Recent changes to Cisco CCNA 640-607 exam 2

[springvale]

Hi,

A lot of people I know (at least six) who have taken the Cisco CCNA exam 640-607 within the past month have all failed. Has the exam become more difficult over the past few months? One person who had done the exam before said that the questions are now a lot more difficult than they were six months ago with two or three aspects to one question e.g work out the subnetting - if - the router is configured in such a way. Has Cisco deliberately made the exam more difficult just before it is retired? Has anyone who has done it twice within the last 6 - 8 months noticed any changes in the level of difficulty of the overall exam? Thanks for any comments.


bren01

 

[dogbert2]

The reason why most people are failing the 640-607 and the newer CCNA exam (the one or two exam version) is the fact that there is NO reasonable way to pass the 640-607 simulations without exposure to router equipment or a decent software simulator (or you work with cisco equipment on a daily basis).

The area that most students are blowing the exam is in the simulation, and time management during an exam is important (not to mention, you only get one chance to answer a question correctly, and no marking to go back later on).

I know several network academy instructors who have told me exactly this fact, and having done CCNP level exams, I can tell you it's only going to get worse. If you can't configure FR/X.25/ISDN/OSPF/ISIS/BGP/EIGRP, etc you aren't going to be passing any of the new CCNP level exams, and on the new CCNA exams, they are now requiring knowledge of OSPF (single area), EIGRP, CIDR/VLSM, and everything on the 640-607.

My advice, don't even attempt a cisco exam without access to cisco hardware (3 x 2501 + 1924/2924 switch makes a fine environment for CCNA and some CCNP level exams) or a decent cisco simulator environment. The days of simply reading a book and passing appear to be over for persons who want to be cisco certified (IMO).

 

[springvale]

Hi dogbert2,

Thanks for taking the time to provide info on this. It is appreciated,

Regards.