I was *so* worried about taking this test. I had been hearing from numerous
people how hard it was so I did nothing but cram for the last two weeks.
Even after that I still did not feel ready, knowing that there were going to
be numerous questions on ATM, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, SRB, LANE, NAT, Policy
Routing, Redistribution, etc.
Well, the worrying was for nothing. I passed with a 92%! However, I think
that's because I was overprepared for the specific questions I received. I
know that each test pulls from a pool of 300 or so questions, but I think I
got about 80 of the easy ones.
Seriously, I thought that more in-depth knowledge was required to take the
CCNP tests. For many of the topics I listed above, I didn't receive a
single question! What gives??
With that said, some of the questions were difficult, but only because they
were the sort that if you didn't already know it, it was tough to guess.
The SRB, token ring, OSPF, BGP, and LANE questions were very basic. Anyone
with a solid introduction to them and a good memory would be able to ace all
of those topics.
A few months ago I got a subscription to CertificationZone and I'm very glad
I did. I found the real test to be much easier than their practice tests.
If you get a subscription and can pass three or four of those exams, you're
probably going to be disappointed in the difficulty of the real exam. But
that's a good thing! That just means that you'll be very prepared.
I may have just gotten lucky with the questions, though. I don't want to
make it sound easy, it wasn't. The particular questions just weren't as
difficult as I was planning for. I was expecting WWIII and got a minor
border skirmish with a small third-world country. :-)
I guess that's why they call this a qualification exam. The exceptionally
super hard part is yet to come.
I see that they've announced the new lab format and now I'm wondering if I
should schedule the lab now and plan on taking the two-day version in March
of 2002 or so, or should I wait until after Oct. 1st and possibly get the
one-day version sooner? Hmm... food for thought.
Thanks to all who have helped me so far! (Howard, Priscilla, Chuck, Pamela,
Stogieman, Peter, and everyone else I'm forgetting at the moment)
I'm now going to go eat dinner with my wife and then sleep for the rest of
the weekend!
Regards,
John
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