About Building Hands-On Skills

You need skills in using Cisco routers and switches, specifically the Cisco command-line interface (CLI). The Cisco CLI is a text-based command-and-response user interface in which you type a command and the device (a router or switch) displays messages in response. To answer Sim and Simlet questions on the exams, you need to know a lot of commands, and you need to be able to navigate to the right place in the CLI to use those commands.

The best way to master these commands is to use them. Sometime during your initial reading of the first part of this book, you need to decide how you personally plan to build your CLI skills. This next topic discusses your options for getting the tools you need to build CLI skills. ...

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