Dedicated to friends who want to test CCNA certificationPosted by Haugaard Salas on February 15th, 2021 I passed the CCNA at the end of May. Recently on the forum, I saw several brothers lamenting the embarrassment of looking for a job after CCNA. I also want to talk about the process of my going through CCNA and the current situation. On the one hand, I cheer for those brothers, on the other hand, I hope to help those brothers who are still fighting for CCNA. After the Spring Festival in 2001, I came to Shanghai alone. After two weeks, I was hired as a salesman by a system integration company. Although I only graduated from junior high school, I managed to muddle through with the computer that I had explored for a period of time in my hometown and a little boasting. This is a very small company, and there are only about ten salesmen who come in with me. Although they are doing system integration, they don't have any advantages. They just expect us to pull a list from the outside, and then we can draw a commission from it. For me, in this unfamiliar place, it is conceivable that it is difficult for me to go out every day to pull the list aimlessly. More than two months later, I didn't get a list, so I had to live on the meager basic salary that I was embarrassed to say. Not long after that, all the salesmen who came with me left. At that time, I also wanted to leave. But where can I go when I left here? Maybe the boss thought I was honest and didn't blame me for not giving a list all the time. On the contrary, he asked me to help with some wiring projects in the company. I remember the first time I went to a friend of the boss with a technician in the companyIn the company to do network wiring. This is a wiring without any technical content. It just leads a network cable from the switch in the cabinet on the third floor to the first floor. However, when this cable is pulled to the first floor, it has to go through the wall and make holes, and it has to go around several circles (fortunately, it is not more than 100 meters). When Xiao a knew the situation, he was so excited that he took me away and said, "we can do this kind of work, engineers can do it.". Xiao a and the boss are brothers who have a good relationship. Since he doesn't want to do it, the next day the boss asked Xiao B for me to take him. Xiao B is an absolutely authentic Sichuan engineer. He does a good job. He can tidy up the messy network cables in the cabinet. It's no matter how high he is, how low he is, and how to make holes to pull the cable. But little B is an engineer after all. Besides, according to my observation, he can't even switch on and off the computer correctly. After a burst of roar of little B with the air drill, the next pulling line was completed soon. The first time I learned how to make thread head was taught by little B. I remember that I was afraid that I could not clamp the head tightly, because I used too much force, and I broke the head. With this experience, I know that I can be an engineer, and I think I'm qualified only as an engineer. The first time I had intimate contact with Wan was when I was wiring Unilever. It was also a very simple engineer level cable. I remember that when the network cable was introduced into the cabinet, it was just in time to get off work. Because I was in a hurry to go home, I pulled under their cabinet, then plugged it into the port of the switch and left. Who knows when they go the next day, they will be killedOur network manager scolded us for breaking their network communication. Many foreign branches couldn't access their servers, so he came to repair them in the middle of the night. At that time, I thought: No, I have such great ability to affect their communication with foreign countries. Later, I asked him what kind of leased line they use to communicate with foreign countries. I didn't understand very well at that time. Now I estimated that they might use T1 or frame relay line. I estimated that one plug of their router was lost. They use Cisco switches and routers. Now I really regret that I didn't touch them twice at that time? I first contacted CCNA in the second half of 2001, because Xiao a knew that the company was going to collapse, so he was eager to change his job. At that time, he spent 2500 yuan on training and 1000 yuan on the exam. His series of actions made me see the market. With so much money, what exactly is CCNA? At that time, I only knew it was a good one, because little a wrote 6000 yuan in the salary requirement in her resume after passing CCNA. Although Xiao a couldn't find a job of 6000 yuan in the end, he could get about 5000 yuan in a good month because of his practical experience. At that time, I only knew that CCNA was too far away from me. I was just an engineer, and I didn't expect it at all. Ignorance eventually prompted me to take CCNA finally prompted me to take CCWhat's new is something that happened at the end of 2001. At that time, the original company had completely closed down, and I could not be an engineer. There is no choice but to find a very bad business job. At that time, I didn't know what happened to me. In the future, I could succeed in my own business and earn a lot of money. Moreover, I felt that if I didn't become an engineer, I could only do business at most. I didn't want to learn anything in the past. But unfortunately, that business job is also very bad. I don't want to talk about it. Before long, the original boss pitied me and introduced me to a company that does Internet bar wiring. It's estimated that the boss wants me a good salary. He can do everything I say, even the UNIX operating system. But all this caused me embarrassment. I remember the