• A wide selection of Jamaican, Caribbean and international text with graded comprehension questions cater to different reading levels
• 
  
• Student journal provides on-going practice of self-reflection and other skills needed for the Schools-Based Assessment (SBA)
• 
  
• Research work, group activities and discussion provide meaningful social interactions and real-life contexts to develop key 21st century skills needed for further study and working life
• 
  
• Step-by-step guidance on the writing process
• 
  
• Audio components develop listening and oral skills
• 
  
• ICT activities encourage use of appropriate digital tools to integrate technology into learning and practise sound digital citizenship
• 
  
• Reference section, including sample compositions, glossary and grammar explanations, can be used as a revision guide

Routing Protocols and Concepts

CCNA Exploration Companion Guide

Routing Protocols and Concepts, CCNA Exploration Companion Guide is the official supplemental textbook for the Routing Protocols and Concepts course in the Cisco Networking Academy (R) CCNA (R) Exploration curriculum version 4. This course describes the architecture, components, and operation of routers, and explains the principles of routing and the primary routing protocols. The Companion Guide, written and edited by Networking Academy instructors, is designed as a portable desk reference to use anytime, anywhere. The book's features reinforce the material in the course to help you focus on important concepts and organize your study time for exams.

New and improved features help you study and succeed in this course:

• Chapter objectives-Review core concepts by answering the focus questions listed at the beginning of each chapter.
• Key terms-Refer to the updated lists of networking vocabulary introduced and turn to the highlighted terms in context in each chapter.
• Glossary-Consult the comprehensive glossary with more than 150 terms.
• Check Your Understanding questions and answer key-Evaluate your readiness with the updated end-of-chapter questions that match the style of questions you see on the online course quizzes. The answer key explains each answer.
• Challenge questions and activities-Strive to ace more challenging review questions and activities designed to prepare you for the complex styles of questions you might see on the CCNA exam. The answer key explains each answer.

Rick Graziani has been a computer science and networking instructor at Cabrillo College since 1994.

Allan Johnson works full time developing curriculum for Cisco Networking Academy. Allan also is a part-time instructor at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas.

How To-Look for this icon to study the steps you need to learn to perform certain tasks.

Packet Tracer Activities- Explore networking concepts in activities interspersed throughout some chapters using

Packet Tracer v4.1 developed by Cisco (R). The files for these activities are on the accompanying CD-ROM.

Also available for the Routing Protocols and Concepts Course:

Routing Protocols and Concepts

CCNA Exploration

Labs and Study Guide

ISBN-10: 1-58713-204-4

ISBN-13: 978-1-58713-204-9

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM provides many useful tools and information to support your education:

• Packet Tracer Activity exercise files v4.1

• A Guide to Using a Networker's Journal booklet
• Taking Notes: a .txt file of the chapter objectives

• More IT Career Information
• Tips on Lifelong Learning in Networking

This book is part of the Cisco Networking Academy Series from Cisco Press (R). The products in this series support and complement the Cisco Networking Academy online curriculum.

Rick Graziani teaches computer science and computer networking courses at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California. Rick has worked and taught in the computer networking and information technology field for almost 30 years. Prior to teaching, Rick worked in IT for various companies including Santa Cruz Operation, Tandem Computers, and Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation. He holds an M.A. in computer science and systems theory from California State University Monterey Bay. Rick also does consulting work for Cisco and other companies. When Rick is not working, he is most likely surfing. Rick is an avid surfer who enjoys longboarding at his favorite Santa Cruz surf breaks.

Allan Johnson entered the academic world in 1999 after 10 years as a business owner/operator to dedicate his efforts to his passion for teaching. He holds both an M.B.A. and an M.Ed. in occupational training and development. He is an information technology instructor at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas. In 2003, Allan began to commit much of his time and energy to the CCNA Instructional Support Team, providing services to Networking Academy instructors worldwide and creating training materials. He now works full time for the Academy in Learning Systems Development.

Inspire students to enjoy literature while helping them to prepare effectively for the CSEC® examination; ensure coverage of all prescribed poems for the revised CSEC® English A and English B syllabuses with an anthology that has been compiled with the approval of the Caribbean Examinations Council by Editors who have served as CSEC® English panel members.


- Stimulate an interest in and enjoyment of literature with a wide range of themes and subjects, a balance of well-known texts from the past and more recent works, as well as stories from the Caribbean and the rest of the world.
- Support understanding with notes on each text and questions to provoke discussion, and a useful checklist to help with literary analysis.
- Consolidate learning with practical guidance on how to tackle examination questions including examples of model answers for reference.

