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Customizing Your Exams – Cisco Final Preparation
Customizing Your Exams When you are in the exam settings screen, you can choose to take exams in one of three modes: Study Mode enables you to fully customize your exams and review answers as you are taking the exam. This is typically the mode you would use first to assess your knowledge and identify…
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Practice Tests – Cisco Final Preparation
Practice Tests The following sections discuss the available tools to practice model tests and quizzes, and how to access them. Pearson Cert Practice Test Engine and Questions on the Website Register this book to get access to the Pearson IT Certification test engine (software that displays and grades a set of exam-realistic, multiple-choice questions). Using…
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Getting Ready for the Exam – Cisco Final Preparation
Getting Ready for the Exam Now that you have finished this book, you can register for the exam and take the test. However, if you first spend some time thinking about your exam-day expectations, learning about the user interface of a real Cisco exam, and knowing about your testing center, you will be better prepared…
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Troubleshooting Logs – Cisco System Logging (Syslog)
Troubleshooting Logs In case of any technical issues with Secure Firewall, you can contact the Cisco technical assistance center. You may be requested to obtain troubleshooting files from your Secure Firewall and share the files with Cisco for advanced analysis. The troubleshooting files contain log messages of various processes, copies of configuration files, results of…
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Correlate Events to Send Syslog Alerts – Cisco System Logging (Syslog)
Correlate Events to Send Syslog Alerts The previous section showed syslog alerts between two hosts in a lab environment. In the real world, when thousands of an organization’s users access network resources, they can trigger a substantially higher volume of syslog messages. In this case, if you want to receive syslog messages only for an…
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Exploring Cisco Nexus Device Configuration – Cisco Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
Exploring Cisco Nexus Device Configuration The Cisco NX-OS software has two types of configuration files: running configuration and startup configuration. The device uses the startup configuration (startup-config) during device startup to configure the software features. The running configuration (running-config) contains the current changes you make to the startup configuration file. The two configuration files can…
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Exploring Command Aliases – Cisco Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
Exploring Command Aliases You can define command aliases to replace frequently used commands. The command aliases can represent all or part of the command syntax. Command aliases are global and enabled for all user sessions on an NX-OS device and persist across reboots if you save them to the startup configuration. You can define command…
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Summary – Cisco Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
Summary This chapter discusses Cisco Nexus Data Center, Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX), Cisco NX-OS software architecture, and the Cisco NX-OS CLI, including the following points:
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Default Gateway Redundancy – Cisco Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
Default Gateway Redundancy The default gateway facilitates communication between hosts on different networks. The source host sends the data to its default gateway. The default gateway is an IP address on a router (or Layer 3 switch), connected to the same subnet the source host is on, that forwards the data to the destination host.…
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Hot Standby Router Protocol – Cisco Describing the Cisco Nexus Family and Cisco NX-OS Software
Hot Standby Router Protocol Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) is a Cisco proprietary first-hop redundancy protocol (FHRP) for establishing a fault-tolerant default gateway for IP hosts on Ethernet networks. When you use HSRP, you configure the HSRP virtual IP address and virtual MAC address. The HSRP virtual IP address is used as the host’s default…
