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Study Resources: 300-410 ENARSI

Errata for the Official Certification Guide is listed under “updates”. Additional topics of study for the ENARSI exam: Notes and study resources by chapter Ch 1: IPv4/IPv6 Addressing and Routing Review Ch 2: EIGRP Ch3: Advanced EIGRP Ch4: Troubleshooting EIGRP for IPv4 Ch 5: EIGRPv6 Ch 6: OSPF Ch 7: Advanced OSPF Ch 8: Troubleshooting …

DevNet Associate Now Available!

YYC Net Lab is pleased to announce that we are now offering the new DevNet Associate course from NetAcad. Our first cohort is free for any resident of Alberta. Details are available here.

Walk for Muscular Dystrophy

I suspect many of you know who Josh Edwards is. He is among the first instructors at YYC Net Lab. He gave up his evenings and weekends to help students learn the CCNA and A+ material.  He was instrumental in the Women in Technology program.  Without him these things would not have happened. He never …

Stuck indoors? Start learning!

With so many events canceled, you may find yourself spending more time than usual indoors. We have a 99% discount for the 2020 Q2 CCNA Course 1 of 3: Introduction to Networks online course. The discount runs from March 16th until March 31st. The code is DiversifyABEconomy2020. Use that code and you will see the …

Free 8h intro to Linux

We’re trying an experiment. We are offering a free 8 hour course – NDG Linux Unhatched. This is an introduction to Linux for those with no experience with Linux. It is online, self-paced (as with most of our courses). For those who are looking for in-person assistance, feel free to stop by our classroom on …

CCENT/CCNA curriculum changes

You may have heard that the CCENT and CCNA certification exams are changing.  This has happened before and is nothing to worry about.  Remember: Cisco wants more qualified networkers. Details are available here: https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/community/ccna-rs-certification The current certification exams are going to expire: ICND1v2 (required for the CCENT): 2016-08-20 ICND2v2 (required for the CCNA): 2016-09-24 The …

March 1st: Meetup and CCNA1

YYC Net Lab is pleased to announce that we have opened registration for CCNA Routing and Switching course #1.  The course starts on March 1st and registration will remain open until the end of day March 7th. YYC Net Lab is also putting on a social event on March 1st where we will be giving …

CCNA1 registrations on hold until March 2016

YYC Net Lab currently has 18 students enrolled in various stages of the CCNA curriculum.  Although this may not sound like a lot, when you factor in that our instructors are 100% volunteers with full time jobs, it can quick occupy a fair bit of time.  Any current students will still be able to progress …

Subnetting Exercises

The following three problems are examples of common problems in the networking industry.  They get increasingly difficult.  If you can get through these without too much trouble, you’ll likely be fine for subnetting questions on the CCNA R&S 1 Final exam. Within minutes of me posting these questions, I’m sure that you’ll be able to …

TTL values explained

CCNA R&S Course 1 of 4, Lab 8.3.2.7 A student emailed in with a really good question asking about some specifics of TTLs.  Here’s a basic network diagram of the setup: To recap – the Time To Live (TTL) field is used to ensure that packets don’t float around a network forever.  They need to …