CCENT/CCNA [H] study group

/usr/home said:
Add another one to the CCENT club. Passed this morning with a 894. Took me 45 mins. Now on to CCNA.
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Grats! Got it on your first try? I was SOOOOO nervous when I took my ICND1 but when I passed it I was relieved. Only took me one try but that was my first certification test ever and I had no clue what to expect. Sitting my ICND2 exam in the next month, I need to book it lol
 
Yeah, first one. Was a lot easier than I expected. I got 0% percent in the wireless section :rolleyes: They asked me one wireless question and you had to pick two right statements except that was only one right one, I know for a fact, but whatever...
 
R3d said:
congrats! how long till you figure you'll sit the ccna exam?
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I'm hoping 6 months? I want to write for sure by the end of the year. I started on CCENT about a year and then got caught up in getting married and our honeymoon and buying a house and starting a new job and I finally started seriously getting back into it about 1.5 months ago.
 
/usr/home said:
Yeah, first one. Was a lot easier than I expected. I got 0% percent in the wireless section :rolleyes: They asked me one wireless question and you had to pick two right statements except that was only one right one, I know for a fact, but whatever...
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great job, I did poorly on the wan section because it was all on ATM. I aced the wireless but I had two years cisco ap experience in a call center which helped
 
Langly said:
great job, I did poorly on the wan section because it was all on ATM. I aced the wireless but I had two years cisco ap experience in a call center which helped
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To be honest I never really did mess with any of the Frame Relay and ATM stuff. That was my weakest part but I managed to get through it.
 
/usr/home said:
Add another one to the CCENT club. Passed this morning with a 894. Took me 45 mins. Now on to CCNA.
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Congrats! I got mine Monday. I missed the wireless question too :rolleyes: . I'm taking some classes in the Cisco Network Academy for CCNA so I using it to learn what I don't know yet.
 
I am about to sit the ICND2 exam in the next week or so. I Know 804 is the score, at minimum, for ICND1, but what is it for ICND2?
 
Booked my ICND 2 exam for May 1st at 8:00am which is great because the testing centre is right beside my office building.
 
mikey71497 said:
I am about to sit the ICND2 exam in the next week or so. I Know 804 is the score, at minimum, for ICND1, but what is it for ICND2?
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825. If you get 815 and miss a sim (that you can replicate and do exactly like the exam and get it 100% correct), you'll be kicking yourself for weeks. :(
 
i lost my cert mojo........ :( i need to do TSHOOT for my CCNP and its been 4 months since i did the switch exam..

and congratz usr/home :)
 
So yea, studying and my book gets to subnets.

And im like, wat?

Anyone got a better resource that may explain this a different way? I get the general idea, but i'm having a bit of trouble visualizing it if you will. I am much more of a hands on learner than book.
 
jeremy is the best at teaching cisco. learned the most from his nuggets.
 
So I started a new quarter this week and one of my new classes is a more advanced networking class based on Cisco. The first topic the instructor decided to wrestle is subnetting (after brief IP addressing basics). This is a more advanced course, and it's something I should know or at least understand when I see it... But I've realized that I don't.

My instructor completely lost me once we passed IP addressing basics and got into the subnetting portion. He starts talking about most and least significant bits, and he even changed the old stand by binary conversion idea of 128.64.32.16.8.4.2.1 to 256.128.64.32.16.8.4.2. It's not that he's wrong, but my brain can't compute.

So that was last night, and since I've been trying to figure out his method and the way I thought I knew how it was done. I've even gone back to watch Jeremy's videos (still more to watch)...

And so far, it's clear I don't know jack s%%t! I'm not concerned really with any other topic of the Cisco exam's, that will all come with more experience or it's knowledge I already have, but subnetting eludes my thought process in every way possible. Now I'm lost and angry.

I need to find a way to understand subnetting quickly. But everywhere I look there is a different method. Bits, bytes, binary, decimal, ranges, hosts, networks, IP's, classes, VLSM, CIDR..... it's driving me insane!

// end rant
 
Try the post from be two above yours. It is rapid if you can understand it.

Enhanced Bob Maneuver.
 
PanzerKrieg13 said:
So I started a new quarter this week and one of my new classes is a more advanced networking class based on Cisco. The first topic the instructor decided to wrestle is subnetting (after brief IP addressing basics). This is a more advanced course, and it's something I should know or at least understand when I see it... But I've realized that I don't.

