WEBVTT 0:00:09.620000 --> 0:00:15.740000 Hello everyone and welcome to the Cisco CCNA exam assessment on the topic 0:00:15.740000 --> 0:00:19.900000 of networking fundamentals brought to you by INE. 0:00:19.900000 --> 0:00:23.200000 My name is Keith Bogart and I will be the one who will be guiding you 0:00:23.200000 --> 0:00:25.280000 through this assessment. 0:00:25.280000 --> 0:00:28.220000 I have included my contact details here in case you have any questions 0:00:28.220000 --> 0:00:33.080000 as we go through this or after you are done watching the course. 0:00:33.080000 --> 0:00:36.020000 So what are some course prerequisites? 0:00:36.020000 --> 0:00:41.340000 Well this course is really designed to be done after you have done all 0:00:41.340000 --> 0:00:45.440000 of your studying for your CCNA and you think to yourself, I think I am 0:00:45.440000 --> 0:00:47.580000 just about ready to schedule my exam. 0:00:47.580000 --> 0:00:48.960000 I think I could pass it. 0:00:48.960000 --> 0:00:52.980000 So this would be the very last thing you would do before scheduling your 0:00:52.980000 --> 0:00:57.320000 exam. So I am assuming that you have familiarity and hands-on experience 0:00:57.320000 --> 0:01:02.760000 with all CCNA related topics within the fundamentals category and I will 0:01:02.760000 --> 0:01:05.660000 emphasize that again in just a moment. 0:01:05.660000 --> 0:01:08.580000 So what are the objectives of this course? 0:01:08.580000 --> 0:01:13.560000 Well is to help you assess your knowledge of all the CCNA related topics 0:01:13.560000 --> 0:01:16.720000 within the network fundamentals category. 0:01:16.720000 --> 0:01:19.020000 So let me just show you that. 0:01:19.020000 --> 0:01:23.360000 So here if we go to Cisco's website and we look at the topics list for 0:01:23.360000 --> 0:01:28.700000 the CCNA exam, we see that there are six general categories starting with 0:01:28.700000 --> 0:01:33.180000 network fundamentals and ending with automation and programmability. 0:01:33.180000 --> 0:01:38.360000 This entire course is based on section one network fundamentals. 0:01:38.360000 --> 0:01:43.040000 So if we expand this, you will see it starts with 1.1 and works its way 0:01:43.040000 --> 0:01:47.860000 all the way down to 1.17 in this particular case. 0:01:47.860000 --> 0:01:53.080000 So you will be assessed and tested on all of the things in this particular 0:01:53.080000 --> 0:01:56.740000 category. So by the time you're done with this course, you will have a 0:01:56.740000 --> 0:02:00.340000 really good understanding and feeling of whether or not you could answer 0:02:00.340000 --> 0:02:05.660000 any question that Cisco might throw at you within this particular category. 0:02:05.660000 --> 0:02:10.580000 Okay, so let's talk a little bit more about some important information 0:02:10.580000 --> 0:02:12.180000 about this course. 0:02:12.180000 --> 0:02:17.400000 So number one, what this course is and more importantly, what it isn't. 0:02:17.400000 --> 0:02:21.420000 So I'm assuming if you're watching this course that you are already done 0:02:21.420000 --> 0:02:25.960000 with your studying, okay, whether that be having watched the INE videos 0:02:25.960000 --> 0:02:30.360000 through the Cisco CCNA learning path that we offer or whether it be your 0:02:30.360000 --> 0:02:34.460000 own self study via reading the official certification guides or whatever 0:02:34.460000 --> 0:02:37.700000 you chose to do for your own personal studying. 0:02:37.700000 --> 0:02:38.920000 That is behind you. 0:02:38.920000 --> 0:02:39.920000 You are finished with that. 0:02:39.920000 --> 0:02:45.040000 So this course is not a review of the technical topics in the CCNA. 0:02:45.040000 --> 0:02:48.600000 It is not meant to teach you the things within the network fundamentals 0:02:48.600000 --> 0:02:52.120000 category. I'm assuming you've already done that. 0:02:52.120000 --> 0:02:55.060000 This course is to assess your knowledge. 