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Choosing Cisco Career Certifications
The widely respected IT certification programs available through Cisco Career Certifications bring valuable, measurable rewards to network professionals, their managers, and the organizations that employ them.

Four Levels of IT Certification
Cisco offer four levels of general IT certification: Entry, Associate, Professional, and Expert (CCIE representing the highest level of achievement).

Seven Different Paths
Cisco Various tracks—such as Routing and Switching, Network Security, and Service Provider—are available, so that you can match your certification path to your job role or industry.

Resources
To prepare and learn more about IT certifications and technology tracks, visit the home of Cisco Career Certifications, the Cisco Learning Network.

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General Certifications
Certification Paths – Entry-Level – Associate – Professional – Expert
Routing & Switching – CCENT – CCNA – CCNP – CCIE – Routing & Switching
Design – CCENT – CCNA & CCDA – CCDP -CCDE
Network Security – CCENT – CCNA Security – CCSP – CCIE Security
Service Provider – CCENT – CCNA – CCIP – CCIE – Service Provider
Storage Networking – CCENT – CCNA – CCNP – CCIE Storage Networking
Voice – CCENT – CCNA Voice – CCVP – CCIE Voice
Wireless – CCENT – CCNA Wireless – Coming Soon! -CCIE Wireless

Specialist Certifications
• Advanced Routing and Switching
• Cisco Routing and Switching Field Specialist
• Cisco Routing and Switching Sales Specialist
• Cisco Routing and Switching Solutions Specialist

Data Center Certifications
•  Data Center Application Services
•  Cisco Data Center Application Services Support Specialist
•  Cisco Data Center Application Services Design Specialist
•  Data Center Switching Network Infrastructure
•  Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Design Specialist
•  Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Support Specialist
•  Cisco Data Center Networking Sales Specialist

Data Center Storage Networking
• Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Design Specialist
•  Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Support Specialist
•  Cisco Data Center Storage Networking Sales Specialist

Foundation for Channel Partners
•  Cisco Express Foundation Design Specialist
•  Cisco Express Foundation Field Specialist
•  Cisco Express Foundation Sales Specialist

IP Communications Certifications
•  Cisco Advanced IP Communications Sales Specialist
•  Cisco IP Communications Express Specialist
•  Cisco IP Communications Express Sales Specialist
•  Cisco IP Contact Center Express Specialist
•  Cisco IP Telephony Design Specialist
•  Cisco Rich Media Communications Specialist
•  Cisco Unity Design Specialist
•  Cisco Unity Support Specialist
•  Cisco Unified Presence Specialist

VPN and Security Certifications
• Cisco ASA Specialist
•  Cisco IPS Specialist
•  Cisco Network Admission Control Specialist
•  Cisco Security Sales Specialist
•  Cisco Security Solutions and Design Specialist

Wireless LAN Certifications
•  Cisco Advanced Wireless LAN Design Specialist
•  Cisco Advanced Wireless LAN Field Specialist
•  Cisco Advanced Wireless LAN Sales Specialist

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Cisco Certifications (Newbies)

Cisco certifications are one of the most sought after certifications in the IT certification industry. They identify talented IT Professionals, who can plan, design, implement, and operate small to medium enterprise networks. They provide the opportunity to enhance your ability in the world of IT Networking & Security.Cisco equipments form the basis of many different networks (both large as well small) and, with the growth of Internet Cisco routers and other network devices are the preferred choice for engineers and providers. Cisco products are renowned for being well designed, user-friendly (considering their complexity), and reliable. As a result of the growing popularity of their products, the demand for Cisco certified professionals is also increasing.

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Benefits of Cisco Certifications

* Credibility:
Given that Cisco has one of the strongest brand names in the world,
Cisco certification partners instantly achieve enormous credibility. As
a result, their end-customers feel more comfortable and secure
purchasing from them.

* Quality Standards:
Cisco is the only company that hires an objective third party to
conduct audits of its Silver and Gold partners. These annual audits
ensure that only the highest quality partners are part of the program
and that they meet uniform standards set for Cisco certification.

* Best Practices:
Cisco certification partners have access to the same tools that Cisco uses to drive its own customer satisfaction, including regular customer satisfaction surveys and other Cisco Best Practices.

