Any advice before I take my ICND1?

I'm going to be taking my ICND1 on the 8th. I have been studying for about 6 months, and I have steadily gotten to the point of almost passing the practice exams offered by cisco press' ICND1 book. I have taken the practice test 3 times with 50 questions and 90 minutes to make it as close to the actual exam as possible. My scores have gotten better every time, but still only scored a 700 on my third try.

I guess my main question is that I feel like I am understanding the info(with the exception of a few things that I am going to be studying hard the next 2 weeks), but that may be because the questions are repetitive.

There are only 150 or so questions from the book, and i've taken it 3 times so i've probably seen each question at least once.

I've thought about getting the boson exam engine, but it's difficult for me to shell out > 65% of the cost of the exam for something to study the exam. I don't know... any suggestions?

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ehnde

Did you go through all of the labs at Free CCNA Workbook ? Hope you've been doing ALOT of labbing. All the pass posts I've seen for ICND1 and 2 mentioned doing labs.

Can you solve the problems here subnetting.org - Free Subnetting Questions and Answers Randomly Generated Online in under a minute?

I hope you pass. Me and probably others could use the inspiration

Greenmet29

I have been doing subnetting.org, about 30 minutes a day and I don't miss one very often and they seldom take more than 30 seconds.

I haven't seen the Free CCNA Workbook though. I'm going to go through those.

I've got three routers and 2 switches, 4 PC's and a partridge in a pear tree that i'm using for labs. I've done so many that my wife is sick of seeing green

gregorio323

You must have subnetting down. static Routing, RIPv2, Basic switching, and be able to do basic troubleshooting. Ingeneral be prepare for alot of subnetting questions.

darkshade9

I'm taking mine tomorrow; going to cram like crazy tonight! The CBT Nuggets videos are great resources and helped me learn quite a bit. Correctly calculating subnets in record time will be my goal tonight.

darkshade9

Well, I needed an 804 and got a 687. This is with straight studying with absolutely no contact with actual Cisco routers/switches or using virtual interfaces like GNS3. I'm certain I would have passed if I knew a few more commands at the interface level, but at least now I know what I am weak at and where I can focus my studies.

alan2308

darkshade9 wrote: »

Well, I needed an 804 and got a 687. This is with straight studying with absolutely no contact with actual Cisco routers/switches or using virtual interfaces like GNS3. I'm certain I would have passed if I knew a few more commands at the interface level, but at least now I know what I am weak at and where I can focus my studies.

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ToddB

Greenmet29 wrote: »

I'm going to be taking my ICND1 on the 8th. I have been studying for about 6 months, and I have steadily gotten to the point of almost passing the practice exams offered by cisco press' ICND1 book. I have taken the practice test 3 times with 50 questions and 90 minutes to make it as close to the actual exam as possible. My scores have gotten better every time, but still only scored a 700 on my third try.

I guess my main question is that I feel like I am understanding the info(with the exception of a few things that I am going to be studying hard the next 2 weeks), but that may be because the questions are repetitive.

There are only 150 or so questions from the book, and i've taken it 3 times so i've probably seen each question at least once.

I've thought about getting the boson exam engine, but it's difficult for me to shell out > 65% of the cost of the exam for something to study the exam. I don't know... any suggestions?

I learned alot from the tests, not pass or fail stuff but more real world stuff. Problem with pratice tests is without meaning to you know the questions. I took these extra boson tests and found I might know it good enough to pass but I could know it better, so I hit the books and did good on my 2nd time around.

ibcritn

I would be able to subnet in your head because I found ICND1 VERY focused on subnetting whether it was directly, or indirectly.

Deathgomper

Greenmet29 wrote: »

I haven't seen the Free CCNA Workbook though. I'm going to go through those.

Also check out this lab workbook via Black Ninja's thread, It helped me for a lot of things CCENT/CCNA.http://www.techexams.net/forums/ccna-ccent/42260-ccna-lab-workbook.html