0:02:55.060000 --> 0:02:56.800000 It's basically imagine this. 0:02:56.800000 --> 0:03:00.240000 A lot of times I get questions from people, hey, does I any offer some 0:03:00.240000 --> 0:03:04.640000 sort of exam assessment or some sort of, you know, practice exam? 0:03:04.640000 --> 0:03:05.980000 That's exactly what this is. 0:03:05.980000 --> 0:03:11.260000 This is an online video based practice exam that you can go through. 0:03:11.260000 --> 0:03:13.580000 When should you take this course? 0:03:13.580000 --> 0:03:14.700000 I already mentioned that. 0:03:14.700000 --> 0:03:17.280000 So basically you've already done your studying, you're feeling confident, 0:03:17.280000 --> 0:03:18.580000 you're feeling good. 0:03:18.580000 --> 0:03:21.300000 You've already done some other practice exams along the way and you're 0:03:21.300000 --> 0:03:24.440000 thinking to yourself, I think I could schedule my exam now. 0:03:24.440000 --> 0:03:27.960000 I think I'm probably a week or two weeks away from actually sitting down 0:03:27.960000 --> 0:03:29.740000 and taking the exam. 0:03:29.740000 --> 0:03:33.540000 If that describes you, this course is for you. 0:03:33.540000 --> 0:03:37.960000 So you should take this course and to identify your potential week spots. 0:03:37.960000 --> 0:03:41.700000 Now, you might be wondering, Keith, how did you choose the particular 0:03:41.700000 --> 0:03:45.200000 topics for the questions in this course? 0:03:45.200000 --> 0:03:47.880000 So I'd like to talk about that for just a moment. 0:03:47.880000 --> 0:03:51.220000 So the topics were chosen via a variety of methods. 0:03:51.220000 --> 0:03:56.420000 So number one, I certainly referenced Cisco's website here and used their 0:03:56.420000 --> 0:03:59.120000 list of topics within the network fundamentals category. 0:03:59.120000 --> 0:04:03.980000 So I created questions based on each and every topic that you see here 0:04:03.980000 --> 0:04:07.800000 in this list under category one of network fundamentals. 0:04:07.800000 --> 0:04:12.420000 Furthermore, I own the Cisco official certification guidebooks. 0:04:12.420000 --> 0:04:16.000000 So I look through all the different chapters and text in the guidebooks 0:04:16.000000 --> 0:04:17.920000 for each one of these bullet points. 0:04:17.920000 --> 0:04:21.740000 And when I was reading a chapter, if I saw something called Key Topic, 0:04:21.740000 --> 0:04:24.880000 generally when you're reading the official certification guidebook, if 0:04:24.880000 --> 0:04:28.460000 you see that there's a chart or paragraph that has the little key topic 0:04:28.460000 --> 0:04:32.140000 indicator next to it, that means this is something you should know. 0:04:32.140000 --> 0:04:34.780000 This is something you should memorize for the test. 0:04:34.780000 --> 0:04:37.260000 So I base my questions off of that. 0:04:37.260000 --> 0:04:41.600000 And then thirdly, I've actually sat down and taken the CCNA exam. 0:04:41.600000 --> 0:04:44.240000 I know what types of questions they hit you with. 0:04:44.240000 --> 0:04:46.940000 I know what they emphasize and don't emphasize. 0:04:46.940000 --> 0:04:49.340000 So I also base my questions off of that. 0:04:49.340000 --> 0:04:54.180000 Now, when you sit down for the CCNA exam, you are not going to be hit 0:04:54.180000 --> 0:04:57.980000 with questions on every single topic within these bullet points that you 0:04:57.980000 --> 0:05:00.860000 see here. They don't have enough time for that. 0:05:00.860000 --> 0:05:02.780000 So who knows what you'll get? 0:05:02.780000 --> 0:05:06.800000 You might get some questions under section one dot one of explain the 0:05:06.800000 --> 0:05:08.420000 roles and function of network components. 0:05:08.420000 --> 0:05:13.480000 And maybe you won't get any questions on sections one dot two or one dot 0:05:13.480000 --> 0:05:17.460000 three, or maybe if you fail it and you go to take it a second time, it'll 0:05:17.460000 --> 0:05:18.420000 be completely different. 0:05:18.420000 --> 0:05:22.960000 The point is we don't know going into the exam, what questions you're 0:05:22.960000 --> 0:05:25.960000 going to get under each of these bullets and sub bullets. 