Woohoo, finally did it
I've had two attempts at the full 640-802 exam, and failed it both times with scores of 762 and 790, all because of the easier stuff (i.e. ICND1 material). I could troubleshoot an OSPF network without thinking about it, and configure Frame Relay with my eyes closed, but yet had to think hard about simple security classifications...
So I decided to split it into two, and concentrated hard on ICND1, passed that this past monday with a score of 874, and then today took the ICND2, and passed with a score of 945
CCNP here I come
Materials I used were: -
- Cisco Press Exam guides
- Sybex Fastpass (bordering on useless this book, and the writing style is more disjointed than a dislocated arm)
- Real world work (I work in networking already)
- Labbing out (Dynamips, my friends small lab, Packet Tracer for any gaps in switching)
- Packetlife.net **** sheets (not braindumps or anything, just well presented sheets on various protocols)
- Ciscohandsontraining.com podcasts
All of it worked together to get me here, I recommend all of them except the Sybex book, seriously don't know how anyone could learn from that thing, it is geared to passing the exam, and passing the exam ONLY, not actually learning the material.
