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now this video has turned out to be a
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lot longer than I expected but I'm going
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to be covering some important stuff with
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regards to the ccmp encore exam big
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announcement and this is probably the
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announcement that most of you want to
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know about I'm now going to be
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publishing a CCMP encore cause full CCMP
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encore course for free on YouTube so
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from next week expect to see encore CCMP
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training for free on YouTube I already
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actually have one video that you
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probably want to go through if you're
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studying for your CCMP and that's this
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EEM video so you probably want to go
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through this video if you're taking your
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CCMP encore exam but i will be adding
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more content from next week full CCMP
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encore cause for free on youtube and i'm
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going to be doing this in collaboration
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with companies such as bosun and
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hopefully others to bring you more value
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so I'll be using bosun software for some
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of the demonstrations and explaining
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topics using their software use the XM
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software to make sure that you're
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prepared for the exam those kind of
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things again bosun do not pay me any
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money I have never received one dollar
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or one cent in compensation from bosun
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software I just like them as a company
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really nice people really nice to deal
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with and they often give me stuff to
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give to you so I rather get vendors to
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give me stuff to give away to yourself
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rather than getting money from those
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vendors if you want to support me then
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consider subscribing to my youtube
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channel consider buying one of my
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courses
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now in this video I'm going to discuss a
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bunch of topics with regards to the
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cisco ccnp encore exam first thing is
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cisco are supporting remote exams on the
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15th of april so last week Wednesday
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they announced that they will support
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online virtual exams in other words you
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can take the exam at home or wherever
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you are in a proctored environment so
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someone is watching you take the exam
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Cisco announced this last week Wednesday
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and I decided to take the CCMP unco exam
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on Friday so two days later after they
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announced this I took my encore exam
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this is something I've been wanting to
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do for a while but I haven't because I'm
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currently in lockdown in South Africa
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can't go art except for emergency
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supplies groceries medical stuff and so
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forth as I'm sure a lot of you are so
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this is fantastic I've been able to take
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the Cisco encore ccmp exam from this
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room where I'm stuck and I'll give you
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my feedback about to that exam so that's
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the first thing I want to discuss and
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then later on I want to give you some
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good news about to the CCMP encore exam
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hopefully this will be fantastic news
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for a lot of you I've been asked many
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many times almost every day David
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where's your encore course okay so let
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me talk about the exam first now if you
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think it's easier than going to a
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Pearson VUE testing center I think
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you're going to be surprised
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the biggest tip that I'll give you is
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make sure that you're ready about 30
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minutes before your scheduled exam time
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what you need to do is you need to
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download some software on your computer
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you need to run a test they are going to
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ask you for photographs like facing
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forwards facing backwards to the left to
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the right you're going to have to submit
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those photographs they want to see what
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just workspace looks like you can't have
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stuff on the desk they are monitoring
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you through a camera so if you think
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you're gonna get away with stuff think
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again the mistake I made is I was
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putting my hand in front of my mouth
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when I was thinking so I was
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concentrating quite heavily on some of
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the questions by putting my hand over my
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mouth like this and someone came on and
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said remove your hand from your mouth
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don't
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put your hand in front of your mouth so
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they watching you to make sure that you
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don't do anything that you shouldn't be
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doing now I did find the interface
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really good it looks a very similar to a
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Pearson VUE testing center interface so
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the look and feel of the questions is
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very similar what I really liked is I
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had an issue right in the beginning when
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I started my exam the fonts were too
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small on my computer the resolution on
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this Mac is very high so the fonts of
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the questions were so small I couldn't
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read them so all I did is send a message
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to the proctor saying I need some help
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and they actually turn on the the audio
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and spoke to me so ask them my question
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they answered my question and within 30
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seconds I had my problem resolved so
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that was fantastic that interaction with
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the Proctor's is great but just remember
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you being watched the whole time if you
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think you're gonna be able to look here
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or there or up or somewhere to see cheat
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answers then to think again they
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watching you now getting back to what
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you should do before you take your exam
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strongly recommend that you download the
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software 30 minutes or so before your
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exam is scheduled you have to submit a
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whole bunch of stuff like your
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photographs you have to make sure that
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the software works you can use the
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camera on your computer but I actually
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use my phone I found that easier so you
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can submit photographs through a web
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interface or you can SMS them
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photographs you basically have to submit
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a bunch of information including
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identification documents so make sure
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that you've got your driver's license or
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your passport or some kind of
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identification before you take your exam
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because you have to submit that now you
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are allowed to have water as an example
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in a clear bottle or clear glass or
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something so you can drink something but
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remember you stuck for your exam period
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so let's talk a bit about the onco exam
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it's two hours in length I had a hundred
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and two questions it sounds like that's
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what everyone's getting same on CCNA
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same on encore 102 questions there were
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no simulations in the encore exam the
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encore exam consisted of single guess