0:05:25.960000 --> 0:05:29.640000 So for that point, for that reason, I created assessment questions to 0:05:29.640000 --> 0:05:32.040000 cover everything in this list. 0:05:32.040000 --> 0:05:35.460000 So if you get through this entire course and you're able to successfully 0:05:35.460000 --> 0:05:41.720000 answer 85% or greater on every individual video, you should be well prepared 0:05:41.720000 --> 0:05:48.060000 to pass any question they throw at you in the network fundamentals category. 0:05:48.060000 --> 0:05:52.480000 Okay, also each question that you're going to see, I have put next to 0:05:52.480000 --> 0:05:56.920000 the question, the associated relevant exam number bullet points. 0:05:56.920000 --> 0:06:02.120000 So for example, if I'm testing a question related to one dot one a routers 0:06:02.120000 --> 0:06:05.240000 that you see in this list here, it will actually say right the end of 0:06:05.240000 --> 0:06:08.840000 the question in brackets one dot one dot a. 0:06:08.840000 --> 0:06:12.680000 So you know, if you get that question wrong, you can say, oh, I got it 0:06:12.680000 --> 0:06:14.820000 wrong. It was in one one a oh, that's routers. 0:06:14.820000 --> 0:06:16.760000 That's probably what I should study again. 0:06:16.760000 --> 0:06:18.520000 I need to refresh myself on that. 0:06:18.520000 --> 0:06:23.080000 Now, there's also questions that don't fall neatly into any of these categories. 0:06:23.080000 --> 0:06:26.640000 For example, Cisco certainly expects you to know what the OSI model is 0:06:26.640000 --> 0:06:28.720000 and the TCP IP model. 0:06:28.720000 --> 0:06:32.360000 And yet if we look through this list, that's not anywhere on this list. 0:06:32.360000 --> 0:06:36.220000 And yet it is in their official certification guidebook. 0:06:36.220000 --> 0:06:39.040000 They expect you to know the Ethernet frame structure. 0:06:39.040000 --> 0:06:41.460000 Once again, that's not anywhere in here. 0:06:41.460000 --> 0:06:46.980000 So I also create some sort of general categories like OSI model TCP IP 0:06:46.980000 --> 0:06:50.600000 model. And so when you take a question instead of seeing one dot nine 0:06:50.600000 --> 0:06:56.420000 dot B or one dot 11, you might see in brackets OSI model or general Wi 0:06:56.420000 --> 0:07:00.700000 -Fi or something like that, which means that is a category you should know, 0:07:00.700000 --> 0:07:04.640000 but it does not fall within Cisco's bulleted list here, but it is something 0:07:04.640000 --> 0:07:06.360000 that's important. 0:07:06.360000 --> 0:07:11.540000 Okay. So how should you proceed through this? 0:07:11.540000 --> 0:07:17.440000 So as you approach a question, as you see a question, my idea is, is that 0:07:17.440000 --> 0:07:19.800000 I will read the question to you verbally. 0:07:19.800000 --> 0:07:20.940000 You'll hear my voice. 0:07:20.940000 --> 0:07:24.200000 You should pause the video for a moment and answer the question. 0:07:24.200000 --> 0:07:25.860000 Now you could just answer it verbally. 0:07:25.860000 --> 0:07:27.500000 You don't have to write anything down. 0:07:27.500000 --> 0:07:30.460000 Every question will be in some sort of multiple choice format. 0:07:30.460000 --> 0:07:32.840000 Well, not everyone, but most of them are multiple choice. 0:07:32.840000 --> 0:07:35.700000 So just maybe write down on a piece of paper or something. 0:07:35.700000 --> 0:07:38.000000 What you think the answer is for that particular question. 0:07:38.000000 --> 0:07:43.120000 Then press play and you will see the answer for that particular question. 0:07:43.120000 --> 0:07:49.180000 Now I provide a resource for you in the course file section of this course 0:07:49.180000 --> 0:07:52.340000 that looks like this. 0:07:52.340000 --> 0:07:56.060000 So after every question, when you provide your answer and you see the 0:07:56.060000 --> 0:08:00.740000 answer, pause the video and then mark down whether you answer that question 0:08:00.740000 --> 0:08:03.580000 correctly or incorrectly in the box here. 0:08:03.580000 --> 0:08:09.120000 So for example, if a question is on section 1.11 and you answered it correctly, 0:08:09.120000 --> 0:08:15.480000 find 1.11 in here and then just put a little check mark or a little tick 0:08:15.480000 --> 0:08:17.660000 mark in the answered correctly. 