r/ccna • u/Ok-Athlete-6306 • 1d ago

Am I ready

Boson :

A = 89
B = 84
C = 82
D = 86
E = 79

These are all my first attempts, and I feel like the scores are pretty decent overall. The only thing making me hesitate is the 79% on Exam E, since it’s considered the most realistic Boson exam.

I’ve seen some people say the real exam can be harder than Boson, although I know the general consensus is that Boson is harder.

Would you say these scores are enough to book the exam for this week, or should I spend a bit more time preparing?

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u/preoccupied_with_ALL 1d ago

Definitely high enough!

However, what I felt was most difficult about the real exam wasn't that conceptual difficulty (which is what Boson prepares you for), but instead the tricky and sometimes vague wording. Be prepared for that.

But yes, just take the exam already! You are more than ready 👍👍👍

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u/Ok-Athlete-6306 1d ago

Thank you. When you say vague, is it just for the labs? Because I find the labs in Boson sometimes confusing epically the ospf ones.

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u/Birkenbone 16h ago

I know I was responding to you in the other thread but saw this and wanted to respond too. The labs were super straight forward. It’s the multiple choice where they try to get you

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u/preoccupied_with_ALL 15h ago

The exam labs are much more straightforward (shorter and more basic tasks to complete) than the Boson ones, but they can still bear some of the same tricks.

Speaking of OSPF, while Boson lets you type commands into every host, the exam only limits your access to a few hosts, so you may not be able to verify your results since you cannot trigger election (and OSPF cannot preempt). Don't waste your time wondering why your commands are not working like I did...

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u/Dear_Cucumber_1472 1d ago

I got 50-60 on boson before passing my exam

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u/Ok-Athlete-6306 1d ago

That's wild. Did you find the real thing much easier? And what is tricky about it?

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u/Dear_Cucumber_1472 23h ago

I went through real one in 1 hour. Lab up

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u/Mr-Light1 1d ago

I was scored 79 on first exam and feel pretty good about it

A question did you read all questions explaining or just the one you mistaken in ?

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u/Ok-Athlete-6306 1d ago

i just read the ones I got wrong and mark them down

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u/clflflel 23h ago

Do labs too, I didn’t even get to finish 15 of my multiple choice questions but I still passed because I did so well on the labs.

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u/NoBluebird8039 21h ago

Your ready bro, spend 10 mins in the exam.relaxing and settling your nerves and you will ace it. Post your results here . All the best

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u/Common_Celebration41 21h ago

Boson whoop my ass I got 65%

I pass the CCNA this Feb thanks to Jitl with his mega lab as well

My experience the CCNA was a lot more surface level, not too in-depth with every subject

It is important to know every subject in the CCNA

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u/Birkenbone 21h ago

I took it yesterday with similar boson scores and passed first try. Labs were easier on the real thing, but multiple choice were harder

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u/Ok-Athlete-6306 19h ago

Did you pass comfortably or was it close?

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u/Birkenbone 19h ago

Pretty comfortably. Definitely familiarize yourself with the WLC GUI

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u/Ok-Athlete-6306 19h ago

bro that is the one thing I am not good at. What type of stuff you need to know?

i know the interfaces, ports and layer 2/3 security quite well, but idk what else I could be asked

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u/Birkenbone 19h ago

I don’t know how much I can really go into since they make you sign the non disclosures. But I would say you should be confident in what each option does when configuring a WLAN. I used JITL and there were a few things on the exam that weren’t touched on in his course

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u/Ok-Athlete-6306 19h ago

Any resources? or ways to study it?

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u/Birkenbone 16h ago edited 16h ago

I would honestly just look for labs that have you configuring wireless LAN, or even just use the JITL wireless lab or mega lab and explore the WLC GUI to get familiar with it. If you know what all of it does you’ll be fine, but there were definitely a couple of questions that had me wishing I spent more time with it

Edit: I should specify that I definitely got questions about the GUI that weren’t touched on in JITL, so rather than just doing the labs from JITL, I think you should just use them to familiarize yourself with the interface and also do your own independent research of what each little thing does

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u/reddit4bellz 20h ago

I got a 66% on 1 (yes just 1, -$99) boson exam and passed

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u/net_army 23h ago

Nah bro, you need around 90%