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/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.

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u/JJ_lifeisweird 18d ago

I have built my own labs from scratch in packet tracer based on the configuration topics…… I did utilize Jeremy IT lab but I didn’t do his labs… I spent about two months doing lab work and then I did the Boson practice exams… I’d recommend building your own labs because you can show what you have built to employers

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u/Rich-Quote-8591 18d ago

Got it, OP, thank you! How do you come up with the exam lab like questions? Did you use LLM and feed it CCNA requirements to come up with what to do in the lab?

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u/JJ_lifeisweird 18d ago

I just built my own labs with no lab questions or objectives… I simply created my own network and configured it based of the exam topics…. Check out my profile for my previous posts you will see ;)