I didn't make it on the first time, but next again I will make it.

How heavy the ISDN materials will be on the CCNA? I just saw few online practice test have a unfamiliar knowledge on ISDN...

Just to make sure this time I made it.

Also, for those who just took the CCNA. How many question do they test on the 1900 switch..

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Let me state first of all I have NOT taken the CCNA yet but i have been keeping an eye on advice that people have given on the type of questions they got on the exam. Below I have cut and pasted what people have said about the exam, every paragraph is a different opinion and as you will gather, peoples exam experiences does vary.I dont think this answers your question but I guess the point it makes is you need to know it all.......

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I also used the sureshhomepage.com kit,the #1 kit which was very helpful. I would say it covered more of the real test questions to the extent of 45 out of 65Qs. As someone said in this forum they were all granular to the level of word-by-word. The test seemed to be more of a 'technologies' test in the sense that there were a lot of questions concerning layers 1 and 2, asking how the packets were switched and about signalling and things of that nature as opposed to things like routing protocols and the higher layer information.

What i can tell you is study wan protocols and I had a few questions were I actually had to put in the command.

I actually only had ONE question on subnetting. Strange eh?

subnetting posts. There must have been at least 7 questions dealing with it on the exam. Also, exam essentials was a god send, I recommend it to anyone preparing to sit for the exam.

There is no substitute for studying this material seriously, especially subnets, Frame relay and ISDN. OSI inside out, switches, access lists.

The one I already knew was the slash shortcut, like "112.12.24.3/24". The "/24" tells you how many bits in your subnet. So 24 bits gives you 255.255.255.0.

learn the osi and subnnting very well and than u have 50%

of the exam in your pocket.
That's funny I didn't get but a few of each of subnetting and OSI. Congrats!!
The hard part was that I really didn't see any verbatim questions from my practice tests so you need to know the info.

I read the entire Sybex book, chapter by chapter, and took all the practice exams on the CD that came with the book. Those questions were similar and at some points harder than those on the CCNA.

Oh yes indeed. I got 2 or 3 questions about the Cisco 3 layered model. Be aware of this and READ the question thoroughly; it is too easy to scan the question quickly, especially when under time constraints, and misinterpret it. Look for the keywords 'Cisco model' or ' OSI model'
Not a one 3 TIMES
Sybex book by Todd Lammle... great book... a must have for the exam.. really prepared me well.

Exam Essentials... very close to the test...

If you have read lammle's book cover to cover and then do EE and know why the answers are wrong and right, you should have no problem passing this test.

i had a lot of questions on WANS, ISDN, nothing much on the osi at all!!!!




. Know your OSI layers. The subnetting part is not difficult. Know the magic table.

#of subnets class A hosts
192 2 14M
224 6
240 14 you get the picture
248 30
252 62
254 126
255 254

1 or 2 questions which require you to match a command with the proper mode.

STUDY THE OSI HARD until you dicuss of it.

learn inside out, turn it upside down and learn it sideway. beleive me, they put it heavily on the exam. if you master this, the other router command, access list, subnet... etc is easy.

if it was worded right it would have been easy!!
i had a lot of questions on WANS, ISDN, nothing much on the osi at all!!!!
Plenty of questions will be about subnetting . . . you really need to know it well. I had some questions on WANs, but not many. The Sybex book should get you through the exam. Amnot sure if there are any books on Collision domains, but Cisco's other books should have something about it.

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Here's a question from the CCNA exam that all you folks can be one up on. Only one problem though.. I've yet to find anyone who knows the answer. Couldnt find it in my study material, and my Cisco Network Academy Instructor didnt know the answer either.. But here is goes: "What is Backoff".. Good Luck!

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What are you referring to when you talk about "backoff"? There is a backoff algorithm in ethernet, but I want to be sure that this is what you are referring to before answering your question.

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