In January of 2010, Cisco announced they were updating their CCNP curriculum and their certification exams through what they described as “a comprehensive process involving customers and partners from around the globe.” The revisions focused “on the competencies that are needed to plan, implement, and troubleshoot the routed and switched networks of today and are designed to be more predictive of job readiness.”

As a result, the exams became more challenging and focused on core competencies for routing, switching, and troubleshooting an enterprise network. This paper is a detailed outline to help students understand what information would be required to pass the Route, Switch, and T-Shoot exams. This is not a substitute for training and/or knowledge required to pass these exams.

Your team is in the middle of executing a project that is now projected to run three weeks too long. Which of the following adjustments would allow the project to be delivered on time?

Facts and figures become more comprehensible through visualization. In our new series, Statistically Speaking, we are using information graphics (infographics) to present data from the IT and business industry, quickly and clearly.

Microsoft recently released Exchange Server 2013, an improved messaging platform that provides quite a few interesting features at various levels. There are major changes, and organizations will have to rethink the way they plan to maintain or integrate messaging in their infrastructure. The level of changes is not as dramatic as those seen between 2003 and 2007, but as you will see, certain things are dealt with differently. As of now, very few organizations have Exchange 2013 running, so it is certainly going to be interesting to see how this iteration of the product will interconnect with existing messaging solutions soon.

In the Cisco UCS, on what basis are world wide node names assigned?

When an IDS alerts the administrator that an intrusion is taking place, what is often the first action the first responder should perform?