Priscilla,
I'm fairly certain that you will need to know
something about the Cat 1900 switch. I've been
teaching CCNA as a CCAI for a couple of months now and
we have a rack of equipment purchased from Cisco
consisting of 5 x Cisco 2500's and 2 x 1900 switches.
We have a Lab Topology setup that is used throughout
Sem II & Sem III which utilises this equipment.
This lab Setup is the very same that appears in the
'diagram' questions on the #640-607. A typical
question would be 'Host A cannot see Host E' Why ?
You then have to diagnose the diagram/network within
15 minutes using Cisco IOS or clicking on the PC to
get its config or clicking on the switch etc. The 1900
is menu driven but you can drop out to command line
mode, which I would recommend.
Not sure if you can use abbreviations. Probably
wouldn't risk it bacause of possible typo bugs in the
software. It may well have been lifted from the source
code of the IOS and cross-compiled, but I'd stick to
the full command just in case.
Token Ring hasn't been covered in any detail. Just
mention it in comparison to Ethernet i.e 802.5 v
802.3, deterministic v non-deterministic but don't go
into any real detail.
There still looking for the core knowledge being OSI
model compared to TCP/IP (Yuk), subnetting, Access
Control Lists and Hands on Config experience.
Phil.
--- Priscilla Oppenheimer
wrote: > I will be teaching a CCNA class next week.
I've
> never taught an intro class
> before. ;-) The textbook will be Wendell Odom's
> "Cisco CCNA Exam #640-607
> Certification Guide." I didn't choose it, but I'm
> fine with it. I have some
> questions, however:
>
> Wendell covers Catalyst 1900 configuration in quite
> a bit of detail.
> Cisco's list of topics for 640-607 doesn't include
> this, so I'm not
> planning to teach it, and in fact, we won't have a
> switch in the lab
> probably. Will this be OK? Does anyone know if the
> 640-607 test has
> Catalyst 1900 configuration questions??
>
> Does anyone know if the test (which now includes
> router simulation
> questions) allows one to use abbreviations for
> commands? (such as cop run
> start instead of copy running-config
> startup-config)?
>
> Token Ring doesn't support multicast???? (He says
> this many times.) I know
> IEEE 802.5 does "officially" support it. I also know
> that many Token Ring
> NICs didn't support it in the early 1990s. Didn't
> they fix that??? I would
> have thought that Token Ring NIC vendors would have
> added support for
> multicast by now.....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Priscilla
>
> ________________________
>
> Priscilla Oppenheimer
> http://www.priscilla.com
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