Share your ICND2 Experience

This is Sigo. My score was 802. Sims, VTP and Frame Relay. LOTS of Drag and Drops. Some not on this site. Questions were fair. Believe it or not, the drag and drops I think were the ones that did me in. I am taking it again on Fri. I would like to know if the Sims and questions change or just question. Any information will be appreciated.

Sorry, not that its any better…Score was 804 🙂

@Sigo, @Gadget: The sims will be the same. Best wishes to you in the next exam!

Hi 9tut,

I have schedule my ICND2 exam on 24/02 and would like to know if the question have changed or if the drag&drop have changed as I’ve heard from colleges they will change.

Pls let me know via email -jjames@datec.com.pg

Thanks
Jen

Hi All, I am sitting the ICND2 exam next month and have a question about the sims. For the ICND2 exam, can I expect to only see the VTP, NAT and/or OSPF sims on the exam?

I would’ve thought an EIGRP and Access-list sim would be possible questions also.
Thanks

I would just like to say thankyou to 9tut and all who are involved, including all those who contribute to the boards. I passed today (2nd attempt) with 916. I would say about 40% of the questions were from here but the rest were easily understood using all the information from this site alone. In addition i used Wendell Odom, Exam Cram Series by Jeremy Ciora and Valentine Whitaker, CBC nuggets and a very very very patient Wife who’s not seen me properly for the best part of 2 months as i’ve been locking myself in the study room everyevening after work.

The important bit here is understading. As long as you understand the concepts behind all the questions on this site, you should be able to pass. There were some questions that i quite frankly had no clue about and even one question that was very difficult to read as it wasnt clear enough (such is the cisco way)

Other than to tell you what labs i had, i will not be able to give you any questions other than one. I was being watched the whole time by an invigilator so was not able to take away any notes i’d made.

The question i recall refered to Power-cycles. Something i’ve not touched upon before. Please check this link for Power-cycle info. Please pay attention to “show context” and “console Log” http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/iad/ps397/products_tech_note09186a00800b4447.shtml

Sorry thats the only question that really stood out that i can remember.

My labs were VTP and OSPF, simlets were Frame-Relay, EIGRP and RIP2. I had 43 questions to complete in 75 minutes. I finished with 4 minutes to spare. Now i can look forward to the summer i was going to have last year. Once again thankyou everyone for your contribution and good luck with your own exams.

ICND2 scheduled for 2/28, too bad I just found out about this site a few days ago, let’s see how it goes….

Passed ICDN2 today with a score of 888. This site was really helpful. I got the VTP and OSPF Sims, Frame-Relay and EIGRP simlets. Couple of questions on IPv6, eigrp, ospf, ripv2. If study and understand the concepts of questions on icdn2 and ccna site you will be fine. For preparation i used 9tut, Steve Mcquerry icdn2 book and certexam question by xalax. I want to thank everybody who have contributed to this site in one way all the other and good luck to those waiting to take the exam.
Now i am trying to decide wether to go for CCNP or do CCNA security first, Any advise?

Roel, if there is an area i can truly recommend for you with only a few days left is, if you are not confident with labs, use he lab execises in ICND2 and CCNA. Notice that some of them have links to packet tracer labs. These are very useful and are accurate to the layout of the exam material. Just remember that on the day, certain details may change like ip address, first-last-first available ip address, gateway etc.

SOLOMON> Congratulations. Feels great doesnt it.

It sure feels great

I’m confused by this which is in Odoms book on pg 385: http://i.imgur.com/Oogaw.png

Why is the route through C chosen once the bw is set to 64. The Route straight to A from B still has the lowest metric (without going into the deep maths) 64 compared to 1544+1544 = 3088 ?

Crazy question….IS it possible to see ICND1 drag and drops or simlets in your ICND2 test?

Passed ICND2 today with 930! Thanks 9tut! I noticed about 50% from icnd2 as well as Ccna questions! Also used Wendell icnd series and CBT NUGGETS videos. Also used packet tracer for all practice Sims.

