does not need to physically attach to a wired network. In turn, the latter means that the attacker can be outside a home or office or coffeehouse, within which the only access to that LAN is meant to occur.

From the text, it appears that the administrative tasks for a wireless LAN are simpler than running a VLAN on a wired network.

5CCNA3 CourseJan 30, 2011
By Jeff the Network Guy
This book is a required book for the CCNA Networking Academy. It will prepared you for what you need to know to get certified. There are four courses and so far each of the Cisco Press books have been very easy to read.

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