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pod

Im planning to take CCNA in a couple of months, probably summer holidays. Just wondering how much it cost in AUS$$, is it hard (if any1 has passed with just self study plz tell me cause thats wah i wanna try), i've done CCNA 1, i dunno if i should take more classes, if u can learn by urself at home i would do so, thats y im asking if any1 has passed by learning from selfstudy. How many questions is in the exam, n wahs the passing mark? n out of wah score?
thanks

jmc724

I dont know whats the cost in AU but you can go to www.prometic.com or ww.vue.com and find out.

I passed all my certs by doing self study. I never attended a school, training center, or academy. Its all about self discipline.

lordy

Pricing: See www.prometric.com for pricing. Look for the 640-801 exam from Cisco. The EU price is 125 EUR + VAT.

Details: See www.cisco.com/go/ccna

You could definitely get through CCNA with self-study if you are motivated.
Buy the Sybex CCNA Guide from Todd Lammle and read it. If you feel comfortable after reading it you should go for practice test like Boson and the stuff on this site.

If the Sybex Guide does not appeal to you or leaves to many questions open you should think about some more classes.

The passing score is 849 with a score range of 300-1000, if I remember correctly.

HTH,
Lordy

pod

so passing mark is like 80% n over?
damn looks pretty hard but i'll try my best
thanx for the info guys
well doing MCSE atm, its good to hit cisco this yeh?

lordy

Yeah, the passing score is pretty high and the exam is though.
But that makes the cert what it is

CCNA goes very well with MCSA and MCSE.

QUIX0TIC

That is one thing I am lacking with myself and I have to recert... MOTIVATION is a biotch when you just dont feel like cracking a book!

pod

haha yeh i believe CCNA is pretty hard just reading of a book, u will need like heaps of exam pracs n notes, labs n stuff like that. Cause theres heaps of things u need to experience with too
well its same with most cert except this one is harder to get, man 80% is sooo freaken hard

mimic

Hi Pod

I'm doing the Academy course at the moment and its a lot more in depth than what you actually need to pass the CCNA but obviously it takes a lot longer than if you were to self study. The problem now is that there are a lot of people saying that although the academy goes into greater detail on some subjects, they are not covering everything needed to pass the exam!!!

The other big down side to the academy is that you don't recieve any formal qualification for doing it. Its a case of.. if I knew then, what I know now...would I have gone in for the academy? The answer is NO

I decided to start my own study plan and although its very long (8 hrs a day) I have covered and understood more in 2 months than the other guys on the course have done in 6 mths.

The exam is an 85% or 849/1000 to pass, so yes it is harder than some other exams but if you have a bit of foundation knowledge I think you should get it sorted in 3 to 6 mths (maybe less) depending on how hard you decide to study.

If you go for self study get the Sybex 5th Edition study guide and some real routers and switches (3 of each would be good) but if you can't afford the real thing..A sim will do (Boson or Routersim)

Good luck with what ever way you decide to go

QUIX0TIC

Academy classes are always good. They just take hella long but are very good. Where else can you get a class for Cisco and have comrades go through the same questions and concepts as you do. Plus, if you dont understand a concept, then you have someone to bounce off your questions.

Personally, I went through the self-study portion of it and I picked it up easily. I admit that I went to a 2 week course in the year 2000 due to being unemployed but since then... bc I had an instructor to bounce my questions off... I think that I had a great foundation to start my self study. I do plan to take the academy course some day just to see what it is like. But, do to work schedules.. .blah blah blah... maybe someday.