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How to prepare for a dificult certification exam
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| Ok, its time to go on-line.
This new topic gone a help a lot of people, please add your comment.
<<sorry, english is not my primary languaje, so please don't get angry for my bad writing, i do my best>>
What do you need:
1. Know how to find Info: as i said in a previous post, if you pretend to be an Information Technology Exprent and you are unable to find information about technology, your in serius probles, so use Search engines, Newsgroups, Mailinglist, Books, wathever resource you can find.
2. Kwow to read: I mean if you can not read more that 40 page/hour you dont know how to read. the best resouce that I can recomend is "Evelyn Wood 7-day speed reading & learning program" by Stanley D. Frank ISBN
0-380-71577-5 just $4.79
3. Know how to clasify info.
4. Know how to remamber want you learn.
What to DO:
1. Study a lot: I mean when you think your totally ready, start again and again and again.
2. Don't study to get less than 90/100 in your exam, because is not just pass is excell what you need.
3. Stay focus on your objetive.
4. Get real experience, because even if you passs the test without hand-on expereience, if you find a job you gone a lose if.
5. Respect the test even if is basic/ease material, I mead dont feel insult by the questions unless you gat 100/100 and finish in 10 minuts.
well is enoght by now... please post your coments.
you need more advice, please let me know jveiras@yahoo.com
José M. Veiras
A+, Network+, MCP(SQL 7 Admin), I-Net+, NCIP(Internet Business Strategist) and Counting.
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| Baz... 2000-03-31, 3:24 pm |
| And "Counting." Does that mean you are certified in "1,2,3,...et al"? <g>
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| Well, I just to know how far i can go, for me the exam do not test just your knowlege or experience... I have 15 year of experience, I begin with an Epson QX10 runing CPM, after that I have working with lots of platforms (from MarkIV to Java, dbaveII to Oracle8i/SQL Server 7, Mainframe(DOS/VSE) to Client/Server(Win NT4) )
The exam test how mush focus, strenght, corage you have and how much strees you can support, so I try to confront the test in the worst condition (without sleep the night before and not enought english habilities).
In the real you don't need just Knowledge and Experience, you know how to confront and resolve a situation or problem (Standard Operating Procedures).
BTW I have seen a lot of technical people that do not know how to write and Inform, so get a MOUS gone a help a lot and I want to be MOUS too.
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| HI there i need some help i hope u can help me  i want to take ma test CCNA by next week and so cna u help me by tellin me wat books or online stuffs would be best to study i would really appreciate thanks
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| well... I can teach you how you can go fishing, but you must catch your own fish.
however shana, tell me what king of info do you need, because I have LOTS OF INFO, and I think that you have some of them at this time and please DON'T ASK ME FOR ANY ILLEGAL INFO like Cracked software or the infamous Chillnz | |
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| Do you want to read good bocks about Cisco Routers for FREE...
Just go to http://www.books24x7.com create an Acount and you gone a have 7 days for read the cisco boocks, and all the IT Boocks.
and this are good links http://www.groupstudy.com http://www.geocities.com/SiliconVal...n/8823/ccie.htm http://www.masontech.com/
Do you have a Router... (I really don't recomend you a Router Simulator), because if you don't have one and want to do the required Labs, this are good places to start:
http://www.groupstudy.com/links/index.html
just click on the links.
another pleace to do the labs is:
http://www.mentorlabs.com/vlab/access
the labs are more better organized but are too expensive.
Finally those are the boocks that you MUST have:
CCNA Certification: Routing Basics for Cisco Robert N. Myhre, Robert Myrhe
CCNA Exam Certification Guide (Cisco Career Certification)
Wendell Odom
CCNA Training Guide Exam 640-407 (The Training Guide Series)
Kevin S. Mahler
Internetworking Technologies Handboook, 2e
Kevin Downes
(This is one of my holy boocks, I read it all the time)
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate Study Guide
Todd Lammle
And I not sure at this time about wich one of this (but definily you must have one):
Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration 1-57870-076-0
Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (ICND)
1-57870-111-2
As I said be more specific
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| Studying is very simple, PLEASE lets not make this complicated! --Here is the best advice if you apply it. I call it the 80/20 rule. Spend 80% of your time on the major topics and 20% on the rest. If you read the dumps, discussions, and all the study guides floating around, you can see that this OSI modes (should be able to recite it), Know TCP/IP, IOS commands, (worth memorizing if you have never used them(GOD forbid, lets not make this a paper cert also) and the rest should be studied randomly. If your like me, Id rather spend all the xtra time doing something FUN and that relaxes my soul. May the cdp be with you!
Leo | |
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| I always thought the 80/20 rule was that 80% of the nation's wealth is controlled by 20% of the nation's individuals. Oh well, nice variation for the topic.
elude, A+, N+, I+ |
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