How to prepare for CCNA

New to IT and i am preparing for CCNA certification. But how you prepare for this certification? Just do the training courses and the practice test?

I am going to take the test after the new year.

There are a bunch of practice tests out there. Find them and take them. Get the Cisco CCNA books and run through the labs. There are Cisco simulators out there. Get one and build a lot of networks.

Presently I am building a sim of my work network, which is pretty complex. The cool side is that I get to think about a lot of the stuff that isn’t done day to day in most IT shops. Usually once the network is built you end up tweaking things and it is easy to forget things if you don’t use them.

Slee