* Profitability:
The Cisco certification Program provides a level playing field so that
value-add partners are not at a disadvantage to pure hardware
resellers.

* Partner Locator:
This resourceful Web site allows end-customers to search globally for
partners who are qualified for specific sales situations. Information
regarding partner qualifications, certifications and specializations is
available.

* Technology Learning:
To stay at the forefront of their respective markets, Cisco
certification partners have access to the very latest networking
technologies through a variety of learning tools.

Cisco Certifications
Cisco offers three levels of general IT certification: Associate, Professional, and Expert (CCIE representing the highest level of achievement) having six different paths: Routing and Switching, Network Security, and Service Provider

Cisco Exam Registration

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Cisco Exam Cost
Computer-based certification exam prices range from $80 to $325 US dollars or equivalent worldwide. The ICND1 and ICND2 exams are $125 USD, the CCNA exam is $150 USD and the professional level CCNP and CCDP Composite exam is $225.00 USD, and CCIE written exams are $315 USD. Payment is made directly to the authorized test delivery partner Pearson Vue. CCIE lab exams are $1,400 USD. Payment is made online via credit card or wire transfer

Top 5 Security No Brainers for Businesses
Occasionally folks forget about covering the fundamentals of security and start off down a rabbit hole following some shiny new technology that turns out to be just a rat hole. With today’s limited security budgets you need to be sure that you’ve adequately covered your highest risk areas before moving on to other things. The high-risk areas are, of course, not the same for everyone and will change on you fairly frequently. The bad guys are always mixing it up; the attacks we see prevalent today are not those that we saw just a few years ago. Thus the reason for this article, to take a look at the top 5 security solutions you can put in place today to cover the widest scope of current and emerging threats. In many respects these solutions are considered obvious “no brainers”. But, you’d be surprised by how many companies (big and small) that don’t have them in place. Many times it is the obvious that temporarily escapes us (or at least escapes those holding the purse strings ☺)

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These 5 items working together will stop more cyber attacks on your data, network and users than any other 5 items in the marketplace today. There are lots of other very useful security solutions on the market but when it comes to picking the top five most effective and readily available ones here are my choices:

Firewall – The keystone of network defense for a decade or more is still required for solid foundational security. Its job is still fairly simplistic; control what data flows can go where. Without firewalls in place to drop unwanted flows, your job of protecting your assets increases exponentially. Firewalls need to be present at your external perimeters but also inside of your network for secure segmentation of data. Deploying firewalls internally is a relatively new best practice. It is largely driven by the dissolution of any sense of a tangible, reliable network border that can differentiate trusted network traffic from untrusted external network traffic anymore. Our nice clean Internet border of old just doesn’t exist anymore in modern networks. What has also recently changed is that firewalls are getting smarter and more granular in there definition of data flows. It is now common for a firewall to be able to control a data flow based on the type of application or even application function it represents. For example, a firewall can block a SIP voice call based on what number was dialed.

Secure Router (FW, IPS, QoS, VPN) – Routers are everywhere in most networks. By tradition they have been used just as traffic cops for flows. But modern routers can do so much more than that! Routers are chock full of security features, sometimes even more so than a modern firewall. Most routers in the industry today are capable of robust firewalling features, some semblance of useful IDS/IPS functionality, robust quality of service and traffic management tools and of course strong Virtual Private Network data encryption features. The list doesn’t stop there either. The power of modern routers to add to the security of your network is commonly overlooked today. With modern vpn technology it is fairly straight-forward to start encrypting all of the data crossing your WAN links, but very few people do so. It is also too atypical that folks use the firewall functions and IPS features in their routers. Turn ’em on and see your security posture improve!

Wireless WPA2 – This is the no-brainer of them all. If you aren’t using WPA2 wireless security then stop what you are doing and form a plan to start doing so. Many other methods of wireless security are not secure and can be compromised in minutes. Don’t make it easy for the bad guys, turn on WPA2 with AES encryption today.

