Reddit reviews 31 Days Before Your CCNA Routing & Switching Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the ICND1/CCENT (100-105), ICND2 (200-105), and CCNA (200-125) Certification Exams

here is my 2c

it is crucial that you understand subnet masking as it's like 70% of ipv4 networking and unfortunately the first thing you need to wrap your brain around as you will be working with VLSM in most networking labs/scenarios. download this pdf and just start plugging along..

Sormcontrol.net is a nice online tool to help with learning subnets.


once you finish that workbook and feel comfortable with variable length subnets, start working on these problems in your spare time and at your own pace. your goal should be to solve any single subnetting problem within 30 seconds.


now that you understand a bit of subnetting, you need to begin learning the OSI-model, focus mainly on the layers 1 (sending bits across a medium), 2 (mac address switching) ,3 (ip routing), and 4 (tcp, udp, and icmp ports). here are two of my favorite beginners books to networking.
Microsoft Windows Networking Essentials, &
Cisco Introduction to Networks V6


Once you've read those books you should be ready to learn routing and switching. Focus your attention here to static routing, dhcp, nat, basic ACLs, and to understanding switchports and vlan related things like trunking and routing on a stick.

Next book you want to read is going to be on dynamic routing and scaling networks for large environments.This is where you delve into dynamic routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF) and redundancy/failover protocols such as spanning-tree, etherchannel, and HSRP.


This is a nice book to read along the way and to sort of tie all of the knowledge you've learned so far together into short succinct chapters.

Download GNS3 or Packet Tracer if you want to simulate networks and labs at your desktop. You can learn a lot about the concepts and protocols presented in the books by searching on youtube things like "GNS3 dhcp" or "Packet Tracer dhcp".

I don't know about CBT nuggets, but just focus on what I've linked you and if you are going to follow anything online, the topic of routing and switching is the way to go as it is fundamental. Study like you are trying to pass the CCENT exam and then study for the CCNA exam.

Thank you for the very detailed reply. Where does VMware and other virtualization fit into that as well if you don't mind, a lot of the entry jobs around here will probably be dealing with that as I'm near a port city and heavy industry is huge here. Everything they do is on VMware usually to train their employees, etc. Is a CCNA/CCNP cert going to cover most of the bases on virtualization? They also just opened an Amazon warehouse here one reason why I thought the right thing to do was to pick the brains of some seasoned IT professionals and ask about AWS.

Here is what I was looking at picking up to learn.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1587205815/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1587205904/

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00SA7XKZC/

Si, ci sono i libri e molto altro materiale da poter integrare:

Libri ufficiali: Link Amazon Guida Ufficiale a prima vista possono sembrare enormi (e lo sono, quasi 2000 pagine se non erro), ma imparando ad usarli sono la miglior fonte di studio possibile per prepararsi, dividendo l'esame in due (come i libri appunto).

Guida per i comandi: Link Amazon Comandi è appunto una lista di tutti i comandi per iOS (il sistema operativo di cisco) con una breve spiegazione per ognuno.

Ripasso finale: 31 Days before your exam libro ufficiale per il ripasso partendo 31 giorni prima dell'esame.

Molto utile per ricontrollare tutti gli argomenti.

Per fare esercitazioni e lab scaricati Packet Tracer dal sito di Cisco, in rete o su udemy troverai vari esercizi da poterci simulare.

Ti consiglio inoltre questo video corso su udemy, ti fornisce anche molto materiale di test (domande, fac-simili, esercizi) per soli 10€ Corso udemy prima parte

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Per quanto riguarda l'esame, è un mondo a se rispetto a tutti gli altri esami che probabilmente avrai già fatto: gli esami Cisco pretendono un punteggio molto alto per passare (generalmente sopra l'80/85%) e spesso le risposte non sono quelle più giuste ma quelle che Cisco ritiene che lo siano. Ti consiglio di prendere un simulatore di esame, ad esempio il Boson, e fare esercizi con quello...

Per il resto, in bocca al lupo! Spero di non averti messo ansia ma è un esame "particolare" :)

This book is helpful and will give you some basic understanding. If you're not working in the system all the time, don't sweat not knowing the background or super technical aspects.

https://www.boson.com/netsim-cisco-network-simulator

The All-In-One: https://www.amazon.com/Routing-Switching-200-125-Official-Library/dp/1587205815

Or

Separate: https://www.amazon.com/CCENT-ICND1-100-105-Official-Guide/dp/1587205807

https://www.amazon.com/Routing-Switching-ICND2-200-105-Official/dp/1587205793

31 Days Before (Refresher): https://www.amazon.com/Days-Before-Your-Routing-Switching/dp/1587205904

Udemy - Chris Bryant: https://www.udemy.com/ccna-on-demand-video-boot-camp/

I heard Stormwind Studios has a nice course. I haven’t looked up the price.

I would read the "31 Days Before your CCENT" book. Since you got a 70 I can assume you've got a firm grasp of the material. That book helped me immensely.

well define study..

for reading and watching then labbing really helped me so if your doing all 3 things for what you can lab then 1 topic may take a few days all by itself.

to gauge youself try following along with this book

https://www.amazon.com/Days-Before-Your-Routing-Switching/dp/1587205904/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=31+days+before+your+ccna+routing+%26+switching+exam&qid=1568216496&s=gateway&sprefix=31+days+before+&sr=8-1

and this practice test

https://www.boson.com/certification/ccna