PASSED!

HECK YA, FEELS GOOD!

Well 4 months and countless hours of study proves positive results. I got a 936!!!!.

The test was not as difficult as I expected, but thats what happens when you work hard I guess. It started out with some pretty tough questions with a lot involved, but I think they do that to psyche you out and make you not think clearly. Pretty much everything on the test I expected, it's all in the books. I just want to give a great big thank you to everyone on here for providing awesome information. This site rocks!

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planning and design 100%
Implementation and operation 91%
Troubleshooting 89%
Technology 84%

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Slowhand

Very cool, big congrats on the pass. I can only hope I'm looking at a score like that when I finally get around to doing my retake. What's next for you?

Netstudent

Taking a week off of cisco. I'm taking 12 hours at school and I have 3 final exams coming up. So i'm gonna focus on that, then jump on BSCI since I already have the book and one of my classes' curriculum is based on BSCI. And thanks!

oh and only a few trick questions. deep thinking a process of elemination got me through those.

gabrielbtoledo

Great news buddy. I am happy for you.

I just hope I can do the same when my time comes around. I don't know if I can manage 1.5min per question.
Also, if you get the tough questions right, the test should be easier, since the level goes up as you get wrong answers.

CONGRATS one more time!!!!

dtlokee

As if there was any question!

Although I am disapointed in the low score there bud

Congrats again, looking forward to seeing you in the CCNP forums (should now become the most active ones on the server)

mwgood

Congratulations!

r_durant

As dtlokee said...as if we didnt expect it, was just a matter of how much

Good work...

Netstudent

thanks again everyone. Going to the rent's house to lay out by the pool, drink some patron, and unwind.

Tricon7

Great job! I'll bet you're glad you have it behind you now.

Btw, did you have much on ISDN, as I've heard that it should hardly be covered now.

njcowboy

Congrats.
That is an impressive score.

I am planning on sitting next week. I gotta try. I run a multi-million dollar network without consultants, I have to be able to pass this exam

LOkrasa

Awesome man. Congrats!

markzab

Netstudent

Tricon7 wrote:

Great job! I'll bet you're glad you have it behind you now.

Btw, did you have much on ISDN, as I've heard that it should hardly be covered now.

Don't worry too much about it, you can definately pass without being an ISDN master. Yes I am glad it is behind me. I'm excited about it, but i'm only looking ahead. It will probably be neverending for me because i'm always hungry for more. I just saw the CCNA as a small step to a larger plan and I still have a way to go. BUt having this newfound knowledge is nice.

I run a multi-million dollar network without consultants, I have to be able to pass this exam

For you, the trivial questions in life will be simple. KNow frame-relay inside and out . Any CCNA should be able to navigate through L2 comfortablely, utilizing L2 show commands to tell a story about the network.

read all questions very carefully and slowly. analyze the answer choices carefully. Some times it seems a couple could be right, but think about each one carefully and i'm sure you will make the right choice.

totts

Well done! Hopefully see you in the CCNP forums at some stage.

Rearden

Congratulations. My exam is the 15th I hope to see you in the club soon.

rjbarlow

Congrats man!

You have done before me! And don't pay attention to what dtlokee says, it's a big score! I would sign for that!

Netstudent

i'm pretty sure derek was being facetious. And thanks. When do you plan on taking your test rj?

rjbarlow

Netstudent wrote:

i'm pretty sure derek was being facetious. And thanks. When do you plan on taking your test rj?

Sure...

I hope in the middle of september I'm ready or better I hope I'm ready before this period because I would take in that time, just I am making one short vacation...

mattsthe2

Remind me again what material you used.

Lab or Sim or both?

??

ITdude

Congrats dude! See you over in the NP forum soon. It will be nice to keep the action going.

Netstudent

mattsthe2 wrote:

Remind me again what material you used.

Lab or Sim or both?

??

man I used everything under the sun to tell you the truth. I started off by reading Sybex 5th edition about an 1.5 hours a day. Took me about 2 weeks to get through it. Then I went back and reiterated all the topics that i wasn't comfortable with from the book. Just kept rereading untill I had it well. ASked a million questions on this forum and listened well to everyone else's confusion. then I read Cisco press ICND to fine tune everything. Read the whole book, and sometimes I would have both books open, flipping through both, reading chapter for chapter in both books. Then after that I kinda bounced from book to book as a crossreference. Then i bought 800 bucks worth of gear. For 800 i got enough gear to be adequate for CCNP level. Then went to town on the gear, lots of late nights. I used my school's racks as well because I instruct labs at school. Then i hit the test engines, to find my weaknesses which was only STP. All the questions I got wrong, I was sure to understand why I got it wrong. I didn't use simulation software that much. I like precision and simulators are not precise. Thats about it. I just took it seriously and worked hard at it. Thats all you have to do. When you want something, go get it.

