Step 6: Subnetting Practice

This book assumes that you have mastered subnetting and the related math. However, many people who progress through CCNA, and move on to CCNP, follow a path like this:

Step 1. Learn subnetting conceptually.

Step 2. Get really good at doing the math quickly.

Step 3. Pass CCNA.

Step 4. Don’t practice regularly and therefore become a lot slower at doing the subnetting math.

Step 5. Study for CCNP ROUTE.

Although subnetting should not be assessed as an end to itself on CCNP ROUTE, many questions require that you understand subnetting math and do that math just as quickly as you did when you passed CCNA. If you are a little slow on doing subnetting math, before you go to the ROUTE exam, try some of the following exercises: ...

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