Very quick newbie CCENT questions (exam Friday 19th June)

nelsonnr

First post here and looking forward to many more discussions.

I've got the ICND1 exam booked for 10am on Friday 19th June 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Yikes. Very nervous and excited.

Anyways, quick question:

1. What happens if I run out of time and dont manage to answer every question? Is it an automatic fail?

Many thanks guys - awesome website!

Let me share one more thing with you - Cisco sent me a very nice email today, I am sure most of you will have it......

A recent study by Forrester Consulting for [EMAIL="Learning@Cisco"]Learning@Cisco[/EMAIL] indicated that in the next five years, companies expect wireless networking roles to almost double, voice networking roles are expected to exist in almost 70 percent of companies from 40 percent today and 80 percent of companies expect to have dedicated networking security roles- from only 46 percent today.

Got to love being in IT - but I do take it with a large pinch of salt obviously!

Nelson

giterrell

nelsonnr wrote: »

First post here and looking forward to many more discussions.

I've got the ICND1 exam booked for 10am on Friday 19th June 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Yikes. Very nervous and excited.

Anyways, quick question:

1. What happens if I run out of time and dont manage to answer every question? Is it an automatic fail?

Many thanks guys - awesome website!

Let me share one more thing with you - Cisco sent me a very nice email today, I am sure most of you will have it......

A recent study by Forrester Consulting for [EMAIL="Learning@Cisco"]Learning@Cisco[/EMAIL] indicated that in the next five years, companies expect wireless networking roles to almost double, voice networking roles are expected to exist in almost 70 percent of companies from 40 percent today and 80 percent of companies expect to have dedicated networking security roles- from only 46 percent today.

Got to love being in IT - but I do take it with a large pinch of salt obviously!

Nelson

if you dont finsh in time, you wont get any credit for the questions you didnt answer. That doesnt mean you will automatically fail, though. It depends on how many you dont answer and how much those questions are worth. Just keep an eye on the clock and which question you're on. You should be fine.

nelsonnr

Thanks!

tiersten

Not sure if you already know or not but you can't review your answers. Once you've clicked past that question you can't go back.

giterrell

good point. someone on here learned that the hard way recently.

nelsonnr

Yeah thanks for reminding me. I'm going to be as sure as I can be before hitting next.

I have no idea if I feel prepared for this exam. I've been studying for so long I know a lot of things off by heart, but there is still some stuff I'm not good at - configuring port security, different types of xDSL etc.

I am not aiming for 100% pass obviously, but I guess you never ever know what the 80% will cover for a pass hey.

How do you ever know you feel ready for an exam? I recall feeling positive when I took Windows NT Server & Workstation exams back in 1998. This is my first IT exam for 10 years - terrible I know.

captobvious

nelsonnr wrote: »

How do you ever know you feel ready for an exam? I recall feeling positive when I took Windows NT Server & Workstation exams back in 1998. This is my first IT exam for 10 years - terrible I know.

For me it's when I can't stand to open the book or fire up the lab again. Then it's time to throw down on the test!

drew2000

captobvious wrote: »

For me it's when I can't stand to open the book or fire up the lab again. Then it's time to throw down on the test!

Same goes. You will eventually hit a wall where you either can't stand to study any more, or in my case further studying hurts you instead of helping. An example of this that happened to me was that I started studying practice questions and I think some of the questions I was getting wrong were actually incorrect. In other words, I think I was right and the test was wrong. If that is true, than further studying is only hurting you.

Drew

mikej412

nelsonnr wrote: »

How do you ever know you feel ready for an exam?

When I'm using the "one chapter, one beer" study method, I usually take the exam when I run out of chapters and/or beer.

Good Luck on Friday!!

nelsonnr

Thanks guys - and thanks for the wish of good luck Mike

I think I've nailed subnetting (I can look at a CIDR and figure the increment quite quickly)

Its all the little things, switch forwarding process, apps using TCP or UDP, MPEGS and JPEGS at the presentation layer - you know, the things you know you are going to forget in a few months time that drive me crazy.

I keep opening Wendell Odom's Cisco Press CCENT book at random pages just to catch myself out.

The truth is - I've read and studied the book, but I cant remember all of it - surely not - do you guys remember ALL of it?

drew2000

nelsonnr wrote: »

The truth is - I've read and studied the book, but I cant remember all of it - surely not - do you guys remember ALL of it?

Not with Odom's stuff. His books are very detailed and sometimes over the top. Focus on his key points and know the hands-on stuff.

Drew

nelsonnr

Thanks Drew.

The hands on stuff - I think I know as much as I need to know:

Setting up interfaces
Show commands
CDP commands
Setting up WAN encap
Port Security
Basic stuff like enable passwords, hostnames, motd, no ip-domain-lookup etc
Telnet username, password, username
SSH, domain-name
Default routes
Router rip

Is there any other hands on stuff that I've perhaps missed?

I sometimes getting mixed up and delve into the ICND2 topics such as access lists etc.

BadBoy House

good luck mate - let us know how you get on

nelsonnr

Thanks badboy - 1h 55 mins!

Will post up when I can (but wont break NDA)

cerberos

Best wishes..

nelsonnr

Nailed it! Absolutely delighted. Cant believe it. In shock - was not confident last night at all. OMG 874/1000 which I thought was respectable considering my lack of confidence. Arghhhhh - so happy

Thanks to you guys for lifting me out of the depths of study hell and onto a pass!

laidbackfreak

nice one fella congrats I think you've earned a beer for tonight

nelsonnr

Thanks laidback!

Oh definately buddy, a few cold ones will go down a treat!

sandman748

Congrats on the pass. And here you were making other threads anticipating your fail. I bet in hindsight you probably studied more then you needed to.

mikej412

nelsonnr wrote: »

Nailed it!

Congratulations!!

nelsonnr wrote: »

a few cold ones will go down a treat!

Great Plan!! Follow through after an exam is very important!!

BadBoy House

congrats m8!!

cerberos

Congratulations nelsonnr

adeetee

nelsonnr wrote: »

Nailed it! Absolutely delighted. Cant believe it. In shock - was not confident last night at all. OMG 874/1000 which I thought was respectable considering my lack of confidence. Arghhhhh - so happy

Thanks to you guys for lifting me out of the depths of study hell and onto a pass!

Hey good job! Congrats!!!