Passed!

Hey Guys,

Just passed the 640-801. Not happy with my score (860), but a pass is a pass. This was my first Cisco exam, definitely harder than MS exams. I was surprised how fast the time went - I didn't get to answer the last question. At one point I had 18 questions left with only 21 minutes. I almost gave up but decided to press through, the questions got a bit easier and I was to answer most questions except for the last one.

Anyhow thanks to everyone on the forum and to the Techexams site for the valuable info.

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Comments

GeorgeMcFly22

Congrats! Welcome in the Cisco club.

litehedded

what took up all your time?
sims?
subnetting?

seraphus

Congrats!

mikej412

Congratulations!

NetworkGod

Awesome man, see ya in CCNP forum

georgemc

Congrats!

deneb829

fantastic!

spicc7

Thanks guys,

I got a simlet regarding Root Bridge and Mac Address port assignments. I wasn't prepared for the way the question was posed. Things seem a lot different in a test environment versus when you are studying. I wasted at least 10 minutes on this question. I do feel some of the questions could have been worded better, but that's to be expected!!

james_

Congrats Spicc7, that's awesome. Don't be down on your score, lets face it if you scored that in a M$ test, it would be a darned good score right? I will be happy to score 849 when i take the ICND..

Inc

spicc7 wrote:

This was my first Cisco exam, definitely harder than MS exams.

First of all - Congratulations!

And what really gnaws me - are those MS exams really easier than Cisco ones?

hanakuin

Congrats!!!

carveone

I just did mine and got 835. Nearly cried

I also got the question with root bridge and mac address and it threw me a lot - I knew how to get everything but then paniced - I had about 20 questions and about 18 minutes left - they did get easier but I didn't know that and rushed.

(I'm not giving any questions away here just in case - only the guy who passed knows what I mean)

What took a lot of time working out was sub and supernetting. Here's a big help - when you go into the exam, you don't have to start right away. Take a few minutes and write down the darn subnets and powers:
128, 196, 224 etc

and /30 is blah.253 with 4 increment (2^2) and 4-1 = blah.3 wildcard mask. This will help a lot. I feel cisco deliberately waste your time to make you panic!

Also know that there may be two good answers and you pick the best one given the question.

Oh: I have a question.

hub -------  router  -------- switch
 |                              |
----------                  ----------
|  |  |  |                  |  |  |  |
pc pc pc pc                 pc pc pc pc

Broadcast domains = 2
collision domains = 3
right???

Webmaster

Each port on a switch is its own collision domain ('the' difference between hub and switch). So in your example there are 6 collision domains (1 left of the router, one between the router and the switch, and one per PC) and indeed 2 broadcast domains (assuming all PC on the switch are in the same VLAN).

www.techexams.net/technotes/networkplus/networkcomponents.shtml

carveone

Webmaster wrote:

Each port on a switch is its own collision domain ('the' difference between hub and switch). So in your example there are 6 collision domains (1 left of the router, one between the router and the switch, and one per PC) and indeed 2 broadcast domains (assuming all PC on the switch are in the same VLAN).

www.techexams.net/technotes/networkplus/networkcomponents.shtml

Thank you - the picture just under the Routers heading shows the idea. Which I understand. The problem being that all your pictures are so precise!

Should I assume that when the exam shows what I showed in my diagram: ie: a line from the switch and then the bar underneath it with the PCs connected to the bar, that it does NOT mean what the books seem to mean! That is a single cable from the switch to a group of pcs. Presumably the group of pcs is connected with a magic hub

This would lead me to believe that 3 was the answer. Which is couldn't have been anyway as "3" wasn't one of options!!! Sigh. I wonder can I complain

Conor.

Webmaster

We actually had a discussion about a diagram in one my practice questions a while ago in which I do the same, it's standard for a 'logical' diagram. So yeah, you should assume each PC has an individual cable to the switch as it would have in reality.

carveone

Webmaster wrote:

We actually had a discussion about a diagram in one my practice questions a while ago in which I do the same, it's standard for a 'logical' diagram. So yeah, you should assume each PC has an individual cable to the switch as it would have in reality.

Right, that makes a lot of sense. I'm analysing the questions I can remember from my exam so as not to make the same mistakes. I know at this point that the Cisco diagrams don't leave things out - ie: there can't be a magic hub in there so there must be 4 connections to that switch. The book I used however (ExamPrep) quite often showed something like what I drew and said "one collision domain on that line".

In hindsight it's obvious of course but when you've 60 seconds per question thinking is not much of an option!

Cheers - that helps a lot,

Conor.