Finally going for CCENT!
Ismaeljrp
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Well after much delay ( 8 months ), I'm finally going to take the ICND 1 tomorrow noon.
The delays were for so many reasons, first I wasn't able to afford the exams ( college tends to do this often lol ), Then I had delayed so much that, I had to review tons without any time to do it as I was taking 6 really tough classes. Add GF to the mixture, and I barely had time. Luckily in a Network maintenance class we finally got into the infrastructure and it was small scale situations with actual cisco equipment, I knew more than my professor on the the Cisco subject as he is more a systems guy, and I was kind of the instructor.
Anyway since the summer started I was able to hit the books and notes I had already. Configs in uni brushed me up a ton.
So yeah, I'm a little nervous but confident at the same time. Wish me luck. Hope I get plenty subnetting questions as this is my strong point.
The delays were for so many reasons, first I wasn't able to afford the exams ( college tends to do this often lol ), Then I had delayed so much that, I had to review tons without any time to do it as I was taking 6 really tough classes. Add GF to the mixture, and I barely had time. Luckily in a Network maintenance class we finally got into the infrastructure and it was small scale situations with actual cisco equipment, I knew more than my professor on the the Cisco subject as he is more a systems guy, and I was kind of the instructor.
Anyway since the summer started I was able to hit the books and notes I had already. Configs in uni brushed me up a ton.
So yeah, I'm a little nervous but confident at the same time. Wish me luck. Hope I get plenty subnetting questions as this is my strong point.
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colby_ar
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Best of luck!
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DoubleNNs
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I take mine tomorrow around noon too!
As far as I can tell, subnetting will be pretty big on the CCENT. I've taken the practice tests included in my study materials and the Boson ExSim practice tests. Of course, there's no guarantee that those are anywhere similar to the exam itself, but those all had tons of subnetting involved, even if indirectly, throughout the tests. So luckily, I'm sure you'll be tested plenty on your strong point!
Are you doing anythign specific for the last night/morning of review? Personally, I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do now. I have like 50 pages of notes.. but that's too much to stay focused during. lolGoals for 2018:
Certs: RHCSA, LFCS: Ubuntu, CNCF CKA, CNCF CKAD | AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS Certified Security Specialist, GCP Professional Cloud Architect
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Ismaeljrp
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I take mine tomorrow around noon too!
As far as I can tell, subnetting will be pretty big on the CCENT. I've taken the practice tests included in my study materials and the Boson ExSim practice tests. Of course, there's no guarantee that those are anywhere similar to the exam itself, but those all had tons of subnetting involved, even if indirectly, throughout the tests. So luckily, I'm sure you'll be tested plenty on your strong point!
Are you doing anythign specific for the last night/morning of review? Personally, I'm kind of at a loss as to what to do now. I have like 50 pages of notes.. but that's too much to stay focused during. lol
Well right now I'm doing some practice tests to get my head in the game, you know focused. Just finished taking one of the Peason practice exams, got an 85%, but that was without doing an overall review before it, I just finished doing a lab, and jumped on it lol.
My main focus I guess, is just getting myself to read carefully. Remember basic stuff. Brush up on WLANs since a lot of that is memorization really, and reading the explanations to answers I get wrong. I have a notebook with lots of notes that I'll read now, and cards with terms just to glance at any I might not remember...I have a long drive to the center so won't get much done then. I'll be up late tonight doing final review and maybe 1 or 2 practice tests just to work out some kinks and be like " oh yeaaahh , I knew that ". Better make mistakes now then later.
Also worked on my subnetting notes, just in case I freeze from nervousness.
My subnetting notes are :
# of N = 2^nbits
# of H = 2^hbits - 2
increment = lowest network bit
128,64,32,16,8,4,2,1
Powers of 2 :
2^4 = 16
2^8 = 256
2^12 = 4096
That's it I can do all that in my head really quick though, just in case. -
silverp1
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Good luck!Certs: CCENT, CCNA:R&S
Working on: MCITP:SA
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t5yll4
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Good luck. STay focused. Get some rest as it is crucial to go in there feeling loose!2015 Certification Goals:
[ ] JNCDA (August), [ ] JNCIA-Junos (September), [ ] CCDA (pending), [ ] CCNP RS (tentative November)
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Dakinggamer87
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Good luck!!*Associate's of Applied Sciences degree in Information Technology-Network Systems Administration
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Ismaeljrp
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Just finished exam...
899/1000
makes me want to jump into icnd 2 right away !!
Most difficult, security questions caught me off guard a little lost most my points there. Ill review them again -
DoubleNNs
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Whoaa! I got the EXACT same score just now. Trippy lol.
Congrats on the pass!!!
- from another recently certified CCENTGoals for 2018:
Certs: RHCSA, LFCS: Ubuntu, CNCF CKA, CNCF CKAD | AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS Certified Security Specialist, GCP Professional Cloud Architect
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Ismaeljrp
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Jaja nice!!! Congrats man that is pretty trippy, and awesome good job on to the next one.
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shezy77
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nicely done.. congrats on the pass and good luck for ICND22013: ICND1 [Passed] ... ICND2 [Passed] ... VCA-DCV [Passed] ... 70-410 [Passed] ... 70-411 [Passed] ... VCA-Cloud [Passed] ... VCA-WM [Passed] ... 70-412 [Passed]
2014: 74-409 [Passed] ... VCP5 [Passed]
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sincere11105
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Congrats. I'm so nervous about it.
I just booked icnd1 for next month. I know icnd2 expires in September. If I pass this version of icnd1 and pass the next version of icnd2, would I still be CCNA certified? -
DoubleNNs
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Yup, you still would be CCNA certified.Goals for 2018:
Certs: RHCSA, LFCS: Ubuntu, CNCF CKA, CNCF CKAD | AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Pro, AWS Certified Security Specialist, GCP Professional Cloud Architect
Learn: Terraform, Kubernetes, Prometheus & Golang | Improve: Docker, Python Programming
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