Hmm… I’m planning to revive my plans to sit for the CCNA during the 2 months semester break that I’ll be having at the end of October this year.

I actually had plans to sit for it and get it done (and start on CCNP) much earlier - but due to the fact that I came back to studying full-time made it not really feasible to get it done so early (I’ve gotta either recertify or upgrade to a new certification in a year or 3 years).

But now, it seems feasible for me to pick up the books and go thru it again… yeah, I’m planning to get my CCNA done via self-study (I’m a cheapo and it only cost RM 350 to sit for the paper - rather than paying for the course - which IMHO, is quite useless). After all, I’m quite versed with the Cisco IOS having prior experience in configuring and setting up numerous Cisco routers in my field of work in the past and countless hours on the router simulators. I have also with me the Sybex CCNA Study Guide 2nd Edition (640-507 CCNA v2) - that’ll be enough to cover for the syllabus.

But the difference now is that CCNA is now on v3 (640-607) and it’s much tougher and also trickier… so if any of you out there with the experience of passing the CCNA v3… please give me some tips or pointers in the comment box smiley Thanks!