Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933

About Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933

Chris Bryant, CCIE (TM) #12933, has been active in the Cisco certification community for years. He worked his way up from the CCNA to the CCIE, and knows what CCNA and CCNP candidates need to know to be effective on the job and in the exam room.

He is the owner of http://www.thebryantadvantage.com, where he teaches CCNA and CCNP courses to small groups of exam candidates, ensuring they each receive the individual attention they deserve. Classes are offered over the Internet and in person in select cities. Chris has custom-written the Study Guide and Lab Workbook used in each course - no third-party training materials or simulators are used. You're invited to visit our site and check out our CCNA and CCNP courses and study aids, and to sign up for our weekly newsletter written personally by Chris. Chris is always glad to hear from Cisco certification candidates at chris@thebryantadvantage.com

CCNA Cisco Certification Training Case Study: How Multiple Passwords Affect Router Access

Your CCNA certification exam efforts must include practicing with different password types and knowing how to configure them on a Cisco router - but for CCNA exam success and to thrive in real-world networks, you also have to know how to examine a...
Date Posted: December 11, 2006

Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Training: Telnet, Passwords, and Privilege Levels

Your CCNA certification exam is likely going to contain questions about Telnet, an application-level protocol that allows remote communication between two networking devices.
Date Posted: December 11, 2006

CCNA Certification Exam Training: Passwords, Cisco Routers, And Network Security

CCNA certification is important, and so is securing our network's Cisco routers! To reflect the importance of network security, your CCNA certification exam is likely going to contain a few questions about the various passwords you can set on a...
Date Posted: December 11, 2006

Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Case Study: Frame Relay, Pings, And Routing Protocols

Cisco CCNA certification training includes troubleshooting your own work and that of others. The best CCNA training you can do is indeed troubleshooting your own Cisco router and switch configurations - as I'm always telling my students,...
Date Posted: November 27, 2006

CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: The Five IP Address Classes

Passing the CompTIA Network+ certification exam and going on to become a subnetting expert is mastering the basics of IP addressing, and that means knowing the different classes, their default masks, and what these masks mean.
Date Posted: November 13, 2006

CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Virus Attacks And Antivirus Programs

Whether you’re preparing to pass the Network+ or Cisco CCNA certification exam or not, you must not underestimate the importance of antivirus programs and virus definition updates.
Date Posted: November 10, 2006

CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: Antivirus Programs, Part II

In the first part of this CompTIA Network+ certification exam tutorial, we looked at the different types of viruses and other invaders trying to get into our network, and how antivirus programs help to stop them.
Date Posted: November 08, 2006

CompTIA Network+ Certification Exam Tutorial: DHCP and DHCP Relay Agents

As a CompTIA Network+ exam candidate, you’re probably familiar with DHCP – but just in case, we’re going to review DHCP basics here and then go into a discussion of DHCP Relay Agents.When it comes to assigning an IP address to all the...
Date Posted: October 30, 2006