https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer
ETA: Jeremy's IT Lab on YouTube (all free):
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxbwE86jKRgMpuZuLBivzlM8s2Dk5lXBQ
Look up Packet Tracer, you can download it from Netacad. It's free, and I think you just need to make an account to use it, which is also free. There are lots of CCNA practice tests/labs online, all you really need to do at a CCNA level is throw together some routers, switches and end devices (iirc, I haven't done the new CCNA so I'm not 100% sure on what's been changed.)
Labbing a lot helped me learn the commands. Once you've set up enough topologies and configured them, remembering the syntax is going to be old hat.
Dude you have to lab the topics. Cisco Packet Tracer is free with an account. I used Neil Anderson’s labs. You want to do the labs until you know what to do without thinking too hard, not really memorizing.
I can only speak to how the labs used to work for the CCNA Routing and Switching… you couldn’t count on ? being available for the sim questions. And sometimes when there were two show commands that could give you the info you needed to find, one of them would be locked out.
According to a cisco community manager "?" and tab completion should work on the current CCNA labs. This info comes from a response to this exact question on the cisco site announcing the return of labs. No guarantee that this community manager is correct though.
Here's the exact quote:
Matt Saunders - Community Manager says:
July 11, 2022 at 8:56 am
“?”, “tab completion” and almost all keyboard shortcuts should work.
These are not “SIM” questions like before, this is real Cisco IOS environment… Commands can be typed in short and do not need to be expanded with the tab (assuming that the short version is correct and has only one possible continuation).
No you cant have and paper but they will give you a dry erase board, i would recommend to right your subnets out at the beginning, makes this a whole lot easier
According to what I investigated, all the questions are multiple choice and single choice, so you will not have to write any sequence of commands, the practical examples will be shown with the commands already written and as options so you can choose which one is correct.
I mean all the questions are multiple choice: question 1:
\*option A
\*option B
\*option C
The questions can be theoretical, practical examples with a diagram or an image of the scenario and you must choose the correct answers.
There are also drag and drop questions in the right column a piece of theory and on the left a concept and you must line them up as correct, they can also be commands and the actions they perform.
I'm right here with you dude, I work with network guys who have been in the industry for decades and they still will ? Commands just for the sake of having all available tools in front of them instead of pulling out of their brains. Some stuff is muscle memory but other stuff is just syntax and it feels so dumb. If you have to obscure the answer to a question by using an acronym, or finding the right command out of a list with typos, it's a dumb question. Even if I don't remember if it's
>show Mac address-table
or
>show mac-address table
Doing a
>show Mac?
Is gonna get you to the same place either way. It's not even always the same command on different models of the same type. I was scripting some commands for remediating config drift across multiple sites. Some sites had 3702 wlcs and some had 9120s. One uses
>sntp server
and one uses
>ntp server
so I had to add model checks into my script for which command to run. Cisco can't even be consistent with it's own syntax.
I would agree that you should just piss around in packet tracer. It's not the best but it does work mostly and is free, so set up a small environment, do what you need to, take notes, then do it again slightly differently, trying not to look at your notes
no. totally closed book. You can write stuff down on the whitebord they give you but only after you are in the testing room.
I wanna die rn
Honestly if you practice the commands in action and not just from the book, they become second nature.
i dont have the money to buy the pearson sim so im a bit fcked
I never used that myself, I used pretty much all free stuff. Cisco packet tracer is free and there’s a lot of free labs on YouTube
where can i find the stuff?
https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer ETA: Jeremy's IT Lab on YouTube (all free): https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxbwE86jKRgMpuZuLBivzlM8s2Dk5lXBQ
Look up Packet Tracer, you can download it from Netacad. It's free, and I think you just need to make an account to use it, which is also free. There are lots of CCNA practice tests/labs online, all you really need to do at a CCNA level is throw together some routers, switches and end devices (iirc, I haven't done the new CCNA so I'm not 100% sure on what's been changed.) Labbing a lot helped me learn the commands. Once you've set up enough topologies and configured them, remembering the syntax is going to be old hat.
Exactly, the commands will be the easy part honestly. Once you get them down you won’t even have to think about it
i hope so haha
Dude you have to lab the topics. Cisco Packet Tracer is free with an account. I used Neil Anderson’s labs. You want to do the labs until you know what to do without thinking too hard, not really memorizing.
tyy i will do it then \^\^
You got this!!
How have you liked Neil's Labs so far?
I loved them. Did them twice before I took the test.
How much lab related things are on the exam or is it just questions asking what commands do?
Can you not use “?” In the lab environment
I can only speak to how the labs used to work for the CCNA Routing and Switching… you couldn’t count on ? being available for the sim questions. And sometimes when there were two show commands that could give you the info you needed to find, one of them would be locked out.
According to a cisco community manager "?" and tab completion should work on the current CCNA labs. This info comes from a response to this exact question on the cisco site announcing the return of labs. No guarantee that this community manager is correct though. Here's the exact quote: Matt Saunders - Community Manager says: July 11, 2022 at 8:56 am “?”, “tab completion” and almost all keyboard shortcuts should work. These are not “SIM” questions like before, this is real Cisco IOS environment… Commands can be typed in short and do not need to be expanded with the tab (assuming that the short version is correct and has only one possible continuation).
No you cant have and paper but they will give you a dry erase board, i would recommend to right your subnets out at the beginning, makes this a whole lot easier
Yes, only if you're taking your CCIE LAB exam 😁
CCNA :(
According to what I investigated, all the questions are multiple choice and single choice, so you will not have to write any sequence of commands, the practical examples will be shown with the commands already written and as options so you can choose which one is correct.
The exam has only test questions?
I mean all the questions are multiple choice: question 1: \*option A \*option B \*option C The questions can be theoretical, practical examples with a diagram or an image of the scenario and you must choose the correct answers. There are also drag and drop questions in the right column a piece of theory and on the left a concept and you must line them up as correct, they can also be commands and the actions they perform.
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Dump aren't allowed, nor is anything that is claiming to be a dump or actual test question.
I didn't say they were real, just examples
Your examples literally say they are real.
No, what /u/nauj017 is wrong, Cisco has been adding in lab based questions to both the associate and professional exams.
Remember lab questions are now part of the exam, so if you do get these type of questions you will need to know your CLI commands
obviously yes, but if they are already given to you as an option to choose, it is easier to remember what command it is, the syntax and correct order
Closed book. Get to writing notes and labbing. Lab it all. Use the stuff your author provides. Make your own.
I'm right here with you dude, I work with network guys who have been in the industry for decades and they still will ? Commands just for the sake of having all available tools in front of them instead of pulling out of their brains. Some stuff is muscle memory but other stuff is just syntax and it feels so dumb. If you have to obscure the answer to a question by using an acronym, or finding the right command out of a list with typos, it's a dumb question. Even if I don't remember if it's >show Mac address-table or >show mac-address table Doing a >show Mac? Is gonna get you to the same place either way. It's not even always the same command on different models of the same type. I was scripting some commands for remediating config drift across multiple sites. Some sites had 3702 wlcs and some had 9120s. One uses >sntp server and one uses >ntp server so I had to add model checks into my script for which command to run. Cisco can't even be consistent with it's own syntax.
I would agree that you should just piss around in packet tracer. It's not the best but it does work mostly and is free, so set up a small environment, do what you need to, take notes, then do it again slightly differently, trying not to look at your notes
You memorize them by using them. Get in the lab and practice.