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Passed ICND1 a year ago for my CCENT, should I take ICND2 or the composite exam for my CCNA? I've heard conflicting stories about which is the best way to go.
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May 4, 2016 22:50
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Well, gently caress. I just took ICND2 200-101 and flunked (got 801, needed 825). Used the official cert guide & the practice exams that came with it, plus Boson's practice exams. Was getting 950-1000 on the practice exams, with all the question & answer order randomized, plus all the book questions and part questions. Same strategy got me like 920 the first try on ICND1, but like 25% of this exam was just  Sort of don't know what to do now preparation-wise other than cramming the cert guide some more and hope more minutae sticks when I re-take it in a week or so. Is there a practice exam that's a better match to the real one to use? Some other poo poo I'm not thinking of?
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Jul 1, 2016 16:15
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Renegret posted:You got plenty of time. The big warning I'd give about ICND2 (now that I just passed it today  ) is that none of the practice exams I've tried really correlate that well to the actual exams. Official study guide DVD exams, Boson ExSim Max, Cisco's official practice exams - all kind of lovely. This was the opposite of my experience with ICND1, where the Boson practice exams in particular were very close to the real thing to the point where my scores between the two were almost identical. That might have just been the luck of the draw or whatever, but it was a nasty surprise when 1/4 of the topics in the practice exams weren't there at all and 1/4 of the exam questions were topics just glossed over (at best) in the practice exams. You need to take a few practice exams to prepare regardless, but spend the last week or so focusing more on memorizing all the spergy details in the study guide.
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Jul 11, 2016 19:15
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Renegret posted:difficulty wise, how does it compare to ICND1? ICND2 was definitely harder for me, because it seemed to be consistently more skewed towards testing your brute force memorization of minutiae than ICND1, and I'm worse at that.
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Jul 11, 2016 20:30
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Renegret posted:welp You should be fine for time, just focus on the key topics in the study guide, especially the week before. Do practice tests periodically but once you get 900+ on them quit giving a poo poo about the last 10% and focus on re-reading the tables of fussy poo poo about every kind of spanning tree and poo poo like that. The simulation questions are the easiest part if you are any good with the CLI, especially EIGRP and OSPF.
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Jul 11, 2016 20:52
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Renegret posted:It's more that memorizing stupid minutiae is my weakest point. I'm fine for simulations and anything that requires that you show an understanding of a concept, but before every single cert test I've taken I've had to cram things like common port numbers and the classful IP ranges because I have a poo poo memory and I never need to use them for work. Part of the reason I did so well on ICND1 was because half the test was a subnetting, which is a skill, and the simulations were far easier than I expected so I was over prepared for them. I'm bad at rote memorization as well.  
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Jul 11, 2016 22:20
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