Taking CCENT tomorrow!

After actually working as a network admin in a Cisco environment for a year and studying relevant portions of CCNA material, as well as reading CCENT-specific materials, I'm as confident that I'm "ready as I'll ever be" to take my first step towards Cisco certification!

I've gotten pretty good at subnetting; I can do most problems from subnettingquestions.com in under a minute, some I can do under 30 seconds and even a few I can just eyeball and figure out sub-10-seconds.

I'm confident that I know a good amount of how to deal with Cisco IOS, how to configure switches and routers, as well as file management/IOS upgrades. I'm pretty solid on how packets move around between networks and how frames are forwarded in the local LAN. However, I still get caught up sometimes on these "practice exams," which sometimes contain CCNA-level material and are absolutely full of trick questions.

From what I've heard, the actual Cisco exam requires you to know the material and don't require you to figure out what tricks they're going to play on you with the wording. Can anyone confirm/deny this thought?

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alan2308

Good luck!

jamesleecoleman

Good luck...

The exam is pretty much straight forward. There are some confusing things on the test though.

gateway

Good luck!!

rogue2shadow

In the same boat; I got it on thursday! Good luck homie!

locust76

jamesleecoleman wrote: »

Good luck...

The exam is pretty much straight forward. There are some confusing things on the test though.

That's good to hear... I can deal with some confusion, but an endless string of trick questions is rather bogus. Good luck Rogue2shadow!

mikej412

Good Luck!!

While Cisco doesn't go out of their way to develop "trick questions," it is possible that if you don't read the question carefully you might misinterpret what they're asking -- so always read the question, ALL the answers, then read the question AGAIN.

alan2308

mikej412 wrote: »

Good Luck!!

While Cisco doesn't go out of their way to develop "trick questions," it is possible that if you don't read the question carefully you might misinterpret what they're asking -- so always read the question, ALL the answers, then read the question AGAIN.

You notice how most every time someone complains about trick questions its someone who failed the exam? Granted, my only experience is with the questions on the Academy quizzes and exams, but every question that I missed was because I didn't know it or I misread it. You either know it or you don't.

locust76

I passed!

Got a score of 950! My weak spots were basically routing and WAN, which makes sense because I don't really deal with routing or WANs at work, so I didn't really get much practical experience.

Anyways, there are tricky questions, but not trick questions like some of the practice exams I've seen. James was right, the test was pretty straightforward. If you know your stuff, you'll pass the exam.

Just don't read part of the question and assume you know the answer already. Read everything!

alan2308

Congrats!!!

chmorin

locust76 wrote: »

Just don't read part of the question and assume you know the answer already. Read everything!

Totally agree. That is how Cisco gets yah!

Congrats!

rogue2shadow

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! YES! (preemptive excitement)

Congrats!

I'm going to aim for that score or higher hahaha.

peanutnoggin

locust76 wrote: »

I passed! Got a score of 950! My weak spots were basically routing and WAN, which makes sense because I don't really deal with routing or WANs at work, so I didn't really get much practical experience.

Anyways, there are tricky questions, but not trick questions like some of the practice exams I've seen. James was right, the test was pretty straightforward. If you know your stuff, you'll pass the exam.

Just don't read part of the question and assume you know the answer already. Read everything!

CONGRATS!!! Great score!!! Good luck on your future

!!!