Passed CCENT today!

mmartinez85

Whew! After over 2 months of putting myself on lockdown and studying for hours nearly everyday, I can finally say I passed this thing!

For anyone currently studying, my best word of advice is: memorize!

Understanding the concepts is also necessary, but there were a lot of questions with information that, had I not memorized the facts, I would have probably failed.

Also, there was one really hard simulator question that I got hit with right off the bat. I'm sure I didn't get it 100% right, but I know I got some partial credit.

But the rest of the exam was pretty standard sims and questions. I finished with about a minute left on the clock.

I actually didn't think I was gonna see "pass" on the printout when it was all said and done. I struggled through too many questions, but alas I pulled through.

Bl8ckr0uter

mmartinez85 wrote: »

Whew! After over 2 months of putting myself on lockdown and studying for hours nearly everyday, I can finally say I passed this thing!

For anyone currently studying, my best word of advice is: memorize!

Understanding the concepts is also necessary, but there were a lot of questions with information that, had I not memorized the facts, I would have probably failed.

Also, there was one really hard simulator question that I got hit with right off the bat. I'm sure I didn't get it 100% right, but I know I got some partial credit.

But the rest of the exam was pretty standard sims and questions. I finished with about a minute left on the clock.

I actually didn't think I was gonna see "pass" on the printout when it was all said and done. I struggled through too many questions, but alas I pulled through.

Congrats. Whats next (besides the CCNA)?

mikej412

Congratulations!!

Hopefully most of the trivia is out of the way now that you're done with the ICND1/CCENT.

Make sure you kick up your hands on practice for the ICND2 exam. While there still some "memorization," a lot of the knowledge from here on out get's reinforced by the hands on practice -- and the questions you get will be more focused on applying that knowledge to the questions/scenarios, rather than spitting out rote answers.

mmartinez85

Thanks for the tips.

Honestly, for now I'm going to go on hiatus from studying. ICND2 will be next, but I'm not sure when.

hexem

Nice one, ICND2 is abit more hands on so you shouldn't have too much trouble getting into it once you do, lot's of lab stuff!