Taking ICND2 Thursday!

Ok, so I said I was going to wait two weeks - I lied haha. I'm pretty confident in my abilities at this point ; I've taken plenty of practice exams, ran labs out the wazoo, covering RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IPv6, DHCP, NAT, ACLs, IPSec, STP, etc.

Therefore, I have scheduled ICND-2 for Thursday, Sept. 6th at 10:30am. I'll let you know how it turns out!

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showbo

huafist wrote: »

Ok, so I said I was going to wait two weeks - I lied haha. I'm pretty confident in my abilities at this point ; I've taken plenty of practice exams, ran labs out the wazoo, covering RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IPv6, DHCP, NAT, ACLs, IPSec, STP, etc.

Therefore, I have scheduled ICND-2 for Thursday, Sept. 6th at 10:30am. I'll let you know how it turns out!

Very well then. We expect to see you with your CCNA at 12pm!

huafist

showbo wrote: »

Very well then. We expect to see you with your CCNA at 12pm!

I will be sure to provide a full report upon completion

jamesleecoleman

Good luck!!!

huafist

T-minus 2 hours 30 minutes lol

jamesleecoleman

Good luck!

al3kt.R***

Best of luck, hope you nail it!!!

mapletune

T-minus 1 hour =p haha~

which means in 2 hours we might have good news

huafist

I'm sitting outside the testing center drinking coffee right now haha
Hopefully, all of this studying and the past 15 years in IT will pay off

MAC_Addy

Good luck on your test and relax.

FloOz

Im sure you will nail it!! Goodluck!!!!

huafist

Testing center let me start early. Finished about 15 minutes ago, and scored 944/1000!

Prasad Satav

Congrats ..!! great score..!!
Good job..!!

mapletune

Congrats~!!! XD hehe, but i knew you were going to pass. so, no real news here.

FloOz

huafist wrote: »

Testing center let me start early. Finished about 15 minutes ago, and scored 944/1000!

There yah go!!!!! Congrats!!!!

JeanM

Congrats, good score! What was your study process like?

networker050184

Congrats!

huafist

Thanks everyone!
I definitely feel like a load is off now haha; I'll posting greater detail when I get to the office; I'm on my phone right now.

huafist

mapletune wrote: »

Congrats~!!! XD hehe, but i knew you were going to pass. so, no real news here.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, my friend. That test was definitely harder than ICND1.

huafist

JeanM wrote: »

Congrats, good score! What was your study process like?

Well keep in mind I have 15 years of experience in IT already.

Basically, I used CBT Nuggets, a book called CCNA Exam Cram (would NOT recommend it, btw), Cisco's website, and lots of labs. I used the Ranet labs, located at Ranet Co., Ltd. - ??????????????? CCNA ????????? . Basically, I would watch a nugget, read the related chapter (or vice-versa), and do the appropriate lab. If I missed something, I started the process over.

JeanM

Nice, I have about the same amount just not in Cisco

I was asking more on what you used to prep for the exam basically.

So the exam cram book you didn't like? I've used these before AFTER reading the Prep Guides and they came in handy.

huafist wrote: »

Well keep in mind I have 15 years of experience in IT already.

Basically, I used CBT Nuggets, a book called CCNA Exam Cram (would NOT recommend it, btw), Cisco's website, and lots of labs. I used the Ranet labs, located at Ranet Co., Ltd. - ??????????????? CCNA ????????? . Basically, I would watch a nugget, read the related chapter (or vice-versa), and do the appropriate lab. If I missed something, I started the process over.

huafist

JeanM wrote: »

Nice, I have about the same amount just not in Cisco I was asking more on what you used to prep for the exam basically.

So the exam cram book you didn't like? I've used these before AFTER reading the Prep Guides and they came in handy.

I was the same way ; I hadn't used a lot of cisco hardware over the years. 90% of my experience in IT with routing, firewalling, vpn, dhcp, etc came from linux boxes. I'm currently the network admin for a company that's spread over 4 states, and I built our network from the ground up. We currently use linux boxes for all of the services listed above, and we have a cluster of Windows Server 2008 R2 boxes that control ADS, SQL, DNS, RDP, etc. The only honest-to-God router that we have in the company is a microtik I installed to build IPSec tunnels with our client's ASA and PIX devices.
I did not like the Exam Cram book ; it had a lot of information in it, but they left out a lot of detailed info that you could not pass either ICND test wtihout. If you combine it with other sources, like the ones I mentioned above, it can be an ok book. Also, the "practice exams" in the book were pretty much useless ; I didn't encounter a single question on either of my exams that had any resemblence to those questions.

Chitownjedi

YEA!! Grats!

bud08

Congrats!

Ltat42a

Congrats on the pass - nice score!

al3kt.R***

Well done, it sure feels very nice when you earn the CCNA cert!!!
Keep it up m8 and good luck to your next goals.

ToddB

congrats great score, feels good walking into the test center knowing your stuff.

orange_badger

Congrats mate, well done! Its good to know icnd 2 is harder then the first, not. Haha only joking love a challenge, can i just asked where you using gns3 or packet tracer?