0:08:17.660000 --> 0:08:22.620000 If you got an answer wrong and that question was on 1.5, put a little 0:08:22.620000 --> 0:08:24.980000 check mark in the incorrectly. 0:08:24.980000 --> 0:08:28.620000 So by the time you're done with this entire course, you should have filled 0:08:28.620000 --> 0:08:33.300000 this out and you'll be able to see what topics you answered correctly 0:08:33.300000 --> 0:08:36.080000 and what topics you missed a bunch of questions on. 0:08:36.080000 --> 0:08:40.760000 And so you'll be able to refer to that and go back and restudy those topics 0:08:40.760000 --> 0:08:42.960000 for which you were a little weak. 0:08:42.960000 --> 0:08:45.280000 So hopefully you can use this to your advantage. 0:08:45.280000 --> 0:08:48.360000 I would definitely recommend printing this out and then checking the questions 0:08:48.360000 --> 0:08:50.520000 along the way as you go through it. 0:08:50.520000 --> 0:08:58.100000 Next thing. So as you do the questions, there are some questions for which 0:08:58.100000 --> 0:09:02.420000 the answer, there is no explanation needed on my part. 0:09:02.420000 --> 0:09:06.700000 So it might be, you know, what is 1 plus 1 and the answer is clearly 2. 0:09:06.700000 --> 0:09:10.980000 So there's no need for me to talk and explain why the answer was 2. 0:09:10.980000 --> 0:09:15.160000 It was a fact. Either you knew the fact or you didn't know the fact. 0:09:15.160000 --> 0:09:19.980000 In other questions, when you get to the answer section, I will in the 0:09:19.980000 --> 0:09:24.200000 video provide a little bit more detailed explanations to why that was 0:09:24.200000 --> 0:09:26.140000 the particular answer. 0:09:26.140000 --> 0:09:33.460000 So that being said, if you're not using the course resources or the course 0:09:33.460000 --> 0:09:38.520000 resources or the course files section, not only will you see this PDF 0:09:38.520000 --> 0:09:42.720000 right here that is your student scorecard, you'll also see a PDF in there 0:09:42.720000 --> 0:09:45.160000 of all the questions throughout this course. 0:09:45.160000 --> 0:09:48.300000 So certainly you could go through the questions and check off the answers 0:09:48.300000 --> 0:09:52.280000 offline whenever you want, just by printing off those PDFs. 0:09:52.280000 --> 0:09:56.160000 But by watching the videos, you also get the benefit of hearing me give 0:09:56.160000 --> 0:10:01.280000 some more detailed explanation on those questions that I felt needed it. 0:10:01.280000 --> 0:10:05.500000 Also, with the video, certainly you have the option to fast forward and 0:10:05.500000 --> 0:10:10.820000 rewind. So if you answer a question correctly, and then I start explaining 0:10:10.820000 --> 0:10:13.820000 that question, you say, I don't need to hear key explanation. 0:10:13.820000 --> 0:10:14.900000 I already know this. 0:10:14.900000 --> 0:10:18.480000 Just fast forward to the next question and just keep going like that. 0:10:18.480000 --> 0:10:23.320000 So it's going to be a process of listening to a question, pausing, writing 0:10:23.320000 --> 0:10:29.080000 down or just thinking about the answer, press play, listening to the answer, 0:10:29.080000 --> 0:10:32.260000 pause, mark the student scorecard here as to whether you got it correctly 0:10:32.260000 --> 0:10:35.020000 or not, move on to the next question. 0:10:35.020000 --> 0:10:40.760000 So that's going to be the process for these particular videos. 0:10:40.760000 --> 0:10:44.520000 Okay, so let's see, are there any other questions here that we should 0:10:44.520000 --> 0:10:47.500000 answer? How can I best use this assessment? 