CCNA Virtual Lab, Titanium Edition [CD-ROM]

Todd Lammle (Author), William Tedder (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0470148942 | ISBN-13: 978-0470148945 | Publication Date: March 12, 2007 | Edition: 1st

Perfect Your Cisco(r) Networking Skills on a Virtual Network!


If you're serious about passing the CCNA exam, you need hands-on experience with routers and switches. This unique software product offers unlimited opportunities for you to practice your skills on a virtual network. You can use the pre-designed networks in conjunction with labs that cover CCNA exam objectives--or design your own custom networks and labs. An affordable alternative to products and courses costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, the CCNA Virtual Lab, Titanium Edition gives you all the practical experience and know-how you need for success on the exam--and in the real world.
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Work in pre-designed networks or make your own with the drag-and-drop capabilities of the Network Visualizer
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Create a network of unlimited devices that can be saved and used for further practice
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Access configuration consoles for network devices, including 2621Cisco routers and 1900, 2950, and 3550 Cisco switches, and practice using over 470 commands
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Test your troubleshooting skills using Net Assessment, a tool for generating and evaluating problem-solving scenarios
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Prepare for the exam with over 250 labs from Todd Lammle, including Two-Router Labs, VLSM Labs, an OSPF Lab, NAT-PAT Labs, a 3550 Switching Lab, Net Connect Labs, Standard Labs, and Extended Labs

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Perfect Your Cisco® Networking Skills on a Virtual Network!

If you're serious about passing the CCNA exam, you need hands-on experience with routers and switches. This unique software product offers unlimited opportunities for you to practice your skills on a virtual network. You can use the pre-designed networks in conjunction with labs that cover CCNA exam objectives—or design your own custom networks and labs. An affordable alternative to products and courses costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, the CCNA Virtual Lab, Titanium Edition gives you all the practical experience and know-how you need for success on the exam—and in the real world.

• Work in pre-designed networks or make your own with the drag-and-drop capabilities of the Network Visualizer

• Create a network of unlimited devices that can be saved and used for further practice

• Access configuration consoles for network devices, including 2621Cisco routers and 1900, 2950, and 3550 Cisco switches, and practice using over 470 commands

• Test your troubleshooting skills using Net Assessment, a tool for generating and evaluating problem-solving scenarios

• Prepare for the exam with over 250 labs from Todd Lammle, including Two-Router Labs, VLSM Labs, an OSPF Lab, NAT-PAT Labs, a 3550 Switching Lab, Net Connect Labs, Standard Labs, and Extended Labs

About the Author

Todd Lammle, CCNA, has over fifteen years of experience with LANs and WANs. He is President of GlobalNet Training, CEO of RouterSim, and the author of CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide and other bestselling Sybex guides.

William Tedder is President of RouterSim and an expert in the development of interactive learning applications.

Product Details

• CD-ROM: 2 pages
• Publisher: Sybex; 1st edition (March 12, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470148942
• ISBN-13: 978-0470148945
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.8 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,193,489 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning tool for the CCNA exam, November 12, 2007

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Jamie Mcnamara (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CCNA Virtual Lab, Titanium Edition (CD-ROM)

I purchased the CCNA Virtual Lab, Titanium Edition in June of this year and I couldn't be more pleased. I read some of the negative reviews and I felt compelled to respond since the major complaints seem trivial compared to what the software actually does.

The licensing scheme is very straight forward. You have to be connected to the internet when you install the license and after that you don't. If your computer crashes, you can get your license reactivated - no big deal.

The hosts in the program support ping, tracert, and telnet. Not sure you need anything else to pass the CCNA exam.

I'm almost done working through the labs and the program has never crashed. One thing I did notice right away is how easy it is to design the network and connect devices. I like the fact that the devices look like the real devices and not the hockey pucks.

I've worked through the RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, and NAT/PAT labs and learned quite a bit. Another neat thing about the software is the ability to save my network at any point and reload it when I have a chance to work on it.

If you want to study towards your CCNA and get some hands on experience, I recommend purchasing this product.

24 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointingly Overpriced with DRM that Makes it Worse. Avoid if You Can., October 24, 2007

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Jerry Tsai "Scientist" (Covina, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CCNA Virtual Lab, Titanium Edition (CD-ROM)

I was required to purchase this for my class and am disappointed that my instructor chose this particular software title. Before I explain the quality of the software, let me explain the DRM licensing scheme. For starters, you must be connected to the internet to activate the license. Yes, you must activate the license to use it. Their server then deducts one from the number of activations you have remaining (you get two). When you're done, you can deactivate the license and place the activation back on the server if you choose. If you're unlucky and need to reinstall Windows after an activation, then you've just lost a license activation. If you're in the middle of nowhere without an internet connection and want to get some practice in, too bad, you won't be able to use the software that you paid for.

Now on to the software itself. You can install virtual switches, routers, and hosts. Double clicking on any of them brings up a command prompt that allows you to configure the device. The hosts are a joke. Double clicking a host brings up an MS-DOS command prompt that only allows you to PING other machines. Apparently TRACERT, IPCONFIG, ROUTE, and ARP commands don't exist to the author. The stability of the software is questionable as I've had it crash on me twice. There is also a bug that prevents me from getting out of the connection mode.

Avoid this software if you can. I wish my teacher had allowed us to use something else as I am really disappointed with this simultor.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have, December 16, 2008

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Tek Doc "genxrcist" (Saint Paul, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CCNA Virtual Lab, Titanium Edition (CD-ROM)

This wonderful little product allows you to fully configure networks from the ground up, in the comfort of your home office, a hotel or your local wireless hotspot. The Titanium edition allows unlimited routers, switches and hosts so you can make your network as complex or as simple as you like. In addition, there are a dozen or so labs which include NAT, OSPF, EIGRP, VLAN, VTP setup as well as a lot of std/ext access list labs. For $119 you can't go wrong either.

The only drawbacks are that while there are a lot of commands available to you (+400), there are a few missing. For example, you can't use the Range command to configure multiple interfaces at once. Also, the "do" command which allows you to run the Show command under Global config mode is disabled. Finally, the Show Spanning-tree command becomes disabled after manually setting your switches priority. I think this is a bug in the software but given I couldn't find anything on the Net about it, it could be isolated to my installation.

The licensing scheme is simple and my 2+ year old PC is running this app just fine. Not once has the application crashed.

A great product, a great price and a great tool for passing YOUR CCNA/CCENT exam!