Taking CCENT in 2 hours!!!

I am scheduled in 2 hours to take my ICND1. I know subnetting like the back of my hand, just hope I do well with everything else.

I have been using Lammle book and CBTNuggets along with some army online training (skillsoft).

Being in Iraq I obviously dont have a home lab or anything which is going to hurt me, but I feel the past few months have prepared for this.

WISH ME LUCK!

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SporkD2

I passed whoooohoooo

mikej412

SporkD2 wrote: »

passed

Congratulations!

7255carl

congrats on the pass

kevin31

SporkD2 wrote: »

I passed whoooohoooo

Congratulations!

Can you post your study materials and times please????

thanks

Kev

amp2030

Good Job!

Megadeth4168

Congrats!

APA

congratz! now head down and knock over ICND2!

SporkD2

I used

CBTNuggets, Lamelle's Book, Skillsoft (Army), packettracer

I think I had 10 mins left on the test when I finished. I got a 865, there were a lot of wifi questions on mine which I wasnt totally prepared for. Subnetting is obviously a huge part. If you know your stuff though, you'll pass. My biggest tip is dont memorize answers, UNDERSTAND how subnetting works.

kevin31

SporkD2 wrote: »

I used

CBTNuggets, Lamelle's Book, Skillsoft (Army), packettracer

I think I had 10 mins left on the test when I finished. I got a 865, there were a lot of wifi questions on mine which I wasnt totally prepared for. Subnetting is obviously a huge part. If you know your stuff though, you'll pass. My biggest tip is dont memorize answers, UNDERSTAND how subnetting works.

Sorry I no I keep asking this to people but whats your method of subnetting? Everyone has there own way.

runssh

Congrats as well. Hope to join the ranks soon.

spaat

SporkD2 wrote: »

I passed whoooohoooo

Sweet, welcome to the world of Cisco. Good luck with ICND2. It's a little more intensive and has a couple more simulations, but ICND1 sets a great foundation. I also noticed 2 or 3 questions on ICND2 that were on ICND1.

SporkD2

kevin31 wrote: »

Sorry I no I keep asking this to people but whats your method of subnetting? Everyone has there own way.

I use the method that is described in CBTNuggets. Makes sense to me and after I learned that way, i didnt see a reason to learn another way.

I just always write out the whole thing in binary and do my 2^x power rule to figure out hosts and subnets.

Hope that helps

the_Grinch

Took the test in Iraq? Wow talk about stress!

EdTheLad

SporkD2 wrote: »

I use the method that is described in CBTNuggets. Makes sense to me and after I learned that way, i didnt see a reason to learn another way.

I just always write out the whole thing in binary and do my 2^x power rule to figure out hosts and subnets.

Hope that helps

Learn another way! or else your wasting your time getting the cert.You need to do subnetting in your head without writing out any binary.
This is the basics,spend some time and get it learnt properly.

a4abt

Congrats on the CCENT cert

captobvious

Congrats on the pass!

surfthegecko

'ave it.

Congrats Spork

wbosher

EdTheLad wrote: »

Learn another way! or else your wasting your time getting the cert.You need to do subnetting in your head without writing out any binary.
This is the basics,spend some time and get it learnt properly.

I also use the CBT Nuggets way of subnetting, and can do it in my head in about 30 - 60 seconds. It just takes a little practice.

Slowhand

Congrats on the pass, and good luck on ICND2. I'm with EdTheLad on this one, you'll want to pick up some better habits before you get too far along, you'll be thankful you did when you actually start working with networking equipment.

SporkD2

Slowhand wrote: »

Congrats on the pass, and good luck on ICND2. I'm with EdTheLad on this one, you'll want to pick up some better habits before you get too far along, you'll be thankful you did when you actually start working with networking equipment.

Well thats how I learned subnetting. I can do it pretty consistently in my head because I am practicing so much. When I said I write it out everytime, I really dont, I just take the octet that im dealing with and figure it out with pen and paper. Although, I am getting very good at identifying a mask and knowing how many subnets and users it has.

thenjduke

Nice going. I am going to sit down for mine in about 2 months.

tim100

SporkD2 wrote: »

Well thats how I learned subnetting. I can do it pretty consistently in my head because I am practicing so much. When I said I write it out everytime, I really dont, I just take the octet that im dealing with and figure it out with pen and paper. Although, I am getting very good at identifying a mask and knowing how many subnets and users it has.

SporkD2,

Stick with whatever method you are most comfortable with. I do subnetting the way you learned it and it's second nature to me. In the very beginning yes you will use a pen and paper but before you know it you'll be subnetting in your head quickly because of repetition and constantly working with the binary method. It's like basic math, when you first learned to multiply you used a pen and paper but then you do it in your head after X amount of times.

runssh

Woot! Congrats and good luck on ICND2..