Part III Review

Keep track of your part review progress with the checklist shown in Table P3-1. Details on
each task follow the table.

Table P3-1  Part III Part Review Checklist

Activity 1st Date Completed 2nd Date Completed
Repeat All DIKTA Questions
Answer Part Review Questions
Review Key Topics
Create Command Mind Maps by Category
Do Labs

Repeat All DIKTA Questions

For this task, answer the “Do I Know This Already?” questions again for the chapters in this
part of the book, using the PCPT software.

Answer Part Review Questions

For this task, answer the Part Review questions for this part of the book, using the PCPT
software.
Review Key Topics
Review all key topics in all chapters in this part, either by browsing the chapters or by using
the Key Topics application on the DVD or companion website.

Create Terminology, Command, and Troubleshooting Causes Mind Maps

Part III of this book discusses the more advanced Ethernet concepts for this book, but from
many directions: design, implementation, and troubleshooting. These next three mind maps
help you collect and organize your thoughts from each direction.

Terminology: Start with a blank mind map, and create a map that organizes all the terms
you can recall from this part, especially for Chapters 10 (design) and 11 (VLANs and
trunking). After you have added all the terms you can recall, and organized which terms
relate by connecting the terms into a hierarchy or other organization, go back to the Key
Terms list at the end of each chapter. Add any terms you forgot to list in your map to this
mind map.

Commands: Create a mind map that focuses on remembering the config and EXEC com-
mands related to VLANs and trunking. Do not be worried about every single parameter
on each command; this exercise is more about remembering the commands available to
you for each feature. Once you do what you can from memory, go back and check your
map against the Chapter 11 Command Reference tables at the end of the chapter, and
add to your map.

Troubleshooting causes: Chapter 12 works through several issues that can cause prob-
lems for interfaces, port security, and VLANs and VLAN trunks. Create one mind map
with branches for each of these, from memory, with the usual goal of exercising your
memory and building more connectors in your brain. Then skim the chapter and add to
your map.

Labs
Depending on your chosen lab tool, here are some suggestions for what to do in lab:

Pearson Network Simulator: If you use the full Pearson ICND1 or CCNA simulator,
focus more on the configuration scenario and troubleshooting scenario labs associated
with the topics in this part of the book. These types of labs include a larger set of topics,
and work well as Part Review activities. (See the Introduction for some details about how
to find which labs are about topics in this part of the book.)

Config Labs: In your idle moments, review and repeat any of the Config Labs for this
book part in the author’s blog; launch from blog.certskills.com/ccent and navigate to the
Hands-on Config labs.

Other: If using other lab tools, as a few suggestions: make sure and experiment heavily
with VLAN configuration and VLAN trunking configuration. Also, experiment with the
combinations of port security settings detailed in Chapter 12, focusing on the output
from the show port-security command. Finally, spend some time changing interface set-
tings like speed and duplex on a link between two switches, to make sure that you under-
stand which cases would result in a duplex mismatch.