Email Security – We all know email is currently the top attack vector used by black hats. Viruses, malware and worms all love to use email as their propagation method. Email is also the top way we loose most of our sensitive data. On top of the threats and data loss we experience through email we also have simple junk mail, spam. About 90% of all email sent today is spam! A good email security solution will get rid of the junk and filter out the malicious stuff as well. It is likely that if you are getting a lot of spam through your current system then you are getting even more malware through it. The thought process being that the spam features in email security gateways is usually the focus, core competency of the product. So if it is not doing its job dropping spam then it certainly isn’t doing its job catching malware and data leakage.

Web Security – Threats coming from port 80 and 443 are rising faster than any other threat vector today. The expanding complexity of web based attacks necessitates that a company deploy a robust web security solution. Simple URL filtering has been with us for years and it is a core component to web security for sure. However, web security needs more than just URL filtering it needs AV scanning, malware scanning, IP reputation awareness, dynamic URL categorization techniques and Data leakage prevention functions. Attackers are compromising high profile sites at such an alarming rate that if we just relied on URL white list, black list filtering we’d have nothing left in the white list anymore! Any web security solution has to be able to dynamically scan web traffic to make a decision on its validity. Of all the solutions listed here, it is in web security where taking the risk of deploying a cutting edge, best of breed solution will pay of the most. The other solutions on the list are, for the most part established and mature. Web security solutions bells and whistles are coming out as fast as the hackers are building new attacks. Well ok, not quite that fast.

What are your thoughts on my choices for top 5 security no brainers? Think I got it wrong or right? If you had to add a sixth one what would it be?

If your company doesn’t have all of these 5 in place today, go bang on some doors and raise the roof on awareness! Don’t let it all burn!

Cloud Security Alliance offers certification
IT virtual-security experts can now show off their knowledge with a certificate that shows they’ve mastered the contents of two cloud-security papers.

Called the Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge, the designation is earned by studying “Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing, V2.1” and “Cloud Computing: Benefits, Risks and Recommendations for Information Security” and passing an online test.

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The 13 things you should know before going cloud

“The Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK) provides evidence that an individual has successfully completed an examination covering the key concepts of the CSA guidance and ENISA [European Network and Information Security Agency] whitepaper,” according to the CCSK Web site maintained by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), which wrote the security guidance document. The benefits, risks and recommendations paper was written by ENISA.

The exam is sponsored by CSA, an industry group dedicated to examining cloud architecture and recommending best practices. Its paper breaks down areas of concern into 13 domains, spells out security challenges in each and recommends how to deal with them.

The ENISA paper reviews the risks and benefits of cloud computing and follows up with lengthy and specific recommendations for secure adoption of cloud technology and services. In all, the two papers amount to about 200 pages.

The exam costs $295, but is discounted to $195 until the end of 2010.

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Question of the Day
Why Cisco has restriction in number of spanning sessions? Is there any other solution available to have unlimited spanning seesions for both Tx/Rx?

Also , is there any solution which does the spanning based on source or destination based ip address? for e.g. if the source ip address is 1.1.1.1 throw the traffic to destination port 1. if source ip address is 2.2.2.2 put the throw to destination port 2.

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Expert’s answer
While I may not be able to give you Cisco’s exact reason for having a limit on the number of port spanning configurations you can have in place, I can tell you from real world experience why the limits exist. In addition to the switch handling its port/data switching duties, having it copy data on an existing port/vlan to another port/vlan is adding additional overhead to the switch meaning additional work for the switch cpu and additional memory that is tied up, albeit temporarily, while the data is being copied from the source to the destination. Depending on the amount of traffic that is present on one or more of the ports involved in the port spanning configuration, you can run into one or both of the following problems – 1) Traffic destined for one or more of the span ports may get dropped and/or 2) Traffic for one or more of the other ports not involved in the spanning configuration may experience traffic drops. One way that you can see this first hand is to setup your switch for syslog and it will start complaining when it gets over loaded and starts dropping traffic.

As to the second part of your question about only spanning traffic based on a particular ip address. Within Cisco IOS, you can span traffic based on specific vlan’s. You can also direct the traffic to be spanned to other vlan’s. If you want the traffic to end up on another switch, you can use a remote vlan option that will help accomplish that task. To be able to span traffic based on ip address, ports used or something otherwise requiring deep packet inspection will require an appliance such as NetOptic’s Director product line. This solution can be the best way to in a network traffic intensive applications as you wont be placing even more of a load on a switch that may already be handling as much traffic as can be expected. For more information about this particular item, you can go to https://bit.ly/75kVz.

