Solving many practice questions after you study the CCNA theory is the way to go for mastering the CCNA material and get prepared for passing the exam. The following practice exam questions are for the Cisco CCNA 640-802 exam and will definitely help you towards your certification efforts.

Question 1: What command will show you the routed protocols running on your Cisco router?

Answer: show protocols

Question 2: What type of cable should you use to connect to the console port of a Cisco router?

Answer: Rollover cable

Question 3: What type of ethernet cable should you use to connect a Hub and a Switch or two Switches?

Answer: Crossover cable

Question4: RIP uses bandwidth and delay to determine the best path to a destination network (True/False)

Answer: False. RIP uses only hop count

Question 5: Which statement about MAC addresses is correct?

A. The MAC address can never be changed.

B. A MAC address is represented by binary digits that are organized in pairs.

C. A MAC address is a number in hexadecimal format that is physically located on the NIC.

D. It is not necessary for a device to have a unique MAC address to participate in the network.

Answer: C

Question 6: Which of the following is an IOS command that can be used to increase the security of unused switch ports?

A. Port security

B. Mac-secure

C. Firewall

D. Shutdown

Answer: D

Question 7: IP addresses are represented by:

A. 16-bit decimal numbers

B. 32-bit binary numbers

C. 8 sets of 4-bit decimal numbers

D. 8-bit binary numbers

Answer: B

Question 8: What does the command IP route 192.168.50.0 255.255.255.0 10.2.1.3 specify?

A. The router should use network 192.168.50.0 to get to address 10.2.1.3.

B. Both 192.168.50.0 and 10.2.1.3 use a mask of 255.255.255.0.

C. You want the router to trace a route to network 192.168.50.0 via 10.2.1.3.

D. The router should use address 10.2.1.3 to get to devices on network 192.168.50.0.

Answer: D

Question 9: Which of the following protocols is an example of an exterior gateway protocol?

A. BGP

B. RIP

C. EIGRP

D. OSPF

Answer: A

Question 10: What does the configuration register 0x2102 do?

Answer: Instructs the router to look in NVRAM for the boot sequence.

Nowadays the number of cars plying on the road is increasing with each passing day. With the increase in the number of cars, the demand for good auto repair services is also increasing rapidly. It’s very important on your part to take your car for regular maintenance and check up to keep it in proper running condition. A large number of people go for maintenance and repairing only when there is some problem with their vehicle. It’s a big mistake on their part as they should go for maintenance and repairing services at regular intervals even if there is no problem with the vehicle. It helps in enhancing the performance of your vehicle. Buying a car is a costly investment and you shall take all the measures for its proper maintenance. Nowadays there are many auto repair service centers which provide quality services when it comes to auto repairing and maintenance. Do some amount of research and opt for a service provider which you think is best suited according to your needs and budget.

Reading customer reviews and testimonials will help you a lot to gather information about the quality of services of various auto repair centers. A competent and expert such a service providing center will always have a team of well skilled and trained technicians who have the expertise and knowledge to take care of any problem that may arise in an automobile. A good such a service provider will always be certified and have all the required licenses that is required to set up an auto repair service center. They should have the license to carry out car repair and other maintenance of any given type of car. Having these licenses and certificates gives the customers the confidence to give their car for servicing. In today’s technically driven world, you can simply go online and fix an appointment on a website of such a service center to carry out the required repairing services for your vehicle.

The technicians at a reputed service center are mostly ASE certified and have years of experience behind them. So, always check out whether they are ASE certified or not.

They offer an array of services to their customers. Whatever may be the problem major or minor, the needed repairing and maintenance services will be provided to the clients. They will keep a check of the emission of gases which will help you to meet the statutory conditions. In addition, they will offer services of car and brake repair which will help you to avoid the unwanted circumstances in the near future. You must be aware of the fact that the security of the car is directly related to the brake system of the car. Henceforth, these technicians give emphasis on the brake repairs to avoid any major problem. Therefore, additional services like oil checking, road test, inspect suspension, etc. are also provided to clients. Taking services from a well known service provider will surely help to raise the performance of your car.

This is the 4th in a series of articles on the more subtle aspects of the I2C protocol (which cover TWI and SMBus implementations as well). In the previous article, we discussed why there’s really no such thing as a ‘missing’ STOP on the I2C bus. Now it’s time to look at the potential issues around STOP, namely an “Unexpected” STOP as well as some bus errors around STOP. This deeper understanding of all potential bus errors can aid the engineer to craft a more robust system that tolerates and even recovers from these errors.

