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Progress Check: Introduction to WLAN and Wireless Security My current Network Security classes have taken me into the depths of wireless local area networks (WLANs) and encryption methods. Wireless networks as a topic has been largely absent from my CCNA study, since I’m still working my way through the joys of VLANs and trunking on…
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Progress check: Introduction to network security and general revision of prior content. Last week, my cyber security classes started again and I was thrown into the depths of network security. This is a completely new aspect in my networking studies, as I am still learning about network topologies and different architectures. As an aside, I…
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As a bit of a break from my usual CCNA studies, I wanted to try setting up my own home lab to experiment with ethical hacking. YouTube has been recommending videos about home labs as a new IT project, and they encompass everything from networking to ethical hacking. Initially, I have thought it would be…
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Progress Check: Completed Day 18 of the Complete CCNA Course by Jeremy’s IT Lab. This past week especially has seen a significant increase in difficulty with regards to the content, especially as the learning begins to move away from what I have previously been taught in school. I have learnt three major topics: routing, subnetting…
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It took me a good few days to finally get through the learning materials for layer 3 routing. Not only were the materials way more challenging than previous lessons, but the sudden increase in numbers and IP addresses were overwhelming at times. I write this post as a “Beginner’s Guide”, not because it’s a guide…
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Progress Check: Day #11 of the Complete CCNA Course by Jeremy’s IT Lab. Last year, I passed an Introduction to Networking unit where I was taught networking basics in six weekly lessons. Anyone who has any knowledge of networking will know that six lessons is not nearly enough time to cover all that content, and it ended…