Cisco port Spanning restrictions
Why Cisco has restriction in number of spanning sessions? Is there any other solution available to have unlimited spanning seesions for both Tx/Rx?

Also , is there any solution which does the spanning based on source or destination based ip address? for e.g. if the source ip address is 1.1.1.1 throw the traffic to destination port 1. if source ip address is 2.2.2.2 put the throw to destination port 2.

Confused with which Cisco certification to do
Hi i am working as network engineer in a company for last 5 years I am unable to get job in a larger firm. I would like to increase my pay but havent been able to since I don have any specialization in the networking area. I have my Bachelors degree and have a Diploma in Computer Hardware & Networking from Jetking (India). I wanted to do cisco Certification but can’t understand which one to do. Some says doing CCNA is good. Others say the Cisco certs expire in 3 years, then you have to reappear for the exam. Please help me out.

i want solution
Hello, i have the same problem with a fresh installation of windows server 2008 enterprise (32 bit). If i try to open server manager i have these:

Description:
Stopped working

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: mmc.exe
Problem Signature 02: 6.0.6001.17051
Problem Signature 03: 47452dd0
Problem Signature 04: Microsoft.Windows.ServerManager
Problem Signature 05: 6.0.0.0
Problem Signature 06: 474547fe
Problem Signature 07: 1ca1
Problem Signature 08: 3a
Problem Signature 09: System.NullReferenceException
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.0.1
Locale ID: 1040

Web-based application running slow and with errors
I work in a company with multiple locations, I’m at hdq. Two of our locations are using a data-intensive web-based application, and they complain about slow response at peak hours. This is part one of the issue. Part two is that there is a “page execution error” message that seems somewhat related to the slowness, in that it shows more often during the slower times; it also looks like a customized message (“a message has been sent to your administrator”). I’ve had a very hard time reaching the vendor for this application and actually getting them to troubleshoot the issue.

First, we were told that everything points to the maxing of our 10 Mbps Internet access at certain times; we had our ISP allow for up to 45 and we’re nowhere near that at any given time. Our network monitoring tool does not list the utilization for the routers at these two offices at a high percentage at any point; additionally, nobody at either of these two locations is complains about slow response on anything else (e-mail, Internet, internal applications). Then, the vendor suggested adding the url to trusted websites in IE6, then also upgrading to IE8, having the latest Java, cleaning cookies… none of these steps seemed to make a difference. Then they started pointing to hardware issues: not enough memory, it’s the computer that’s slow. When asked what the requirements were, they referred to 1 Gb of RAM minimum, 2 Gb of RAM optimal – which some PCs have, some don’t, but there’s no difference in how the users working on those devices run this application.

I just summarized about two and a half months of work here. Latest suggestion is to install a network optimization tool (Silver Peak) to address the slowness issue – which now they also say will fix the error message issue. My opinion is that everything points to a backend database that just doesn’t allow for all the traffic – but I’m not a db admin. What do you think? Any suggestions? Any information I can provide to further clarify this? Thank you in advance.

Jobs for someone with a CCNA ?
Can anyone tell me about what types of jobs a candidate with ccna certificate can expect to be able to get ?

Convert a app from the year 1999 to run under Windows 7 x64 mode
I have an app that I can run under Windows 7 x86. However, I need to run it on a Windows 7 x64 machine. The x86 install run XP prior to install Win 7 x86. The x64 is a new dual core laptop.

Are there any good appications that will backport the setup to run under X64.

thanks

CCNA Security Training: The Need Of the hour
Witnessing the highly vulnerable IT market, all the network administrators are treating network security as an integral part of their job profile. Thus, in order to help the network administrators enhance their efficiency and knowledge regarding network security, Cisco has released Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) security training certification. The CCNA Training security training helps the administrators in detecting any threat in the network and also for taking care of security mitigation threats in small, medium, and large enterprise networks.

The Cisco CCNA Certification security training is required for getting the CCNA certification which forms a prerequisite for the other higher levels of Cisco certifications. And, the Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP) is in high demand by all the IT organisations. This is because IT businesses are trying to adopt the best security technology to reach the top. And the CCNA Security Training is a must for professionals who wish to secure a good position in the IT world.