STOP is used to end a single- or multi-byte transfer, and relinquish control of the bus in a multi-master configuration. A Repeated START can accomplish roughly the same thing, but without relinquishing control in a multi-master environment.

STOP is always generated by the Master, never by the Slave. Since generating a STOP requires the Master to have control over both SCL and SDA, it is not guaranteed that it can do so at any time whatsoever. If the Slave is currently transmitting a ‘0’ data bit, the Master cannot issue a STOP. Of course, since the Master controls SCL, even in a software-based implementation it could theoretically monitor every data bit in a Slave-transmitted byte and issue a STOP at any time a Slave is sending a ‘1’.

Rather than showing up in the middle of a data byte, it is more likely that an implementation error would result in a STOP occurring at other specific points in the bus state flow. The following paragraphs detail these state flow patterns.

STOP after ACK:

In normal operation, a STOP will follow a NAK, whereas if an ACK is received the Transmitter will continue the operation with additional byte transfers. Therefore, receiving a STOP after a valid ACK can be termed ‘unexpected’, but might not be classified as an error per-se.

STOP without a preceding ACK/NAK:

In this case, the ACK/NAK bit is not seen at all, as the STOP is being issued prematurely. This is clearly a bus error, as the ACK/NAK bit is intended to be sent for every byte, under all conditions. However, it is more likely to be reported by a protocol analyzer as a ‘missing ACK bit’ than as an unexpected STOP bit.

STOP initiated from a bus idle condition (no preceding START or data or ACK):

It is possible to generate a STOP from an Idle bus state, by initially dropping SCL (thereby avoiding a START), then dropping SDA, then raising SCL, and finally raising SDA. Although a START was not present, a given Slave implementation might react in unexpected ways to the sudden appearance of what appears to be mid-byte clocking of the SCL line, and potentially a misbehaving slave device might try to output a Low on SDA once SCL has gone low. This condition is clearly also a bus error. A protocol analyzer would likely first report an unexpected Clock or data bit, followed by the unexpected STOP.

Again, it is theoretically possible for a Master to initiate a STOP even in the middle of a data byte, although this would not be viewed as ‘normal’.

During multi-master arbitration, it should be noted that it is not legal, per the I2C bus specification, to issue a STOP from one Master at a point where a data bit is being sent.

Finally, it should be noted that using the 10-bit addressing mode, versus the 7-bit mode, imputes no difference in the behavior or operation of the STOP condition.

As a special caution, all Master and/or Slave software-based implementations should be capable of recognizing a STOP (or a START for that matter) at any point in a bus transaction and reacting correctly, in order to prevent cascading errors. A STOP should force all devices to relinquish the bus and reset their internal states to the Idle condition.

This completes the discussion of STOP. Next, we’ll delve into the wonderful world of Repeated START. This topic didn’t receive a lot of direct attention in the I2C bus specification, so the discussion is certainly warranted. Thanks for reading!

(Copyright 2011 Robert G. Fries)

Have you ever wondered why an auto repair shop would include anything for FREE? Take the “multi-point vehicle inspection, ” for example. When your car’s in for auto repair service, they’re willing to take the time to look over your car for no charge? Why? There are two primary reasons for this. The first is marketing. Repair shops are attempting to build value and to entice you to service with them. The second is they’re looking for work – literally. They’re hoping to find a problem, which they can then fix for you – not for FREE.

What you are actually getting for FREE is very little. These multi-point checks are merely cursory glances (if at all) at fluids, belts, hoses, tires, brakes, and under-carriage. Depending on the vehicle it actually takes 1-3 hours to thoroughly check it over – something no repair shop will do for FREE. This is not to say the multi-point check is unnecessary, but the reality is that it’s already done with most oil changes, repair services, and regular car maintenance schedules. Whenever your vehicle is being serviced, technicians are always looking for needed repairs to sell you. They’re paid by billing labor hours. That is, the more stuff they can find wrong with your car and “encourage” you to fix or maintain, the more money they make – not exactly the folks you want in your corner.

There’s nothing wrong with “searching for repairs” as long as if and when repair needs are found that they are indeed needed and not exaggerated. Ask your auto repair shop to prioritize any suggested repairs and/or services in terms of safety and potential further damage. Don’t be afraid to get a second opinion and ask questions. Always get “whatever they’re saying” in writing with a complete break down of parts, taxes, labor, and miscellaneous charges. And stick to your manufacturer’s recommendations for your car repairs and maintenance. Remember – with these types of FREE marketing efforts you will likely PAY.

