Passed my CCENT - Questions about ICND 2

[custangro]

I passed the CCENT with an 883!

And of course I used Todd's CCENT book!

My question is...How much harder is the ICND 2? Harder? Easier? About the same? Just a little bit harder?

I've been reading Todd's CCNA book and I've been scoring high 80s low 90s on the practice tests. And, I've been scoring low 90s on the examcram 300+ questions book.

The only thing I'm "weak" on is NAT...but I've been reading up on that latley.

Any help/advice/comments/concerns/thoughts would be GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks,

-C

[custangro]

...I guess no one wants to help me....

[lammle]

It is harder.
But the way the sims, questions, etc. are, are all the same, so you have the idea of what you'll be looking at.

You need to really understand switching. They will really test your understanding here on the objectives for switching/STP/VTP.
WAN's and Wireless too.

I havent' seen examcram so I don't know what those scores mean.

The test is harder than the questions in my book, so make sure you are getting all 100's on all the tests.

Make sure you have a lot of hands-on experience with real equipment. You must be able to configure, verify and troubleshoot STP and RSTP so having two 2950 switches at a minumum is required, along with hunderds of hours of practice on routers and switches.

Good luck!
Todd Lammle

[custangro]

As you probably read on my other post...

I passed the ICND 2 today with an 865

I am now CCNA!

-C

[shanepresley]

Congrats!

What would be your comparison of ICND2 to ICND1?

[custangro]

More switching and WAN questions. Labs are DEFIANTLY harder.

I practiced by creating two "Router on a stick" networks then connecting them together with a WAN. Then practiced using access lists and NAT.

Also I used VTP and STP within my switched network on each end. I think that this helped me the most on the test...actually configuring is more helpful than just reading about them.

-C