CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide

by Wendell Odom

Overview

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.

CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide presents you with an organized test preparation routine through the use of 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.

· Master Cisco CCNA ICND2 200-105 exam topics

· Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes

· Review key concepts with exam preparation tasks

· Practice with realistic exam questions on the CD-ROM

CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide 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

· Troubleshooting sections, which help you master the complex scenarios you will face on the exam

· The powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports

· A free copy of the CCNA ICND2 200-105 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 50 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 suggestion

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781587205798
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	07/06/2016
Series:	Official Cert Guide
Pages:	992
Sales rank:	1,073,304
Product dimensions:	9.20(w) x 7.80(h) x 2.30(d)

About the Author

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 27th edition of some product for Pearson, and he is the author of all editions of the CCNA R&S and CCENT Cert Guides 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 helped develop the popular Pearson Network Simulator. He maintains study tools, links to his blogs, and other resources at www.certskills.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction xxxv

Your Study Plan 2

Part I Ethernet LANs

Chapter 1 Implementing Ethernet Virtual LANs

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz

Foundation Topics

Virtual LAN Concepts

Creating Multiswitch VLANs Using Trunking

Forwarding Data Between VLANs

VLAN and VLAN Trunking Configuration and Verification

Creating VLANs and Assigning Access VLANs to an Interface

VLAN Trunking Protocol

VLAN Trunking Configuration

Implementing Interfaces Connected to Phones

Chapter Review

Chapter 2 Spanning Tree Protocol Concepts

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz

Foundation Topics

Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 802.1D)

The Need for Spanning Tree

What IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Does

How Spanning Tree Works

Influencing and Changing the STP Topology

Rapid STP (IEEE 802.1w) Concepts

Comparing STP and RSTP

RSTP and the Alternate (Root) Port Role

RSTP States and Processes

RSTP and the Backup (Designated) Port Role

RSTP Port Types

Optional STP Features

EtherChannel

PortFast

BPDU Guard

Chapter Review

Chapter 3 Spanning Tree Protocol Implementation

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz

Foundation Topics

Implementing STP

Setting the STP Mode

Connecting STP Concepts to STP Configuration Options

Verifying STP Operation

Configuring STP Port Costs

Configuring Priority to Influence the Root Election

Implementing Optional STP Features

Configuring PortFast and BPDU Guard

Configuring EtherChannel

Implementing RSTP

Identifying the STP Mode on a Catalyst Switch

RSTP Port Roles

RSTP Port States

RSTP Port Types

Chapter Review

Chapter 4 LAN Troubleshooting

“Do I Know This Already?” Quiz

Foundation Topics

Troubleshooting STP

Determining the Root Switch

Determining the Root Port on Nonroot Switches