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sorry single answer multiple choice so
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where you have to select two answers
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they don't ask you crazy
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like select all of the best answers they
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will tell you select two answers or
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three answers so again multiple choice
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single answer multiple choice and
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multiple answers as well as drag and
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drops there were no simulations and the
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onco exam similar to the new CCNA and no
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simulations at all when I took my exam
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now that could change later but I had
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102 questions two hours I found that I
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had more than enough time to finish the
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exam so I actually finished with quite a
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bit of time left but your experience may
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vary I'm a very bad example of someone
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to measure against I've taken many many
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many Cisco exams over the years I'm a
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CCIE so to me a multiple-choice exam
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like this is nothing compared to the CCI
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II after I did my CCIE
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lab exam none of these exams really faze
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me my attitude is if you fail that's a
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pain if you fail it costs you money but
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just remember you can take the exam
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again a few days later so I think it's 7
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days later you can take the exam so it's
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not the end of the world if you fail and
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that's my encouragement to all of you
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it's not like a university degree in a
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university environment if you fail you
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may have to redo an entire year we don't
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have to worry about that when doing
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certification exams
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you can literally wait a week or two and
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then do some extra studying and then
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come back and take the exam again there
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is obviously a financial cost and for a
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lot of people that's very high so I
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don't want to belittle the financial
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cost of failing or taking a Cisco exam
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but just remember you don't have to
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spend an entire year redoing the content
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before you take the exam again you can
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hopefully take it again a week or two
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later okay so on Koh exam I found the
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questions both good and bad there was
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some decent questions I thought there
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was some terrible questions the
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difficulty of the questions varied from
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what I thought was extremely easy CCNA
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level type questions to very difficult
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questions make sure that you learn the
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new technologies I don't want to go
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through the entire blueprint of the
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ccmp onco exam but things that I
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remember
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were important are things like SD access
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make sure you know the terminology of SD
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access make sure you know the
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terminology of SD when make sure that
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you understand the difference between
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say VX LAN and Lisp make sure that you
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understand the differences between the
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different protocols used in these new
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technologies such as SD 1 and SD access
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I obviously have a lot of background in
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routing and switching traditional
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technologies as well as Python I found
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the newest stuff more difficult just
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because it was newer so I spent more
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time looking at SD access and some of
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the newer technologies rather than
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traditional routing and switching like
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OSPF but as an example you will get OSPF
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questions make sure that you understand
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the different types in OSPF make sure
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that you know LS A's network types make
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sure that you understand how BGP works
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basically all the standard stuff that
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you would expect in a routing and
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switching exam I got asked now again
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there are newer technologies like
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Network automation do you know JSON do
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you know how to interpret JSON can you
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read a Python script you need to know
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those kind of things for the exam but
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again I could go through the entire
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blueprint and highlight options from
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almost every section because they're 102
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questions they can ask you a broad range
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of topics so it's not like any pass
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where we had simulations and they might
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focus just in on one section there's a
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broad range of topics a whole bunch of
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questions from basically throughout to
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the blueprint to make sure that you
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spend time learning all the topics
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before the exam like I said for the CCNA
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I would concentrate on the newer
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technologies and Network automation
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Network programmability and actually
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I'll just bring up the blueprint chair
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to make it easier so do you know JSON do
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you know Python do you know yang so can
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you describe high-level principles of
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yang
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can you describe api's of DNA Center
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make sure that you understand RISP api
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calls and what i was quite surprised
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about is this EEM applet make sure you
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know that to make sure you know the
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difference between chef puppet ansible
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and salt stack like I said I could
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mention many many topics yeah do you
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know what trusts second
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do you know what Mac SEC is do you know
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the difference between 8201 ex and web
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auth as an example do you understand
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different wireless security mechanisms
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do you understand a CLS can you work out
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a CLS so again I could start from the
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beginning of this outline and just
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highlight topic off the topic like first
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hop redundancy protocols do you
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understand different network designs do
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you understand the difference between
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different wireless deployment models so
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ok I won't bore you going through all
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the blueprint options just looking at
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these blueprint options I can in my mind
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recognize many questions
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I mean virtualization is not traditional
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routing and switching but do you
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understand the difference between a type
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1 hypervisor type 2 hypervisor do you
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understand
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virtual machines virtual switching
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docker those kind of technologies and as
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mentioned do you understand Lisp
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vx LAN do you understand the different
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types of data virtualization
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technologies such as IPSec tunneling GRE
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vr af-s MPLS etc basically because we
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have such a broad range of questions 102
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questions they can all she stuff from
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any section and don't forget Wireless
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I'll mention it here because otherwise
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people think there were no wireless
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questions you need to know wireless as
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well Wireless is really important the
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new stuff Wireless think of SD access SD
