Customer Reviews

Cisco CCNA Test Yourself Personal Testing Center (Certification)

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

This software gave me everything I needed to get my CCNA Certification. The best part of this one is the Live Mode test. Since I wasn't able to attend classroom Cisco CCNA training, I was glad to use this software at home and practice CCNA test. I like this software for exam preparation. I saw many of the questions on the real CCNA test and I passed them all. If you can't make classes at a training school for CCNA test, this is the way to go.

I bought a copy of the Osborne CCNA test software with the view that a high result would mean that I was ready to sit the real thing (CCNA 640-607). No, I failed. So I picked up a copy of Cisco's ICRC (student manual), rebooked the exam and passed no more than two weeks later. These are my reasons why I didn't like the test software.

1) The questions weren't hard enough. 2) The questions that were in the test software didn't even relate to the Cisco CCNA exam. 3) And finally, the Prometic's CCNA exam is not presented in HTML format.

I am not in the habit of writing bad reviews, but I found this book awkward to use. It is too large, and did not focus on the exam. It contained errors (but that is a common complaint about books in this category). I was disappointed that they did not include a flashcard version on CD. I recommend you NOT buy this book. Spend the money instead on an exam review book and one of the fine "practice test" products available for the CCNA. (I can recommend Boson.)

Poorly written software, a number of wrong answers, too expensive.

Excellent way to prepare the CCNA test. Easy to use and abundant questions. I just passed the CCNA exam with 93%, and this was excellent preparation tool for CCNA test.

Cisco has retired this exam effective 6/00. The New exam is 640-507

I took and passed the CCNA exam, no thanks to this product. The questions on the actual exam were more difficult than the questions presented on this CD-ROM. Of the 78 questions on the actual exam, 4 to 5 appeared remotely similar to the sample questions. In addition, not all the answers to the sample questions are correct. Some of the mistakes are obvious (CD claims an ISDN PRI is 23 D channels and 1 B) but some aren't so obvious. I didn't get this CD to proof it for the publisher, and I don't think you want to either.

While this sounds like a great deal, with an abundance of questions, there are wrong answers. Add to this the fact that detailed answers are not linked correctly in HTML with different font size and styles, and you have a poorly designed product for the price. Osborne should have spent more time designing this product. Be wary. I recommend Lammle's books if you are serious about accuracy.

Yes, I agree with Sam, but I should use Microsoft Internet Explorer for this. Netscape Communicator doesn't work very well with this software, but I prefer Netscape Communicator to MS Internet Explorer. That's why I give 4 stars instead of 5 stars. Anyway I recommend it highly.

So far I have seen several CCNA books and softwares. I think this software is the best way to practice CCNA test. Very simple to use. This is bug free software because this is using Internet Explorer. By the way this is somewhat expensive so I give 4 stars.