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CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Certification Guide

By : Lazaro (Laz) Diaz
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CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Certification Guide

By: Lazaro (Laz) Diaz

Overview of this book

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching is one of the most important qualifications for keeping your networking skills up to date. CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Certification Guide covers topics included in the latest CCNA exam, along with review and practice questions. This guide introduces you to the structure of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and examines in detail the creation of IP networks and sub-networks and how to assign addresses in the network. You will then move on to understanding how to configure, verify, and troubleshoot layer 2 and layer 3 protocols. In addition to this, you will discover the functionality, configuration, and troubleshooting of DHCPv4. Combined with router and router simulation practice, this certification guide will help you cover everything you need to know in order to pass the CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 exam. By the end of this book, you will explore security best practices, as well as get familiar with the protocols that a network administrator can use to monitor the network.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
4
Subnetting in IPv4
21
Mock Test Questions
22
Assessments

Types of trunking

In the world of switching, when you are trunking ports, you have two options: Inter-Switch Link (ISL) or IEEE 802.1q. Using either of the following trunking methods identifies the VLAN as they go across switches in your network.

Inter-Switch Link (ISL)

This type of trunking is Cisco's proprietary trunking type; it is limited to only 1,000 VLANs, but still gets the job done. It will explicitly identify VLANs going across the trunk links, and has more overhead than the IEEE 802.1q trunking method since it tags the native VLAN and all other VLANs as well.

Today, some Cisco switches still support ISL trunking, but Cisco is moving away from ISL to the newer type of trunking; that is, 802.1q.

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