Book excerpt: Trust the best-selling Official Cert Guide series from Cisco Press to help you learn, prepare, and practice for exam success. They are built with the objective of providing assessment, review, and practice to help ensure you are fully prepared for your certification exam. "" "CCNA Routing and Switching ICND2 200-105 Official Cert Guide," Academic Editionis a comprehensive textbook and study package that provides you with a detailed overview of network configuration and troubleshooting. Best-selling author and expert instructor Wendell Odom shares study hints and test-taking tips, helping you identify areas of weakness and improve both your conceptual knowledge and hands-on skills. This complete study package includes . A test-preparation routine proven to help you pass the exams . "Do I Know This Already?" quizzes, which enable you to decide how much time you need to spend on each section . Chapter-ending and part-ending exercises, which help you drill on key concepts you must know thoroughly . Troubleshooting sections, which help you master the complex scenarios you will face on the exam . A free copy of the eBook version of the text, available in PDF, EPUB, and Mobi (Kindle) formats . The powerful Pearson IT Certification Practice Test software, complete with hundreds of well-reviewed, exam-realistic questions, customization options, and detailed performance reports . A free copy of the CCNA ICND2 200-105 Network Simulator Lite software, complete with meaningful lab exercises that help you hone your hands-on skills with the command-line interface for routers and switches . Links to a series of hands-on config labs developed by the author . Online interactive practice exercises that help you hone your knowledge . More than 50 minutes of video mentoring from the author . A final preparation chapter, which guides you through tools and resources to help you craft your review and test-taking strategies . Study plan suggestions and templates to help you organize and optimize your study time Well regarded for its level of detail, study plans, assessment features, challenging review questions and exercises, video instruction, and hands-on labs, this official study guide helps you master the concepts and techniques that ensure your success. This official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNA ICND2 exam, including . Ethernet LANs . IPv4 routing protocols . Wide area networks . IPv4 services: ACLs and QoS . IPv4 routing and troubleshooting . IPv6 . Network management, SDN, and cloud computing Companion DVD The DVD contains more than 500 unique practice exam questions, ICND2 Network Simulator Lite software, online practice exercises, and 50+ minutes of video training. Includes Exclusive Offers For Up to 70% Off Video Training and Network Simulator Software Pearson IT Certification Practice Test minimum system requirements: Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7, or Vista (SP2), Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 Client; Pentium-class 1 GHz processor (or equivalent); 512 MB RAM; 650 MB disk space plus 50 MB for each downloaded practice exam; access to the Internet to register and download exam databases In addition to the wealth of updated content, this new edition includes a series of free hands-on exercises to help you master several real-world con guration and troubleshooting activities. These exercises can be performed on the CCNA ICND2 200-105 Network Simulator Lite software included for free on the DVD or companion web page that accompanies this book. This software, which simulates the experience of working on actual Cisco routers and switches, contains the following 19 free lab exercises, covering all of the topics in Part II, the first hands-on configuration section of the book: 1. EIGRP Serial Configuration I 2. EIGRP Serial Configuration II 3. EIGRP Serial Configuration III 4. EIGRP Serial Configuration IV 5. EIGRP Serial Configuration V 6. EIGRP Serial Configuration VI 7. EIGRP Route Tuning I 8. EIGRP Route Tuning II 9. EIGRP Route Tuning III 10. EIGRP Route Tuning IV 11. EIGRP Neighbors I 12. EIGRP Neighbors II 13. EIGRP Neighbors III 14. EIGRP Auto-Summary Configuration Scenario 15. EIGRP Configuration I Configuration Scenario 16. EIGRP Metric Manipulation Configuration Scenario 17. EIGRP Variance and Maximum Paths Configuration Scenario 18. EIGRP Troubleshooting Scenario 19. Path Troubleshooting Scenario IV If you are interested in exploring more hands-on labs and practicing con guration and troubleshooting with more router and switch commands, check out our full simulator product offerings at http: //www.pearsonitcerti cation.com/networksimulator. CCNA ICND2 Network Simulator Lite minimum system requirements: Windows (Minimum) . Windows 10 (32/64-bit), Windows 8.1 (32/64-bit), or Windows 7 (32/64-bit) . 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor . 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit) . 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) . DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver . Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8 and above Mac (Minimum) . OS X 10.11, 10.10, 10.9, or 10.8 . Intel core Duo 1.83 GHz . 512 MB RAM (1 GB recommended) . 1.5 GB hard disk space . 32-bit color depth at 1024x768 resolution . Adobe Acrobat Reader version 8 and above Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE "