Pricilla, I was a technical author for a new CCNA book, and they had the Cat 1900 as well. I think it does cover the Cat 1900.
-- RFC 1149 Compliant. ""Phil Barker"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Everything you'll ever need on one web page > from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts > http://uk.my.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=45514&t=45489 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
