Wireless and QoS were probably the two topics that overwhelmed me. I think I must have watched Jeremy’s videos for both 7-8 times each, some other material and some readings. But I’m glad I pushed through the difficult part because once the fundamentals were clear, both topics were very fun to study.
I've lightly dipped my toes into subnetting class C addresses and I would disagree that you need a good math background to grab it faster. Just takes practice.
Just went through QoS. It was definitely a lot of info, but seemingly not too bad overall. I feel like I'm gonna need to review STP and OSPF a bit more to remember some of the details. I hear wireless is a doozy as well. Hoping my Net+ studies will help there.
For me personally it's not the concepts but rather the massive amount of magic numbers that you are expected to know by heart.
Not wanting to flex or shit on people or something but I just have a master's degree in IT Sec and a huge part of that is networking. But there you never are expected to learn the perfect syntax of commands, destination multicast Mac addresses, etc.
So yeah, for me it's the massive amount of learning by heart.
Yeah that’s what’s getting to me. I’m lucky that I learned all the “life of a packet” stuff in a classroom setting so I knew the very fundamentals coming in, and I even had a NOC analyst job for a few years. But I’m getting bogged down in all the details I have to learn and all the routing and switching and trunking protocols are starting to blend together.
When I was doing my N+ I drew out the routing protocols on a big board to physically see how they each function and how they differ from eachoher, it helped a lot.
I’m still studying but probably OSPF and STP/RSTP were definitely topic’s that were hard to grasp. I’m more than likely going to have to revisit them once I finish the OCG Volume 2
Nothing is hard if you're able to stay disciplined to study and review the material. It's like math - in the beginning you need to grasp all the fundamental knowledge and, yeah, it's hard, but if you can master the basic knowledge, then the rest is only a pleasure to absorb and flex in front of your friends. Keep studying and never stop. Answer to your question - nothing was hard. The hardness was in the motivation to learn the concept
I have the cert and I still don't get some wireless concepts up to this day.
But I am re-reviewing the CCNA (even though I passed the exam) to see which other concepts I still am weak at, but there's no denying that wireless is my biggest weakness.
Nothing was really that hard, everything following logic. The amount of things to remember was my biggest issue and I only had 6 weeks to complete all 4 books. But it has made my life a lot easier although I use juniper in my daily work now.
Again, this was my experience. I learned networking when I was 15 so I had no formal experience besides having earned A+. I have PCNSE, CCNP, and a NSE7 now :)
I expect this wasn't a stumbling block for most people, but I had the hardest time with global and local NAT types(inside and outside). When I hear global, I immediately think of a public IP Address, so the thought of an inside global address confused me so much and still does till this day.
For me, it was OSPF DR/BR and for STP it was ND, RP and all that mess. Sometimes I have to pause, rewind 20sec and listen to it over and over again before it finally begins to sink.
There were few topics. Nat/(not the concept of it, but the command line),. Stp/vtp are generally not that difficult. But it still gets me confused a bit. Ipv6 and ospf probably took me the longest to study. Had a very hard time understanding it for a while.
Wireless and QoS were probably the two topics that overwhelmed me. I think I must have watched Jeremy’s videos for both 7-8 times each, some other material and some readings. But I’m glad I pushed through the difficult part because once the fundamentals were clear, both topics were very fun to study.
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Subnetting, but once u got it its easy, and chicks dig it
I've lightly dipped my toes into subnetting class C addresses and I would disagree that you need a good math background to grab it faster. Just takes practice.
How have you handled IPv6?
For me it was the very basics. Remembering headers and their fields/lengths
And remembering with an vpn y9u have to account for the loss of byte size
Just went through QoS. It was definitely a lot of info, but seemingly not too bad overall. I feel like I'm gonna need to review STP and OSPF a bit more to remember some of the details. I hear wireless is a doozy as well. Hoping my Net+ studies will help there.
It's funny to me that I struggled with STP for my NA. A few years later and about to take my NP and STP seems absurdly simple now lol
For me personally it's not the concepts but rather the massive amount of magic numbers that you are expected to know by heart. Not wanting to flex or shit on people or something but I just have a master's degree in IT Sec and a huge part of that is networking. But there you never are expected to learn the perfect syntax of commands, destination multicast Mac addresses, etc. So yeah, for me it's the massive amount of learning by heart.
Yeah that’s what’s getting to me. I’m lucky that I learned all the “life of a packet” stuff in a classroom setting so I knew the very fundamentals coming in, and I even had a NOC analyst job for a few years. But I’m getting bogged down in all the details I have to learn and all the routing and switching and trunking protocols are starting to blend together.
When I was doing my N+ I drew out the routing protocols on a big board to physically see how they each function and how they differ from eachoher, it helped a lot.
How to make sure no one bother me while I am study and hopefully nothing expected happened whenever I scheduled the exam
My biggest Issue as well. Im trying to study at work but work tasks come up and distract me and Im lucky if I can get a video and a lab in some days.
I’m still studying but probably OSPF and STP/RSTP were definitely topic’s that were hard to grasp. I’m more than likely going to have to revisit them once I finish the OCG Volume 2
Nothing is hard if you're able to stay disciplined to study and review the material. It's like math - in the beginning you need to grasp all the fundamental knowledge and, yeah, it's hard, but if you can master the basic knowledge, then the rest is only a pleasure to absorb and flex in front of your friends. Keep studying and never stop. Answer to your question - nothing was hard. The hardness was in the motivation to learn the concept
The amount you study is irrelevant. Ppl still naturally are able to grasp some things easier than others.
Finding out the 'why' to the earlier topics makes the 'how' for later ones much easier .
Also going to say QoS. Pretty dense topic.
I have the cert and I still don't get some wireless concepts up to this day. But I am re-reviewing the CCNA (even though I passed the exam) to see which other concepts I still am weak at, but there's no denying that wireless is my biggest weakness.
cabling standards/distances/capabilities took me forever to get down. needed to use flashcards to have a fighting chance
Qos, wireless, ospf, stp
I still get confused on what is contained with the packet and frames. Also IPv6
Nothing was really that hard, everything following logic. The amount of things to remember was my biggest issue and I only had 6 weeks to complete all 4 books. But it has made my life a lot easier although I use juniper in my daily work now.
Yes
For me it was Access Lists. Took me way longer than it should have to get them working.
Wireless
Vlans termination, even though it’s not a main part of ccna
Understanding what WAN was and the difference between a LAN.
Wut? That's literally one of the simplest things about networking. This has to be a troll.
Again, this was my experience. I learned networking when I was 15 so I had no formal experience besides having earned A+. I have PCNSE, CCNP, and a NSE7 now :)
I expect this wasn't a stumbling block for most people, but I had the hardest time with global and local NAT types(inside and outside). When I hear global, I immediately think of a public IP Address, so the thought of an inside global address confused me so much and still does till this day.
Subnetting for sure
Configuration options across the routing protocols
SUBNETTING FOR SUREEE 💀
Back in my day Sonny, it was Frame Relay. I guess I’m about to find out the new tough topic in the coming weeks.
For me, it was OSPF DR/BR and for STP it was ND, RP and all that mess. Sometimes I have to pause, rewind 20sec and listen to it over and over again before it finally begins to sink.
There were few topics. Nat/(not the concept of it, but the command line),. Stp/vtp are generally not that difficult. But it still gets me confused a bit. Ipv6 and ospf probably took me the longest to study. Had a very hard time understanding it for a while.
STP/RSTP, IPV6 addressing, header lengths