Tips for Taking Your CCENT Exam

Tips for Taking Your CCENT Exam
The CCENT test contains about 50 to 60 questions, to be completed in about 90 minutes or
less. This can change per exam. You must get a score of about 85 percent to pass this exam,
but again, each exam can be different.
To pass the exam, the candidate must have the knowledge and skills required to successfully
install, operate, and troubleshoot a small branch office network. The exam includes questions on
networking fundamentals; connecting to a WAN; basic security and wireless concepts; routing and
switching fundamentals; the TCP/IP and OSI models; IP addressing; WAN technologies; operating
and configuring IOS devices; configuring RIPv2, static, and default routing; implementing NAT
and DHCP; and configuring simple networks.
Many questions on the exam have answer choices that at first glance look identical—especially
the syntax questions! Remember to read through the choices carefully because close doesn’t cut it.
If you get commands in the wrong order or forget one measly character, you’ll get the question
wrong. So, to practice, do the hands-on exercises at the end of the chapters over and over again
until they feel natural to you.
Also, never forget that the right answer is the Cisco answer. In many cases, more than one
appropriate answer is presented, but the
correct
answer is the one that Cisco recommends. On
the exam, the instructions are always to pick one, two or three, never to “choose all that apply.”
The CCNA 640-822 exam includes the following test formats:

Multiple-choice single answer

Multiple-choice multiple answer

Drag-and-drop

Fill-in-the-blank

Router simulations
In addition to multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and drag-and-drop response questions,
Cisco Career Certifications exams may include performance simulation exam items.
Here are some general tips for exam success:

Arrive early at the exam center so you can relax and review your study materials.

Read the questions
carefully
. Don’t jump to conclusions. Make sure you’re clear about
exactly
what each question asks.

When answering multiple-choice questions that you’re not sure about, use the process of
elimination to get rid of the obviously incorrect answers first. Doing this greatly improves
your odds if you need to make an educated guess.

You can no longer move forward and backward through the Cisco exams, so doublecheck
your answer before clicking Next since you can’t change your mind.
After you complete an exam, you’ll get immediate, online notification of your pass or fail status,
a printed Examination Score Report that indicates your pass or fail status, and your exam results
by section. (The test administrator will give you the printed score report.) Test scores are automatically
forwarded to Cisco within five working days after you take the test, so you don’t need to send
your score to Cisco. If you pass the exam, you’ll receive confirmation from Cisco, typically within
two to four weeks.