Accessing the WAN , CCNA Exploration Companion Guide (Hardcover)

Accessing the WAN

CCNA Exploration Companion Guide

Bob Vachon

Rick Graziani

Accessing the WAN, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the Accessing the WAN course in the Cisco Networking Academy CCNA Exploration curriculum version 4. This course discusses the WAN technologies and network services required by converged applications in enterprise networks. The Companion Guide, written and edited by Networking Academy instructors, is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere. The book’s features reinforce the material in the course to help you focus on important concepts and organize your study time for exams.

New and improved features help you study and succeed in this course:

• Chapter objectives: Review core concepts by answering the focus questions listed at the beginning of each chapter.
• Key terms: Refer to the updated lists of networking vocabulary introduced and turn to the highlighted terms in context in each chapter.
• Glossary: Consult the all-new comprehensive glossary with more than 250 terms.
• Check Your Understanding questions and answer key: Evaluate your readiness with the updated end-of-chapter questions that match the style of questions you see on the online course quizzes. The answer key explains each answer.
• Challenge questions and activities: Strive to ace more challenging review questions and activities designed to prepare you for the complex styles of questions you might see on the CCNA exam. The answer key explains each answer.

Bob Vachon is the coordinator of the Computer Systems Technology program and teaches networking infrastructure courses at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Bob has worked and taught in the computer networking and information technology field for 25 years and is a scholar graduate of Cambrian College. 

Rick Graziani teaches computer science and computer networking courses at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. Rick has worked and taught in the computer networking and information technology field for 30 years.

How To: Look for this icon to study the steps that you need to learn to perform certain tasks.

Packet Tracer Activities: Explore networking concepts in activities interspersed throughout some chapters using

Packet Tracer v4.1 developed by Cisco. The files for these activities are on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Also available for the Accessing the WAN Course

Accessing the WAN,

CCNA Exploration

Labs and Study Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58713-201-X

ISBN-13: 978-1-58713-201-8

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM provides many useful tools and information to support your education:

Packet Tracer Activity exercise files

• A Guide to Using a Networker’s Journal booklet
• Taking Notes: A .txt file of the chapter objectives
• More IT Career Information
• Tips on Lifelong Learning in Networking

This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press. The products in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking Academy online curriculum.

《Accessing the WAN, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide》是Cisco Networking Academy CCNA Exploration課程版本4中Accessing the WAN課程的官方補充教材。本課程討論了企業網絡中收斂應用所需的廣域網絡技術和網絡服務。這本同伴指南由Networking Academy的教師編寫和編輯，旨在作為一本隨時隨地使用的便攜式桌面參考資料。該書的特點加強了課程中的材料，幫助您專注於重要概念並組織您的考試學習時間。

新的和改進的功能幫助您學習和成功完成本課程：
- 章節目標：通過回答每章開頭列出的重點問題，回顧核心概念。
- 關鍵詞：參考更新的網絡詞彙表，並在每章上下文中查找突出顯示的詞彙。
- 詞彙表：請查閱全新的綜合詞彙表，其中包含250多個詞彙。
- 檢查您的理解問題和答案：通過更新的章末問題評估您的準備情況，這些問題與在線課程測驗中看到的問題風格相匹配。答案解釋了每個答案。
- 挑戰問題和活動：努力通過更具挑戰性的評論問題和活動，為您準備可能在CCNA考試中遇到的複雜問題風格。答案解釋了每個答案。

Bob Vachon是Cambrian College的計算機系統技術課程協調員，並在加拿大安大略省蘇德伯里教授網絡基礎設施課程。Bob在計算機網絡和信息技術領域工作和教學已有25年，並且是Cambrian College的學者畢業生。

Rick Graziani在加利福尼亞州阿普托斯的Cabrillo College教授計算機科學和計算機網絡課程。Rick在計算機網絡和信息技術領域工作和教學已有30年。

如何：尋找此圖示以學習執行特定任務所需的步驟。

Packet Tracer活動：使用由Cisco開發的Packet Tracer v4.1在某些章節中進行網絡概念探索。這些活動的文件位於附帶的CD-ROM上。

還有其他可用於Accessing the WAN課程的資源：
- Accessing the WAN, CCNA Exploration實驗室和學習指南
- ISBN-10: 1-58713-201-X
- ISBN-13: 978-1-58713-201-8

同伴CD-ROM提供了許多有用的工具和信息來支持您的學習：
- Packet Tracer活動練習文件
- 使用網絡工作者日誌指南
- 筆記：章節目標的.txt文件
- 更多IT職業信息
- 關於在網絡領域進行終身學習的提示

本書是Cisco Press的Cisco Networking Academy系列的一部分。該系列的產品支持和補充Cisco Networking Academy。