Chapter 1. Practical Lab Methodology and Equipment

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CCNA Practical Studies is a book dealing with the application of knowledge, not just the accumulation of knowledge. Our intention and hope is that, by the end of the book, your confidence and skill level in configuring and troubleshooting Cisco devices will have greatly increased. We ourselves came through the ranks of CCNA, CCNP, and CCIE, and through those experiences we learned that knowing networking theory is much different than configuring a networking device to operate according to that theory. During the certification process, we often experienced the frustration of understanding networking concepts but lacked the knowledge of how to configure networking devices according to those concepts in a real-world environment. These experiences made us feel that more hands-on experience was needed to help grasp the configuration tasks necessary to configure Cisco devices from start to finish. For this purpose, we have developed this book. Our approach to this book is simple:

To give you an opportunity to configure, step by step, a completely functional network with multiple routing protocols and ISDN dial backup

By doing so, you will be able to see and understand the impact that each command has and understand the method of configuring a network from scratch.

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