I passed the CCNA Intro Exam (640-821) in January, 2007, and studied most of the material on the ICND but never took the test due to job pressures. What exam can I take at this point to get my CCNA? I am not a Cisco Academy member.

I was surprised to get 3 sims:

-EIGRP troubleshooting, summarization, and stubs
-ISIS <-> EIGRP redistribution
-OSPF multi-area and stub

Then there were a couple simlets. All this thrown at me during the first few questions. I was on question 16 with only 45 minutes left. Luckily, it was smoother sailing with the remaining 45 questions. Other than the sims, not too much on OSPF and EIGRP. I got 100% on EIGRP, OSPF, and IPv6, but bombed on BGP and Multicast...can't figure that one out since my How2Pass scores on those two subjects were perfect. But in either case, definitely couldn't have done as well without How2Pass. Great resource for studying and understanding the topics. 

There was one very legitimate error to look out for. One question on ISIS stated similar to "Which of the following THREE items are true regarding the diagram", yet it said "(choose 2)" after the question and would only let you choose 2. The answer also wasn't obvious, as there could have possibly been 2 or 3 answers. I was too far in the test to notify the proctor about it, but I found that it was odd that they would have not caught an actual error on the exam.

This site is great... got a 100% in the paper... just practice all questions... and have a good detailed understanding of all sections... and you should be all the way through....

I don't think I would have done so well without How2Pass.  I did take the ICND1 course (also took ICND2, the exam for which I want to take in a few weeks for the CCNA), but How2Pass gave me the confidence to pass because it gave me a feel for how the exam would go and what kinds of questions would be asked.  I finished the exam in less than 45 minutes and got 100% on 5 of the seven topics covered.

Will the new CCNA-Security 640-553 IINS practice test be offered ?

What about the old CCSP Network Security 1 + 2 tests ?

CWNA test ?

I found the access-list statement in this simlet rather confusing, if any one has any thoughts..:

When I use Austin(config)# access-list 102 deny tcp any host 192.168.37.1 0.0.0.255 eq telnet, the simlet returns "Invalid input" error.
When I omit "host" it takes it and marks the answer "correct".

Is this an error in the simlet or What is the right way to do it in this scenario? Anyone with some insight?

The question is:
"What statements are true regarding ICMP packets?" Choose two.

I chose:
They are encapsulated in UDP datagrams. & They can provide hosts with info about network problems.

The correct answers say:
They are encapsulated in IP datagrams. & They can provide hosts with info about network problems.

So obviously i got 1 right but the other is confusing because IP packets are not datagrams, and i would have chosen that option however it said datagrams. Also I believe ICMP packets are encapsulated in UDP datagrams anyways. So to me there are 3 possible answers here if the word datagrams was switched with packets in the IP option. Can anyone care to share their thoughts?

Can some body say me where can i download CCNA books for free ?
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The test questions supplied by my How2Pass subscription were spot on in relation to the exam, a highly recommended site, certainly cheaper than many others.
Do not underestimate this exam it's solid, I've done many in my life and this was indeed the most difficult.
I found the sample labs to be very beneficial, these really ate a lot of exam time.

Just for info. the Open University are offering the CCNA as a complete 2nd year undergraduate degree course, this is no noddy qualification.

I did have an odd question, were I had to place the correct TYPE of Cisco router and label the interfaces it had in a diagram, example being one of the Routers was a 2500 and you could supply S0 or S0/0, F0 or F0/0 ports etc. it was an odd one, be warned.......

I had the Switch simlet (nearly identical) an EIGRP simlet, and one were you had to drag the IP addresses and devices, then configure the devices.


I got 871 (pass mark was 825 - 48 questions), I did the actual course last year, 2 weeks with Global Knowledge and spent ~35 hours preparing.

I'm going on to study my CCNP with the Open University, the courses start this year.

Good luck.

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