Passed CCENT today!

shellee1983

I failed this test 2 weeks ago with a 675 and passed today with a 925. I'm super stoked. For any one planning on taking this know your SIMs and the output. Totally killed me last time.

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Dyasis

Congrats!!!

JasminLandry

Congrats!!:D What are you planning on next?

DoubleNNs

Congrats on the pass!

neolight90

Gratz I have it this Monday I am scared lol

dotcom85

congrats

Souljacker

Oh hell yea! Grats on the super high score! And update your certs list!

Asif Dasl

Congrats!!

coffeeluvr

Congratulations on the pass!!

Dakinggamer87

Congrats on pass!!

bbarrick

Congrats

shellee1983

JasminLandry wrote: »

Congrats!!:D What are you planning on next?

I really like security and I'm thinking about doing the CCNA Security Certification...Currently I am doing my Master's Degree in Information Security and Assurance and I have to obtain the CHFI and a GIAC exam. After that is done, I want to do the CISM and CISSP. I'm gonna be a busy girl the next couple years lol.

shellee1983

neolight90 wrote: »

Gratz I have it this Monday I am scared lol

All I can say man, is know your SIMs and the out put like clockwork...if not it will go badly lol. I thought the SIMs that I did with the certification study guide I bought would suffice, I was totally wrong. Also know your subnetting really well. I wrote out my prefix and octet table right away when I got there, it helped a lot.

shellee1983

Souljacker wrote: »

Oh hell yea! Grats on the super high score! And update your certs list!

Thanks! I am going to do that right now. This time I knew I had passed, I just didn't think I did that well especially tanking it like I did two weeks ago but I focused on the SIMs and man, it was so much easier this time. Last time I had no clue what I was looking at because the sims I used were very basic. I'm so happy! Gonna go celebrate now

safari___

Awesome! Since you admitted the 5 fails...I'll admit to 4 previous fails on CCENT before finally passing.What a relief! Woo hoo! Great Job! Your not alone.

safari___

safari___ wrote: »

Awesome! Since you admitted the 5 fails...I'll admit to 4 previous fails on CCENT before finally passing.What a relief! Woo hoo! Great Job! Your not alone.

Wrong thread! Maybe this is why it took me 4. Good Job! ((((shellee1983 ))))

Xyro

Congrats shellee!

safari___ wrote: »

Wrong thread! Maybe this is why it took me 4.

It's always great to be able to laugh at ourselves lol.

WilyOne

'Gratz!

Ismaeljrp

Congrats , I agree with the outputs being one of the most difficult parts, as in study materials they aren't covered much.

shellee1983

Ismaeljrp wrote: »

Congrats , I agree with the outputs being one of the most difficult parts, as in study materials they aren't covered much.

Honestly I spent a weekend going through the show commands and Googling what they meant cause I was like there is NO way I am failing this test again...lol

DoubleNNs

Instead of Googling the show commands, did you have any hands on experience w/ them?

Personally, I read the CCENT for Dummies book prior to the Wendell Odom book. I know for me it helped, because the 2 books are almost night and day different. The Odom book goes heavy into all the conceptual knowledge, addressing every tidbit needed to know for the exam. However, it's not as command heavy. The CCENT for Dummies book is the opposite - less concepts but pages of commands, shows outputs, defines commands, displays examples of the commands being used, and encouraged the reader to follow along.

Even tho you passed the ICND1, maybe try to get some more hands on experience when studying for future Cisco Exams. I know you said you're planning on going for the CCNA Security next instead of the CCNA R & S, but just to use personal experience as an example: I'm just starting on my ICND2 studies now (Video 9 of CBT Nuggets, few pages into Chapt 1 of Wendell Odom) and I can already tell that this section is going to be much more hands on than the ICND1 was. The CCNA Security exam may be similar.

Congrats once again! And good luck w/ your next exam!!

shezy77

Congrats on the pass

shellee1983

DoubleNNs wrote: »

Instead of Googling the show commands, did you have any hands on experience w/ them?

Personally, I read the CCENT for Dummies book prior to the Wendell Odom book. I know for me it helped, because the 2 books are almost night and day different. The Odom book goes heavy into all the conceptual knowledge, addressing every tidbit needed to know for the exam. However, it's not as command heavy. The CCENT for Dummies book is the opposite - less concepts but pages of commands, shows outputs, defines commands, displays examples of the commands being used, and encouraged the reader to follow along.

Even tho you passed the ICND1, maybe try to get some more hands on experience when studying for future Cisco Exams. I know you said you're planning on going for the CCNA Security next instead of the CCNA R & S, but just to use personal experience as an example: I'm just starting on my ICND2 studies now (Video 9 of CBT Nuggets, few pages into Chapt 1 of Wendell Odom) and I can already tell that this section is going to be much more hands on than the ICND1 was. The CCNA Security exam may be similar.

Congrats once again! And good luck w/ your next exam!!

I usually do the for dummies books...that's what I read for both the Security+ and A+ Certs. I googled the best book for this test and Odom came heavily recommend. I will tell you, that book was a snoozer...I hated every minute of reading it. Next time I will look for another author as I've heard Todd Lammale is a lot less obtuse and boring. I even had Odom's videos and CBT nuggets. I ripped both the sound from them and stuck them on my ipod...I made it through half of the 1st audio track on Odom, but listened to CBT nuggets daily on the way to work. For someone like me who networking may not be their forte, I definitely recommend against Odom...as he made it boring. He did give good info but it was so hard to get involved with. I had to do this cert to satisfy a requirement for my Master's degree and I have the CHFI and GIAC exams for the other requirements so in that time I fully intend on buying some routing and switching equipment before I do the CCNA Security exam.

Ismaeljrp

The thing is, unless you actually are provoking issues in a network, the symptoms won't pop up on the show outputs, so all you can do is read about, troubleshooting certain symptoms like late collisions, too many broadcasts etc..

DoubleNNs

@Ismael I agree that w/ a lot of the troubleshooting it's easier to read about them and sometimes impractical to try to create a lab scenario to represent the situation. But I was simply referring to running certain commands and seeing what the output looks like.

1) You could read in a book the differences between the show cdp cmd, the show cdp neighbor cmd, the show cdp entry cmd, and the show cdp interface cmd.
2) You could take 5 mins to create a topology and actually input those commands.
3) Or you could do a combo of both.

shellee1983

DoubleNNs wrote: »

@Ismael I agree that w/ a lot of the troubleshooting it's easier to read about them and sometimes impractical to try to create a lab scenario to represent the situation. But I was simply referring to running certain commands and seeing what the output looks like.

1) You could read in a book the differences between the show cdp cmd, the show cdp neighbor cmd, the show cdp entry cmd, and the show cdp interface cmd.
2) You could take 5 mins to create a topology and actually input those commands.
3) Or you could do a combo of both.

I agree, before I took the test the last time I just read about the CDP commands. I understood them I thought I was good but due to the fact that the test is timed unless you have actually seen and used the commands you won't know where to begin. That was my issue last time. This time I spent a lot of time with packet tracer and netsims from Boson and I understood what I was doing a lot more than I did just reading about the commands.

sixtyten

Sweet! Great Job!!

silverp1

Congrats!