Hey Everyone,
I'm sure this question has been posted a million-gazillion times, but between the SPAM posts, and the age of stuff I find, it's hard to find some good, current advice. Most of what I've read is based on old exams. I'm in the middle of studying for the CCNA 802 exam. I'm just wondering if there's any generic advice on certain areas to study more than less? Other general exam advice?
I've used Steve McQuerry's CCNA Preparation Library as a starting point for the core knowledge, and I have Odom's preparation kit on its way in the mail. Unfortunately, I dont have any Cisco equipment on hand, so I'm relying on the Boson simulation in the Odom kit for the hands-on. I've been in the IT industry for about 10 years, so I was pretty solid on a lot of the concepts going in. Things like subnetting have come pretty easy for me. I understand most of the concepts really well, I just havn't had a chance to put a lot of them into practice on Cisco gear.
Just curious if anyone has any general advice on certain things to look out for, or any 'gotchas' they you ran into. My searching thus far seems to indicate the most important bits to know are subnetting (like the back of your hand), and setting up / configuring / troubleshooting the routing protocols.
Any advice? Any examples of some of the trickier questions you have to figure out on the simulators?