External CCNA: 640-802

Guys, I would recommend to go for the 640-802 single exam instead of the ICND1 and ICND2 path. I hope you are still studying while it is fresh. Lukas has already pass the external with a 972/1000. Congrats

Congratulations

Dear All,

Congratulations to all of you. Do not go on holidays yet. Carry on for a month, month and a half and you should be getting more than 90% in the external exam. Please join the External CCNA study Group on Facebook and start revising.

PD: Thanks for your positive feedback.

Requesting a voucher

Before requesting a voucher, eligible Students and Instructors should access the URL Pearson VUE - http://www.vue.com/ in order to locate the nearest Testing Center and read about the standard testing procedures.

As of September 4, 2007 the specific information could be located at:

• URL: http://pearsonvue.com/cisco/

Please note the following before requesting your discount voucher:

• Your voucher must be used in the same region where you completed your Academy training.
• Absolutely NO exchanges, refunds, or extensions will be granted if the incorrect voucher type is selected.
• Vouchers must be used by the expiration date.
• Please confirm the discount amount with the testing center PRIOR to taking the exam. We will not reimburse Students or Instructor for the voucher.
• Cisco cannot make changes to voucher.requests after they have been submitted.

To request a Discount voucher., please follow the steps listed below:

1. Login to the Academy Connection site at http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/netacad/index.html
2. Click on the 'request for CCNA Voucher' link located in the 'Career Development' or 'Professional Development' section of your Home Page
3. Before you requesta voucher.please read the information located on the 'Requesta voucher.' page
4. Choose the Country
5. Choose the Testing Center
6. Click 'Submit'

Please Note: After completing the voucher.Exam, the link that allows Students and Instructors the ability to request a discount voucher.may take up to 48 hours to appear. If you are not eligible to receive a request voucher.for a particular curriculum, you will not receive the 'Request a voucher.' link.

After completing the request, you may review your discount voucher.information in your profile. The details are accessible by clicking on the 'My Profile' link at the top of your Home Page and scrolling down to the voucher.

Voucher Requirements

CCNA EXPLORATION

In order for Students to receive a request for the ICND1, ICND2, and the CCNA vouchers, Students must complete all four courses of the CCNA Exploration curriculum and receive a score of 75 percent or higher on their first attempt of the final exam for the final CCNA Exploration course: 'Accessing the WAN'.

Qualifying Students will automatically receive a Voucher Request link(s) within 72 hours after the Instructor passes the Student from the class. The links will appear as below on the Student Home page:

* Request for ICND1 Voucher
* Request for ICND2 Voucher
* Request for CCNA Composite Voucher

All Students will have the opportunity to receive all three Discount Voucher request links but will not have the ability to obtain all three Discount Vouchers. Students may request the Discount Vouchers the following ways:

* Students may request the ICND1 and the ICND2 Discount Vouchers
* Students may request the ICND1 and the CCNA Composite Discount Vouchers
* Students may request the CCNA Composite Discount Voucher

The following notification appears when Students begin to request their discount voucher. Please remind Students to read all notifications very carefully before they make their voucher requests.

• Vouchers must be used in the same region where they completed their Academy training.
• Absolutely no exchanges, refunds, or extensions will be granted.
• Vouchers must be used by the expiration date.
• Please confirm the discount amount with the testing center PRIOR to taking the exam.
• We WILL NOT reimburse Students or Instructor for the voucher.
• Cisco CANNOT make changes to voucher requests after they have been submitted

Final Test

Dear all,

as you know, next Tuesday is the Final Multiple Choice Test and next Thursday you will be doing the Final Lab for CCNA Exploration 4. Remember that PPP, Frame-Relay , Access-Lists and NAT are a "must". DHCP and the Security chapters are also important.

PD: Nobody has turned up in the HelpDesk this morning.

Good Luck.

ARP Poisoning

Extra Info on ARP Poisoning:

[Wikipedia] Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing, also known as ARP poisoning or ARP Poison Routing (APR), is a technique used to attack an Ethernet wired or wireless network. ARP Spoofing may allow an attacker to sniff data frames on a local area network (LAN), modify the traffic, or stop the traffic altogether (known as a denial of service attack). The attack can only be used on networks that actually make use of ARP and not another method of address resolution.



The principle of ARP spoofing is to send fake, or "spoofed", ARP messages to an Ethernet LAN. Generally, the aim is to associate the attacker's MAC address with the IP address of another node (such as the default gateway). Any traffic meant for that IP address would be mistakenly sent to the attacker instead. The attacker could then choose to forward the traffic to the actual default gateway (passive sniffing) or modify the data before forwarding it (man-in-the-middle attack). The attacker could also launch a denial-of-service attack against a victim by associating a nonexistent MAC address to the IP address of the victim's default gateway.

ARP spoofing attacks can be run from a compromised host, or from an attacker's machine that is connected directly to the target Ethernet segment. Please follow the link for an animation:


http://www.oxid.it/downloads/apr-intro.swf

Enabling all the chapters this Eastern

Guys, Most of you are requesting to enable certain chapters. I will enable every single chapter until the end of Easter. After that only chapter 4,5,6,7 and 8 will be enabled (just 1 week each). Good Luck.

Chapter 3 Test is now enabled

Chapter 3 Test has been enabled. It will be enabled until 07/04/2009
09:45. Make sure you do it before the deadline. No test will be re-enabled this semester.

Chapter 2 Test is now enabled

Chapter 2 Test has been enabled. It will be enabled until 02/04/2009
13:21. Make sure you do it before the deadline. No test will be re-enabled this semester.

Welcome to CCNA 4: Chapter 1 Tests

Chapter 1 Test has been created. It will be enable until 31/03/2009
13:31. Make sure you do it before the deadline. No test will be re-enabled this semester.

Congratulations

Everyone has progressed to CCNA4. Good effort but I will generally suggest to attend the practicals more often and to fully read the curriculum.

Marks for Thursday Lab are now available

Marking of CCNA3 lab is finished. Please check Cisco Netacad. Guys, I spoke to Freddy and the time for the lab tomorrow will be 1:15 minutes again to avoid favoritism. Any queries, please reply.