John,
Congratulations on your passing. Hope to join you in a couple of months.
Jim
""John Neiberger"" wrote in message
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> I was *so* worried about taking this test. I had been hearing from
numerous
> people how hard it was so I did nothing but cram for the last two weeks.
> Even after that I still did not feel ready, knowing that there were going
to
> be numerous questions on ATM, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, SRB, LANE, NAT, Policy
> Routing, Redistribution, etc.
>
> Well, the worrying was for nothing. I passed with a 92%! However, I
think
> that's because I was overprepared for the specific questions I received.
I
> know that each test pulls from a pool of 300 or so questions, but I think
I
> got about 80 of the easy ones.
>
> Seriously, I thought that more in-depth knowledge was required to take the
> CCNP tests. For many of the topics I listed above, I didn't receive a
> single question! What gives??
>
> With that said, some of the questions were difficult, but only because
they
> were the sort that if you didn't already know it, it was tough to guess.
> The SRB, token ring, OSPF, BGP, and LANE questions were very basic.
Anyone
> with a solid introduction to them and a good memory would be able to ace
all
> of those topics.
>
> A few months ago I got a subscription to CertificationZone and I'm very
glad
> I did. I found the real test to be much easier than their practice tests.
> If you get a subscription and can pass three or four of those exams,
you're
> probably going to be disappointed in the difficulty of the real exam. But
> that's a good thing! That just means that you'll be very prepared.
>
> I may have just gotten lucky with the questions, though. I don't want to
> make it sound easy, it wasn't. The particular questions just weren't as
> difficult as I was planning for. I was expecting WWIII and got a minor
> border skirmish with a small third-world country. :-)
>
> I guess that's why they call this a qualification exam. The exceptionally
> super hard part is yet to come.
>
> I see that they've announced the new lab format and now I'm wondering if I
> should schedule the lab now and plan on taking the two-day version in
March
> of 2002 or so, or should I wait until after Oct. 1st and possibly get the
> one-day version sooner? Hmm... food for thought.
>
> Thanks to all who have helped me so far! (Howard, Priscilla, Chuck,
Pamela,
> Stogieman, Peter, and everyone else I'm forgetting at the moment)
>
> I'm now going to go eat dinner with my wife and then sleep for the rest of
> the weekend!
>
> Regards,
> John
>
>
>
>
>
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