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when think of network automation they
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put programmability basically study
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properly for the exam again I had some
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very simple questions surprisingly
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simple questions I thought and some
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difficult questions now your mileage may
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vary as well depending on your
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experience depending on how much you've
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studied moral the story is you need to
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study for the Cisco exams I personally
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preferred the old exams
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I loved the tea chute exam that was part
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of the old ccmp certification I loved
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tea chute because for me was someone
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with a lot of experience I prefer
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troubleshooting a network rather than
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just trying to memorize things I find
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that the new Cisco exams are more about
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memorization which I don't like
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I personally much prefer hands-on I much
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prefer typing show run or show IP route
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or show something and then debug
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or troubleshooting a network issue or
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configuring a network rather than just
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memorizing facts so I think from my
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personal point of view it's a bit
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disappointing in the new certifications
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there's a lot of memorization there's
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not as much hands-on if you like but you
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will need to be able to interpret output
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and that's the one thing you must
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remember in the new Cisco exams you will
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for instance get screenshots and you
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will need to be able to interpret the
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output of those screenshots so it's not
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like it's just a memorization you will
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need to be able to interpret stuff but I
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do feel that there's more memorization
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stuff I think it's just me getting older
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now
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more experienced I prefer the hands-on t
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shoot top exams my favorite exam that's
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my favorite CCMP exam obviously best
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exam I think of all time was my CCIE
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very very tough but fantastic experience
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fantastic to pass that exam so I prefer
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those hands-on exams more than just
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memorization okay but in your case Morel
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the story is study hard use the Cisco CG
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official third guide I would strongly
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recommend that you go through that even
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though it's a bit dry and but boring at
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times concepts are covered in a lot of
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detail in the ocg I do think at times
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they cover too much so don't get bogged
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down with all the nitty-gritty stuff
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notice the key words like a describe
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layer one concepts describe doesn't mean
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troubleshoot here they've got a
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troubleshoot section but you'll notice a
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lot of the key words are described you
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just need to describe something there
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are some configuration options such as
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configuring OSPF environments including
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different types of neighbor
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relationships or different OSPF types
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point-to-point broadcast etc configure
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and verify ebgp relationships that kind
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of stuff but in my experience I find
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that a lot of it was more described make
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sure you understand the concepts you
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don't need to configure SD access as an
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example they don't expect you to
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configure SD access but you need to know
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all the different types of devices used
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in SD acts
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so as an example you need to explain the
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working principles of an SD access
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solution so know the difference between
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control plane and data plane which
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protocol is used for the control plane
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Lisp which protocol is used for the data
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plane V X LAN
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make sure you understand that make sure
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that it that you know the different
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router types different types of devices
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use an SD axis as an example okay so you
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need to study hard for the on Co exam I
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thought it was in a K exam I preferred
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the CCNA to be honest I preferred the
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dev net associate exam but this was okay
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your experience may vary please let me
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know in the comments below how you found
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the on Koh examine whether you agree or
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disagree with me if you've taken it
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already okay so that was my experience
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taking the Cisco online exam it's a big
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advice if you're doing an online exam is
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make sure that you download and check
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your computer before your exam starts so
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at least half an hour before your exam
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starts download the software make sure
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that your computer is compatible I
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actually did that the day before made
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sure that my computer was compatible and
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then I went through the whole process of
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registering and sending photographs and
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I had to do it again so I thought that
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was kind of pointless
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but half an hour before you take your
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exam you'll need to submit these
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photographs so depending on how long it
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takes you make sure that you start your
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exam before the start time basically
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so get things booted on your computer
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and ready now one thing that's strange
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is you might have to wait ten minutes
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before your exam starts so you can't
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leave your computer you you submit all
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the stuff to Pearson VUE and then you've
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got to basically sit at your laptop for
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like five to ten minutes waiting for
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your Proctor to come online so just be
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aware go and do all the stuff that you
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need to do go to the bathroom get ready
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get yourself prepared before you go
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through this online enrollment thing and
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submit your photographs because from
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that point you stuck to taking your exam
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so it's a two hour exam but you might
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end up sitting at your desk for much
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longer than two hours might be two and a
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half hours because she you've got to
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submit stuff so 140 minutes rather than
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120 minutes as an example is what it
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might take
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strongly suggest that if this is your
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first Cisco exam you go to the Pearson
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VUE website you download the software
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you go through it and make sure that
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your computer is compatible and ready
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hopefully you're looking forward to the
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new encore course that I'm going to be
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creating and publishing for free on
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YouTube I do have a whole bunch of
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announcements and surprises coming up so
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make sure that you've subscribed to my
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youtube channel make sure that you click
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on the bell to get notifications and if
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you don't mind like this video if you've
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enjoyed it I'm David bumble and I want
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to wish you all the very best
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