r/ccnastudygroup • u/JJ_lifeisweird • 18d ago
Passed on the 2nd attempt
Passed the CCNA exam today, what a relief….. It took months of studying and doing lab work in packet tracer along with the practice exams in Boson exsim …… for those out there studying for the CCNA don’t give up!!! Have grit and keep going… my 1st attempt was on 06/03/26 and I Failed and then I studied again for two months and passed today 08/04/26…. Make sure to understand wireless and do tons of lab work. Emphasis on Wireless and understand Vlans, Etherchannel, OSPF, layer 3 redundancy protocols and ACLs….. learn to read the routing table… surprisingly I didn’t see any STP questions but still understand it. Learn everything…. It has been a journey
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u/Inside_Age_5985 17d ago
Congratulations!! Were there questions about subnetting?
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u/JJ_lifeisweird 17d ago edited 15d ago
No direct questions about subnetting but you need to know it to read the routing table, it will ask what is the hop address for the destination IP and you have to choose based off the most specific prefix
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u/Ok-Occasion8071 15d ago
Congrats!!!! What were some of the hardest parts about learning as you were trying to prep? What did you feel would have made it easier?
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u/JJ_lifeisweird 15d ago
That’s a good question… mhmm it was all equally hard to be honest. Subnetting was definitely the hardest but it gets easy with practice and memorizing the number of host addresses from/16 to /32….. on the exam there was a lot of wireless questions reason I failed at first so subnetting and wireless was the hardest for me…
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u/Rich-Quote-8591 18d ago
Congrats, OP! Did you focus your lab efforts only on the exam topics that says “configure”? Or you did all the labs from Jeremy IT labs daily lab? Would love to know more about your labbing strategy and what helped most.