• A wide selection of Jamaican, Caribbean and international text with graded comprehension questions cater to different reading levels
• 
  
• Student journal provides on-going practice of self-reflection and other skills needed for the Schools-Based Assessment (SBA)
• 
  
• Research work, group activities and discussion provide meaningful social interactions and real-life contexts to develop key 21st century skills needed for further study and working life
• 
  
• Step-by-step guidance on the writing process
• 
  
• Audio components develop listening and oral skills
• 
  
• ICT activities encourage use of appropriate digital tools to integrate technology into learning and practise sound digital citizenship
• 
  
• Reference section, including sample compositions, glossary and grammar explanations, can be used as a revision guide

There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.

A sparkling collection of short stories set in Trinidad. Anthony takes our hand and walks us from the valley of the lush, green cocoa trees, to taste the sweet rivers flowing nearby. We pluck fruit from the sapodilla tree and feel the crisp, brown guava leaved carpet crunch under our feet. We see Mayaro and Port of the Spain through the eyes of childish innocence and grown-up ignorance. Beautiful, evocative and poignant, the stories are sprinkled with themes of yearning for home, sad realisations and a longing for a pre-modern totality.

Ti-Jean and his Brothers was Derek Walcott's first venture into musical plays and is still his most popular work. A lilting St Lucian folk-tale, it tells the story of a poor family who dwell on the edge of a magical forest haunted by the devil's spirits. The brilliance of Walcott's writing draws us into the realms of fantasy where the actual and the miraculous collide.

Dennis Scott's An Echo in the Bone is set during a traditional Nine-Night Ceremony held to honour the spirit of the dead. Shattering sequential time in a series of dreamlike episodes the play takes us back to the time of plantations and slavery - and the savage murder of the white estate owner. Who killed Mr. Charles? The answers lie deep in the racial memory, they 'echo in the bone'.

The giddy atmosphere of carnival is the setting for Errol Hill's Man Better Man, a rumbustious, colourful comedy musical about stickfighters. With dance and song the battling troubadours and the calypsonian weave a tale of braver, superstition and fraudulence. When first performed the Times described it as 'a blazing electrifying feast of rhythm and colour'.

Inspire students to enjoy poetry while helping them to prepare effectively for the CSEC® examination; ensure coverage of all prescribed poems for the revised CSEC® English A and English B syllabuses with an anthology that has been compiled with the approval of the Caribbean Examinations Council by Editors who have served as CSEC® English panel members.

- Stimulate an interest in and enjoyment of poetry with a wide range of themes and subjects, a balance of well-known poems from the past and more recent works, as well as poems from the Caribbean and the rest of the world.
- Support understanding with notes on each poem and questions to provoke discussion, and a useful checklist to help with poetry analysis.
- Consolidate learning with practical guidance on how to tackle examination questions including examples of model answers for reference.

There have been many great and enduring works of literature by Caribbean authors over the last century. The Caribbean Contemporary Classics collection celebrates these deep and vibrant stories, overflowing with life and acute observations about society.

This luminous book recounted through the eyes of the 12-year-old Francis, describes the year he spends, far away from home, in San Fernando. As his initial confusion gives way to increasing confidence and maturity, the open consciousness of the boy allows different times, events and places to co-exist.

Over the course of one year, through Francis' eyes, we see the cycle of natural change and progression; the daily round of the market, showing the fruits of different seasons, the passage of dry season to rainy and back again to dry, the cane fires as the crop comes to an end, all symbolising the progression of the boy's year. And weaving in and amongst these mundane but intense experiences Francis feels his way to some understanding of adulthood.

Provide learners with the opportunity to build their English skills, either at home or in class with the ideal practice companion for learners who need extra help to understand and master the mechanics and structure of English, as they prepare for the CSEC (R) Examination.

- Decode the syllabus objects with the What this unit does for you feature.
- Help learners strengthen skills in well-known troublesome areas with the What the examiners say feature.
- Enable students to take control of their writing skills with a process-driven approach.
- Support learners to make the important link between the mechanics and structure of English with the Writers' Support Kit.
- Encourage learners to evaluate the development of their writing skills with checklists.

This title is linked to the Achieve! Companion Website, aligned to the current CSEC (R) English syllabus, and complements the current CSEC (R) English A Textbooks.