0:10:47.500000 --> 0:10:49.660000 We talked about that. 0:10:49.660000 --> 0:10:57.980000 Okay, last question, how will I assess you on whether or not you know, 0:10:57.980000 --> 0:11:03.980000 at the time there, Cisco had removed from their exam any simulations. 0:11:03.980000 --> 0:11:07.640000 So therefore those lucky few of you, there was a few months there where 0:11:07.640000 --> 0:11:11.340000 when you took the exam, it was just multiple choice, some drag and drop, 0:11:11.340000 --> 0:11:12.580000 but no simulations. 0:11:12.580000 --> 0:11:17.760000 Now they're starting to reintroduce simulations back into their CCNA. 0:11:17.760000 --> 0:11:18.820000 Not a lot of them. 0:11:18.820000 --> 0:11:22.360000 You'll get anywhere from two to maybe five simulations throughout the 0:11:22.360000 --> 0:11:25.940000 entire duration of the course, but they do take a long time to go through 0:11:25.940000 --> 0:11:30.140000 those simulation questions and they are testing your ability to use the 0:11:30.140000 --> 0:11:33.960000 Cisco iOS command line to configure things or troubleshoot things. 0:11:33.960000 --> 0:11:38.820000 So that raises the question of, is this assessment going to assess your 0:11:38.820000 --> 0:11:40.920000 ability to use the Cisco iOS command line? 0:11:40.920000 --> 0:11:42.960000 And the answer is definitely yes. 0:11:42.960000 --> 0:11:45.100000 And I'm going to assess you in a couple of ways. 0:11:45.100000 --> 0:11:48.580000 Number one, certainly within the questions, you might see a multiple choice 0:11:48.580000 --> 0:11:53.580000 question says, what is the command you would use to accomplish this objective? 0:11:53.580000 --> 0:11:56.980000 And then you'll have to select the correct command from the list. 0:11:56.980000 --> 0:12:02.080000 Also, there are a handful of labs scattered throughout this course. 0:12:02.080000 --> 0:12:06.320000 And when you start up the lab, the lab will ask you to do something like 0:12:06.320000 --> 0:12:11.780000 subnet and IPv4 network into various subnets using VLSM and then apply 0:12:11.780000 --> 0:12:15.980000 those subnets to loop back addresses, bring interfaces up and down, add 0:12:15.980000 --> 0:12:20.060000 host names to routers, look at MAC address tables on switches. 0:12:20.060000 --> 0:12:24.160000 All of that is an attempt to assess your knowledge of the Cisco iOS command 0:12:24.160000 --> 0:12:27.700000 line by actually doing the lab and making it happen. 0:12:27.700000 --> 0:12:32.380000 Now, in this particular category, section one, which is network fundamentals, 0:12:32.380000 --> 0:12:36.500000 there's not a lot of Cisco iOS commands that were introduced. 0:12:36.500000 --> 0:12:41.340000 Section one of network fundamentals is the vast majority of it is theory. 0:12:41.340000 --> 0:12:44.920000 It's not really until you get section two and beyond that there's a lot 0:12:44.920000 --> 0:12:48.700000 more Cisco iOS that's necessary and that will be covered in a different 0:12:48.700000 --> 0:12:52.480000 course. So there's not a lot of labs that go along with this one. 0:12:52.480000 --> 0:12:56.040000 You can expect a lot more labs when we get to section two network access 0:12:56.040000 --> 0:12:58.500000 and other types of things like that. 0:12:58.500000 --> 0:13:00.960000 But there are a few labs that go along with this. 0:13:00.960000 --> 0:13:07.340000 Okay, so I'd like to just briefly show you what the question types are 0:13:07.340000 --> 0:13:11.860000 going to look like and yet as you go through here. 0:13:11.860000 --> 0:13:15.380000 So first of all, there are certainly multiple choice questions are text 0:13:15.380000 --> 0:13:17.800000 based that look like this. 0:13:17.800000 --> 0:13:21.500000 Right, here's an example, your name is and then you select your name on 0:13:21.500000 --> 0:13:25.060000 the right here. And notice how it says under your name is it says 1.1 0:13:25.060000 --> 0:13:29.420000 .B. So that would correspond to the section of the CCNA exam that this 0:13:29.420000 --> 0:13:31.080000 topic was pulled from. 0:13:31.080000 --> 0:13:33.900000 And then you would pause the slide, you would think about it, and then 0:13:33.900000 --> 0:13:36.520000 you'd press play and it would go on to the answer slide. 