CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide, Volume 1, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4

Using the Command-Line Interface

This chapter covers the following exam topics:

2.0 Network Access

2.8 Describe network device management access (Telnet, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, console, TACACS+/RADIUS, and cloud managed)

The CCNA exam focuses on skills like understanding how LANs work, configuring different switch features, verifying that those features work correctly, and finding the root cause of the problem when a feature is not working correctly. Before doing the more important work, you must first learn how to access and use the user interface of the switch, called the command-line interface (CLI).

This chapter begins that process by showing the basics of how to access the switch’s CLI. These skills include how to access the CLI and ...