Soloman, CCNA Voice would be a good route, Voice know how is in pretty high demand right now.

Thanks CP. I am kind of thinking i should get to professional level before i specialize.

Took my exam today and have to do it again. Had the VTP sim and I did everything that I thought had to be done. Did the show vtp-status which I found the domain name. Wrote it down and when it was time to put it in I received a “DOMAIN NAME ALREADY INSTALLED” which sought of confused me. Anyone have any idea why that happened? Besides that, allot of ACL, IPV6, DISTANCE VECTOR & LINK STATE QUESTIONS. STUDY STUDY STUDY SOME MORE.

Just got back from testing, another FAIL, really starting to get pissed off about all this, I got a 748, I have taken CCNA four times, all failed, first time first ccna i got a 819 needing a 825 to pass. So, i decided to split it, icnd1 i passed first time, icnd2 i just failed for the second time… Time is absolute critical.. If your lab doesnt work right away, you dont have time to troubleshoot, you might as well skip. I had about 11 questions left with 8min to do them, and i pretty much skipped 8 out of those 11… at the beginning, write on your paper a time chart, 4 sections 75min total time and what question you should be on at what time.. I actually felt good about the test too.. which pisses me off even more… 2 days rest, then back to these damn books.. Oh, this site is great, the VTP sim is the same lab i got.. got it working in 2sec. got a weird question i Definitely didnt know, the ipv6 address RIPng uses to communicate, since i knew 224.0.0.9 is the ipv4 i think i chose FE004::09 or something like that.. i need to research that. anyway… Hope all you have better luck than I do..

@CP
Bad luck dude, keep at it! you’ll crack it!

@ CP

ipv6 RIPng uses mulicast address FF02::9

jsut came back from ICND2 exam, passed with 944 … thanks to the LORD

after twice failed attempts,

point is to revise and revise, take more simulations as u can

concentrate on, ipv6, subnetting, eigrp, ACL and NAT

and a very big thanks for 9tut, and all people shared their experience leading me to pass 🙂

practice questions
http://www.ciscovce.com

passed with 952… This one seemed alot harder than the ICND 1 test that i took 6 weeks ago, I actually was a little nervous when I hit the last button to finish the test….more to follow when my brain decompresses…..Thanks 9Tut

Had these

VTP SIM
Frame-relay testlet 4 questions 3 of them same as 9tut 1 different
pick link-local IP6 address.
drag and drop OSPF vs EIGRP (same as 9tut)
drag and drop ACL what three ip addresses will be permitted what 2 denied (not on 9tut)
CCNA switch questions Q#2
Some weird ospf testlet 4 questions choose router ID etc….(not on 9tut)
CCNA Drag and Drop 3 question #1

I would estimate that less than 40% of my questions were exacly like the ones on 9tut
(the vtp sim was…. just different ip) I had to go throught the process of elimnation to get
answer on multiple choice.

While 9TUT is extremely valuable for practice (great for sims) and to test your knowledge, you better do your
homework and learn the concepts.

I used CBT Nuggets…Wendell…And the TUT!

Now to decide what to do next, more cisco maybe CCNP? or start Microsoft certs?

Opinions????

did anyone that failed see the same questions the second time around? or at least the same sims? Thanks

Just passed 958/1000 with 26 minutes left, VTP lab.

I failed my ICND2 exam… cisco change their pool of questions…

@xallax do you have the latest dump for ICND2 ?

@dreamb
yes sir, check the link above

cheers

@xallax

when was the last time your practise questions were updated?

@anon1
last time i saw new questions on 9tut.com
early this month 🙂

Here are a couple more things I remember from the test.

I had question #6 under incnd2 STP questions

I had a question about VTP modes it was a choose 2 answers…. one was transparent mode passes updates to other switches..the second one i choose was when a client switch boots up it sends out discovery packet looking for servers ??? not sure if it was right.

2 questions about EIGRP feasable successor routes I think one was from CCNA site and the other one didn’t look familar

Had an auto-summary causing problems on a discontinious network question???????

