Personally I wouldn't spend any money on a switch like that.. All new Catalyst switches are moving to IOS based, even on the bigger boxes. So I personally would jsut read up enough on them to pass the test.. They're not that much different than the IOS, just the formatting of the command is done via the 'set' command.. I had to work on one the other day and I totally forgot any of the commands, but 'set ?' is your friend...
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