SubNetting Tutorial
Welcome to the subnetting.net subnetting tutorial. This training session will teach you everything you need to know to pass any exam that requires TCP/IP knowledge. In addition, the methods you will learn here will allow you to not only solve subnetting questions, it will help you increase your speed and master TCP/IP concepts.
For many entry-level to intermediate computer networking exams, the need to quickly solve subnet based questions is apparent. In addition, the mastery of these concepts will give you a major advantage when you sit for the exam. For example, some have estimated that the CCNA exam has around 40% subnetting questions. When you are done with this tutorial, these questions will be no harder than simple addition or subtraction. To put this is real life terms, suppose the CCNA exam has 50 questions and you are given around 20 subnetting questions. When you learn to subnet, you should expect to ace these 20 questions. In other words, you would get 100% on 40% of the exam. This makes the remainder of your study time much more productive.
TCP/IP Subnetting Very Basic
The first thing we need to look at is - What is an IP address? How does it work?
Here is kind of a loose analogy that should make this very clear. Think of an IP address as your postal address. Let's take 191.54.38.15 for example. In our analogy, each set of numbers may represent a geographic area. As we move from the left to the right, the geographic area continuously becomes more and more specific.