It feels like a dream come true, and I can hardly put my happiness into words — now I’ve reached the stage where I’m writing about my exam experience. Today was my exam at a testing center and my experience was full of mixed emotions ! I've been preparing for CCNA for a really long time and the journey has finally come to an end. I'm not gonna give any generic advices since it's all out on in communities and reddit already. But one of THE MOST crucial things during your exam is your time management. I'm from a non-English native country and hence I got 30 mins extra but boy if this time extension wouldn't be allotted to me my scores would've been much worse, I finished with hardly 4-5 minutes to spare even after getting extra time. My only key advice is to manage your time efficiently please ! Otherwise you might get questions wrong even after knowing the correct answer under time pressure. Some exam technicalities - I had 4 labs at the very beginning of the exam followed by 69 total questions. The labs were all familiar and surprisingly i completed all of them (altho i must say it took me 50 minutes just to complete all labs). You should be VERY confident in reading routing tables and choosing what's the best route to a certain destination ip would be. WLC questions were twisted, they covered certain sections of the WLC GUI which i didn't even see before. I hardly got them right. Rest just lab and lab as much as you can and do practice subnetting a lot ! My scores - Automation and Programmability - 60% Network Access - 50% IP connectivity - 88% IP services - 75% Security Fundamentals - 40% Network Fundamentals - 60% My study resources - Neil Andersons's Udemy course (his anki + labs), Boson ExSim, JITL (only videos and labs), CBTNuggets (WLC section), Keith Barker (for areas I was weak in) and lots n lots of chatgpt. To everyone preparing for it - I believe in you, it's not rocket science but yes it takes time. Definitely worth it. Good luck to everyone, much love <3

Just passed my exam!! As a tip for anyone coming I think the key for me was being able to do subnet calculations very good, there was a lot of questions where you'll finally find the answer by being able to do different subnetting calculations. Keep the work up guys, it'll finally pay off!

I passed the exam a little over three years ago with a score of 87%. At that time, I had been working as a network administrator for just over a year, so I was still at the beginning of my network engineering journey. Only six months later, the CCNA certification opened the door to a role as a consulting network engineer, where I learned so much more and it also boosted my salary. Preparing for the CCNA didn’t just help me pass the exam itself. It taught me how to effectively prepare for any network-related certification. Since then, I’ve earned ten more certifications. This isn’t meant to be bragging, but rather to show how much more value the CCNA gives you in the long run than just passing a single exam. Unfortunately, I couldn‘t find a photo of proud me right after passing the exam. P.S.: I renewed it in March 🤓 P.P.S.: I am currently preparing to take the ENCOR exam. For anyone who‘s interested, send me a DM if you want to know how it‘s going 😉

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