How difficult is it?

[iolair]

Hello,
I'm a Novell CNE and Sun SCSA. I was able to self-study and pass those tests. Is Cisco CCNA a lot harder than CNE or SCSA? Does anyone have any experience that could tell me how much more difficult CCNA would be? Thanks.

Iolair MacWalter
Director of IT

 

[lerdalt]

I'm trying to remember how difficult the CNE exams were. Been a few years since I went through them to have that good of a memory. If you remember the Networking Technologies test for the CNE, I'd have to say that is a good intro into the CCNA. CCNA gets deeper in Subnetting and the OSI than what I remember having to know for the CNE studies.

I had a better background in Novell when I started with those exams, so I didn't have as much trouble as I did with the CCNA. I'd still say the exam for the CCNA was harder than the ones for the CNE, but I think part of that is because of how Novell did their adaptive testing and some of the exams were only 15-20 questions.

Get your hands on the good books (CiscoPress and Todd Lammle from Sybex) and a couple routers or sims, and you can get through it. Just don't be afraid to ask questions.

 

[iolair]

Thanks, lerdalt.

Iolair MacWalter
Director of IT