When you get plagued by that undeniable warm feeling inside of you, where you don’t seem to know what to do and you just have to get near that someone making you feel so happy and jumpy — then congratulations — you just have fallen in love! Although we can all attest to the fact that being in love is good, we can’t deny as well that the urge to attract that someone and make her fall in love to you too is too strong to deny. But before you start praying and rely everything to your lucky stars, it’s important you realize that there are actually love secrets when it comes to how to make her love you and more — here’s how:

• Don’t be too available. Make her miss you — being inseparable is good but there will come a point that being inseparable can be boring. Being there for her all the time can make her not think of you as more than a friend that’s why important you show her that you have a life beyond her — that will definitely peak her interest with you all the more.
• Be sweet and romantic. Every girl fantasizes of a dream guy who’s sweet and romantic. Being a bit chummy sometimes won’t hurt and most women tend to want someone who can recite poetry or get all cozy with you while cuddling by the warm couch every now and then. So go ahead and unleash a little cheesiness in you.
• Make her try new things. Women love getting intrigued of anything mysterious, a bit of drama to add spice in life and an adventurous guy to top it all off. Be open to new things and learn how to embrace change and that would definitely get her curiosity clock ticking.
• Always fascinate her. Being nice is nice but being nice can also come off as a bit boring. And no girl wants to hangout with a boring guy — it’s self-explanatory. Hone your sense of humor and witty skills — women would always go for the smarter guy more than anything else.
• Be a little aggressive. Being consistent and insistent has it’s perks — you see, women tend to play a little hard-to-get every now and then that’s why you need to have patience of steel if you’re really that serious in pursuing her. When you do, you will be reaping your rewards soon and it will be all worth it, I tell you.

Do you want to become a master when it comes to the art of flirting? Do you have what it takes to be an expert on how to be seductive and how to be sensual with women?

This probably won’t come as a surprise to you, but almost no guys take the time to think about the thrusting techniques they use during sex.

I remember when I was having sex, before I learned all the “cool tricks” and ways to give women multiple orgasms, I never used to think about my thrusting techniques.

And if I did somehow think about how I was thrusting I just assumed “it probably doesn’t matter how i’m thrusting anyway”…

How wrong I was.

One of the things I discovered on my “journey” to becoming a great lover is that the thrusting techniques you use during sex can make the difference between her orgasming 3+ times or her feeling nothing.

So if you take nothing away from reading this but one thing then let it be this.

Experiment with different thrusting techniques every time you have sex.

As soon as you start consistently experimenting, suddenly you’ll be shocked when you come across a few different thrusting techniques that drive her wild.

And as you keep experimenting you’ll discover more and more great thrusting techniques, and eventually you’ll have a nice collection of thrusting techniques you can pick from every time you have sex that you know will get her to orgasm.

Now let me get a bit clearer about what exactly I mean by “thrusting techniques that drive her wild”.

Thrusting techniques are how you thrust your penis in and out during sex.

Most men opt for the fast, all in and all out approach with no change of rhythm, speed, depth or timing.

Here’s where you can be different.

Start mixing up the rhythm, speed, depth and timing of your thrusting.

Go fast for a bit, then go slow for a bit.

Go deep for a bit, then shallow for a bit.

You get the idea.

But you can also get a bit more advanced than this…

So here are two examples of some slightly more advanced thrusting techniques you can try out or get ideas from…

1 – slowly increasing depth and speed

women love build-up, teasing and anticipation.

You sticking your “thing” in full depth as soon as you start sex is not any woman’s idea of a good time (unless you’ve already got a history of raw physical attraction and exceptional pleasure giving, in which case you can break the rules now and again).

Like I said, women like to be teased.

So one great thrusting technique for this is to start off sex by entering your penis into her vagina at an absolute minimal depth and very slowly.

Then take it out again.

Then next time enter very slightly deeper and very slightly faster.

Then take it out again.

And repeat the process getting gradually deeper and faster.

Overall it’s a fairly slow process and it should take several minutes until you’re in full depth.

And because of all the teasing and anticipation you created, she’ll appreciate your deep thrusting 10x more than if you started full depth straight away.

2 – slow and shallow with the occasional slow deep thrust

this is another great thrusting technique for getting her to appreciate your deep thrust.

If you do this right you can experience her gasp when you go in deep.

How this one works is pretty simple.

Most of the time you’ll be thrusting very shallow, roughly an inch or two in depth.

Then every now and again, like once for every 10 shallow thrusts, perform a very slow thrust to full depth.

