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RE: advice for ccna certification
From: "Shain Singh" <shain.singh () aapt com au>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 19:03:34 +1100
Steve Kalcevich wrote:
What I can also say is just use the Cisco press books. The test questions do come from the Cisco press books..Oh and DON'T even think about testking or some junk like that.
I think that people's responses for studying for certifications is about as varied as methods for curing hangovers. I would have to agree with the hands-on part though. The simulations are great, but nothing beats the real thing. Having said that, I have day to day access on lots of serious telco Cisco gear but I can't very well practice my RIP routing or configuring interfaces on those. I found that reading the Cisco Press books end to end and doing all the questions were a huge help. I treated it like studying for any other subject I would have in university, etc. and this is where the simluation comes in handy, because I found that you NEED to do this just to get used to the "Cisco method" of questions/exams. In short, use the Cisco Press books, practice on the Boson sims they give you, and you can use the Sybex book as a good "summary of how to pass". Do as many simulation exams as you can, so that you're completely prepared not only in terms of subject matter but on the actual exam technique. I had the same opinion of TestKing as Steve, but I tend to think of it like this... if you're studying for an exam you need to know what "past papers" are like, and for this TestKing is great. If you simply want to pass the exam and not get a firm grasp of the content, then do TestKing after TestKing and nothing else and odds are you can probably pass quite easily too.. -- Shaineel Singh MakePeace Media LTD http://mpm.org.au/shsingh pgp id: 0xA9D8D351 fp: 38 0D A8 C8 74 A2 33 5E CE 0E 5A FA D5 A0 04 7C This message was written entirely with recycled electrons. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is sponsored by: ByteCrusher Detect Malicious Web Content and Exploits in Real-Time. Anti-Virus engines can't detect unknown or new threats. LinkScanner can. Web surfing just became a whole lot safer. http://www.explabs.com/staging/promotions/xern_lspro.asp?loc=sfmaildetect ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- RE: advice for ccna certification Erick Jensen (Dec 01)
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- RE: advice for ccna certification Erick Jensen (Dec 04)
- RE: advice for ccna certification Steve Kalcevich (Dec 04)
- RE: advice for ccna certification Shain Singh (Dec 06)
- RE: advice for ccna certification Steve Kalcevich (Dec 04)
- FW: advice for ccna certification Jason Harris (Dec 06)