All CCSP courses require the individual to be CCNA certified as it is the minimum criterion for eligibility for this profile. If a person is CCNA certified, he is considered to possess all the skill sets required for installing, configuring, and troubleshooting the routed and switched computer networks and systems. The CCNA security training also ensures that the person is equipped with the knowledge to implement and manage connections to remote sites using the WAN.

CCNA security training paves way for obtaining CCNA certification which is best suited for computer networking professionals because CCNA certification forms the first step towards the series of Cisco IT certifications. CCNA training and certification is also a prerequisite for IT help desk engineers, field technicians, and many other IT professionals involved in managing and fixing the issues related to network security. The CCNA certification also paves way for the individuals to move forward for acquiring the other higher level of Cisco certifications.

Depending upon your area of interest, you could even go in for CCNA wireless courses or CCNA voice courses. All these courses are the need of the hour. This is because with the increase in the threats to information security system, it has become almost indispensable for organisations to take the help of Cisco Security Consulting for improving their networking solutions.

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640-801  CCNA: Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies and Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices. The 640-801 is the exam available for aspirants pursuing Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Certification. Since 640-607 has retired, the article solely concentrates on the 640-801. The Cisco CCNA Training (640-801) exam focuses on the Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND) course as well as the new Introduction to Cisco Networking Technologies (INTRO) course. The exam ensure that the successful candidate has the important knowledge and skills necessary to select, connect, configure, and troubleshoot the various Cisco networking devices. The exam also includes topics on Extending Switched Networks with VLANS, Determining IP Routes, Managing IP traffic with Access Lists, Establishing Point-to-Point connections, and Establishing Frame Relay Connections.

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Web Demo:

1. Which connections allow the use of full-duplex Ethernet?(Choose three.)

A. switch to host

B. switch to switch

C. hub to hub

D. switch to hub

E. host to host

Answer: A B E

2. Which of the following are characteristics of a Frame Relay point-to-point subinterface? (Choose two.)

A. requires use of Inverse ARP

B. resolves NBMA split horizon issues

C. requires the frame-relay map command

D. maps one IP subnet per DLCI

E. maps one IP subnet across multiple DLCIs

Answer: B D
3. What does the “Inside Global” address represent in the configuration of NAT?

A. the summarized address for all of the internal subnetted addresses

B. the MAC address of the router used by inside hosts to connect to the Internet

C. a globally unique, private IP address assigned to a host on the inside network

D. a registered address that represents an inside host to an outside network

Answer: D

Related Exams:

350-029 – CCIE-SP-Written-Exam
642-359 – Implementing-Cisco-Storage-Network-Solutions 350-040 – CCIE-Storage-Networking
646-363 – Cisco-Express-Foundation-for-Account-Managers
642-544 – Implementing-Cisco-Security-Monitoring–Analysis-and-Response-System

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Ethernet switch leader Cisco challenged in Layer 4-7

The Ethernet switch  market grew 35% in the second quarter from last year, and 1% from Q1 to $5.2 billion, according to investment firm UBS. Cisco CCNA Training maintained its dominant share of the Layer 2-3 sector with 72%, while Juniper continued to gain – Cisco’s rival now has just under 2% share, up from 1.5% in Q1 and 1.3% a year ago.

No. 2 though is HP. After closing the 3Com acquisition in April, HP’s share is now 10%, up from 6% pre-3Com.

Layer 2-3 Ethernet accounts for 96% of the total market. The Layer 4-7 Ethernet switch market grew to $294 million in Q2, up 33% from last year and 8% from last quarter, according to UBS. Cisco is challenged in this market: leader F5 grew its share to 45%, up 2% from Q1 and 6% from 2009, while Cisco’s share declined 3% from Q1 and 5% from 2009 to 20%.

In 2008, Cisco CCNA Certification and F5 were essentially neck-and-neck, with 33% and 34% share, respectively. Since then, Cisco’s share has declined 13% while F5’s increased 11%.

Nipping at Cisco’s heels is Citrix, which gained 2% from Q1 and 2009 to 17% share.