CCNP Routing and Switching ROUTE 300-101 Official Cert Guide

Step 3: Hands-On Practice

Although this book gives you many configuration checklists, specific configuration examples, examples of output, and explanations for the meaning of that output, there is no substitute for hands-on practice. This short section provides a few suggestions regarding your efforts to practice from the command-line interface (CLI).

First, most people use one or more of the following options for hands-on skills:

Real gear: Either purchased (often used), borrowed, or rented

Simulators: Software that acts like real gear

Emulators: ...