Passed SWITCH!!!

Only just!!

I scored 803 so I only just scraped it in.

I personally found the questions far more trivial than route. One of my labs didn't work correctly and wouldn't let me remove some config. It was quite a large lab so I think that alone dropped me quite a few points. The labs were quite easy, so long as they work...

The questions are worded pretty poorly and I swear one of my questions did not have a correct answer so I just picked the closest thing....

My study materials consisted of:

Chris Bryant's CCNP SWITCH book and videos
INE Videos and lab book
Rene Molenaar's how to master CCNP SWITCH
CCNP SWITCH simplified
LOTS of Cisco articles
Lots of blog posts

I spent about two months studying for this and I had quite a few distractions along the way. I could have studied a bit harder I think.

I found this exam harder to study for than ROUTE. With ROUTE I could lab and lab for hours and by doing that you gained a large percentage of the knowledge required.

My tips are:

Don't gloss over the planning and design stuff

Read the questions thoroughly they really do try to trip you up!!

In summary: I'm glad that's over!

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Putney

Congrats!! I really need to get back into my CCNP studies...

Dakinggamer87

Congrats!!

Master Of Puppets

A pass is a pass! Congrats!

FloOz

Congrats!!!

Legacy User

Congrats! Scraped by or not a pass is a pass. One thing I find interesting in other similar posts it seems to me that the people that use a lot of different resources tend to have more difficulty with the exams then people that use 1 or 2 books and a video series. I wonder why that is.

kohr-ah

Congrats!

mitch179

dmarcisco wrote: »

Congrats! Scraped by or not a pass is a pass. One thing I find interesting in other similar posts it seems to me that the people that use a lot of different resources tend to have more difficulty with the exams then people that use 1 or 2 books and a video series. I wonder why that is.

Thanks everyone

This could well be true, I don't think you need all those resources by any stretch, if you used the bryant stuff on it's own I think you would pass pretty easily, I just find I need to look at different materials to keep myself interested and motivated to study! I find if I read over and over the same material my mind wanders, I guess it's all about whatever works for you

Dieg0M

Congrats!

*BB*

Congrats!

PCHoldmann

Congrats!