Sorry wish my memory was better, good luck to all and thanks a million 9TUT and xallax you do a great job

@ Cisco_CCNA

move your career to next step with CCNP
actually i’m MCP, MCSA, MCSE server 2003 , MCTS, MCITP server 2008
but i felt different while i started my cisco path, i fall in love
just finished my CCNA certificate, and now moving on CCNP track

@fidzo

Thanks for the advice, I’ve really enjoyed learning the cisco stuff, what is the next step if I decide to do the CCNP cert? It took me 4-5 months of hard core study to get through the ICND1 and ICND2 test, how long do you anticipate it would take to get through CCNP?
What do you think is more dificult Microsoft cert test or Cisco test?

Thanks again

Cisco_CCNA I can tell you from experience that Cisco Exams are much harder than Microsofts. The first MS exam I took I had very little experience with and passed it without much study. The first Cisco Exam I took I had about 2 years experience and 3 months of study with 4 different types of material and just barely passed it.

Microsoft Exams are multiple answer type questions that are quite easy to narrow down as 1 or 2 have nothing to do with the problem in general. There is very little configuration type questions, but there are drag and drops.

Good luck in your studies and your career path. It is very rewarding in the end.

@Cisco_CCNA

i’ll start with route and i give it 3 months to fulfill the exam

@Sys_Admin
he is right, microsoft exam much eaiser, longer time , also you can review your answers
but which is more valuable now? hit the market and see

for me …. Microsoft give you expert ability about their infrastructure and products , but cisco is the core for network

sat icnd2 on 24th Feb, failed. about 25% of the questions from 9tut were there.

hi guys work hard for 2 months still failed icnd2 , they have changed everything ,only 15% of que from this site ,just 1 lab of switch and onesimlet of frame relay please help me wher i can get latest dumps

go for xallas dumps it’s might be of great help..

I have 2 questions what type of ipv6 questions have people been getting on the exam and has anyone had a frame relay sim ?

i cant fing anything by this name on internet xallas

yes i have a fram relay same as on 9tut and regarding ipv6 , valid addresses

@perry023
i think he’s referring to me 🙂
try on http://www.ciscovce.com

cheers

Have read 2 books “CCNA Guide to Networking” and Todd Lammles book, answers every questions from the 9 tut site both ICND 2 and CCNA, thanks to the 9tut team, you have been a great help, I also downloaded dumps from Jerico and Collisio, exam tomorrow, hope I have done enough!

2nd failure for ICND2, missed by 2-3 questions. IPV6, VTP, and ACL, NAT killed me! Back to the drawing board. Start from scratch. Study and know the basics inside and out!!!

Passed barley today with an 846, big thanks to the guidance and feedback from this site and Odems book. I had the Frame Relay Sim from this site, and thats about it. Many new IPv6 questions. you must know how to recognize a link-local address (always starts with FE80) Also know the beneifts that IPv6 has over IPv4 (NAT and No More Broadcasts). Lots of new OSPF questions, 1 in which you had to summarize all the networks and determine how many OSPF routes would be in the routing table. ACL questions were the hardest yet. Overall know the concepts and read the questions carefully.

cheers and onto CCNA Voice.

@RouteKing, good move going towards Voice, its a hot item right now and pays very well. Congrats on passing too. @jn3, I’m in the same boat, 2nd failure last week and it’s frustrating as hell. Lets keep to it and make cisco our bitch. @xallax I think i am going to grab your practice q’s, great price for them.. I really wish you could go back a question if need be, when you’re trying to hurry, i make dumb mistakes and I keep running out of time.. @roel09 26min LEFT!!! That’s insane, last test had about 8min left for the last 11 questions.. I have always been a.d.d and take adderall as an adult and time and test is my Achilles heel.

Good luck all, hopefully yours is WAY better than mine..