first time I went to work was one night, because the Internet bar was waiting for the day after tomorrow to open, so I had to work overtime. Because that company has many Internet cafes to do at the same time, so I was sent to deal with this Internet cafe by myself. The scale of Internet cafes is OK, with more than 100 computers and 5 24 ××× machines. It's not too hard for me to get the hardware right, but trouble will come soon. Because when ADSL was connected, they used a router made in Taiwan. Although it was a very simple router, it had to be debugged after all. Then they had to install voice system software and network management software, and they had to have a checkout terminal. The operating system of the server was UNIX. My job was to make sure that all of these were done well, and then each machine could access the Internet. You can imagine that for a skilled technician, these simple things can't be any simpler, but what it means for me, an engineer who only has a junior high school degree and can only do some manual work, I don't have these concepts in my mind at all. My God, I'm completely collapsed. I don't know what to do with the eagerness of the owner of the Internet bar, who is shaving tea and delivering cigarettes, but I know I can't make it through. Because the Internet bar will open the day after tomorrow, I can't delay other people's business for my reasons. But I didn't know how to face all this. I escaped on the pretext of going to the toilet. I don't know how I got back to the so-called home with only one bed. I lost sleep that day. The next day I had to go back to my bad business. I don't know what happened later, but I know that there must be a lot of people resenting me, maybe the owner of the Internet bar, maybe the company, maybe my kind-hearted boss. But that incident made me feel that I had to learn some knowledge, otherwise I would regret it all my life. I was only 21 years old at that time, and I knew I was not too late! in late March 2002, for some reason, I finally left the rotten company where I worked. At this time, I know it's time to learn some knowledge, but at my level, what can I learn? This reminds me of CCNA. I know that CCNA is about the basic knowledge of network and the operation software of CiscoKnowledge, but the exam is all in English. God, this is another bolt from the blue. I can only remember 26 English letters now. Can I take the test? There are also expensive training and examination fees. Where does the money come from? But I know I have to learn something. Thinking about the embarrassing experience that made me unforgettable, I finally made up my mind to study CCNA, and I'm going to study on my own. He borrowed the original textbook from Xiao a when he was training, but he only had the second volume. His first volume was borrowed by another person, so it doesn't matter to make do first. Then I cobbled together some money to buy a second-hand computer, because I knew that there was no way to study by myself without a computer. Since April, I have officially embarked on the road of CCNA. The first thing to solve is my network knowledge, because it's a little difficult to read Xiao a's textbook if he doesn't have certain network knowledge. But I didn't have much money to buy reference books, but fortunately I found a CD with PDF version of basic knowledge of Internet and CCNA Chinese textbooks, so I paid 5 yuan. After reading the Chinese version of the textbook, combined with the things I have been exposed to before, I understand a little bit about the network. So I began to read the English version of the textbook. I don't know 80% of the words in the book. In this case, the remaining 20% are meaningless. There's no other way but to check one by one with Kingsoft. But what's annoying is that many of the words in the book are professional words. Sometimes the meaning found out can't be consistent with other meanings at all. Take the simplest exampleI knew the meaning of serial from the beginning, but I didn't understand the meaning of serial until a long time later. Anyway, I can't manage so many words at the beginning. All the words I don't know are recorded in the book and read every day. In this way, I checked the Ciba for a week and finally finished the book. After the first time, I basically had no impression of the book. It was April 15th. Next is the second time. I feel much better compared with the words I memorized last time. The basic literal meaning can be understood, but it involves theoretical knowledge, especially the command aspect. I still have no intuitive understanding. The most hateful thing is that the second half of my book started with the knowledge of IP addressing, which was really hard to understand. Later, it was finally finished with the Chinese textbook. Five days later, about April 20th, I finished the second time of the book. Because there is no telephone line in the house I rent, I can't access the Internet. I can only go to the Internet bar to get information, but it's very troublesome to download software such as simulation software. I have to trouble Xiao a again. Fortunately, the information he collected during the CCNA exam was still there. I immediately took my hard disk to his home and stole all his things. After using Sybex simulation software, I feel that I understand a lot of commands, and I also understand a lot of other things. At this time, a great savior of my exam appeared. The person who rented a house with me was a graduate student of a certain school. Because I wanted to take the TOEFL exam, I got a telephone line to surf the Internet. Naturally, I got a ride. Can be inAfter surfing the Internet at home, I found a lot of unexpected