ICND1 a few weeks away

[TommyTee]

Hi everyone, lurked for a about a month but thought i'd now sign up and pester you all

I got my incd1 at the start of next month. I've been using a mix of the Wendell Icnd1 book, TrainSignal (thanks mr byrant, good stuff), boson for labs, http://www.subnettingquestions.com/ and a couple test exams - 6 hours a day at the moment.

I've noticed that in boson there are quite a few things that don't display the same as they did when i was watching the TrainSignal videos, less options etc. Is this common? Is there a better simulator to try?

Anything else I should do? with the exception of the cisco specific stuff I've encountered all the other aspects of the curriculum before at Uni so 12 days into my incd1 studying I'm a little over confident as it kinda feels a little bit more of a refresher, need to be reined in Hats off to people that have never been involved with networking getting this cert, great achievement.

Anyone comment if the icnd2 required more time for study/is it harder? I was thinking if I passed the icnd1 booking it a couple weeks after then going onto do maybe ccna:sec and/or ccna:wireless over the summer.

Thanks in advance guys.

[TommyTee]

No replies, well that's what I get for posting the wrong section

Passed the other week, no real advice apart from just learning the material, it was trickier than I expected, hopefully I can stick with the 'one cert' a month thing.

[GiddyG]

Congrats on the pass, Tommy.

[wizard]

Congratulations

[BosonMichael]

Congrats! Hope you liked our labs.

[TommyTee]

They're good labs yes, though I did find in the ccna package I couldn't determine which was icnd1 and 2, now i'm studying for icnd2 I guess that doesn't matter as everything is potentially relevant.

I also used Train Signal videos, and I was very impressed with them (i'm using the icnd2 ones now as well). The tutor chris byrant is more my style over the CBT nuggets guy, I think that it's just a personal preference so i'm not taking anything away from him. I would say that you need a book to accompany the videos to study with, I wouldn't say you could just watch the videos and be able to 'wing' it, I saw them as like going in and listening to lectures only to swot up later.

I can't really rate any other books as I only have the wendell icnd1 and 2 ones, but the book was good, though I kinda felt that there was a lot of stuff in there that wasn't strictly relevant for the exam but was useful knowledge for real world.

I also used http://www.subnettingquestions.com/ and basically did questions on there until I could just do the calculations in my head.

I'm working on icnd2 now and am finding it a little more easy going believe it or not, I think it's because the icnd1 just had quite a few fundamentals that i've forgot or took a little while to get my head round like subnetting (quickly) and the journeys of frames and packets.

(could a mod move this thread to the general section as I wanted to keep this thread throughout the incd1 and 2 process)