There are people in this earth who, I don't know how, got the authority to certify other people excluding themselves and I find everybody including me to fall in the 'other people' category. I am too want to be certified and I do possess some certifications worth mentioning from Cisco Systems.

To get certified under Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) the following links can help you a lot.

For practice of configuring a router in your PC sitting at home get the simulator here.

• RouterSim : This simulator is fairly good and easy to design the network with drag-n-drop facility but does not support Frame-Relay configuration, ISDN configuration. Designing and configuring VLANS are good and easy here. Todd Lammle is a member of this company.
• Boson Router Simulator : This is not seemingly user friendly at first sight but I'm sure you'll love it after you get familiar with it. It is very powerful and you can configure almost everything you need to learn to qualify CCNA.

To operate these simulators you have to buy the software. But those who intend to use for academic purpose and for personal practice there is a way out for you. Get the cracks here.

For reading get the books which meet the objectives of CCNA as published by Cisco Systems.

• Boson e-book : This book can be downloaded from the internet from this link .

Here too you need a crack to make the e-book full operational. Please don't use the cracks for commercial use. This is beyond the ethics of the people who help us by developing the cracks for us that we need badly. Get the crack here.

Test yourself how much you are prepared.

• Boson Practice Test : You must get this test. It will help you be familiar with online test if you have never sit for one before. This can be downloaded from this internet link.

You need to unlock the software to get the full flavor of the test. The cracks for earlier version of the test software are available readily. But the latest software is difficult to crack. There is a person who had done it and virtually got the permission from the boson company to distribute the unlocking key. You can get the link to the site from here.