things, downloaded a lot of new simulation software and Spoto simulation test questions. I remember that I downloaded spoto3.38 at that time. After I finished it, the success rate was only 80%, far from 100%. I think the problem is that I still haven't read the first volume of the book, and my understanding of knowledge is not coherent. But now there is only one book! I have to read that book again. On April 25th, I remember very clearly that under my repeated urging, Xiao a finally got back the first volume of that set of books, so I kept looking at the first volume. I know a lot of words, but I can't help looking them up. It took me about ten days to read volume I twice. After that, I did Spoto again, and the correct rate basically reached 90%. At this time, it's probably may 5th. When I went online, I finally confirmed that the exam has really changed. Before, I always thought it was a rumor made up by those websites selling question banks for the purpose of. It is said that the difficulty of 607 is much higher than that of 507. Simulation questions are added and the total number of questions is reduced to 50. After confirming the news, I once looked very flustered, because I didn't know what the simulation was like. Just when I was at a loss, I did keystone's set of questions. I think that set of questions is absolutely a set of questions with high quality, because when I did it, the correct rate was only 60%, which made my mind completely calm down. I know I have to make more efforts. Flowers againAfter a week's intensive reading of the two volumes of the original textbook, I feel that the remaining difficulties that I didn't understand before have been basically solved. Also did the spot question, the correct rate generally may achieve 95%, keystone question also may achieve above 90%. It's May 15th. I think it's time to take an exam. Because there will be a World Cup next month, I'm afraid I can't hold on to it. Moreover, I think I have to finish the exam and go out to find a job to practice. But at this time, I was still worried that because it was the new 607 exam, I might hang up if I was not careful. All my money was borrowed. I really hesitated. But God helped me. At this time, I found a website. I saw the opinions of many comrades in the forum, and I got in touch with Bible. After reading Bible, I had a new understanding of the examination. During that time, I had to stay in the forum for a long time every day to exchange views with my friends. I felt that I had made a lot of progress. Moreover, I also downloaded the test simulation software of Cisco and prepared for the test environment. At that time, I did a total of three sets of Bible, and downloaded three types of simulation questions with a total of nine questions. In this way, on May 24, I went to sign up, spent 900 yuan, and decided to take the exam on the 27th. Three days before the test, I did the Spoto again, and the correct rate basically reached 100%. Moreover, I made a lot of preparation for the matters needing attention in the test. Here I want to thank strawberry baby,Because he was well informed in the training class, he helped a lot in this aspect. 27 that day, the smooth end of the exam, such a junior high school students to CCNA, a bit ridiculous is it, but for me, the heart of a stone is finally put down. The next step is to find a job. To be honest, I know that I have no ability to do any decent work like I am now. But I have to find a job, because I borrowed a lot of money from others during the period of taking the CCNA exam. I have to make money to pay off my debts. The situation is much worse than that of those brothers with professional background. I tried to send out 100% of my resume without any reply. Even once, at a job fair, a person saw that I had a junior high school degree, which was a very euphemistic hint to me: "this is not where you come from.". At that time, I was so sad that I wanted to cry, but I held back because I was much worse than others. A few months ago, I was just an engineer. At this time, I think of little B, who hasn't been in touch for a long time. I think of the scene when he taught me how to make thread. Maybe to be an engineer again is my real destination. In fact, I really want to continue to study. MCSE is my next goal, but I really don't have enough time and money. I have to find a job. I have an intuition that in a few days' time, I may start my life as an engineer again with heavy air drill and deafening roar, but I will not regret my efforts in the past two months. In these two months, after all, I was successful. After all, I achieved what I did a year agoI can't even think about it. And I believe that there will be no tragedy like little B who has good skills but doesn't understand any technology. I have a new goal. I always thought that being an engineer is my life, but now I firmly believe that I will not be an engineer forever. It's just like what I achieved this year that I didn't dare to think of last year. Maybe something unexpected will happen at this time of next year! here, I mainly want to encourage those brothers who are very lost now through my experience. In fact, your conditions are really good. Don't be pessimistic and give up easily. At least you have a solid foundation to study New things, at least you can get in and out of the talent market. And I also want to tell those brothers who are going to take the CCNA, as long as you work hard, you will succeed. After so much talk, some people will surely say that even you, a junior high school student, have come to join the fun of CCNA. No wonder CCNA has no gold content now. CCNA examLike it? 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