| Summary

| An understanding of the following key points should have been achieved: The purpose of the IOS The basic operation of the IOS Identification of various IOS features Identification of the methods to establish a CLI session with the router The differences between the user EXEC and privileged EXEC modes Establishing a HyperTerminal session Logging into the router Using the help feature in the command line interface Using enhanced editing commands Using command history Troubleshooting command line errors Using the show version command