Good training video source for CCENT?

Shoe Box

I'll be taking my VMware VCA6-DCV this week, then I will be starting my CCENT. I looked on the Cisco learning center store, and this appears to be the training video for CCENT:

https://learningnetworkstore.cisco.com/ccent/cisco-e-learning-for-icnd1-v2-0-180-day-subscription-elt-icnd1-v2-0-015601

No F@CKING way am I paying $500 for it!!! I had gotten the CCT R&S training video from Cisco for $299, and I raised holy hell with them when I took the test and found numerous cases of the "training video" covering half or nothing at all of various questions I got on the test, and quite a few other things worth getting mad over.

I have had training videos on Udemy from Lazaro Diaz and found them to be good, but I am looking for something as close to the questions that will be asked on the test as possible. Any suggestions?

bender_fender100

Have you looked at CBT Nuggets before? You could get a 7 day free trial with them and watch their ICND1 videos. People have also said good things about Chris Bryant's courses, which I believe Udemy was selling a lot of their courses recently for 50% off or something like that. Those are the ones that come to my mind at least. Kevin Wallace also sounds good and I've seen a little bit of what he does, but the courses on the site cost around $239. I think all of those would be helpful for you.

Shoe Box

I've had a couple 7 day free trials on CBT Nuggets. They seem to go off on tangents a lot, and I am sitting there thinking "GET TO THE POINT!!!" .

I watch their videos on 1.3x speed just to hurry them up a bit. There's useful information in their videos, but I don't have good tolerance for the excess talking and storytelling.

volfkhat

For an alternative route,
i'd vouch for Danscourses on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...E07ECCA73C0755
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...5B070715AA1FE9

All you need is Cisco's packet tracer (google for the free 'Student' version).

Took me about 9 weeks from start to pass.

roninkai

I went through the CBT Nuggets course for CCENT. It was good, but yea lots of tangents and fluff. I like short and sweet. When I get back to studying for CCENT again, it will be either INE courses or GNS3 Academy. Both of which were very inexpensive. I like that INE is mobile ready to so I can stream in the car.

bender_fender100

Shoe Box wrote: »

I've had a couple 7 day free trials on CBT Nuggets. They seem to go off on tangents a lot, and I am sitting there thinking "GET TO THE POINT!!!" .

I watch their videos on 1.3x speed just to hurry them up a bit. There's useful information in their videos, but I don't have good tolerance for the excess talking and storytelling.

That's understandable. I did the videos at 1.3-1.6x speed a lot too because some of them could get really lengthy about relatively simple concepts. I did them before I even got into the book or labbing and they gave me motivation to keep going I guess.

I've never heard of the INE courses, but I'm always looking for different explanations on the more difficult CCENT/CCNA topics so I will now keep those in mind.

james43026

You will be hard pressed to find a single video source that will cover everything you need. But INE has some really good videos. They are rather expensive if you buy them, but they cover a large amount of material.

Simrid

As per the post above. INE are great, so is Chris Bryant (especially as he does offers of $12 for the whole CCNA course). He is informative and knowledgeable.