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I will say that CCNA (taken in 2019) was the most legitimate of these exams. There were a handful of "simulator" questions that involved actually typing some co
by warner25 5y ago
I will say that CCNA (taken in 2019) was the most legitimate of these exams. There were a handful of "simulator" questions that involved actually typing some commands into a Cisco IOS switch or router to change the configuration as appropriate. So that required a deeper understanding and forced test-takers to demonstrate what they might need to do on the job as a network technician. However, CCNA also seemed to be one of the exams for which it was easiest to find a "dump" including "practice simulators" taken straight from the real exam.
- lordnacho 5y agoYeah I actually used the CCNA simulators for a lot of things early on before things clicked. It's just very hard to examine for in a way that isn't easy to cheat and demonstrates real understanding. After all in the real world every problem has its own quirks.
- DnDGrognard 5y agoI did the college CNNA courses and one test was to fix a broken network (using real hardware). There is no substitute for hands on with real hardware.
- detaro 5y agoYes, the Cisco certs seem to have a relatively good reputation. I think the higher ones even involve (or at least did) stages where the test-taker spends half a day setting something up, then an instructor breaks it and they have to fix it again. On the other hand, people there complain about the recertification requirements - it's quite a bit of effort to repeat every few years, so unless you're strictly required by an employer or customer to maintain them many let it lapse.