Boson Practice Environment - Difficulty level

YFZblu

Hey all--

So my ICND1 exam is scheduled for Monday morning, and I'm hitting the Boson practice exam environment pretty hard this weekend. Here's my question: Is the Boson practice environment intentionally more difficult than the actual exam?

I feel like I know the material pretty well; however the Boson exam is sort of throwing me off and making me second guess myself. I feel like the questions are worded oddly in some situations, and one question even included an EIGRP reference, which was weird. As far as I know the only routing protocol tested in any capacity on ICND1 is RIPv2.

Thoughts from people who used Boson and then took the CCENT exam?

ChickenNuggetz

YFZblu wrote: »

Hey all--

So my ICND1 exam is scheduled for Monday morning, and I'm hitting the Boson practice exam environment pretty hard this weekend. Here's my question: Is the Boson practice environment intentionally more difficult than the actual exam?

I feel like I know the material pretty well; however the Boson exam is sort of throwing me off and making me second guess myself. I feel like the questions are worded oddly in some situations, and one question even included an EIGRP reference, which was weird. As far as I know the only routing protocol tested in any capacity on ICND1 is RIPv2.

Thoughts from people who used Boson and then took the CCENT exam?

The Boson Exam Sim is pretty brutal and much more difficult than the ICND1 in my opinion. Keep hitting it hard; its probably the best thing you'll do to prepare. I also felt like I knew the material well, I took the Exam Sim and scored a whopping 65% my first time. I was crushed. I took it 3 more times that weekend and each time my score increased dramatically. The last time I took it, I had scored a near 90%.

Some of the questions did repeat for a few exams, but honestly, they use a pull of over 150 questions, so even if the questions did repeat a lot, I didnt notice and it felt like a new question each time.

The most important thing you can do though is UNDERSTAND why you got the questions wrong and UNDERSTAND why the right answers are right. This fact alone is what helped me figure out my weak areas. I hit those weak areas hard in between practice exams and I walked into my ICND1 exam feeling like a boss. Took the exam and passed with a pretty good score!