CCNA Exam - Questions
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I have been working for an isp for 2 years
now and know quite abit about routing and have been studying really hard for the CCNA exam. I'm not looking for any cheating info, but those of you who have taken the exam, ive got one question the questions that cisco ask you, do they ask "select two answers" or "select all that apply". Just out of curiousity. Ohh and is the test really really hard, seen as ive prolly got about 3 months hard study under me belt, and two routrs and a 1900 switch ive been playing with for 1 month or so?? I get the feeling that these study guides over prepare you or is that just me??? Let me know anyways. Im taking the test in one week btw.
now and know quite abit about routing and have been studying really hard for the CCNA exam. I'm not looking for any cheating info, but those of you who have taken the exam, ive got one question the questions that cisco ask you, do they ask "select two answers" or "select all that apply". Just out of curiousity. Ohh and is the test really really hard, seen as ive prolly got about 3 months hard study under me belt, and two routrs and a 1900 switch ive been playing with for 1 month or so?? I get the feeling that these study guides over prepare you or is that just me??? Let me know anyways. Im taking the test in one week btw.
Comments
They almost always tell you how much answers to choose.
The studyguides do overprepare you, especially when it comes to router commands. You probably don't need to worry about the router simulations considering you have actual experience. The commands questioned in the exam are the very basic commands for which even a router simulator would over prepare you.
I wouldn't rate the exam really really hard if you know the network basics AND have hands-on experience with routers and switches AND you read a study guide (I prefer Cisco Press, or anything from Todd Lammle) than the exam is very do-able
I hope this helps!
Good luck on your exam and let us know how it went.
;o)
I found the exam easy as i had a sybex study guide and notes (read both 3 times) and a 6CD course with todd lamle taking you thought the steps/objectives.....recommend that to anyone.
On to CCNP, anyone recommend any materials for the 4 exams?
CCNA should make you more valuable on the job market, but the salary depends a lot on the (ccna-) tasks you perform on the job, so it is pretty much undoable to give an average.
CCNA was for me a ticket out of a 'current' job, finally I was able to go from sys admin to network admin.
You now got the hands-on and the certification, which should definitely improve your odds.
Good luck with the CCNP! (be sure to try out the new BSCI exam I have uploaded a couple of days ago.
I'm working on a link directory and there will be some good resources in it, I'll try to post a couple in the CCNP forums.
And thanks for the compliment about the site!
By this I mean, that I am in the middle of a career change, attending a Year Long "network Engineer" program with multiple platforms with their certs, including MCSE, CUSA, Novell Netware 5.1 and of course Cisco CCNA.
I have heard many arguments regarding certifications versus experience.. The present economy aside, what would you advise someone like me who used to build airplanes but is now knee deep in the IT field having obtained 4 cert designations thus far??
P.S> Great site you have here!
I was lucky enough to have a job in IT before I got my first cert (CNA 3.12). I started out at a very small company with 2 people being the 'IT departement'... and I wasn't one of them. In a couple of months I went from archiving/data entry to macros in lotus and ms access to application support to desktop support (bought my first pc when I was 12
I took a job at an out-source company and they were very willing to pay all the costs to get all the certs I wanted. Although not at first, since I was working at large companies now I had to work myself up again starting with a call-desk job and my 'boss' felt I didn't need MCSE for that. So instead of letting them pay an expensive course I asked for a book (NT 4 workstation) and 1 exam voucher, I passed the first time and from that point on I was really lucky: when I was studying for NT 4 server they got me a job administering 2 NT 4 servers, when I was studying for proxy 2 the company I worked for at that moment needed a proxy server, and even when I was studying for Exchange 5.5 another company I worked for needed two exchange server on two different locations.
When I got my CCNA working at company where I was implementing exchange servers I noticed they didn't have any access-lists configured on the router directly connected to the internet, so I asked if I could do a quick pilot (about the same time I was at the chapter Access Lists in my ccna book.
I never waited till the job came to me, it took a lot of convincing sometimes but also being there at the right moment had a lot to do with it.
The first thing I did when I started to realise certifications really helped but I still needed proof of hands-on experience is build up a resume by taking short term jobs, pretty much every I could get.
You probably do get a lot of hands-on during a year long program, but employers also 'appreciate' experience actually working in the IT field, not just experience with certain hard- or software.
I hope this is somewhat useful
Johan
Funny you mentioning access-lists, as I have just completed the CCNA module and if this were a month ago, I wouldn't have a clue what you were talking about, so something must be sinking in!