Because of the contrast to all the shallow thrusts she’s just experienced she will love the feeling of you going in all the way.

It works great.

And remember to just go in deep once and then return to doing 10 or so shallow thrusts before going deep again.

So there you have it.

Two examples of different thrusting techniques.

There’s an endless amount of ways you can vary your rhythm, speed, depth and timing while thrusting to create an incredible experience for her.

So get experimenting now.

It’s no secret that there’s a direct connection between diet and health. Not only does your body run on the fuel you give it, to a large degree your body is the fuel you give it. But these facts don’t make it any easier to eat well and maintain a healthy weight, as evidenced by the $64 billion weight loss industry in the US.

So here are 7 simple tips for managing your diet and overall health:

#1 Set Reasonable Goals

You can’t climb Mt. Everest on your first day of hiking. So set an achievable goal and be sure to give yourself a big high-five when you achieve it. Then fix your sites on the next reasonable goal.

Fit-Bit: Be realistic in your objectives.

#2 Record And Review Your Progress

Keep a record of what you eat (there’s more than one app for that) as well as your fitness program (more apps). When you know you’re logging what you eat, you’re more likely to lose weight, while seeing those fitness graphs and sharing them on your favorite Social Networks is great reinforcement.

Fit-Bit: Track it.

#3 Make Your Pantry Healthy

If you are what you eat then, in fact, you are what’s in your pantry. So don’t stock junk food at home. If your family members or roommates want that kind of stuff, ask them to keep it out of site. When you’re hungry and there’s only healthy food around, that’s what you’ll eat. And on the flip side, take healthy snacks with you so that the “healthy pantry” goes wherever you go.

Fit-Bit: Keep the junk away and the healthy stuff at hand.

#4 Kick It Off With High Protein Daily

Eating a high-protein breakfast which is nutritionally balanced will make you less likely to overindulge the rest of the day because you’ll feel less hungry.

Fit-Bit: Jump start your day with high protein.

#5 Start Your Diet And Workout Routine Simultaneously

That little voice in your head will tell you that you don’t want to take on too much at once. However, there is evidence that embarking on your healthy diet and new exercise regime together actually works in your favour in the long-term, with each bolstering the other.

Fit-Bit: Eat right AND exercise together from Day one.

#6 Supplement Your Hard Work? Garcinia Cambogia

A lot has been said about Garcinia Cambogia extract as a weight-loss enhancer. Some studies seem to indicate that it can help shed pounds.while others are not so sure. While Garcinia Cambogia on its own is not a miracle weight-loss solution, it may help enhance your diet and exercise efforts. Try one with a money-back guarantee, it’s worth a shot.

Fit-Bit: Augment weight loss with Garcinia Cambogia.

#7 Make It Sustainable

Your friend tells you how her new diet and swimming regimen has worked wonders, she’s lost 15 pounds in the last few months! Sounds great, but if you hate swimming that is not your ticket to health. Find a workout you enjoy so that you’ll keep it up over the long haul.

Fit-Bit: Do what works for you in the long-run.

Connecting with loved ones who are no longer with us is a vital part of healing and adapting to grief and loss in our life. There are many ways we can establish and maintain connections but equally important is finding a meaningful place – a sacred space to do just that. There could be one or there could be many, but the ‘right’ space for you is the one that fits in with your lifestyle, your belief system and speaks to your heart with a simple aaahhh, this is it.

A sacred space is where there is nothing but yourself and that which is around you, within you, and part of you. It is where you can be nothing or everything, it is where you can give but also receive where you can allow peace, strength and connection to flow through you and nourish your soul.

Here are some of my sacred spaces

* A rocky outcrop looking out to the ocean – I walk along the beach often. There is just something about being near the ocean, which I find incredibly beautiful and peaceful. Sometimes, I’ll sit on a boulder and just look out to the fathomless sea. Being there automatically puts me into a more gentle space.

Distractions are few and when I look up at the sky, I consider what it is to be here and then gone. My loved ones become uppermost in my thoughts. I have given my mind space the quietness to reflect, to allow, to connect. That time in nature means I can also benefit from the healing powers of such an environment. I can inhale all it offers to me freely. Allowing its space to truly touch me in a number of different ways.

* My home sanctuary – This could be a room which is peaceful or tranquil and feels good to be in. It could also be a special table or bench for you to display mementos of your loved one. A place of remembrance and connection. Photos, flowers, candles, angels, favourite toys, personal items, spiritual texts…many many items or very few.

