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CCENT/CCNA: ICND1 100-105 Certification Guide

By : Bekim Dauti
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CCENT/CCNA: ICND1 100-105 Certification Guide

By: Bekim Dauti

Overview of this book

CCENT is the entry-level certification for those looking to venture into the networking world. This guide will help you stay up-to date with your networking skills. This book starts with the basics and will take you through everything essential to pass the certification exam. It extensively covers IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, IP data networks, switching and routing, network security, and much more—all in some detail. This guide will provide real-world examples with a bunch of hands-on labs to give you immense expertise in important networking tasks, with a practical approach. Each chapter consists of practice questions to help you take up a challenge from what you have procured. This book ends with mock tests with several examples to help you confidently pass the certification. This Certification Guide consists of everything you need to know in order to pass the ICND 1 100-105 Exam, thus obtaining a CCENT certification. However, practicing with real switches and routers or a switch or router simulator will help you succeed.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Appendix G: Graphical Network Simulator-3 (GNS3)

Switch port settings

Each switch port is characterized by features such as duplex speed, bandwidth, auto-configuration, and Auto-MDIX. In the following sections, you will get to know these features.

Duplex and speed settings

Before we talk about duplex and speed settings, let's first get to know two very important computer networking concepts: bandwidth and throughput. To better understand, think of bandwidth as a water pipe, while throughput is the water that passes through the water pipe. In this analogy, the bandwidth represents the total capacity of a communication channel (in other words, the networking medium), whereas the throughput represents the actual data traffic (often measured in Mbps or Gbps).

For each switch...