{"id":88,"date":"2024-10-05T14:06:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T13:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/?p=88"},"modified":"2024-10-05T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T13:07:19","slug":"pass-your-ccna-first-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/pass-your-ccna-first-try\/","title":{"rendered":"Pass your CCNA first try"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently passed my CCNA, this was the most challenging certification so far and it did require more work compared to other courses I have followed until now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I did was:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>to follow Neil Anderson&#8217;s course on Udemy and his command line exercises.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to subscribe to what Neil recommends which is Alpha Prep; I did probably 750 questions out of thousands, so quite a lot, yet the Alpha prep report was telling me that I was not ready, and I did not just simply went through the questions, I was really going at it, at each wrong answer I would go back to packet tracer and try to figure it out. After a while I eventually got bored and missed the fun of the labs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>to get David Bombal&#8217;s packet tracer lab exercises and did them all; these were excellent and entertaining, also foundational in my ability to pass.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It took me in total 4 months (~ 80 hours) until I had the courage to show up to the exam room, I was fully confident on the day on my ability to pass the certification, I started the test and instantly realised that the CCNA actually deserved its reputation: questions and labs were challenging but thankfully I got a pass after the two hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To conclude, there is a lot of information on this one you have to memorise to be successful and it will take you a lot of hands on practice, but it is largely doable as long as your are not in a rush, take your time so you can truly grasp the concepts. I absolutely recommended the CCNA and I can tell I already started to benefit from it in my professional life: I can now follow hardware, cluster networking, and performance conversations, at least to a degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently passed my CCNA, this was the most challenging certification so far and it did require more work compared to other courses I have followed until now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90,"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guillaumesblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}