Archive for June, 2010

3-Way and 4-Way Switches

Do you have a room that has two or more entrances and you would like to have a switch at each entrance to control a light? Or more commonly, did your electrician set one up for you and now you have replaced a broken switch but can’t get it to work right? Fear not, some simple diagrams should help sort it out.

First of all, there are 2-way, 3-way, and 4-way switches; each with a different purpose. Two-way switches are most common and only have two terminals in addition to the ground screw. These are very simple in nature and simply either break or complete the circuit to turn a light on or off. Read more

Hubs, Repeaters, Bridges, and Switches

To pass your Network+ certification exam, you must know the differences between hubs, repeaters, bridges, and switches. The differences are straightforward for the most part, so let’s examine the basic purpose of these devices.

Hubs and repeaters both work at the Physical layer of the OSI model. They do not help to direct traffic toward the proper destination, as routers and switches do. Their purpose in the network is simply to make the signal strong enough to reach its destination, by regenerating the signal. Hubs and repeaters both take an incoming data signal and make a clean, strong copy of the signal. Otherwise, the signal would suffer from attenuation, the gradual weakening of a signal as it gets farther and farther away from the source.

Repeaters are just about extinct in today’s networks, because they only have one input port and one output port. Naturally, this means we could only regenerate a single data signal. Hubs are really just multiport repeaters, but their multiple ports give them some value in today’s networks. Read more

IPv6 Tutorial

IPv6 is an ever-emerging star of the Internet. Several years ago, when the protocol started to be drafted, it immediately entered under every spotlight available in IT. Back then, the perspective of not having any more IPv4 addresses to assign seemed horrifying: nobody was ready for it, and there were quite a few people who expected the Internet to be dead and buried in a few months.

The fears seemed to be premature back then. Indeed, five years after news of IPv6 started grabbing the headlines, the perspective of IPv4 depletion is still at least five years away. This does serve IANA’s purposes: the migration is slow and gradual.

But most important, the migration is not determined only by the depletion problem. IPv6 offers several advantages of its own, besides the much larger address space, which ensures that IPv6 addresses will certainly not be depleted anywhere in the following decades. Read more

Did You Know That Accounting Salaries Can Range From $45,000 to $160,000?

Accounting salary is not a one-size-fits-all as it depends on a number of factors ranging from certification to the present economic conditions and the hiring procedures. And salary can vary from the entry level accountant to someone with more qualifications and experience.

You can even expect a good salary with the adequate accreditation and experience in these tough times. People wrongly believe that salaries for accountants have nosedived after the meltdown.

Type of firm and operations

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3 Most Popular Mistakes of IT Certification

Parallel to the growth of the IT Industry, the value and importance of IT certification exams has also gain significant momentum. More and more people are pursuing these exams and organizations are also encouraging their employees to take these certifications.

But one needs to be educated enough to make a proper choice whether to take the certification or not. And if you decide to take, then it is even more important to be clear of what it gives you and takes from you to be a certified professional. Below is a brief discussion about 3 most common mistakes, people make while deciding for these certification exams. Read more

HP0-Y24 certification guide

HP is one of the leading multinational companies that are available with several branches around the world. The certifications from HP provide adequate knowledge as well as skills to assure the HP certified professionals competency. Similarly, HP0-D05 is one such certification that provides complete benefits to the candidates. The exam name for HP0-Y24 is ProCurve Security 7.31. This certification will suit best for the candidates who wish to focus/ study about performance management and multiprotocol network.

Prerequisites for this certification:

The following are the prerequisites required for the candidates to write this examination and they are:

1) AIS- Hp ProCurve networking
2) Pass in associate exam (HP0-Y11) or attend any ProCure courses
3) Pass in associate exam (Hp0-603) or attend any routing switch essential courses
4) Attend or pass in any one of the elective examinations- HP0- 144, HP0-758 and HP0-791.

Exam objectives and percentage questions from each section:

The following are the Exam HP0-Y24 objectives and details about percentage of questions from each section during examination. They are:

1) Overview of HP ProCurve security- 23% questions
2) ProCurve device management security- 17% questions
3) Protection of ProCure network- 10% questions
4) ProCurve network access control security- 27% questions
5) Troubleshooting ProCurve- 23% questions

Job roles and other details:

Candidates can get varieties of job opportunities from this certification and some of the job roles include System engineer, network engineer, customer network and reseller support, HP field service engineer etc. The exam comprises of 66 multiple choice questions with approximately 90 minutes time duration. There is no case study type questions included in the examination. Minimum score to pass in the examination is 70%.

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