CCNA - CCNA Exam

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CCNA Exam

darronb

2003-04-12, 2:12 pm

I have studied for the past 2 years through the Cisco acadamy, and hoping to take the CCNA exam in june/July.

Our teacher informed use that all we will need to know to pass the CCNA will be in the acadamy curiculam.

Is this correct !!!!

I have herd that there may be questions in the exam about IPX access lists (which is not covered in the acadamy)

Is the correct !!!

If so can anyone tell me which areas I need to cover that is not in the Cisco acadamy.

PS. please foegive any spelling. after a bottle of theckstons old piculier, and 1/2 a bottle of wine my fingers wonder a bite :-))

Enable Secret

2003-04-12, 6:58 pm

I studied for roughly three months using the Cisco Press Guide, Sybex books and sims, and the cisco.com search engine. All in all, I think the exam was VERY difficult. I passed yesterday with 949/1000. I think if you have been at it for 2 years, that you should have no problem at all.

My #1 complain about the CCNA Exam was the length of time. I like to examine my answers completely and the CCNA Exam really doesnt allocate enough time for it. I had 90 minutes to take the test and I used 88 of them. You should have 2 full minutes to answer every question and 12 minutes for each Sim. IMHO.

Bill

Enable Secret

2003-04-12, 7:03 pm

Forgot to address the IPX question. Since IPX is still used in some Networks I highly recommend you understand IPX Addressing, IPX Frame Types, SAP, IPX Access lists, SAP Filters, and the Show Commands for IPX.

Use Show IPX ? to get the list of commands and look them up on the Cisco Search Engine. Anything a router can do, should be fair game for the CCNA from a theory standpoint.

Just know your stuff and you will do fine.

Bill

Treea1

2003-04-13, 4:26 pm

Hey darronb!

I completed the Cisco Academy 1-4 in January '03 and I took the test mid March '03. I would have to disgree somewhat with your instructor. There were a few items that the Cisco Academy did not cover as in depth as needed to sucessfully tackle some of the revised questions that I experienced on the CCNA test.

I had quite a few questions that dealt with Frame Relay technologies (Cisco Acad does not address this thoroughly) as well as questions relating to proper syntax sequence when comnfiguring Frame Relay, SPID's, LMI's, static routes and ACL configs.

I also had some whopper config simulation questions (4 Sims). You must be speedy as well as acurate (and Check your configs), and please do a sho start or sho run before you start to config (if you are asked to find the problem with the topology)!! My sims were very time consuming!!! Also be prepared to do a couple of minor configs to possibly 3 routers in one simulation problem (I had 2 sims like this)!!

I did take the recently revised test. I had 60 questions within 90 minutes and a myriad of answer functions (DragNDrop, fill in the blank, etc). My friends took the test in Jan & Feb '03 and only had 50 questions within 75 minutes!! Try to focus on Frame Relay, Switching, ACL's, Routing protocol metrics (which protocol uses what), Subnetting and LAN/WAN troubleshooting. Just when you think you have studied enough, study some more!!

I still can currently sign on to cisco.netacad.net with no problems. It seems since Cisco updated the site, there have been problems with logging in. I'm sure you'll do well on your test and pass with flying colors!!

darronb

2003-04-14, 7:43 am

Thank you very much for your vote of confedence. I see I need to do alot more study.

clarkv

2003-04-14, 10:52 am

Hey darronb. I haven't taken the exam yet (two more weeks), but I can tell you that the Self Test software (which is endorsed by Cisco, for whatever that's worth) has plenty on Access Lists, although I haven't noticed any on IPX. But I would definitely know it anyway - especially the number ranges for all the access lists.

Also, the latest version of Self Test has 4 sims in it that are very good, IMHO. If you find the sim demo on Cisco's web site, it looks just like the one on Self Tests. If you are not yet using some brand of self test software, you should definitely invest in one. I've always preferred Transcenders, but I went with Self Test because Cisco endorsed it and I figure I could use all the help I can get.

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