My instructor completely lost me once we passed IP addressing basics and got into the subnetting portion. He starts talking about most and least significant bits, and he even changed the old stand by binary conversion idea of 128.64.32.16.8.4.2.1 to 256.128.64.32.16.8.4.2. It's not that he's wrong, but my brain can't compute.

So that was last night, and since I've been trying to figure out his method and the way I thought I knew how it was done. I've even gone back to watch Jeremy's videos (still more to watch)...

And so far, it's clear I don't know jack s%%t! I'm not concerned really with any other topic of the Cisco exam's, that will all come with more experience or it's knowledge I already have, but subnetting eludes my thought process in every way possible. Now I'm lost and angry.

I need to find a way to understand subnetting quickly. But everywhere I look there is a different method. Bits, bytes, binary, decimal, ranges, hosts, networks, IP's, classes, VLSM, CIDR..... it's driving me insane!

// end rant
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I took a while for it to click with me too. EX:

How many IPs can you get from /20 ? 32-20 = 12 change that to 2^12 and you get 4096 - 2 - 4094 hosts.

To find ranges, go to the next complete subnet. Ex - on a /20 go to /24 on a /13 go to /16 on a /25 go to /32. Then from 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 you go over 24-20=4 places so you hit 16.

That gives you an increment of 16 in the third octet.
10.0.0.0 - 10.0.15.255 -> First Subnet
10.0.16.0 - 10.0.31.255 -> Second Subnet
10.0.32.0 - 10.0.63.255 -> Third Subnet.
etc.

Hope that helps. I tried a bunch of methods and none seemed to help me figure it out. I just have to play with them and then I finally found a pattern that worked. For me, thinking in powers of 2 help me.
 
another lab hardware question

I have some 2950's

also a 2900XL(can I even use this?)

I am looking at the 3640's on ebay

right now I just need CCNA, but like most I would plan to move on to CCNP next(hence looking at atleast one 3640)

a guy on CL local listed some 2600's and I am trying to find out what model they are

I also might be able to snag a 7206 vxr(a really old one NPE-225, dual 10mb interfaces, running 12.2 right now)
 
Passed ROUTE today. Seemed easier than SWITCH.

Trying for TSHOOT by 5/14, even though my co-worker says I could pass tomorrow.

I want to read the Cisco Press book and take some notes.
 
jadams said:
Expand this a little further and just make an overall [H] study group. Not just limited to cisco things but anything in enterprise level technology
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the problem with this is the fact that this will lose focus. People are here to make a study group for CCENT/NA. Not to study HP Storage works on one post and the next post discuss Junos switch stacking followed by OSPF between ASA firewalls. It would be too hard to focus on any one subject area.

Rather I would recommend Kyle form a new forum subject area called Study Groups or something.
 
silasbear said:
Passed ROUTE today. Seemed easier than SWITCH.

Trying for TSHOOT by 5/14, even though my co-worker says I could pass tomorrow.

I want to read the Cisco Press book and take some notes.
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TSHOOT is the easiest according to anyone that has ever taken it with networking work experience. It is like another day at work.
 
DlStreamnet said:
Passed with 907, quite challenging!
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Congrats!

Jumping back into the books. I had to do some refreshers on what I have studied a while ago, picked up my subnetting again which I am happy about, about to start jumping into routing again. Looking to sit the test next month so I am pushing projects aside and going straight for studying.
 
9 days to go until I take my ICND 2.
Now I'm going to re-read all of the Tshoot chapters in the Cisco book, as well as ACLs and NAT, those are the what I think I'm weakest on.
 
I have my ICND2 scheduled for May 11th. It's gonna be a bitch because I know there is this one question that I can't get on the exam. I can answer it perfect in practice tests, in the lab, packet tracer, from the steps in the book... I should be getting it right, but it won't ping in the exam when it should (VTP question). :( So, I'll have to accept I'm going to get that one wrong and get 100% on everything else. :|
 
2509 and two 2620s have arrived in my rack!

they arent XM's but from what I read they will run 12.4 in a lab environment, but cant handle production due to not enough memory

now I need a serial card for one of my machine at home
 
Ur_Mom said:
I have my ICND2 scheduled for May 11th. It's gonna be a bitch because I know there is this one question that I can't get on the exam. I can answer it perfect in practice tests, in the lab, packet tracer, from the steps in the book... I should be getting it right, but it won't ping in the exam when it should (VTP question). :( So, I'll have to accept I'm going to get that one wrong and get 100% on everything else. :|
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show cdp neighbors
show vtp
show int trunk

there isnt much to vtp trouble shooting to be honest.
 
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