Just recently I had the honour of sharing another’s grief and to be invited into their homes. Without exception they had a special area where they could go and remember and connect with their loved one. Each was displayed with special mementos recognizing what that person meant to them.

I have them too, one in my office where I am every day and a different one on my bedside. It can be a comforting place that which is with us in our everyday world.

* The quietness of a cathedral – I have always found walking into a beautiful old church or cathedral a truly calming and peaceful experience. There is something about the feel, the smell and the majesty of the huge vaulted ceilings in these places which immediately connects me to some spiritual feeling within myself. Being there transports me to somewhere other than the everday. Somewhere I can open my heart and allow the sensation of connection with those I have lost, to become greater in my soul.

Many times, I have wanted to sit in stillness in a cathedral or church and soak up all it could give me, in a vault of silence and peace. Even now, in passing I will enter a church and sit, for a few minutes or longer and connect with myself and my beautiful others, as I did recently in Sydney.

* Paths with heart – Labyrinths – I have always been fascinated with the symbolism of labyrinths and was delighted when I found a local stone labyrinth in a natural bush garden close to my home. I used to visit it often and walk the meandering path which guided me to its centre and back out again. It was incredibly peaceful.

In recent times when I have walked it has been truly amazing. It’s a very hard thing to explain but when I was there, it was as if Stuart was too, there was no separation. After walking the path, I would sit and write and still have those writings of a time when he seemed to be walking with me.

The popularity of labyrinths is growing, if you can find one near you, try it. They have been described as ancient paths of wisdom and peace. My experience with them has been profound.

* Place of memorial – I recently spent a few days back in the region where my daughter placed a roadside cross. Over the years it has changed. New growth has sprung up around the tree and the cross itself has become tarnished and worn from the elements. It is in a remote location, where the wind rustles through the trees in the stillness. It is a powerful experience for me to be there. It immediately provides a sense of connection but also one of remembrance, love and sharing.

Visiting the place where your loved one has died or they are memorialised can be a very sacred place to connect.

Centuries ago there would have been only cemeteries, and whilst there still are, there is now much more. Niche walls, roadside memorials, mass memorial walls and sculptures of remembrance. There are many of us who establish an online memorial site or a Facebook page dedicated to our loved ones. The importance of connecting and remembering is something that allows us to grieve and to heal. Visiting a memorial place allows us to do this in a tangible way.

Find your sacred space for grieving and allow peace, strength and connection to flow through you and nourish your soul.

There is no strict border between microprocessors and microcontrollers because certain chips can access external code and/or data memory (microprocessor mode) and are equipped with particular peripheral components. Some microcontrollers have an internal RC oscillator and do not need an external component. However, an external quartz or ceramic resonator or RC network is frequently connected to the built-in, active element of the clock generator. Clock frequency varies from 32 kHz (extra low power) up to 75 MHz. Another auxiliary circuit generates the reset signal for an appropriate period after a supply is turned on. Watchdog circuits generate chip reset when a periodic retriggering signal does not come in time due to a program problem.

There are several modes of consumption reduction activated by program instructions. Complexity and structure of the interrupt system (total number of sources and their priority level selection), settings of level/edge sensitivity of external sources and events in internal (i.e., peripheral) sources, and handling of simultaneous interrupt events appear as some of the most important criteria of microcontroller taxonomy. Although 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers are engaged in special, demanding applications (servo-unit control), most applications employ 8-bit chips. Some microcontrollers can internally operate with a 16-bit or even 32-bit data only in fixed-point range-microcontrollers are not provided with floating point unit (FPU). New microcontroller families are built on RISC (Reduced Instruction Set) core executing due to pipelining one instruction per few clock cycles or even per each cycle. One can find further differences in addressing modes, number of direct accessible registers, and type of code memory (ranging from 1 to 128 KB) that are important from the view of firmware development. Flash memory enables quick and even in-system programming (ISP) using 3-5 wires, whereas classical EPROM makes chips more expensive due to windowed ceramic packaging. Some microcontrollers have built-in boot and debug capability to load code from a PC into the flash memory using UART (Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter) and RS-232C serial line. OTP (One Time Programmable) EPROM or ROM appear effective for large production series. Data EEPROM (from 64 B to 4 KB) for calibration constants, parameter tables, status storage, and passwords that can be written by firmware stand beside the standard SRAM (from 32 B to 4 KB).

