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Originally Posted by Kergan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hehe

But seriously, with no hands on experience you won't be impacted too much on the CCNA exam. It helps for sure, but it is mostly testing you on facts. Like you'll get a question that asks what routing protocol has an administrative distance of 90 and give you EIGRP, BGP, OSPF and RIP as choices. In the real world if you didn't know you'd spend 5 seconds googling it.

You'll probably struggle a little more than a more experienced person at the labs, but it is possible you don't get a lab at all or just 1. Or you could get 3. The labs you go in and have to actually configure a simulated router and/or switch. The tasks are really simple but if you've never actually logged into gear and played around before you won't know the exact commands and shit, but usually the help stuff is available.

So in your study spend a little extra time on the lab scenarios and how to recognize which scenario you got if one pops up.

Other thing I will say is watch your time. Some exams you can go back to a previous question (like M$ exams for example), but with Cisco ones once you click next it's done. People taking the CCNA for the first time often run out of time - I think its either 90 minutes or 2 hours for 60-80 questions depending on how many simlets, drag and drops and labs you get.

Write a book about it fgt