YES, I passed my CCNA!!  The purpose of this post is to share how I prepared, and to share what strategy worked for me.  Good luck to all those studying.

I took 3 main approaches, getting a good text book, doing the hardware labs, and thoroughly testing myself with practice exams.

1)Textbook-I recommend getting Todd Lammle's CCNA book.  It is thorough, and I felt he covered all topics that I actually saw come exam day.  And do the questions at the end of the chapters.  I read it twice to make sure I got it all.

2)Labs-Either get some of your own equipment, or buy a hardware simulator. I bought Wendel Odom's hardware sim, came with 250 labs, and was $150. I did all 250 labs, and felt comfortable on exam day as a result.  Kind of pricey, but not compared to real equipment.

3)Practice Exams-This step is key to being able to finish all the CCNA questions before your exam time is up. Even when you understand the topics, the questions can seem overwhelming on exam day if you have not been practicing.  I bought the exam simulator from myPowerPass (mypowerpass.com).  This simulator is an excellent way to get a feel for the exam and for the types of questions you will encounter. It is under $20, and doing their practice exams allowed me to know when I was really ready to schedule my CCNA exam. 

Best of luck.

I passed my ICND1 today  after 2 attempts of not passing it.

CCENT certified. Few days onto studying for ICND2.

Very happy person! All I can say is if you study your labs you should be okay. There were a couple of redistributiion questions that I stumbled on....and a question on the configuration of a GRE tunnel that was part of my preparation...and a question on DSL PPPoe.


Thanks for the help H2P!

Under the "membership information" section on the Members Area home, it indicates you can purchase 15 day extensions if you're almost ready to take the tests and don't need another 60 days.  However, when I go into the purchase test area, i don't see an option to purchase 15 days.  Am i missing something?  Should I be looking elsewhere?

Thanks.

Worth noting the nat sim was almost identical to the one here thanks h2p

Hello guys. I am a newbie in networking and I was following a course for the CCNA certification. I have realized even through this forum that the exam is tricky and looking the questions on this website I think that I don't know much.
I am preparing the emergency plan so I have got  "Cisco exploration guide 1-2-3-4", "31 days before the exam", "1000 exams questions for the CCNA" and the "how2pass.com questions".
I should prepare the exam in 4 weeks ? Does anyone think that is possible to pass it ? I know that it is up to me, but if I pass the score of the simulations with a good percentage there is a probability to pass it, I wish.
Thanks in advance.

I wrote BSCI yesterday. Saw virtual link question and stub/summarization question. I implemented solution and but couldn't save answer with copy running-config start-config. Any thoughts on what happened? Will test engine deny saving config until all conditions are met. Which I'm sure they were.


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Which command shows the mac address of stations connected to switchports

You have the answer of Show ARP which maps ip addresses to mac addresses

Surely the answer is sh mac-address?

I passed the ICND 1 today ;D with a 926. That's better than I thought I was doing while taking the test.

Now I'm certified. I made the mistake of taking the ICND 2 (passed with 972) first because I thought that's all I had to do to recertify. But my certification was expired so I had to do the whole test again.

I had one full sim and about 5 simlets with multiple questions. I had quite a few of drag and drop. I thought the practice questions on this site for $39 were well worth the money and prepared me quite well for both halves of the test. THANK YOU HOW2PASS!!!!

I think I'll move onto CCNA Voice since I'm in the Telecommunications industry.

I got a 678 out of 825.  How long should I wait to take it again?  I was thinking about a month.  When I take it again do I get the same questions or similar?  I will try again it wasnt as bad as I thought how2pass does help.  If anyone can give me any tips that would be helpful. 

Describe how a network works-71%
Configure verify and troubleshoot a switch with VLANs and interswitch communication-58%
Implement and IP addressing scheme and IP services to meet network requirements in a medium 16%
Configure verify and troubleshoot basic router operation and routing on Cisco devices-76%
Explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN-100%
Identify security threats to a network and describe general methods to mitigate those three-50%
Implement verify and troubleshoot NAT and ACLs in a medium size Enterprise branch office-0%
Implement and verify WAN links-25%

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