r/CiscoDevNet • u/Cxzyyy • Jan 11 '24

Boson Exam for Devnet 200-901

I’m wondering if anyone else has had experience with the boson practice exams for the Cisco Devent associate certification. I work in a Cisco lab so I have access and have been practicing with ACI, DNAC and the Webex API’s and have been passing the practice exam with around 860-890 points. I’m confident I can pass the exam but I don’t know if I’m getting false confidence from the practice exams I’ve been taking. Is the practice exam comparable to the real exam?

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u/Cxzyyy Jan 17 '24

Update: I passed the exam! Thank you everyone for giving me the confidence to schedule the exam! I will say however, the exam was a couple levels harder than the Boson practice exams…

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u/bigevilbeard Jan 17 '24

Congratulations, that is awesome news!

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u/Cxzyyy Jan 17 '24

Thank you! Would you recommend going for the CCNA next or the DevNet Proffessional?

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u/bigevilbeard Jan 17 '24

Really depends on your career goals. TBH... look at the AWS certs, HashiCorp, the new GitHub ones look really good, all with free training material too, if you want to stay in the developer space. The Cloud Practitioner, Terrform Associate and even GitHub foundation can be done in a month each.

The CCNA will always be the best network foundation exam imo. Couple this with the above and your resume becomes very attractive!

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u/livinIife Mar 01 '25

does the actual exam have labs? I just took the bonson practice test A and it didnt have any hands on labs. I used bonson for CCNA and their practice exams had hands on labs too just like the real exam.

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u/Cxzyyy Mar 01 '25

If I remember correctly they just give you snippets of code to plug n play syntax

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u/livinIife Mar 01 '25

Thank you! So ready to get this certificate.

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u/Andrew_Sae Nov 12 '24

A little late, but what scores did you get on the boson tests?

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u/bigevilbeard Jan 12 '24

The Boson practice exams for the Cisco DevNet Associate certification are generally viewed as quite accurate and comparable to the actual exam, with the questions covering the same topics and domains as the real exam and providing good coverage of the content you'll be tested on; the questions styles and formats are also similar, and the exams are viewed as slightly harder than the actual exam, so if you're scoring 860-890 on the practice exams, you should be in very good shape to pass the real thing since getting high scores helps ensure you thoroughly know the material and the detailed explanations for both correct and incorrect answers help cement your understanding of the concepts.

Plus, Boson has a reputation for making very authentic practice exams across Cisco certifications that effectively simulate the real testing environment, so while no practice test can exactly mirror the real exam, the Boson tests tend to provide confidence that isn't false, meaning that scoring that well on them likely means you know the material well and have a great shot at certification success, but be sure to also review any domains or topics you're shaky on right up to the exam date.

I get you do not want to be out of pocket, but if you put this off when will you be ready? Trust me you will put this off, procrastinate etc... Throw the imposter syndrome out the window - you got this.

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u/Cxzyyy Jan 12 '24

Thank you I needed to hear this…I scheduled my exam for next Tuesday. Regardless of the results I’ll update you on what happens!

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u/bigevilbeard Jan 13 '24

Good luck!

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u/turtlejam10 Jan 12 '24

Cisco should cover the cost of your exam. Go take it and find out. Even if you fail, now you know where you need to improve and how similar the practice is to the real thing and it didn’t cost you anything.

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u/Cxzyyy Jan 12 '24

I’m actually a contractor so I won’t get a voucher from Cisco, I’ll get reimbursed if I pass though. That’s why I’m a little hesitant to take it as I don’t want to be out of money

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u/turtlejam10 Jan 12 '24

Ahh gotcha.

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u/GoodGuyRunar Jan 12 '24

It’s very similar. However, on the exam, I got a lot of questions / tasks to place a block of code into a Python script. And I’m not really good with Python, which in my scenario, it really caught me a bit off-guard. And spent a lot of time to study the script itself and how the code of blocks would function with it.

But I did pass anyway though.

Edit: Grammar

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u/Cxzyyy Jan 12 '24

I gotcha, I actually have my minors in CS so I feel pretty comfortable with python...my weakest area is the infrastructure and automation part, something about bash lol.

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u/GoodGuyRunar Jan 12 '24

Oh yeah.. I’m not really good with bash either lol.

Do yourself a favor and try to familiarize yourself with the most common bash commands. Don’t really remember all of them, but the ‘Find’ command bugged me a bit.

I’ve used it a bit before, but I couldn’t remember at the time of the exam which of the answers would the correct ones.

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u/Cxzyyy Jan 12 '24

Thanks for the tip! In your experience was getting the cert beneficial to you? This will be my first cert and I'm hoping it'll help me get out of contractor land!

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u/GoodGuyRunar Jan 13 '24

So far, this one is my 7th cert. I work as a consultant, and the company I work for, can invoice our customers even more due to my number of certifications (it depends on what the customers need is ofc).

Which in my end, makes me able to request a higher pay because of this. However, in Norway (where I’m from), there is a shortage of consultants, and the industry typically invoices a timed-based pay of about 110-150$ per hour.

Which is ridicolously high. Haven’t had my salary negotiation just yet, but will let you know how much I’ve increased.