Attempted ICND today
borumas
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in CCNA & CCENT
Failed score: 755
This was very frustrating as I took the test 2 weeks ago and it locked up on a sim which was the last question or 2 of the test. I had felt very confident on that test but the score never went through leading to my retake today.
I am very pissed about the sim, it was the same sim as last time and you click on a host to get into the router, when doing this you should click control+shift+X and 6 to exit back to the host for a new connection- this did not work making me waste about a minute or 2 of frustration on it, I then had to telnet to the other router from my current router connection after not being able to do the other way. By that point I felt I was over 10 minutes or fast aproaching it and then it seemed that nothing was really wrong with either router as they all seemed to ping everything fine, I just made one change before hitting next. Even more frustrating is in the sim it did not tell you what you would do to test if you had configured it the way they wanted, at least I didn't recall seeing anything like it.
After the failure with the sim the questions started getting easier and easier to me, but alas not enough, I'm contemplating just taking the full blown CCNA test, but not sure yet as I'd like to sit again either next Friday or the following one.
Sorry for the rant but I just wanted to get this test done and move on, it is a hard test for sure.
This was very frustrating as I took the test 2 weeks ago and it locked up on a sim which was the last question or 2 of the test. I had felt very confident on that test but the score never went through leading to my retake today.
I am very pissed about the sim, it was the same sim as last time and you click on a host to get into the router, when doing this you should click control+shift+X and 6 to exit back to the host for a new connection- this did not work making me waste about a minute or 2 of frustration on it, I then had to telnet to the other router from my current router connection after not being able to do the other way. By that point I felt I was over 10 minutes or fast aproaching it and then it seemed that nothing was really wrong with either router as they all seemed to ping everything fine, I just made one change before hitting next. Even more frustrating is in the sim it did not tell you what you would do to test if you had configured it the way they wanted, at least I didn't recall seeing anything like it.
After the failure with the sim the questions started getting easier and easier to me, but alas not enough, I'm contemplating just taking the full blown CCNA test, but not sure yet as I'd like to sit again either next Friday or the following one.
Sorry for the rant but I just wanted to get this test done and move on, it is a hard test for sure.
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redgoblin
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Hard luck man. One thing I noticed though, is it not 'CTRL + ALT + 6' and then 'X'. I noticed you have the 6 and the X the wrong way round!
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mobri09
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I am surprised they would put that on the exam. That toggle doesn't always seem to work for me the first time when I am working on my home routers. For some reason it always takes me a few attempts.
Sims are difficult because they are worth the most points and the questions are sometimes very vague and long. Therefore, we have an attendance to panic a little. Shake it off -
borumas
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Thanks for the replies, it's Control-Shift-6 then X, at least that's how Cisco's simulator is on their Cisco prep site, I guess I typed it wrong in my frustration earlier, lol.