Thanks 9tut! Passed today. The test was fairly easy. The biggest thing is to learn the concepts and theory behind the topics. Regardless of exam question changes, YOU will be ready… besides it only gets tougher from here if you choose to pursue professional or expert. I wish everyone the best and again thanks for everyone’s help and input.

Xallax, hello sir, does the redundant questions removed on your updated vce for icnd2? i am planning to purchase this one so i can practice, thanks and godbless,

i know this is out of the topic, but can some1 send me some updated A+ questions or direct me where I can get them free for the 701 and 702 exam. Many thanks and btw I still have my icnd2 exam to take, planning to take it next two to three weeks stiil readin and listing to chris bryant. fortune7770@live.com many thanks again

@patrick
it got cleaned up a bit, yes 🙂

Passed today. If I can pass, anyone in the world can pass this exam, trust me! (ok maybe not paris hilton)

VTP sim, ospf and frame relay simlets. dont memorize the dumps, use it to understand different type of questions and concepts …

i used 9tut, the bryantadvantage and odom’s book to study.

ps: know subnetting really well, acls and ipv6.

Passed the exam today with a score of 917, as I said above I had done loads of study and knew all the concepts but I must say it does not matter how well you know the concepts there are always some questions that are difficult to understand, or the correct option is vague so going through questions in the dumps helps, 70% of the questions that came up were on here or in the latests dumps, the sims were VLANs and Frame relay the same that are on here and there was an OSPF lab that was not on here but was not difficult as I knew the concepts, the thing that nearly got me was that there were maybe 3 questions that were from the ICND 1 part of the course, I hadnt studied these for a few months so these were difficult to remember.

This site is by far the best on the web for CCNA and ICND study as not only does it give questions but also gives really good explanations which helps in understanding the concepts.

Thanks to the 9tut team!

@JimBob, did you get an OSPF question about how many OSPF learned routes will be the routing table of router? dont remember the full question but i chose 4 as my answer … not sure if thats correct …

I had that question and chose 4 as well.

@JimBob I couldn’t have said that better. I think I know the material pretty well but the last two exams have been pretty difficult. I’m going to study some more!

@JimBob Congrats by the way!!

what study material yall used? just 9tut? or dump too? thx

Passed ICND2 today . Got below qs I like to share with you:
1: Check chasis serial no. using a: show inventory, b: show diag other options are not correct.
2: IPv6 tunnel used by host, I selected Teredo tunneling.
3: Benefits of transition to IPv6 I selected a: no need for NAT, b: no broadcasts, autoconfiguration was also there but it is not a benefit.
4: A Q to select link local address.
5: Difference between point-to-point and multipoint frame-relay subinterfaces.
6: Frame relay FECN, BECN and DE.
7: How to troubleshoot chap authentication I selected debug ppp authentication.
8: Change ospf load balancing options I selected a: ip ospf cost b: bandwidth commands.
9: Dynamic ACL is used to allow a user to access an Enterprise network after authentication.
10: Single Lab to configure a switch for management address, default gateway and for vtp client.
Other questions from 9tut sims and latest dumps.
The NAT question is very tricky it uses inside nat on 2 interfaces and outside on 1 on a router connected to 2 fast ethernet and 1 serial. There is both static and dynamic nat in the config.

@ccna_certified – interesting, your question pool is a lot different from mine …

@RouteKing – the other answer i was thinking was 1 because of auto summary… i cant remember if the question mention auto summary was on or off …

@ certified
@ Routeking

ans 4 for ospf was correct.

Just failed ICND2 with a score of 750. I’ll report my experience while it’s fresh in my mind.
The Sim I got was VTP related but it wasn’t straight forward at all, it required you to go into the router and dig for configurations from existing or adjacent routers , this requires time and time was my biggest enemy.
The other thing they beat me up on was route overlapping, there has to be a faster way to do this other than writing out zero’s for octets.
The other thing was ACL’s almost every ACL question involved a good bit of subnetting, which again involved time. There was almost nothing in there about switching concepts so all of the studying I did here on switching scenarios did not help me.
And lastly there was a fair bit of IPv6, I think 4 or 5 out of the 43 questions were IPv6.

