According to your experience with the exam, what topics do not need to be focused too much? What are the most common questions? I want to finish my course and take the exam in no time. I need your guidance

Hello All,

I have been working in data centers for the past 7 years. Quite frankly, I’m over it. It’s no longer challenging or fulfilling.

As I’m writing this we are moving our DR to the cloud. Should be out of physical space for it by June 2025. That means our prod space will be the only space falling under my responsibilities besides some network closers at regional offices. I feel like I can see the writing on the wall as to the need for my role in a few year’s.

Even though I’m in data centers, my boss is the network engineering manager for my company. I am part of the “team” in so far as attending all the meetings for the team.

I really want to move fully over to the network engineering team. Would a CCNA be the best course to show that? I plan to have a discussion with my boss on pursuing certs and courses to further my growth in other areas besides data centers. How do I go about this?

Hey.

Like the title says, I need a bit of guidance here. I really need to earn my CCNA cert to move up on my current position and expand (or change jobs) on my skillset.

Thing is I'm dealing with stressful family situations and while my employer isn't forcing me to take and pass the exam, I know it could be detrimental if I don't have it. I feel overwhelmed....

I have everything I could possible need: Both revisions of Udemy's Jeremy's IT and David Bombal's CCNA 200-301 1.1 refreshed course, the OCG. For a lack of better words, I'm simply blocked.

Any help or advice would definitely be appreciated.

I want to attend some conventions for IT networking. I am a post grad looking for entry level roles in networking. I also want to go to conventions to network and possibly meet a mentor.

Can anyone recommend some to attend? Preferably on the east coast—NY, VA, PA, etc.

Thank you!

I’m going through the JTIL and he mentioned it’s not likely on it, just looking to see if anyone here took the exam and did have VTP on it.

It’s a long story but I have a scheduled exam date on Friday (5 days later) and I know NOTHING about the subjects of the exam . Just asking to see how much I screwed up . (I am a 1st year computer engineering student in a good university if that helps)

Edit: thanks to everyone for replying and for the reality check + advice i really appreciate it

Hello, I'm sure this question has been asked a million times but here we go!

I initially was enrolled in a Cisco CCNA program at my community College before the pandemic hit and I hate to admit I never went back and finished. I'm currently working as a security/data technician and I recently was working for an employer that needed a couple Cisco smart switches programed for the CCTV equipment they were using and I offered to do it and successfully programmed them. They were impressed with my Cisco knowledge (apparently none of them had much IT experience) and the company we were installing them for's IT manager said they were opening a new position and if I had a CCNA I'd have a good shot at it. How quickly could I reasonably get a CCNA with a mediocre amount of knowledge (I've completed up to CCNA2 routing and switching) and what material do you recommend?

Hey guys I’ve got a test tomorrow for networking and I still don’t understand broad cast addresses. Any help would be appreciated

Ip address: 192.168.33.128/25 For BR2 LAN 25 Hosts

While I was in college in 2017, I studied Cisco Networking. I recently found a few of my old Netacad labs saved in Dropbox and emails, but I know there were more and I'm trying to track them down. I'm hoping to refresh my skills, but I need some structured objectives to work toward. Could anyone recommend a good collection of labs?

Hi everyone,

I'm a little frustrated that I've been waiting for my Pass or Fail for 5 hours and still haven't received anything, it says "Result Pending" on the website, does anyone know if this is unusual to take this long?

I got:

Automation & Program 90% Network Access 65% IP Connect 68% IP Services 70% Security Fundamentals 93% Network Fundamentals Pending

Just looking at ways to improve efficiency when studying from others experience. TIA

https://ibb.co/NLdZPGc

I have an assignment due in 2 months. I wanted to get an early start and I keep getting stuck. For network 1 (being the laptop one, only using FastEthernet) I can even configure the IP in CLI

"
Router> enable
Router# configure terminal
Router(config)# interface FastEthernet0/0/0
Router(config-if)# ip address 200.134.199.1 255.255.255.224
Router(config-if)# no shutdown

"

I would like some help on how to get passed this and study the topic. Thanks

My first post here so please be nice Bg info I have a degree in Cyber Security and worked in a big 4 3 years ago (for 6 months only in G&PS), quit because of pregnancy and of course the toxic environment (didn't want to sell my soul). I'm read to re-enter the workforce and have been looking at job postings on seek and indeed most are looking for experience and certifications (Cisco, Microsoft and Comptia) Should I study Comptia A+ or Cisco CCNA or go to uni and do a semester of graduate Certificate in Network and Systems Administration or just apply to jobs and cross my fingers? I live in Australia TIA

Attempted an exam in the last week or so? Passed? Failed? Proctor messed it all up? Discuss here! Open to all CCNA exams. We are now consolidating those pass-fail posts under here per prior poll of the community and your feedback.

Remember, don't post a score in the format of xxx/1,000. All Cisco exams have a maximum score of 1,000, so that's useless info. Instead, list the required score to pass, as this differs from exam to exam, and can change over the lifetime of the exam.

Payment of passes in CAT pictures is allowed.

Might not be a good place to complain about Pearson/OnVUE but here goes:

I scheduled my CCNA exam yesterday at 21:30h and completed my system check-in a day before and the day of the exam. I tried to check-in for my exam from 20:55h (because it needs you to check-in 30m earlier) till 21:40h until I got kicked out of my account and locked out. Couldn't even go for my CCNA exam.

