Must you always start with this type of crap? I don't recall anyone asking what you thought of a perfect score, you insult me either way. How about you either focus on OPs question or GTFO of the discussion?
It's against the rules of your certification. I take that pretty seriously. They will pull your cert for such discussion. Cisco really doesn't want people getting perfect scores...it just slows down engineers getting into the work force.
No one asked for test scores, by posting them you opened up the conversation and I was simply letting you know Cisco takes it seriously.
Most will not find passing CCNA 'cake', it's a very challenging test. I work with one of the largest concentrations of CCIEs in the country and I have heard no one say any Cisco test was easy except for those that used bad ways to pass such tests.
This is relevant to this post as you have two schools of thought on what a cert means:
1) Boss wants you to get some ridiculous cert that has nothing to do with your day to day work.
2) Boss wants you to be able to speak to a cert as soon as you pass it.
[replace Boss with any combination of doing it for yourself, your family, as a challenge, etc]
In the first case, doing a brain dump and passing gets you whatever carrot held in front of you and no one will ever be the wiser probably.
In the second case, the second you are handed a switch, a topology and told you have an hour to get it talking to the network is when you may be walked out the door.
I have my CCNA, CCNA Wireless, CCNA Voice, CCNP R&S. The only test I'd say was not terribly difficult was TSHOOT. When I took it you were allowed to skip ahead and back. Since all the answers are given on that test (it's all multiple choice for those that don't know), as long as you knew what you were doing you could do stares and compares through the other questions to figure out the questions you were vague on.
I failed ICND 1 thinking since people on the internet said it was so simple. I learned too many people buy 'sample tests'. 'Sample tests' are in fact the real test dumped by recent test takers. That's cheating and BS.
I also failed my SWITCH test the first time I took it. Google maps had the wrong test location listed (the facility knew this so allowed me to still test showing up 1 hour late), the facility's phone was ringing busy the whole time I was trying to get an update, it started majorly storming, I had to walk through 1 foot of water from the parking area...it was a stressful test day. I re-took it 2 weeks later and passed.
I really should delete some of these posts, but I won't. With that said, this is a help thread. So if you don't have something nice to say Alky, this isn't the place for it. Implying someone is doing it wrong is not going to fly here.
-ViRGE
). For CCNA I used Packet Tracer exclusively and it was fine. Make sure you understand access lists and routing protocols for the exam 
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