Progress:

CCNA Journey - Week 0

Day 1:

  1. Started Jeremy's IT Lab
  2. Learned about multimode and singlemode fiber along with UTP cables
  3. Completed lab connecting crossover cables and straight-through cables between switches, routers, and endhosts

Day 2:

  1. Learned about OSI Model (7 Layers) and TCP/IP Model (4 Layers)
  2. 3 Top Layers of OSI are Application, Presentation, and Session which are combined into the Application layer of TCP/IP Model
  3. Data link and physical layer of OSI are combined into the Link layer of TCP/IP
  4. Network Engineers deal with the bottom 4 layers: Transport, Network, Data link, and physical

Day 3:

  1. Learned about command line interface
  2. User EXEC, Privileged EXEC, Configure Terminal
  3. service password-encryption encrypts 'enable password' in running-conf
  4. Completed lab reinfacing the CLI. Changed hostname, enabled password, secret, and copied running-config to startup-config

Day 4 - 8:

  1. 5 day hiatus due to overtime at work

Day 9:

  1. Priming brain by doing flashcards/review on days 1 through 3