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You can find many handy shortcuts online for calculating subnets quickly and easily. On the job, it would probably be best to use a subnet calculator, such as the one at subnet-calculator.com, to better ensure you don’t make any time-consuming mistakes in your calculations. However, on certification exams, subnetting shortcuts can help you get to an answer quickly without wasting your limited exam time.

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Assignment 3

You can find many handy shortcuts online for calculating subnets quickly and easily. On the job, it would probably be best to use a subnet calculator, such as the one at subnet-calculator.com, to better ensure you don’t make any time-consuming mistakes in your calculations. However, on certification exams, subnetting shortcuts can help you get to an answer quickly without wasting your limited exam time.

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Project 4-1: Practice Subnetting

Est. completion time: 30 minutes

You can find many handy shortcuts online for calculating subnets quickly and easily. On the job,
it would probably be best to use a subnet calculator, such as the one at subnet-calculator.com, to
better ensure you don’t make any time-consuming mistakes in your calculations. However, on
certification exams, subnetting shortcuts can help you get to an answer quickly without wasting
your limited exam time.

To use this shortcut method, you’ll first draw a series of numbers. This might look confusing at
first, but hang in there. It should make sense by the end. Complete the following steps:

1. Write one row of eight numbers from right to left, starting with 1 on the right, then 2, then 4,
and so on, doubling each number as you move left. See the top row in Figure 4-20.

Figure 4-20 Write these numbers and connect the number in each row

2. Below this first row, write another row of eight numbers from right to left, this time starting
with 255 on the right. Subtract the number directly above 255 to get the next number, 254.
Subtract the number directly above 254 to get 252, and so on. You know you have done it
correctly if the leftmost number in both rows is 128. (After you’ve done this a few times,
you’ll likely have these numbers memorized.) When you’re finished, draw a line connecting
the corresponding numbers in each row, as shown in Figure 4-20.
3. Above the top row, write another row of eight numbers, but this time, work left to right. Start
with 2 on the left, and double each number as you move to the right. See the top row in
Figure 4-21.
Figure 4-21 You don’t have to memorize these numbers; just memorize the pattern of how to get

them and where to write them

You’re now ready to use your shortcut to calculate subnets. For example, start with the network
at 192.168.15.0 and create at least 15 subnets with at least 10 hosts each. The next few steps
show you how to do this using your shortcut.

4. On the row immediately above the vertical lines, find the lowest number that covers the
needed hosts and circle it, as shown in Figure 4-22. This is your magic number that you’ll
use in your calculations shortly. In Figure 4-22, the magic number is 16, which is the lowest
number that will give you 15 subnets.

Figure 4-22 Circle the magic number, the number of subnets, and the new subnet octet

5. To calculate the subnets’ network IDs, start with the original network IP address
192.168.15.0. In the fourth octet, skip-count by the magic number as high as you can go
without going over 255. Add this information to Table 4-6. The first few are done for you.

Table 4-6 Subnetting practice

Network ID Host IP range Broadcast address

192.168.15.0 192.168.15.1 – 192.168.15.14 192.168.15.15


192.168.15.16 192.168.15.17 – 192.168.15.30 192.168.15.31

192.168.15.32 192.168.15.33 – 192.168.15.46 192.168.15.47

192.168.15.48 192.168.15.49 – 192.168.15.62 192.168.15.63

192.168.15.64

6. Fill in the rest of Table 4-6. Notice that you can subtract 1 from a network ID to get the
previous subnet’s broadcast address. The host IP address range consists of all numbers
between the network ID and the broadcast address.
How well did this shortcut help you? If it clicked for you, great! Keep practicing with this
method, and you might even learn it well enough to do most of it in your head. If it didn’t work
for you, do a Google search for subnetting shortcuts and find a method that does work for you.

Several good websites and apps can give you practice subnet questions so you can become
especially comfortable with calculating subnets. Do a Google search for subnetting practice, or
try an app on your phone, such as /24 Subnetting Practice by Zerones, available on both Android
and iPhone. A good subnetting practice app like /24 Subnetting Practice will give you options on
the types of problems to work with (see Figure 4-23a), will tell you the correct answer (see
Figure 4-23b), and will explain why that answer is correct (see Figure 4-23c).

Figure 4-23 Practice subnetting problems on your smartphone

Source: Zerones

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