The range of peripheral components is very wide. Every chip has bidirectional I/O (input/output) pins associated in 8-bit ports, but they often have an alternate function. Certain chips can set an input decision level (TTL, MOS, or Schmitt trigger) and pull-up or pull-down current sources. Output drivers vary in open collector or tri-state circuitry and maximal currents. At least one 8-bit timer/counter (usually provided with a prescaler) counts either external events.

(optional pulses from an incremental position sensor) or internal clocks, to measure time intervals, and periodically generates an interrupt or variable baud rate for serial communication. General purpose 16-bit counters and appropriate registers form either capture units to store the time of input transients or compare units that generate output transients as a stepper motor drive status or PWM (pulse width modulation) signal. A real-time counter (RTC) represents a special kind of counter that runs even in sleep mode. One or two asynchronous and optionally synchronous serial interfaces (UART/USART) communicate with a master computer while other serial interfaces like SPI, CAN, and I2C control other specific chips employed in the device or system. Almost every microcontroller family has members that are provided with an A/D converter and a multiplexer of single-ended inputs. Input range is usually unipolar and equal to supply voltage or rarely to the on-chip voltage reference. The conversion time is given by the successive approximation principle of ADC, and the effective number of bits (ENOB) usually does not reach the nominal resolution 8, 10, or 12 bits.

There are other special interface circuits, such as field programmable gate array (FPGA), that can be configured as an arbitrary digital circuit. Microcontroller firmware is usually programmed in an assembly language or in C language. Many software tools, including chip simulators, are available on websites of chip manufacturers or third-party companies free of charge. A professional integrated development environment and debugging hardware (in-circuit emulator) is more expensive (thousands of dollars). However, smart use of an inexpensive ROM simulator in a microprocessor system or a step-by-step development cycle using an ISP programmer of flash microcontroller can develop fairly complex applications.

There are many unique and intriguing ways you can spruce up your home with a renovation. This is especially true when it comes to exterior remodeling. The outside of your home can be redone to enhance your living quality, raise the property value for resale or entice prospects into considering your home. One peculiar way you can add oomph to your property is to have a rooftop deck installed.

You can find rooftop decks on top of homes in urban, as well as suburban areas. These decks can enhance properties no matter what communities they’re in.

Why Consider Rooftop Decks?

In most cases, rooftop decks are nothing more than raised patios. You can enter them through the second floor of your property, allowing you to overlook your lawn and neighborhood. From there, you can also enjoy beautiful views of sunsets and moon rises, and scenic views of the surrounding landscape. If you live near mountains, skylines, hills and bodies of water, then this is one way to make use of those gorgeous displays.

Installation: Best Done On New Home Construction

Although a new home construction would make it more ideal for outdoor remodeling, it’s not impossible to have a deck installed on the rooftop on your current home. In fact, this is done all the time. All you need is an exterior remodeling contractor who is very experienced at what they do.

Some roofs are designed to accommodate add-ons, such as decks. Then there are others that are very slanted, making accessibility an issue. In these cases, an opening has to be made in the roof, without disturbing the attic. Another option is to build a roof on the deck. A contractor will be able to assess your roof to determine whether it can hold the weight a deck would require.

Designing Your Rooftop Deck

Once you’ve determined you can have a deck built onto your roof, you can begin conjuring up design ideas. Some people go as far as it turn this additional space into a beautiful garden. This is typical in urban areas where there’s not enough green space to plant one. Otherwise, you can turn your deck into an entertainment space or dining area.

There are key steps to designing your deck:

• Deciding the material: You can opt for it to match your home’s siding or you can use a natural wood like pine, Cypress, cedar, mahogany or redwood. These can give your deck warmth and natural appeal.
• Choosing the sun awning: It’s a good idea to have one, so you can enjoy daytime and summertime access without being bothered by the sunlight and its heat.
• Selecting the décor: How will your deck look once it is completed? The type of furniture, plants and accessories you select will set the mood for your sky patio. You can choose patio-style furniture or make it like a second living area with high-quality indoor furniture. Or keep it fun with bean bags and blow-up chairs.

Clay vs Metal Building Materials

It’s important for your deck to last a very long time. And even more important, you need to ensure the safety of those who use it. This is why some people opt for metal or clay tiles. The more expensive of the two are clay tiles, but they don’t last as long as metal. People opt for it because they like the way it looks. It provides Spanish appeal and suits architecture with a similar design. However, if where you live has adverse weather, you should consider going with metal.

There’s a lot that goes into planning a rooftop deck, which is why you need an expert’s help. Try finding an exterior remodeling company that employs both contractors, as well as designers. This way, you can get all the help needed during the design and installation process.