Showing posts with label Dr Jalal Raissi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr Jalal Raissi. Show all posts

Monday, 30 July 2012

FREE CCNA Simulations - "CCNA Exam Questions Explained"

There is a very useful Blog called "CCNA Exam Questions Explained" that contains several Router Simulations, Simlets and Testlets in text format i.e. you can see a screenshot of the exam scenario and read the steps you need to take to solve the problem but you can't actually do it live.
http://testinside.blogspot.ie/

HOWEVER they seem to be have a connection with the CISCO Packet Tracer Simulations developed by Dr. Jalal Raissi at www.itucator.com/ttt/PTSimlets.htm
(see my previous post). Thus if you haven't the time or patience to work through Dr Raissa's Simlets (or don't have Packet Tracer), you can find a quick cheat sheet and answer at the Testinside Blog. The following Testinside answers correspond to Dr Raissa's work

EIGRP - SIM (New)
http://testinside.blogspot.ie/2008/10/eigrp-sim-new.html

Router Simulation - ACL SIM
http://testinside.blogspot.ie/2007/04/ccna-acl-sim.html

CCNA 640-802 NAT SIM
http://testinside.blogspot.ie/2007/11/ccna-640-802-nat-sim.html

RIP v2 SIM (New)
http://testinside.blogspot.ie/2008/08/rip-v2-sim-new.html

Topology Based Lab
 http://testinside.blogspot.ie/2007/11/topology-based-lab.html

Topology Question 2
 http://testinside.blogspot.ie/2007/12/hotspot-2-topology-question.html
(This a Frame Relay question - useful for reviewing that topic)

VTP SIM
 http://testinside.blogspot.ie/2007/04/vtp-sim.html
(I think this counts as a "Testlet" rather than a Simlet. There are answers to 9 possible questions; you  are likely to get 5 in the CCNA exam.)

There does not seem to be a  Testinside "cheat sheet" corresponding to Dr Raissa's "Basic Security Simlet" re the setting of passwords on Routers and Switches i.e. Enable passwords, Console and Telnet passwords and the Switchport-port-security commands. However the instructions given with this particular Packet Tracer activity are largely self-explanatory. See the first Packet Tracer in
www.itucator.com/ttt/PTSimlets.htm                



FREE CCNA Network Simulations - Dr Jalal Raissi

I found the network simulations developed by Dr. Jalal Raissi of DeVry University, Georgia to be very useful - especially as he uses Cisco Packet Tracer which is the simulator used in my college course.  I assume you can get it from Cisco and in any case the text of Dr Raissi's simulations are also available so you can read them if you can't replicate them. His website is
www.itucator.com/ttt/PTSimlets.htm

There are seven simulations and they are definitely the kind of things you are likely to get in the exam i.e.

CCNA 640-802 Basic Security Simlet
CCNA 640-802 EIGRP Simlet
CCNA 640-802 Extended ACL Simlet
CCNA 640-802 NAT Smlet
CCNA 640-802 RIPv2 Simlet
CCNA 640-802 Topology Simlet
CCNA 640-802 VTP Simlet

The introduction says five network simulations not seven. This may be out of date but I found I could not open one or two of them.  However the text of all seven is available at another website "CCNA Exam Questions Explained" run by Testinside.
http://testinside.blogspot.ie/