Question on CCNA exam/sims

fusebox

A question about the CCNA test.

I was just going through my demo Certsim that came with the Sybex book, and in the sims, I cant seem to play around with the commands. ie: I can only issue commands that they seem to want to be issued! For example, I wasnt able to type ? at the end of a command to see options. Also the command they wanted me to issue was show running-config, but I wanted to type in show ip int brief and show ip interface serial 0 etc It didnt allow me to do that

Now is this how the real exam will be?? Ive got a bad feeling about this

sbenjamin

On the real exam you will be able to access some of the help. They will not give you everything. I used the ? to help me remember how to setup VTP on a switch during my exam. The simulators you get with these books are just a small sample of the commands you have available during the test.

fusebox

sbenjamin wrote:

On the real exam you will be able to access some of the help. They will not give you everything. I used the ? to help me remember how to setup VTP on a switch during my exam. The simulators you get with these books are just a small sample of the commands you have available during the test.

Im very glad to hear that..... Thanks.

keenon

i will say this one time its best to get your hands on real equipment and know these commands back to front ( the commands you will possibly encounter) if not get a real decent simulator that will let u play with it more

fusebox

Fortunately I do have equipment, but thing is there are a few commands that can be used to find out the same thing and in this case I found the demo test sim only allowed one certain command to be entered.

eg: I wanted to view the ip addresses of the interfaces by typing in, "show ip int brief"
But the sim wanted me to use "show running-config"

So I was just curious as to how flexible the test sims are in terms of commands allowed etc.

keenon

the actual test sims offers alot of commands to verify things.

fusebox

keenon wrote:

the actual test sims offers alot of commands to verify things.

Thats exactly what I was hoping for Thanks.