Friday, August 14, 2009

My road to CISCO's CCNA certification

Guys i saw many posts pertaining to CCNA preparation and other relevant details and so i decided to post !!! hope this helps !!! The course details and the centres are for the city Hyderabad.

Course Details:
i took a course in Zoom. (you can go with either of the 2 option)Short Term- 15 days- Zoom Institute located at dilsukhnagar,banjara hills and secunderabad. Course fee 4500 bucks.
3 month course- Institutes are Accel IT academy, Netmetric Solutions, many others(but the mentioned are preferable) . Course fee 12000 bucks.
i suggest taking a course as you would be having real time routers and you ll be allowed to perform practicals on those. if you choose preparing for this at home then you can use a router simulator but it doesn't support all commands or consider buying a low cost router.
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Self-Preparation:
Once you are done with the course, you need to work on the theoretical part as well as practical aspect because you will have to configure routers in the exam.For your preparation at home, you can follow the CISCO PRESS BOOKS- CCNA ICND1 and CCNA ICND2 (Author: Wendell Odom). you ll be provided with a cd as well with simulator, pdfs, some practice material in it.Whatever you learn theoretically, apply it on the simulator to the best possible extent
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Certification Dumps:
Over the Internet you ll find many dumps for various examinations. Look for the latest Pass4sure dumps for CCNA. Go through it a 100 times.( You can easily pass the certification by just reading the dumps, most of the questions are directly taken from the dumps.... But if you seriously wanna have good hold on the concept-- take the course-- prepare using prescribed texts and simulators-go thru the dumps and give your shot)
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Certification Exam Fees:
For you to be CCNA certified you have two options of giving the exam
1. you can give a single exam (CCNA... paper code 640-802). The exam fees for this is $250. This option is preferable as the questions are evenly divided between the switching and routing concepts and it cost you $50 less than the second option.
2. you can give it in two parts (CCNA ICND1 & ICND2). The exam fees for this is $150 for each part.i.e $300.
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Exam centers:
The certification exams are to given in certain centers. MICROSOFT Cert, SAT, GRE are all given in Prometric test centers. Similarly Cisco examinations are given in PEARSON VUE centers. I gave it in Everron Systems(Kachiguda).

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