@kevin

sorry 4 u buddy…

i advice you

1.) practice subnetting through subnettingquestions.com and become fast, identifyng contents of subnet by just looking on number within 4-5 seconds. and never use paper, pen to solve it

2.) and study all books, material well enough with a purpose to learn, not to just pass exam. use exam passing material like 9tut website, dumbs etc 1 week before the exam to prepare well enough with exam perspective. YOU WILL SURELY PASS….anyways, all the best for next attempt..gud luck bro.

I dont know if anyone can answer for sure, but are the test questions predetermined from the time you start, or is it configured or programmed to alter the questions toward a certain topic if the test taker is giving wrong answers to a topic. In other words, I miss an acl question or two, so I get more acl questions? Just curious, because I have heard of such “interactive test” formats.

@joe
only cisco could tell you how the testing system picks the questions…

@Joe

from what i have heard from some network engineers is that test is not adaptive. it may have been in the past but not anymore …

http://www.mcmcse.com/articles/cisco_myths.shtml

I failed ICDN2 yesterday, 798, i just downloaded dump questions frm http://www.examcollection.com/cisco/Cisco.Acme.640-802.v2012-02-07.by.Arpit.486q.vce.file.html, frm few questions which i hv seens most were in the exam.

just failed today 818 needed 825 to pass!
my problem areas were NAT/ACL implementation and VLAN/trunking
for the VLAN stuff, really get to know RSTP and PVRSTP. you can almost forget about STP. understand all the terminology and how to figure out what port states will be

for the NAT/ACL stuff, i got caught slipping because i dont know the command line structure. concepts here are not enough, you have to know how to create a nat pool with the CLI, and you have to know how to write an extended ACL with the CLI.

I got the sim about configuring a switch to be part of the vtp domain.
i got some ipv6 questions. is ipsec required or optional? i know it used to be required and i saw it in the training, but wikipedia says its now optional again.

im going to take it again next week 🙂

is there a way you can get the questions from cisco, like a question by question breakdown of what you got wrong?

here are the questions in icdn2 that i remember being on the test:
ospf: 1,2,12
ospf2:7
lab sim: the vtp one
eigrp:10
eigrp2:8
vtp:3
operations:2
drag and drop 2: 3,5

nothing else from isdn 2

Can you please give me the link from where i covered all of the ipv6 questions .. because i heard in test you get 10-11 questions ..

samson wrote this:
On the sims, while taking the exam, be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that you enter a COPY RUN START command when you are finished making changes. The score is calculated using the STARTUP-CONFIG. If you did not save the changes, you WILL NOT get credit for the sim.

this is a BULLSHIT ! you are judged only on the running config !

Could someone tell me if the tab-auto complete feature works with the CLI for the test?
I am particularly concerned about the length and variation of commands when doing NAT configs.
Thanks.

just passed icdn2..
only got VTP sim and it was the same as on this site. CCNA certified 🙂
gj every1

reply Can you please give me the link from where i covered all of the ipv6 questions .. because i heard in test you get 10-11 questions ..

@Jink Check this out http://dc262.4shared.com/doc/9G0VnE0E/preview.html go to the last page you will see “13. CCNA IPv6 Questions “

Just passed March 2nd.
Cisco.AcutalTests.640-816.v2012-02-05.204q.vce is valid and contains 60% of same questions.

Use 9tut and 486vce from CCNA part to get remainder of questions.

I passed easily .. its a very easy exam .. 5-6 (Sims and Simlets and Labs) and 3 drag & Drop

Just finished the test on my second attempt, 972!!!!! And 43 minutes to spare. Got VTP and frame relay, that I remember, and 2 questions on IPv6
I used CBT Nuggets and Lamle videos, Cisco press books and the latest VCE from ActualTests that has 204 questions. That VCE and 9tut and you are to go, but you have to know everything

I passed with 888 on the exam was really nice but guys my advice is to read the book and understand the concepts because understanding the concept gives u a great success.. appreciation goes to xallax for his VCE questions and 9tuts and todd lammle book… question were from NAT/ACL and few IPV6, drag n drops etc..next to CCNP.. wish u guys all the best of Luck in advance…xallax once more u are a great guy…

Guys, I am finally done with the CCNA, would you recommend go for CCNP first then to CCNA Security? I work in the Security and Compliance area of our IT department.

