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Labs for Cisco knowledge and tests

I wanted to know how I could get my hands on some Cisco labs? I interviewed for a Cisco position, but don't have the full hands on for landing a Cisco position. I was told that I could use VIRL, but it seems like the site does not offer any books or information with regards to creating my own labs.

Thanks for the information. I'd like to go more on the security route with Cisco.

btan

You may want to check out some past posting on the labs or simulators

http://freeciscolab.com/category/security/
http://www.ciscoconsole.com/free-cisco-lab-simulators.html

Rafael

VIRL allows you the ability to create a Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab. There are some caveats such as you have to pay for the annual license fee as well as have the hardware to support it. You can either buy a server and load the VM ESXi on it or build your own.

Here are the details for it:
http://virl.cisco.com/getvirl/

Another option is to use GNS3 https://www.gns3.com/software
GNS 3 is very similar to VIRL. The difference is that it is free and if you do a google site serach on the Cisco Forums and other places you find labs that have been built on GNS3 so that you can practice on.

For Example:
http://resources.intenseschool.com/gns3-labs-for-ccna-getting-started/
http://www.routergods.com/
http://www.brianlinkletter.com/open-source-network-simulators/

HTH
-Rafael

btan

The GNS3 is a graphical network simulator that allows simulation of complex networks. It can serves as complementary tool to real labs for Cisco network. Likewise there is simulation program from Cisco Packet Tracer and more example in the post on simulator in ciscoconsole.com

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