Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam.

· Master Cisco CCNA 200-301 exam topics

· Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes

· Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks

This is the eBook edition of the CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1. This eBook, combined with the CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Volume 2, cover all of exam topics on the CCNA 200-301 exam. This eBook does not include the practice exams that comes with the print edition.

CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1 presents you with an organized test-preparation routine using proven series elements and techniques. "Do I Know This Already?" quizzes open each chapter and enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists make referencing easy. Chapter-ending Exam Preparation Tasks help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly.

CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1 from Cisco Press enables you to succeed on the exam the first time and is the only self-study resource approved by Cisco. Best-selling author and expert instructor Wendell Odom shares preparation hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills.

This complete study package includes

· A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams

· Do I Know This Already? quizzes, which enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section

· Chapter-ending and part-ending exercises, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly

· A free copy of the CCNA 200-301 Volume 1 Network Simulator Lite software, complete with meaningful lab exercises that help you hone your hands-on skills with the command-line interface for routers and switches

· Links to a series of hands-on config labs developed by the author

· Online, interactive practice exercises that help you hone your knowledge

· More than 90 minutes of video mentoring from the author

· A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies

· Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time

Well regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, challenging review questions and exercises, video instruction, and hands-on labs, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your exam success.

The CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, combined with CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 2, walk you through all the exam topics found in the Cisco 200-301 exam. Topics covered in Volume 1 include:

· Networking fundamentals

· Implementing Ethernet LANs

· Implementing VLANs and STP

· IPv4 addressing

· IPv4 routing

· OSPF

· IPv6

· Wireless LANs

Companion Website:

The companion website contains the CCNA Network Simulator Lite software, online practice exercises, study resources, and 90 minutes of video training.

In addition to the wealth of updated content, this new edition includes a series of free hands-on exercises to help you master several real-world configuration and troubleshooting activities. These exercises can be performed on the CCNA 200-301 Network Simulator Lite, Volume 1 software included for free on the companion website that accompanies this book. This software, which simulates the experience of working on actual Cisco routers and switches, contains the following 21 free lab exercises, covering topics in Part II and Part III, the first hands-on configuration sections of the book:

1. Configuring Local Usernames

2. Configuring Hostnames

3. Interface Status I

4. Interface Status II

5. Interface Status III

6. Interface Status IV

7. Configuring Switch IP Settings

8. Switch IP Address

9. Switch IP Connectivity I

10. Switch CLI Configuration Process I

11. Switch CLI Configuration Process II

12. Switch CLI Exec Mode

13. Setting Switch Passwords

14. Interface Settings I

15. Interface Settings II

16. Interface Settings III

17. Switch Forwarding I

18. Switch Security I

19. Switch Interfaces and Forwarding Configuration Scenario

20. Configuring VLANs Configuration Scenario

21. VLAN Troubleshooting

Autorentext

Wendell Odom, CCIE No. 1624 Emeritus, has been in the networking industry since 1981. He has worked as a network engineer, consultant, systems engineer, instructor, and course developer; he currently works writing and creating certification study tools. This book is his 28th edition of some product for Pearson, and he is the author of all editions of the CCNA Cert Guides about Routing and Switching from Cisco Press. He has written books about topics from networking basics, certification guides throughout the years for CCENT, CCNA R&S, CCNA DC, CCNP ROUTE, CCNP QoS, and CCIE R&S. He maintains study tools, links to his blogs, and other resources at www.certskills.com.

Inhalt

Introduction

Your Study Plan

Part I Introduction to Networking

Chapter 1 Introduction to TCP/IP Networking

"Do I Know This Already?" Quiz

Foundation Topics

Perspectives on Networking

TCP/IP Networking Model

History Leading to TCP/IP

Overview of the TCP/IP Networking Model

TCP/IP Application Layer

TCP/IP Transport Layer

TCP/IP Network Layer

TCP/IP Data-Link and Physical Layers

Data Encapsulation Terminology

Names of TCP/IP Messages

OSI Networking Model and Terminology

Chapter Review

Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Ethernet LANs

"Do I Know This Already?" Quiz

Foundation Topics

An Overview of LANs

Typical SOHO LANs

Typical Enterprise LANs

The Variety of Ethernet Physical Layer Standards

Consistent Behavior over All Links Using the Ethernet Data-Link Layer

Building Physical Ethernet LANs with UTP

Transmitting Data Using Twisted Pairs

Breaking Down a UTP Ethernet Link

UTP Cabling Pinouts for 10BASE-T and 100BASE-T

UTP Cabling Pinouts for 1000BASE-T

Building Physical Ethernet LANs with Fiber

Fiber Cabling Transmission Concepts

Using Fiber with Ethernet

Sending Data in Ethernet Networks

Ethernet Data-Link Protocols

Sending Ethernet Frames with Switches and Hubs

Chapter Review

Chapter 3 Fundamentals of WANs and IP Routing

"Do I Know This Already?" Quiz

Foundation Topics

Wide-Area Networks

Leased-Line WANs

Ethernet as a WAN Technology

IP Routing

Network Layer Routing (Forwarding) Logic

How Network Layer Routing Uses LANs and WANs

How IP Addressing Helps IP Routing

How IP Routing Protocols Help IP Routing

Other Network Layer Features

Using Names and the Domain Name System

The Address Resolution Protocol

ICMP Echo and the ping Command

Chapter Review

Part I Review

Part II Implementing Ethernet LANs

Chapter 4 Using the Command-Line Interface

"Do I Know This Already?" Quiz

Foundation Topics

Accessing the Cisco Catalyst Switch CLI

Cisco Catalyst Switches

Accessing the Cisco IOS CLI

CLI Help Features

The debug and show Commands

Configuring Cisco IOS Software

Configuration Submodes and Contexts

Storing Switch Configuration Files

Copying and Erasing Configuration Files

Chapter Review

Chapter 5 Analyzing Ethernet LAN Switching

"Do I Know This Already?" Quiz

Foundation Topics

LAN Switching Concepts

Overview of Switching Logic

Forwarding Known Unicast Frames

Learning MAC Addresses

Flooding Unknown Unicast and Broadcast Frames

Avoiding Loops Using Spanning Tree Protocol…