Taking CCNA today..really reallly nervous.....

kenny504

Wish me luck fam. I am about to sit ......the CCNA and although i'm scared i believe i have it together. wish me luck!

-kenny

Alien

My best advice is to stay as calm as possible before and during the exam. Before the exam, relax and regurgitate the important stuff onto the scratch board. Don't freak out coz it might make the difference. It's not a question of do or die anyway and theres always a second chance. Finally remember the little steam engine "I think i can"
Last but not least Good luck

mikej412

Good Luck!

I hope you're up early after a good nights sleep... and not up late cramming, unless your test is late afternoon and you're planning to sleep in...

Relax, take a few deep breaths....

Noods

At this point, give it a once over then stop studying. The best thing to do at this point is relax. I remember feeling like I was gonna throw up right before I took my CCNA. Relax so you are in the right state of mind during the test. Good luck!

jescab

GOOD LUCK......relax, you can do it

Jiggsaww

hope am not 2 late.......hope ya remember 2 ask the father's blessings...

mikej412

Well...... is it too soon to ask how you did?

kenny504

Thanks everybody, woke up early yesterday and recieved a call from the testing centre ..stating something about ..the examination software didnt download properly so it was post- poned for today.....thanks to all for the encouragement, as soon as iget my results i'll post it.

-kenny

kenny504

just informing everyone that i failed the exam (ccna)....which should really be called the switches ewam..because literallly almost every 1 and 6 or so question were pertaining to switches or vlans or vpn....cud u belive not even much on routing protocols...or routers alone??/....anyway its passable and i must say that and it was a learning experience for me. as long as you hv the right study materials u shud pass it with ease.....unlike me i had no good up to date study materials...terrrible blow hey?/?...anyway thanks for all the encouregemnt guys...i gues its back to alll drawing board naw.....SWITCHES, SWITCHES.......SWITCHES. ohh yeah and the subnettin questions were a breeze....and NONE on ipx or novell so i think you should capitilize on switches IMHO.

-kenny

sart

Now you're prepared for next time. The general looks of it here is that a lot of people fail the first time and ace it the second time because they know how Cisco asks questions afterward.

Most of my exam was on switching too.. EIGRP was quizzed a few times but I think it's because I missed two questions. (I think I lost -25 for each EIGRP question and that's it). I had some VLSM, *Very* few ethernet-ish questions.

Totally spend your time learning VTP, ISL, dot1q... Trunking, STP, RSTP.
Commit everything to memory.
I was pretty surprised at the amount of switching they pour on you, when in the real world most switches just configure themselves properly. They need to concentrate more on the IP routing and troubleshooting.

mikej412

kenny504 wrote:

should really be called the switches ewam.

Sorry...

But don't forget that there is a big pool of questions. It would be nice if they were consistant and did x% routing and y% switching and only (1/(x+y))% tricky questions... but I don't think that they do. Next test could be the router exam...

Good luck on your next shot!! You know what you need to do

bout2k

Kenny504,

I'm sorry to hear that you failed the exam. Better luck next time. What study material did you use? What did you end up scoring on the exam?

Thank You

kenny504

Thats tru...the exam topics do fluctuate.....i ended up scoring a 650 and used computerprep exam books provided by my testing centre and **** also.....**** is good by the way.....butall i studied were 1900 switches and they had another series of switches on the exam....anyway thanks for all the coments.