10/17/2000 -- Cisco Press recently released six programs to help candidates without test equipment prepare for the company's certification exams.

The interactive software, called Cisco Interactive Mentor (CIM), simulates the experience of working with a network. Each program is designed to teach Cisco configuration and troubleshooting methodologies by providing networking technology instruction and a simulated network environment for self-paced, hands-on interactive learning.

The new series includes kits for router basics, IP routing (distance vector protocols), voice internetworking, LAN switching, access ISDN, and expert routing. All have a suggested retail price of $149.95, except the LAN switching kit, which retails for $199.95.

Cisco offers demos of three of its kits at http://www2.ciscopress.com/changeling.cfm?chnglng=16&sbchnglng=50. -- TCPmag.com

Originally published on TCPmag.com, October 2000.

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