CCNA exam summary Dec 31^st, 2024

1. 89 questions including three sims, time is 120 minutes, and it is not easy to finish the exam on time. I did not manage to answer the last six questions.
2. The three sims are easy, but they need time, one sim include the configuration of trunk, vlans, and lacp EtherChannel’s. The switches used in the sim, to configure the trunk you need to specify the encapsulation first. The second part of the sim is to enable lldp on a single interface. I took the exam using a small laptop and I found it is not a good idea to take it from home because the proctor can waste some of your time by keep interrupting you. The other sim is configuring ospf on the interfaces without using the network statement. The second part of the sim is to configure a router to be the DR for an area. They did not specify the interface, and the topology included three routers connected to each other directly.
3. There were five questions about WLAN controller and AP. Although I read the two wireless chapters several times, answering those questions was not easy. What option is used to limit the number of users on AP is one question. Another question is the mode if you want to connect the AP to two VLANs. Two questions about WAP3 features.
4. Few questions about SDN, JASON, quality of service, machine learning, virtualization, and cloud.
5. Several questions (6-10) about static, default, and static floating routing. All these questions asking to find the next hop ip address. These questions are easy, but they require time, and you should be able to do subnetting quickly on your head. If you take the exam from home, you cannot use paper/pencil or a second monitor.
6. Based on my observation we may need to purchase at least one WLAN controller and three AP for the lab and develop one or more lab which focuses on configuring different options of the WLAN controller.
7. I did not see many questions from IT 141 curriculum. However, most of the questions about static and default routing require some sort of subnetting.
8. Although the curriculum has two chapters about ACL, there were a single MC question about ACL and it was not clear. They gave an access list and the question is to find the statement which allow a secure connection to the router. The ACL did not include a statement to permit port 22 but there were a statement to permit port 23. However, there were a choice for permitting port 22 and one permitting port 23.