Has anyone had a similar experience? So far support's been... non-existent.

For reference:
- Exam voucher was procured via 3rd party (Vega SRL).
- Company I worked for procured it.
- Account used to register was my private account.

I’ve completed all of Neil Anderson’s CCNA videos and labs and recently started using Boson ExSim-Max for additional practice. I noticed that Boson includes a lot of questions on Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC), Access Points (APs), and related configurations—topics that Neil didn’t go into in as much depth. Neil assures that his course covers everything needed to pass the exam, but I’m concerned about the focus on wireless in the Boson exams.

For those who have taken the CCNA exam recently, could you share if there was a significant number of questions on wireless topics? Thanks!

Hey everyone. Looking to survey this crowd on what it’s like out there. I’m fairly insulated right now in my sales role for a big Cisco distributor. The job is keeping me above water financially, the main issue is that I hate it. I’ve decided I want to bring value through hard skills and network engineering has been really interesting and fun to learn about. I’ve got a goal to earn my CCNA in the next 6 months and transition to a technical role. I’m about a third of my way through JITL and I am lucky enough to have my company pay for me to complete a 5-day instructor-led course for the CCNA. Another fortunate occurrence is that I was able to acquire a few Cisco switches, routers, and a firewall for home-labbing.

My biggest concern right now is not the exam, (it’s a close second place) but getting the job I want after.

I have ZERO formal IT experience, and I know you guys are already typing “git helpdesk” and I get that - I’ll more than likely need to do that, but are all helpdesk jobs created equally? Should I focus on local MSPs for helpdesk? For those of you that took a helpdesk job after earning CCNA, how long were you there? What is your role now?

Any thoughts on my situation are welcome. Try to be constructive, though.

I'm already in a networking role and not looking to change any time soon but I wanted to start working on the CCNA. Only thing putting me off is doing the work and it expiring if anything changes in the future.

I guess it's employer dependent but I feel knowing you completed it in the past would be enough. Does anyone have any experience otherwise where an employer makes sure it's currently valid?

Hello everyone hope all of you good!

As i mentioned ive finished a lot of trainings in different fields. But somehow i cant find a job that would give me an opportunity to start, Should i quit or keep applying for new jobs?? My certs : ccna / ccnp , CEH,PEN100, THM a lot of rooms and certs.

Hey Family,

I finally have set up my home network lab with two Catalyst switches(3950) and two routers (1900) I was wondering if there is a good book that provides practice labs for me to do?

Hi so i wanted to take the CCNA course ( honestly dont even know where to start) and i bumped into this site - the knowledge academy that says they will help, anyone has any idea how good they are?

Hi, I'm trying to learn how to use a firewall in combination with routers. The topology is shown in the image. https://ibb.co/JtKxKhq

I can ping computers on network 3 from computers on network 2 and vv. I can ping the routers address facing the firewall. I can ping the firewall from the neighbouring router and vv. I can ping the computer on network 4 from the firewall and vv. I can communicate between all parts of the network as long as I don’t go through the firewall.

My problem is that I can't ping the firewall through the neighbouring routers (2911, router 3 & router 4) or from the firewall to any network not directly connected to it.

Spanning Tree Song

Hey y'all I recently finished the Jeremy's lectures, didn't do the labs bit and skipped over most of the ex sim questions at the end. I've made reasonably good notes and I should start reviewing and revising the material. What should I focus on in terms of resources like the anki flashcards, should I also give the exsim practice tests and how do I get confident with labs and considering I work full time when should I ideally give the CCNA if I can dedicate an hour or two each day and much more on the weekends

So, I managed to successfully get my CCNA certificate (yay me!), but since I don't have previous experience in networking or help center - I want to get more certificates to help myself get a job and overall improve my skills. Any recommendations on certs that go well with CCNA (except CCNP, which I'll do sometime in the future)? If this helps, my long term goal is to work in cybersecurity.

Hey guys! So I just got my CCNA last month (Yay!) As much as everyone else as I'm trying to land my first entry-level job for networking, I've decided to get an emulation program to sharpen my networking knowledge.

But there are so many emulation programs available and I've looked into comparisons from YouTube and can't decide what emulation to get. Do I go for something like gns3 and import cisco images, or should I just skip all the headaches and try CML? and if making my own home lab is an option, what series should I get or essentials to make a viable lab for beginners like me? thanks!

Long story short, im gonna graduate this fall with a bachelors in IT. I see a good amount of companies requiring or desiring the CCNA here in the DMV, so I want to earn it.

I have eight certifications already. Is it feasible to earn the CCNA in two months with labbing and studying?

What do the letters after "BASE-" mean (E.g. LX, SR, LR, ER, S, LX4, E)

Why are Wendell Odom's table different from Jeremy IT lab's?

And should I memorize Odom's or Jeremy's table for the CCNA?

Jeremy's IT LAB's Udemy course lecture 7, 24:50

Wendel Odom's table (CCNA 200-301 vol1)

I'm planning to transition from a design career to IT, with a focus on security and governance. I have a Computer Science degree, so I have a solid IT foundation. Which certification path would you recommend: CCNA -> Security+ -> ITIL or A+ -> Security+ -> CCNA -> ITIL?"
And does anyone have any suggestions for entry-level IT roles that align with my career goals in security and governance?