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| ChrisDfer 2003-01-03, 10:53 am |
| Have my test in how 1 1/2 hours. I'm hoping I am ready but for some reason I don't feel as ready with this test as I have with my others. Oh well guess I will get it over with and see what happens. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-01-03, 2:34 pm |
| Ehnnn I failed I got a score of 830 I'm a complete failure so I'm done with this IT stuff I'm gonna go be a bumb and live under a bridge. | |
| mitchflorida 2003-01-03, 4:30 pm |
| Ouch, sorry about that! Try it again, you came very close!
I also took the CCNA exam today for the first time. I passed it with a score of 911. I have been studying intensively for four weeks and felt I knew most of the material.
Materials used: RouterSim 2.0, Transcender, CCNA 2.0 by Robert E. Larson (avoid Todd Lammle's book . . it is written in Greek . . very jargon oriented), and also Cisco Academy Online Materials).
The simulator questions were quite easy. There is very little extra time on this test, I think, and once you have answered a question you are not allowed to go back to review it. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-01-03, 6:29 pm |
| Yeah man I thought the simulator tests were very easy also. I thought I had the test down I mean there were maybe only 5 questions that I thought I didn't know. So ehnnn I don't know what I did wrong and the stupid end results they give don't give much help and I think I screwed up on one of the siumulations(am I supposed to save the configs? I didnt do it the first time but I did on the second one) Oh well gonna take it again when I get paid it will give me some time to review a few things and hopfully I will get a good score and not just a passing score. So far with my A+ and Net+ I aces them both so this will give me a chance to do it with my CCNA also. | |
| mitchflorida 2003-01-03, 6:42 pm |
| I didn't save the running configs either. I don't think it mattered because I scored 100% on that part of the test. It was necessary to ping end-to-end to confirm connectivity.
I used the testking too . .but be careful, some of the answers given on that are not right . ..Besides, there are 400 test king questions, and only 50 or so appear on the actual test, most in different order and slightly different wording.
(P.S. Don't tell Lexy I used TestKing!) | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-01-03, 6:52 pm |
| Well I try not use anything like testking. It just doesn't seem right to me I mean I know that my score of 830 is from knowledge I actually know and not from memorizing questions and answers. Yeah I might be out a little money but it doesn't bother me at least not as much if I got a certification using osmthing like testking. I know different people have different standards but thats just the way I am. | |
| MaulerJ 2003-01-03, 9:47 pm |
| Darn i used testqueen, it had some recipes about cooking............ hmmm. just kidding, trying to bring some light to your failure. That sucks, I will be testing in about two weeks, and I am getting scared SHi#$less, on the subnetting, and access list part of the tests | |
| Imran4sin 2003-01-03, 10:38 pm |
| Sorry to hear that dude.. dont take it so hard.. so focus on your weekness. Im sure you will ace it this time around.
I think i better get a test date too... and get it over with.
I still got frame relay to go over.. i mean i have done it but im not confident with the router commands for FR...and the great SUBNETTING .. gotta practice that too.
Hey Is it tru that if you resit the test they increase the passing marks from 85 to 90% or something like that!!!-- who told me this ..hmmm.!!!
good luck man and make us proud  | |
| luisjo 2003-01-03, 11:28 pm |
| im sorry that you did not pass the test, but is better to have 830 from your knowledge than 910 using testking. that means another paper ccna. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-01-04, 2:02 am |
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Originally posted by luisjo
im sorry that you did not pass the test, but is better to have 830 from your knowledge than 910 using testking. that means another paper ccna.
Yeap, thats how I look at it. I'm not down on myself at all. In fact I see this as a chance to get some more practice in so I can score really well next time around. | |
| mitchflorida 2003-01-04, 5:26 am |
| The CCNA seperates the men from the boys. Do not take this test unless you know tha material backwards and forwards, or you will fail it again. Sorry, dude. | |
| ddnight 2003-01-04, 10:45 am |
| It's no use in trying to take the test again until you grasp the concepts not just memorizing questions.
If you can look at all your testking study guide questions and HONESTLY answer all the questions and KNOW why...then you should have no problem passing the CCNA.
I took the CCNA after going through Semesters 1-4 in a time period of 6 weeks. I got an 885 on the CCNA. Not a great score, but I knew what I needed to know.
I then took the Network+ test a few weeks later without any studying and passed that as well. I'm not tootin my own horn, but trying to prove that if you know what you are talking about, the concepts are the same no matter how the questions are asked.
Let me know if you need any help or anything, I'll be glad to help out in any way I can. | |
| ChrisDfer 2003-01-04, 1:17 pm |
| Well I know what I had problems with they include not having a full understanding of subnetting(although I was doing it outside the test I just didnt understand it enough to feel confident with my answers I gave) And also some cabling questions really threw me off and of course there were a few other things there that I will look into but overall I don't think I will have much of a problem going back in a month or so and passing the test. I wouldn't even doubt it if some of the questions I got wrong were due to stupid errors on my part and being to cocky and just rushing through. |
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