I’ll explain the advantages and disadvantages of each. You can buy real hardware or you can use an emulator or simulator. To practice everything in CCNA Routing & Switching, you will need some routers and switches. If you are interested in becoming CCNA certified you probably have no idea what equipment you should buy to study so in this lesson I want to help you by explaining what equipment you should buy and what you should avoid.
To practice most of us build a home “lab” that we can use to practice everything.
If you are thinking about learning Cisco networking you’ll need to get practice on Cisco routers and switches.