@Oscar Ross, which Frame Relay Sim did you see on the exam and can you please tell me where to find it on this site. I have only seen Sims for VTP, NAT, EIGRP, and OSPF. Also, the Sim that you saw for VTP, was that the one where you configure the IP Address, Default Gateway, Domain and Mode for the New Switch? Please let me know. Thanks

@Oscar Ross: I think you should go with CCNA Security. It gives you basic knowledge about security.

Well i passed also with a score of 958, what creationman said is true just understand the concepts and at this site is very helpfull with this. besides the normal study and i also used trainsingal and cbtnuggets thanks for the posts.

@Need2Pass: the frame relay sim is the at 9tut.com on HotSpot section. About the VTP, yes, that the sim I got, the you can find here

@Oscar Ross: Thank you, I will check that out right now!

@Oscar Ross
How many sims did you have?
What were they?

regards
joe mendola

is there any dumps that i can try before going for icnd2 exam

I know easy to say but hard to do.
Yesterday i passed icnd2. It was second attempt. Some common remarc ….
Need good concept on all the contents of icnd2 syllabus, and then practice the questions and ans. The practiceing the qs. and ans. is vital because it makes you to preper faster, to ans the questions. in the real exam the time is very little. Have no time to reflect.
It is one of the disadventage of this exam.
I followed the books are Todd Lammle, Wendell Odom, Richard Deal, Dale Liu and Exam CRAMof Jeremy Cioara.
I followed also Network Simulator of Wendell odom and cisco CCENT Mind Share Game.

*** followed all contents of great helper site 9tut.com. I revised it again and again. I reflect all of thouse in sleeping time too. Espatially all of its Sim. I got help from the people who follw this site regularly. some of them are very efficient and sincer to resolv the problem. xallax and 9tut. are some of them.
It is one of the key point to success ccna is seriously follow 9tut. Ofcourse after having good base on syllebus of ICND1 and ICND2.
I am greatful for all of thouse to 9tut.com site.
Wish to you to become more great in time.
Thank-you again 9tut.

Took the ICND2 yesterday. 986/1000. 9tut certainly helped but you need to understand everything thoroughly.

Got VTP lab, frame-relay sim and most of my questions were from 9tut ICND2/CCNA and Actualtests old and latest dump of the test.

I went official ICND2 study guide -> CBT nuggets -> Packet tracer labs -> dumps. Labs and dumps are what made the knowledge stick.

@ polar

where is the frame relay sim? inside the lab sim section of ICND2 640-816, there is not any frame relay sim.
Where did you find it?

found, it is in CCNA hotspot

Passed today ccna certfied B-) Got Vtp simulation exact one from this site with address changes of courses. OSPF simlet 4Q’s and the latest dump 204q.

Know the concepts, ACL, Ipv6 and subnetting 🙂

Good luck and thank you 9tut for the vault of knowledge.

contact me for dumps

@richard
please send me

iec2009072@iiita.ac.in

I passed ICND2 today, on the exam were the following questions

vtp sim
frame relay simlet, slightly different than what is posted here
ospf simlet

Most of the question that were on the exam was on 9tut…

Good luck all

Does 9tut have anything on the CCVP

Passed the ICND2 today!

Sims:
VTP (Same concept but different IP)
Frame Relay
OSPF Simlet (2 questions were the same, 2 additional new questions)

Most of the questions were from here. Also, if you are good with the Sims and Drag and Drop, time isn’t as much of an issue as you would think!

passed 958/1000 !

this site and the newest test from examcollection.com did it.