Gabe7055

great job!

mattsthe2

Netstudent wrote:

mattsthe2 wrote:

Remind me again what material you used.

Lab or Sim or both?

??

man I used everything under the sun to tell you the truth. I started off by reading Sybex 5th edition about an 1.5 hours a day. Took me about 2 weeks to get through it. Then I went back and reiterated all the topics that i wasn't comfortable with from the book. Just kept rereading untill I had it well. ASked a million questions on this forum and listened well to everyone else's confusion. then I read Cisco press ICND to fine tune everything. Read the whole book, and sometimes I would have both books open, flipping through both, reading chapter for chapter in both books. Then after that I kinda bounced from book to book as a crossreference. Then i bought 800 bucks worth of gear. For 800 i got enough gear to be adequate for CCNP level. Then went to town on the gear, lots of late nights. I used my school's racks as well because I instruct labs at school. Then i hit the test engines, to find my weaknesses which was only STP. All the questions I got wrong, I was sure to understand why I got it wrong. I didn't use simulation software that much. I like precision and simulators are not precise. Thats about it. I just took it seriously and worked hard at it. Thats all you have to do. When you want something, go get it.

What did you get for 800 bucks..?
Im about to setup my lap with spare old routers from work that im going to ask my boss if i can borrow.
Hopefully two 1700's and one 1600 series router.
And two 3500XL switches. Do you think that will be enough to coverall the labs...?

Which test engines did you use?
I only have "Self Test Software" that i got from my bootcamp course.
and im looking for a few others....??

Netstudent

I got 3 2610's
1 2620
2 2924 swtches
1 2950 switch
8 WIC-1T cards
5 DB60 serial corssover cables
2 rollover cables

and yes those routers will suffice for the test. IF you are lookin fwd to NP then it probably will not be enough. You will want to have a router than can perform frame-relay switching. It is a very prevalent topic. engine I used was the cd that comes in the cisco press ICND book and TESTOUT v3.0 and the engine in the CCNA flash cards book. That CD in the cisco pres ICND book is the best I have found. Testout is good, but they don't think like cisco wants you to think and they use slightly different terminology than cisco.

mattsthe2

Sweet setup...

So the 1700's wont do frame relay huh... that bums me out, because frame realy is tested on the CCNA i thought...??

mattsthe2

Netstudent i hope you stick around in the CCNA forum, you can provide us all some of your knowledge and history with the exam.

Netstudent

well thanks man. I'm not going anywhere, I am still in the very beginnings of my career and have a year left in school so I'll be here. I'll be a member here indefinately, networking is my passion. There are a lot of great information providers here. I have learned a lot from just being here.

And yes, you will need to know frame-relay to be a CCNA. YOu just need a router with 2 serial interfaces to create a frame-relay switch. YOu may notice that setting up a frame-relay switch isnt in any of the latest CCNA books. BUT you will need to be able to configure the DTE's so therefore a switch would be needed for a lab.

gaby_978

CONGRATULATION. JOB WELL DONE

Mikdilly

Of the two, Lammle's book or Ciscopress ICND, which one gives a better overview of Frame Relay?

Netstudent

Definately ICND. Lammle just kinda squeezes frame-relay into a WAN chapter along with PPP and HDLC. I think the little information provided by lammle doesn't really show you all the different ways frame-relay can be implemented. in odom's ICND, he explains in detail multiple ways of implementing frame-relay. The ICND book has more diagrams with DLCI's and such in the frame-relay chapter. Not to mention the fact that ICND has it's own chapter dedicated to frame-relay.

elegua

Netstudent wrote:

definitely ICND. Lammle just kinda squeezes frame-relay into a WAN chapter along with PPP and HDLC. I think the little information provided by lammle doesn't really show you all the different ways frame-relay can be implemented. in odom's ICND, he explains in detail multiple ways of implementing frame-relay. The ICND book has more diagrams with DLCI's and such in the frame-relay chapter. Not to mention the fact that ICND has it's own chapter dedicated to frame-relay.

Netstudent, congrats on the pass.

That's true. i have my frame relay lab for that book (i mixed 2 ways to do it so i got a hybrid frame relay), very good book to have, also i bought CCNA portable command guide from ciscopress that includes all the cmds that you need to know for the exam, i'll buy the ccna sybex 5 edition tomorrow to start full time with it and see if i can do the test before nov 6.