CCENT - T Minus 1.5 Hrs and counting

So, my impulse buy about a month ago or so was a test voucher for the CCENT. In the last few months I've been working with a lot of Cisco WAPs, WLCs, and some routers/asa/switches. Learned a lot of neat stuff in the last month studying for this exam, and look forward to more.

/rant on Basic networking backround before, but never the goofy Cisco terminology. (I understand it's industry "standard") Sad part is - I know about encapsulation, wifi configurations, different VLAN/trunking/routing protocols/etc. but get tripped up on the basics that seem to come up in studying for CCENT. ie. do you plug the power cord in for a switch, or turn the power on for a router. Goofy stuff like this that is on Cisco's website really turns me off! Like who isn't going to know to plug the darn thing in if they want it to turn on... /rant off

Anyway - I hope my hands on experience serves me well, and of course I can subnet like no-ones business, do that every day. I just hope they don't put too many goofy questions on the exam.

I was debating not posting this - but I wanted to hold myself accountable.

FYI - my studying over the last month included -

minimal hands-on at work
Cisco's sample review questions
Boson exsim questions
old school CCNA book (circa 2000?)
some CBT nuggets

we'll see what happens.......

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Carpe Jugulem

Good luck to you! Glad you posted up.

peanutnoggin

Best of luck to you...

-Peanut

chmorin

Good luck. I'm testing for an exam too today, so lets make two wins!

peanutnoggin

chmorin wrote: »

Good luck. I'm testing for an exam too today, so lets make two wins!

I sure enough forgot about your exam today... as you've asked for... I wish you "skills and competence" on your exam!!

Best of luck to the two of you...

-Peanut

Somnipotent

good luck!!

Somnipotent

desertmouse wrote: »

but get tripped up on the basics that seem to come up in studying for CCENT. ie. do you plug the power cord in for a switch, or turn the power on for a router.

you'd be surprised how many people look for the power button on a catalyst switch though.

ajmatson

Good Luck

eserfeliz

Good luck, guys

mikej412

Have you passed yet?

Retroactive Good Luck!!

desertmouse

passed - thanks for all the well wishes!

Tripped me up that I couldn't go back, I think I missed one of the questions with multiple parts (as in clicked Next and skipped the rest of them - lol)

Anyway - I know I can't say too much b/c of the "rules" but I will say - I was impressed with the topics it covered, and would be happy to have any jr. engineer working with me who could thoroughly understand what that exam covers.

Now - onto ICND2 as I need to get this tidied up before the year end reviews come out...

640-816 ICND2 - IT Certification and Career Paths - Cisco Systems

earweed

Congrats on the pass!

mikej412

desertmouse wrote: »

passed

Congratulations!!

Good Luck with your ICND2 studies

rogue2shadow

Nice moves!

simtech

Congrats and good luck for part 2!

eserfeliz

you're my hero, desertmouse, congrats!

peanutnoggin

desertmouse wrote: »

passed - thanks for all the well wishes!

CONGRATS!!! Good luck with the ICND2

-Peanut

Carpe Jugulem

Awesome! Congrats man!

alan2308

Congrats!

chmorin

desertmouse wrote: »

passed - thanks for all the well wishes!

Tripped me up that I couldn't go back, I think I missed one of the questions with multiple parts (as in clicked Next and skipped the rest of them - lol)

Anyway - I know I can't say too much b/c of the "rules" but I will say - I was impressed with the topics it covered, and would be happy to have any jr. engineer working with me who could thoroughly understand what that exam covers.

Now - onto ICND2 as I need to get this tidied up before the year end reviews come out... 640-816 ICND2 - IT Certification and Career Paths - Cisco Systems

Congrats! I'm sure it feels great. This week had a few decent passes nearing the end of it, almost everyone I saw testing passed! It is nice to see weeks like this

Have a good party weekend. Personally I'm celebrating with a cigar and some other beverages XD

I'd invite you to join me but we are probably far from local.