CCENT passed

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Woohoooooooooooo! I passed the ICND1 exam today. I score 883. Thank you ITPRO.TV (Don Pezet and Ronnie wong)- Such a good and comprehensive series.

My Study Strategy:
Booked the Exam (Booked for 4 weeks out - Took me 7 weeks to feel confident)
Allocated the study hours and started studying (2-4 hours on weekdays, 12-20 hours on weekends, 1 hour while commuting to and back from work)

Resources used:
Todd Lammle - CCNA Complete Study Guide
ITProTV - CCENT videos
ITProTV - CCENT practice Labs
ITProTV / Transcender - Exams/Questions/Flash cards
Professor Messer - ICND1 study notes
CCNA Routing and Switchng Portable command guide
ITProTV - GNS3 course

I did lots of labs, videos and reading. I feel I could have attained better scores if I had spent more time doing practice questions and memorizing content. I will be more thorough and precise when going for ICND2 next. :)

@Shiva-Katragadda,

Congratulations, the ITProTV Team celebrates with you and thanks you for sharing with your fellow ITProTV members your path to success.

With the ICND2, timing is even more critical to your success! Making sure you spend time understanding subnetting and subnetting contexts. Make sure you can subnet quickly! As you spend time, with practice questions, time yourself. If you do not know the answer within a minute, you do not understand the it and count it as wrong against you even if you guess right.

I would only off this piece of advice to you. Do not worry about the "higher score" but focus on the material ahead of you and understanding it. The end result will show. On the ICND2, from past testimony of the last decade as a CCSI (Cisco Certified System Instructor) I've noticed a pattern: Either candidates just fail right below the passing mark or they pretty much get very close to perfect scores. There are outliers but not many over my years of experience as a trainer.

--Lastly, would you mind if if we can use this and possibly contact you further for some promotional marketing testimonial?

Congrats Shiva, great job and keep it up!

Thanks Ronnie and Wes. Thanks for the tips Ronnie. I shall put them to use. I actually did spend a good bit of time practicing subnetting but no questions related to subnetting were being asked in the exam. Yes, please use this and I don't mind if someone contacts for promotional marketing testimonial. Cheers.