Re: MCDBA at last!
From: Gary K (dabigfinndog_at_nospam.icqmail.com)
Date: 03/02/04
- Next message: Vasja Chlen: "MCDBA after OCP or IBM DBA"
- Previous message: Ray Higdon: "Re: what is recommend, pls help"
- Next in thread: romo: "Re: MCDBA at last!"
- Reply: romo: "Re: MCDBA at last!"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 06:41:21 -0800
Passing the CCNA exam without having at least a couple of routers and a
couple of switches, or a sim that will allow you to build networks using
routers and switches in a variety of scenarios is going to be pretty
difficult. Several of the questions I had on my test related to things you
will only come across in troubleshooting connection problems, and in a test
in which you must have 85% or better to pass to through away 10% - 15% of
possible answers by not preparing sufficiently makes it hard to pass. You
better hope you won't miss anything outside of the hands on portions of the
test if you want to pass using only one router.
Besides, even if you do pass that way you'll still be a "paper" CCNA. You
won't be prepared to function in the real world.
"Bob Montgomery" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0a8e01c3fd96$163d1750$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Kat,
>
> Thanks!
>
> I'm planning on using "CCNA Certification Library (CCNA
> Self-Study, exam #640-801), Sixth Edition" along with
> Transcender to prepare for the Cisco exam. The reviews on
> Amazon were pretty positive for the most part.
>
> I'm also toying with the idea of picking up a used
> Catalyst 5000 because they can be had for less than $500
> on ebay these days which isn't that much more than a
> license for Boson NetSim.
>
> -Bob Montgomery
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Congratulations! Good luck with the CCNA- their pass rate
> is high, and
> >the questions are both mundane/difficult. There is very
> little
> >similarity between CCNA and mcse- MCSE focuses on
> microsoft products,
> >such as DNS and DHCP, while CCNA is mostly switch/router
> commands, OSI
> >layers, etc.
> >
> >I passed the CCNA, found it to be quite difficult. I took
> it before the
> >microsoft exams, so it's harder to compare, but MS seems
> a breeze after
> >that one. If you found 216 a beast, watch out.
> >
> >I recommen you get a good book, really study it, and
> practice A LOT on a
> >real switch or sims. Good luck!
> >
> >Bob Montgomery wrote:
> >
> >> Well, I finally wrapped up my MCDBA by passing 70-216
> >> yesterday. I've invested a lot of time on this over
> the
> >> past 5 months; I've learned a lot; and I personally
> found
> >> it worthwhile.
> >>
> >> I must agree with the others who have said that 70-216
> is
> >> really a beast. I put in twice as much time preparing
> for
> >> 70-216 compared to the other exams and felt that I was
> >> very well prepared, but I was surprised by the
> difficulty
> >> as well as the content to some extent.
> >>
> >> It covered all of the things I expected, but there were
> >> more questions on Certificate Authority than I really
> >> wanted to see and there was very little on routing or
> >> subnetting which was disapointing because I'd spent a
> lot
> >> of time on those subjects.
> >>
> >> At any rate, I'm glad that this is behind me. Now I'm
> >> going to try for the CCNA and hoping that some of what
> I
> >> learned in preparing for 70-216 will help on that.
> >>
> >> At some point I'd like to get my MCSA so I may go ahead
> >> and try to get 70-218 out of the way while all this
> >> networking stuff is still fresh in my mind.
> >>
> >> Anyway, thanks to everyone here who helped along the
> way!
> >>
> >> -Bob Montgomery
> >
> >--
> >Kat MCNGP #29
> >
> >/* Beent here, Done that. Leave me alone. */
> >
> >.
> >
- Next message: Vasja Chlen: "MCDBA after OCP or IBM DBA"
- Previous message: Ray Higdon: "Re: what is recommend, pls help"
- Next in thread: romo: "Re: MCDBA at last!"
- Reply: romo: "Re: MCDBA at last!"
- Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ]
Relevant Pages
|