0:13:36.520000 --> 0:13:39.260000 And you see the answer has a check mark next to it. 0:13:39.260000 --> 0:13:43.160000 Your name is clearly skippy. 0:13:43.160000 --> 0:13:47.620000 I also have multiple choice questions that include graphics. 0:13:47.620000 --> 0:13:51.000000 The graphic might be a topology diagram like you see here. 0:13:51.000000 --> 0:13:55.160000 The graphic might be some output of a command and the question is asking 0:13:55.160000 --> 0:13:58.920000 you to understand that output and see if you can extract some data from 0:13:58.920000 --> 0:14:01.780000 it. So once again, you'll see some sort of graphic. 0:14:01.780000 --> 0:14:05.040000 You'll be given a question and this one says select two answers. 0:14:05.040000 --> 0:14:07.140000 So that's important pay attention to that. 0:14:07.140000 --> 0:14:10.380000 And then you'll select your answers and either you got it right or you 0:14:10.380000 --> 0:14:14.220000 got it wrong. And so mark that in your student scorecard. 0:14:14.220000 --> 0:14:18.400000 Reorder questions. 0:14:18.400000 --> 0:14:22.380000 So this would be a type of question where I'm trying to assess whether 0:14:22.380000 --> 0:14:25.020000 or not you know the correct order for something. 0:14:25.020000 --> 0:14:28.280000 Like in this case, place the items below into their correct order. 0:14:28.280000 --> 0:14:31.260000 Now if this was a real question, it might be on the OSI model or something 0:14:31.260000 --> 0:14:36.060000 like that. And then you press the answer and you can see here it shows 0:14:36.060000 --> 0:14:40.240000 you what the correct order was that so if this was like a drag and drop 0:14:40.240000 --> 0:14:43.840000 type question, you would have dragged these boxes around to form them 0:14:43.840000 --> 0:14:45.260000 in the correct order. 0:14:45.260000 --> 0:14:49.140000 So when you're answering this, you might pause this question. 0:14:49.140000 --> 0:14:53.200000 And then if I was going to do this, I would put on a piece of paper like 0:14:53.200000 --> 0:14:57.340000 one, two, three, four, five, six, seven from the top down, you know, one, 0:14:57.340000 --> 0:14:59.780000 you drive to work two, you scream at your boss three. 0:14:59.780000 --> 0:15:06.120000 And then I'd say okay, so number one really should be number six. 0:15:06.120000 --> 0:15:07.380000 That's the sixth thing. 0:15:07.380000 --> 0:15:11.000000 Number two really should be the third thing. 0:15:11.000000 --> 0:15:13.280000 And so maybe I would do something like that so that when you look at the 0:15:13.280000 --> 0:15:17.160000 answer, you can actually assess whether you reordered them correctly or 0:15:17.160000 --> 0:15:21.600000 not. I also have drag and drop questions. 0:15:21.600000 --> 0:15:24.640000 Now they're not really drag and drop, but on the CCNA exam, you will have 0:15:24.640000 --> 0:15:28.740000 some graphical questions or drag and drop or you drag something into an 0:15:28.740000 --> 0:15:29.800000 appropriate box. 0:15:29.800000 --> 0:15:32.480000 So in my case, they will look like something like this. 0:15:32.480000 --> 0:15:36.220000 So you'll see some boxes on the left and you have to pair them up with 0:15:36.220000 --> 0:15:38.400000 the correct boxes on the right. 0:15:38.400000 --> 0:15:42.200000 So once again, you would just think about this, pause the video, come 0:15:42.200000 --> 0:15:45.020000 up with some creative way on your piece of paper, something that you can 0:15:45.020000 --> 0:15:48.420000 figure out what you think the answer is, then press play. 0:15:48.420000 --> 0:15:51.940000 And the answer, you can see here how I've paired things up into the correct 0:15:51.940000 --> 0:15:57.040000 order. So that's it. 0:15:57.040000 --> 0:16:02.520000 So let's go ahead and start assessing you for CCNA for the network fundamentals