CCNP Virtual Lab (CD-ROM) with Book (Sybex E-Trainer Certification Course) [Audio CD]

Todd Lammle (Author), William Tedder (Author), Bill Tedder (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0782150144 | ISBN-13: 978-0782150148 | Publication Date: August 2001 | Edition: Pap/Cdr/Co

This "CCNP Virutal Lab e-Trainer" contains two complete lab environments that allow exam candidates to get hands-on practice for all four CCNP exams - routing, switching, support, and remote access. Included are 20 pre-written lab exercises for each exam, and an extensive help system to guide users through expecially complex tasks.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

If you've attained your CCNA certification and are ready to take the step up to the CCNP level, then you need the new CCNP Virtual Lab. More routers, more switches, more hosts--more of everything you need to get hands-on practice for key exam topics.

You can hone your skills with built-in instructional labs or perform freeform configuration routines. An affordable alternative to products and courses costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, the CCNP Virtual Lab allows you to work at your own pace, on your own time, so you get the most out of your exam preparation efforts. Used in conjunction with Sybex's best-selling CCNP Study Guides, or with any other CCNP study program, the CCNP Virtual Lab, will give you the skills you need to approach the exams with confidence.

--Neil Edde, Associate Publisher

From the Back Cover

If you're serious about earning your CCNP, you need extensive hands-on experience with routers and switches. Until now, this has required access to expensive network equipment-not to mention the freedom to experiment with it. The CCNP Virtual Lab from Sybex gives you everything you need. You can practice with this "equipment" on your own, follow suggested labs that cover the entire range of CCNP objectives, and design custom labs that focus on your special interests. An affordable alternative to products and courses costing hundreds, even thousands, of dollars, the CCNP Virtual Lab allows you to work at your own pace, on your own time, so you get the most out of your exam preparation efforts.
Remote Access

• Working with asynchronous connections
• Using the Point-to-Point Protocol
• Setting up ISDN and dial-on-demand routing
• Working with the Cisco 700 Series
• Working with Frame Relay
• Using NAT (Network Address Translation)
• Setting up AAA

Switching

• Connecting the switch block
• Working with Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
• Using Spanning Tree with VLAN and setting up Inter-VLAN Routing
• Using Multi-Layer Switching (MLS)
• Implementing Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP)
• Configuring multicast
• Planning and setting up access policies

Routing

• IP addressing
• Interconnecting OSPF areas
• EIGRP
• Configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, and scaling BGP
• Route optimization
• Network scalability

Support

• Troubleshooting Cisco routers and switches
• Using problem-solving models
• Common data link layer characteristics in campus LANs
• Connection sequences in TCP/IP, Novell IPX, and AppleTalk
• Using Cisco IOS software commands and debug utilities
• Resolving VLAN, WAN, Frame Relay, and ISDN BRI problems

System Requirements
Web browser and Internet connection
Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000 - *U.S. versions only*
133 MHz or faster Pentium
32 MB RAM
2 MB video card
7 MB HD space
8X CD-ROM drive
Mouse or other pointing device
Small fonts

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Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Sybex Inc; Pap/Cdr/Co edition (August 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0782150144
• ISBN-13: 978-0782150148
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.9 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,988,677 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Todd Lammle, CCNA/CCNP/CCSP/CCVP, CEH/CEFI, FCC RF Licensed, popular Sybex author and trainer, has been involved in computers and networking with Fortune 500 companies for over two decades. He has worked for large companies such as Hughes Aircraft, Xerox, Texaco, Toshiba, Cisco, AAA and IBM, among many others. Todd has shared his networking knowledge and experience in more than 45 Sybex study guides, including his best selling Cisco CCNA Study Guide. Todd Lammle is President of GlobalNet Training and CEO of RouterSim, LLC.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good if it worked, July 21, 2002

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John (Tawa, New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CCNP Virtual Lab (CD-ROM) with Book (Sybex E-Trainer Certification Course) (Audio CD)

I successfully used the CCNA virtual lab to help me pass the CCNA qualification, and I have also used microcontroller simulators for debugging code, so I am not entirely new to simulators. The CCNA one had some problems, but nothing really bad, and helped me a lot. Unfortunately the CCNP simulator is worse, not better. I should emphasise that I have downloaded the patch, and keep checking the errata page but I am still finding, reporting, and getting no furthur feedback on additional problems. Now, it is certainly possible to cause your own problems here, but when you find that for instance you cannot ping devices that are supposed to be directly connected, and you get a message about SPID's from the net detective, you know there is something odd going on. (It is trying to use a nonconfigured isdn interface instead of the serial line that is configured by the lab given.) It needs first to be improved to where the labs as written actually work, then it needs a bit of attention to letting you perform diagnostics using the standard cisco commands so that when you do make a typo in a config, you have some reasonable chance of finding it. (Which is also excellent practice for the support part of things...) As it is, when you strike a bug and start trying to troubleshoot, then report what you have done to support, they come back at you that you are only supposed to do the things given in the labs. (let me quote the box: "Extensive free form configuration options" "design custom labs that focus on your special interests")

So this is a product with a great deal of potential, mostly not realised yet. I really couldn't advise anyone to buy it in the current state. I'd be happy to discuss this via email with anyone, especially the developers so do the obvious to this (disposable!) address ibxbksf001(AT)sneakemail.com to get hold of me. I will also happily withdraw or modify this review as necessary should I receive any furthur information from support.

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect after you get the Patch from Sybex, September 16, 2001

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Michael (Houston, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CCNP Virtual Lab (CD-ROM) with Book (Sybex E-Trainer Certification Course) (Audio CD)

Why would 2 of you write a review about it crashing before you even check to see if there is an available patch? Whew!!!! Well, simply put... if you don't have the chedda to purchase routers for home use... its perfect. I'm taking courses that offer hands on router use. This virtual lab is great for practice at home. GET THE PATCH B4 U REVIEW THIS!!!!!!!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I loved this item, January 2, 2004

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Ashanti Johnson (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: CCNP Virtual Lab (CD-ROM)

I am a CCNP with the help of this virtual lab. I also have the virtual etrainer, which I barely used. Anyway, the lab is exactly what it says. Simulator, it will not work exactly like the real thing, but if you are new to this field this is what you need. The "Support section kind of sucks but the other three are so good it makes up for it.
I also have the CCNA, and I'm working on my CCSP.
Todd, get to working on the CCSP Virtual lab!!!!