This title will provide students and instructors with printed material for the labs in Semester 5 of the Academy program. In addition to the lab exercises included in the Fifth-Semester Companion Guide, this lab manual will include no fewer than three bonus activities that focus on additional concepts, such as BGP attributes. The bonus exercises provide students with optional labs that can be used as extra credit or more focused study. This lab manual will also contain two large case studies that are not currently available in any other publication, on-line or otherwise. Students and teachers can use these case studies as group projects, midterms, final projects, or final exam preparation.Finally, the lab manual will contain the following appendices useful to both instructors and students: answers to lab exercise questions, configuration instructions for the Atlas 550, basic troubleshooting techniques, IOS command reference specific to the labs, and suggested physical lab configuration. The later two sections are currently not available anywhere else.
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Mark McGregor, CCNP, CCDA, CCAI, is the regional coordinator for the Cisco Networking Academy Program at Los Medanos College, in Pittsburg, CA. He has taught in the Academy program since 1997, and currently works for Cisco Systems WorldWide Education on Academy-related projects. Mark holds a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California, Davis and has been a technical reviewer and contributor for Cisco Press since 1998. As a public-school instructor for more than seven years, he has enjoyed the opportunity to teach and learn from students of all ages and backgrounds. He lives in Antioch, California.