Passed CCNA today

redgoblinredgoblin Member Posts: 57 ■■□□□□□□□□
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Hey guys,

I passed my CCNA 640 - 801 on my first attempt today :)

Got a score of 923 broken down as follows:

Planning & Design 100%
Implementation & Operation 91%
Troubleshooting 77%
Technology 92%

Its been a long hard 4 months trying to balance CCNA work with employment but its been worth it as I've now got an internal promotion within an ISP.

Thanks for all help guys
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  • CucumberCucumber Member Posts: 192
    Congratulations!
    A promotion is an excellent reward for the effort.
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  • gaby_978gaby_978 Member Posts: 222
    CONGRATULATIONS...GOOD WORK :D
    ‎"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing,
    you'll never get it done"
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  • NetstudentNetstudent Member Posts: 1,693 ■■■□□□□□□□
    So was it everything you expected? How did you do on time?

    I think thats the thing that is worrying me the most about the exam. I'm not to worried about the concepts, configs, and facts. I'm worried about how long it is going to take to answer those complex questions with diagrams and exibits.

    Congratulations man!
    There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1!
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  • floppydiskfloppydisk Member Posts: 60 ■■□□□□□□□□
    CONGRATULATIONS MAN!!! good work....
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  • PashPash Member Posts: 1,600 ■■■■■□□□□□
    Gratz redgoblin! Thats an awesome score too and well done on promotion...you must be on cloud nine :D
    DevOps Engineer and Security Champion. https://blog.pash.by - I am trying to find my writing style, so please bear with me.
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  • mikej412mikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Congratulations! icon_thumright.gif

    Does your promotion mean you get to play with the routers at work now? icon_lol.gif
    :mike: Cisco Certifications -- Collect the Entire Set!
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  • redgoblinredgoblin Member Posts: 57 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Netstudent wrote:
    So was it everything you expected? How did you do on time?

    I think thats the thing that is worrying me the most about the exam. I'm not to worried about the concepts, configs, and facts. I'm worried about how long it is going to take to answer those complex questions with diagrams and exibits.

    Congratulations man!

    I finished with 15 minutes to spare so time wasn't an issue. To be honest, It was alot easier than I expected. If you can do the 'Cisco CCNA exam certification guide (odom) questions on the cd then you'll be absolutely fine.

    One tip though, make sure you can subnet in your head (ie quickly!). If you need to write down binary numbers when subnetting then time WILL be an issue.
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  • redgoblinredgoblin Member Posts: 57 ■■□□□□□□□□
    mikej412 wrote:
    Congratulations! icon_thumright.gif

    Does your promotion mean you get to play with the routers at work now? icon_lol.gif

    Oh yes most definitly!

    One of my new responsibilities will be to configure routers for customers (especially for use in an MPLS environment). Should be fun!
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  • StovokorStovokor Member Posts: 20 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Congratulations Welcome to the club.
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  • NetstudentNetstudent Member Posts: 1,693 ■■■□□□□□□□
    so it looks like a loooooot of subnetting questions....You don't have to answer that.
    There is no place like 127.0.0.1 BUT 209.62.5.3 is my 127.0.0.1 away from 127.0.0.1!
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  • calaverasgrandescalaverasgrandes Member Posts: 67 ■■□□□□□□□□
    oh great, looks like its time to reschedule my exam date again!
    I am seriously sucking at subnetting in my head. I can do it if I binary it all out on paper. but even then it gives me a headache.
    Any tips? Mnemonic devices?
    One of my books had a table you write out. I skimmed over it because I didnt get what it was for. Now I ma half way there and cant find it!
    Were the router config simulations a pain?
    studying on 70-290, 70-291 and CCNA.
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  • Paul BozPaul Boz Member Posts: 2,620 ■■■■■■■■□□
    calaverasgrandes,

    What about subnetting is giving you trouble? I believe the table you're thinking of is from the Todd Lammle Sybex book.

    The best way to remember subnetting is to just memorize the CIDR values, unfortunately. Rather than trying to find a method to the madness I just committed everything to memory. My advice is to do this to the best of your ability, then during the "how to take this test" portion of the Cisco exam, write down your CIDR values on the provided scratch paper. I've heard of people going so far as to write out every power of four for those pesky /30 masks.
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  • redgoblinredgoblin Member Posts: 57 ■■□□□□□□□□
    calaverasgrandes wrote:
    oh great, looks like its time to reschedule my exam date again!
    I am seriously sucking at subnetting in my head. I can do it if I binary it all out on paper. but even then it gives me a headache.
    Any tips? Mnemonic devices?
    One of my books had a table you write out. I skimmed over it because I didnt get what it was for. Now I ma half way there and cant find it!
    Were the router config simulations a pain?

    If you don't feel comfortable subnetting in general then don't even bother take the exam yet. Alot of questions are directly or indirectly related to subnetting in some way (which makes sense considering its how routing works) and so you need to be fast at it.

    Don't bother with memorising charts as they won't really teach you the mechanics of it.

    Here's how I would learn subnetting:

    learn it in Binary first and master that
    Once you know the mechanics of how it works, you can learn to subnet in your head which is pretty easy.

    Say for example we have to work out which subnet 10.3.4.5/27 falls into.

    First you need to know that a /27 is a .224

    then, work out the block size which is 256 - 224 = 32

    Now we know how much the subnets increment by in the last octet ie

    10.3.4.0
    10.3.4.32
    10.3.4.64 etc

    so we now know that 10.3.4.5/27 falls into the subnet 10.3.4.0

    You should be able to do the above steps in your head in a few seconds (with practise of course !)

    Hope this helps
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  • janmikejanmike Member Posts: 3,076
    Congrats for passing!
    "It doesn't matter, it's in the past!"--Rafiki
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  • TechStrikerTechStriker Member Posts: 131
    Congratulations, Hard Work Pays Off after all !!!!!!!
    Passed SNIA - SCSP
    Working on VCP4
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  • ITdudeITdude Member Posts: 1,181 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Congrats on the pass!!!

    Happy 4th to everyone (where it applies of course) icon_wink.gif
    I usually hang out on 224.0.0.10 (FF02::A) and 224.0.0.5 (FF02::5) when I'm in a non-proprietary mood.

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  • manas_83manas_83 Member Posts: 3 ■□□□□□□□□□
    hello bro
    congrats
    an whether ccna certification give u'r carrier a boost or not?
    and u'r salary is increased or not
    if it plz mention it
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  • MrBogsMrBogs Member Posts: 14 ■□□□□□□□□□
    :D
    Congrats!!!

    I hope you can give me some advice and tip on how to pass the exam I will take the exam this coming Nov 2007.. I need to secure and get some money for my exam.. Hope you can share some of your knowledge

    Thank you!!

    Respectfully Yours

    BOGS
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