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| soccer4net 2003-07-16, 12:59 pm |
| Took the exam for the first time yesterday, and passed with a score of 974. Thanks to all members for insights and information.
I've done a lot of lab work with routers and switches as well as some experience with them in a live environment. I've looked at a lot of books, but Wendell Odom's CCNA by Cisco Press is the best bar none, I only wish I had discovered it sooner. Now for the test.
Subnetting, know it. If you aren't totally comfortable with all basic subnetting permutations and able to do it quickly, forget about it(refer to my earlier post for some tips on subnetting). Know frame relay commands and concepts thoroughly. Everything related to routing protocols RIP and IGRP. ISDN basic concepts. Switching basic concepts. Most of the exam was straight forward with stuff like simple router components questions to protocol/function mapping in the osi layer. There were a couple badly worded problems, don't read into the phrasing to much on these. Kudos to Cisco for not putting any specifically IPX questions on the test(know the basics but commands are beyond the scope of the exam as well as any practical application in real life)
Time is a big factor, to me most of the questions were easy, but with only 90 mins for 60 questions 2 being a lab, you have to answer a lot of the multi choice questions within 5/10 secs to finish in time, which means you have to really know the basic stuff well to answer quickly. The troubleshooting lab I got had multiple problems with the configuration, and the sim is very slow, its the same flash sim used on the cisco site, I can type an address command in in about 5 sec, and it takes another 10 before the command prints out and registers in the sim. It took me all of 10 mins to complete the lab, and all I did was read the question briefly look at the configs make the several neccessary changes and test everything. If youre not familiar troubleshooting a rip routed internetwork or you don't know the basic commands involved like the back of your hand, it could take you much longer not giving you much time for the rest of the test.
Good luck. | |
| B4yaman3 2003-07-16, 2:24 pm |
| Way to Go. Congrats. Nice Score  I am planning to take mine as soon as I get my MCSE out of the way. | |
| donaldmc 2003-07-16, 4:57 pm |
| Way to go! What's next? | |
| flipt0p 2003-07-16, 10:00 pm |
| wow! what a score dude.
congrats! | |
| jay1140 2003-07-17, 1:13 am |
| Beauty..nice score to pass with..
I am planning to sit for my exam soon.
How much of the switching command & concepts were covered in the exam?
Were you tested on catalyst 1900?
How about IPX?
Do you have any simulation quetions to pratice with? | |
| PCDude 2003-07-17, 8:19 am |
| Congrats  | |
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| Congrats also!
Nice score and that the first time!
Next week it is my turn second attempt(822 1st).
And thanks for the tips!!
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| djmaplethorpe 2003-07-17, 10:52 am |
| Way to go, I can only hope to do this well. This comment brings up a question
"Only in a certification exam cisco edition)
Would a company make a second, easier to remember version of a command, then make you memorize both of them."
are all of the abbreviated commands legal on the test? | |
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| soccer4net 2003-07-18, 11:42 am |
| Yes that's right DJ, the joke was refering to the fact that there are two sets of commands for saving and viewing configs(eg sh run copy run start and write mem write term)
Switching, limited command questions - know the basic 1900 ios commands(none of the cheesy menu based stuff certain "ccna" books tell you to learn) mostly theory. | |
| anchor40 2003-07-24, 3:13 pm |
| Outstanding! Glad to hear you did so well!
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| Ddice 2003-07-24, 10:37 pm |
| congrats!! |
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