Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam: Creating A Study Plan
Whether you’re just starting to think about passing the CCNA or CCNP exams, or you’ve been on the certification track for a while, you’ve got to have a plan for success. If you wanted to drive your car from Florida to California, you’d create a plan to get there. You’d get a map and decide how far you wanted to drive per day, and maybe even make some hotel reservations in advance. You certainly wouldn’t get in your car, just drive it randomly down the nearest highway, and hope you ended up in California, would you?
Certainly not. Earning your CCNA certification is the same way. It’s not enough to just study a few minutes “when you feel like it”, or tell yourself that you’ll start studying for the exams “when I get such-and-such done”. The perfect time to start on the road to Cisco certification is not tomorrow, and it’s not next week. It’s today.
You’re much better off with one hour of solid study than three hours of interrupted, unfocused study. Here are a few ways to go about getting the kind of quality...