Help Wanted

[deven]

I've taken the CCNA (640-801) twice in the last two weeks and failed both times. Last time I had a 821/849 this time a 834/849.

I work with this stuff every day and wasn't expecting this to be such a headache. I have the Cisco Press CCNA Self Study Library that I have been working from.

Any tips/advice? Maybe I just don't test well ;):mad:

[Sanjay]

First of all, don't give up - your scores are pretty close.

What area(s) are giving you difficulty? Look at your Examination Score Report, it will have a breakdown of your performance in each area. If there's one area giving you trouble, that's what you need to hit hard. This can sometimes be an eye-opener - when I first sat CCNA I thought I was crash-hot on frame-relay, yet that's what dragged my score down. So that's when I realised I wasn't as good as I thought I was (or Cisco wanted me to be), and hit the books again concentrating on that area.

Some people find subnetting difficult. If you do, then practice. Write down IP addresses at random, pick a subnet mask and start working out your ranges, Host IP addresses, broadcast addresses, etc.

Try looking at other sources for information. If there's a topic that doesn't quite make sense, browse CCO for information on it. Sometimes having the same subject presented in a different way can make a difference and it'll just click.