April 1 2005, 12:12 PM, the Screen Splashed with the Message
Congratulation ! and my score was 950 / 1000.

A big sigh of Relief, I cannot express in words, I thanked god and called the Test Administrator, he handed over my CCNA Examination Score report.

I called my Parents & Friends and told them the good news. I feel confident and relieved after my 12 week hardcore prep and late night oil burning.

After the initial formalities like verifying the Photo IDs, Signing the Log sheet, even my Thumb Impression was taken, I don't know why they would need my Thumb Impression ?

I was a little nervous this morning, there were about 2 guys for SCP (Sun Certified Programmer - Java) and 2 guys for Win XP Exam 70-270 and 1 guy for AIX, I Was the only guy there for CCNA, I had no company :( . The guy next me was giving his AIX exam and he failed.

About the Exam.

I had got exactly 56 questions, with 2 simulation & 4 drag and drop. Majority of questions were from VLAN, WAN, hardly 2 or 3 subnetting questions, mostly swiching and Distance Vector Routing (RIP 1 & 2), no IGRP at all.

Simulation

1
VLAN Simlet - (Very Tough) 5 Question. Took 22 Minutes to solve, got stuck.

2
OSPF Simuation, Piece of Cake, The issue was with the OSPF Area, re configured and ping, worked like charm !

Drag and Drop
1 telnet config,
2 Cisco Router Boot Process,
3 ISDN &
4 VLSM.


Resources Used.

Books:
CISCO Press Self Study (Wendell Odom)
CCNA Guide by Todd Lammle.

Labs:
Done Hand on Labs for all the Topics for about 2 times.

Simulators:
Worked on Boson Network Simulator 5.31 (Awesome Stuff and Must have for CCNA)
Transcender CCNA 1,2,3 & 4.
Cisco INTRO & ICND Exam Bank.

General Reference :
CISCO NETWORK ACADEMY (Sem I,II,III & IV)
Data Communication and Networking (Behrouz A. Forouzan)
Data and Computer Communication (William Stallings)

Web:
www.firewall.cx (Strongly Recommend)
www.sadhikhov.com (Strongly Recommend)
www.techexams.net
http://www.thebrightsparkshome.com/CCNAExamStack.aspx (Celtic Rover CCNA Gateway)
http://rgxpro.com.ar/simonline/ccna.htm (Online Router Simulation)
http://ciscomaniac.blogspot.com/ (CISCO Maniac)
http://forums.cisco.com/eforum/servlet/PrepCenter?page=main (CISCO CCNA Prep Center)

Also
Testking V90 (Reviewed All Question once)

I Thank, Mr.Ajay Pandey (Topgun Technologies) my CCNA Faculty and
Pratap (My Lab Instructor), I strongly recommend Topgun Technologies for CISCO Certifications.

I am Grateful to my Friends(Especially Manjunath and Rajan) for their Guidance and help. Prism, spacyfreak & j91 from www.sadhikhov.com, lastly my parents for having faith in me.

This only a Begining, still there is a long and tough journey ahead, some day I will be CCIE and the day is not far.


Will Start BSCI (CCNP) from Next week, hope to finish it by May first week.

Regards,
-VINOD M