My 640-801 experience

Well, after five months of sidetracked study and a month of intense
4 hours a day (sleepless nights of zeros and ones) I am now a CCNA!

I believe my Net+ helped me to get a grasp of the basics in the beginning and I would recommend
anyone with little experience in this field to do it before starting on the CCNA track.

I used the following:

~3x501
~1x2924XL

~Cisco - Intro and ICND (I was initially going to follow the 2 path track but decided
for the 640-801 instead)

~Sybex - 640-801 (really good)

~Cisco prep center

~This site! techexams.net, tech notes and forum (kept me motivated GREAT JOB everyone and THANKS!)

~Testout - 640-801 (Excellent, I did 60 hours of study with this! recommended if you can afford it...
it's expensive, but great if you have no gear at home and no class training)

~Oh, my partners motivation! She kept me on track, Danke Schatz!

The 640-801 examination is difficult in terms of diverse contents, multichoice and drag'n drop, although,
I must say that anyone with a couple of routers and a switch at home practicing routing protocols could do the current LABS without any difficulty.

I can do subnetting in my head but I still wrote the following **** sheet during the initial 15 minute questionnaire,
I was a little nervous so it DID help me to do thing more quickly e.g.

11000000.../26...192...Sub....4...usableHosts..62
11100000.../27...224.............8.......................30
11110000.../28...240...........16.......................14
etc.

The powers of 2

2......32....512
4......64..1024
8....128..2048
16..256..4096

The tables of 4, 8, 16 eg

4..........8.........16
8.........16.........32
12.......24.........48
16.......32.........64
20.......40.........80

So, thats it! make sure to watch the time as it flies...

I'm a little lost as to what is next, time will tell.

Cheers,
Prophet

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Comments

Danman32

How did you get to the prep center without a test under your belt?
Or did they do away with that requirement?

pr3d4t0r

Congrats man, nice job

-prophet-

Hey Danman32, I just signed up to the Cisco website and it let me use Prep Center. As show on their website:

"CCNA Prep Center is a website dedicated to networking professionals working toward completion of the CCNA certification . It is available to anyone with a Cisco.com login"

Cheers,
Prophet

mikej412

Congratulations!

Danman32 wrote:

Or did they do away with that requirement?

Anyone can get to the Cisco Prep Center now -- the Prep Center would be kind of worthless for people taking the single exam option if they needed an exam/cisco-cert to access it (I guess they could always do a Sales Certification to get access

).

The Prep Center is still advertised within the Cisco Certification Community (which needs a cisco certification to get into -- has anyone with just INTRO gotten the invite on their score report?). Some of the discussion forums are also "NetPRO" forums (open to anyone with guest level access to Cisco).

Danman32

Ah then they changed it. It used to be you couldn't get access until you have taken a test and got a Cisco ID. You didn't have to pass a test though.

Since I started with the prep center after failing the test I took right after class, I could't say that you could get in before taking your first test.

Glad that it is accessable to everyone. Now I can suggest going over every sim you can find there.