We've finally arrived at the final chapter of this book. So far, we've been using Packet Tracer to learn things ourselves, but in this chapter, we will create assessments with Packet Tracer to test how much other people have learned. In addition to being a simulator, Packet Tracer combines the feature of an assessment tool with a lot of potential. Creating an assessment is as easy as creating an initial network or creating an answer network (or rather, a final network).

The Activity Wizard guides you through the creation of an assessment. It is made accessible by navigating to Extensions | Activity Wizard, or by pressing Alt + W. In this chapter, we'll create a simple assessment with a PC, router, switch, and a server, and configure a simple Access Control List (ACL).

The welcome screen and instructions

The Welcome screen allows you to enter Author Information (author name and comments). The Instructions section is where you enter questionsand objectives for the user to see. This section uses HTML syntax to format the instructions. A set of supported tags are listed in Packet Tracer's help file.

This is an example of using HTML ordered lists with the <ol> and <li> tags.