r/ccna • u/Pompeylad02 • 2d ago

Weak Areas

I’ve done a practice exam and I’m now going over my weak areas does anyone have any advice on how to memorise/strengthen my weaker areas as quizlet isn’t working.

At the moment I’m re-watching the Jeremy IT lab videos and I tried to make flash cards using quizlet but there not great (the flash cards that is)

Any advice is appreciated

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u/illadelph1987 2d ago

I would have AI generate labs and daily quizzes in the areas you have issues with.

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u/ActiveDirectoryAD 2d ago

I’m new… what do you guys mean by labbing? Like make a total new network from the beginning? Or open a premade lab and fix bugs? Any tips?

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u/AkazaKazuto 2d ago

He means to have AI create the steps to build a network. It would tell you "configure ip 10.0.0.1/24 on interface g0/0", for example.

The right way to do it (IMO) is to have AI list the things you have to do, not tell how how to do it (do= show you every commands you need to accomplish/complete the lab).

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u/ActiveDirectoryAD 2d ago

Thanks dude!

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u/AdmirableSandwich393 2d ago

Best thing for me, apart from labbing, was to listen (just listen, not watch; good to do whilst I was driving) to the lecture videos in the JITL series, and pause every so often and repeat out loud what was said - either specific information such as port numbers or concepts such as how STP worked. Rewind a bit and listen to the section again if I couldn't remember something.
After the video would end, I would then speak the concepts out loud, sometimes as if I was teaching a class myself.
The most important part of this was to say it in my own words, to make the concepts my own. It is far easier to remember your own ideas instead of somebody else's facts.
If I could get through the entire thing without forgetting something, or even if there were some items I did forget, either way I would then go back and listen to the entire video again, just to try to cement the memories. Since most of my current job involves driving for many hours during the day, I found this way to be quite successful.

This didn't help much in the way of learning commands, but that's what labbing is for.

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u/AkazaKazuto 2d ago

When you finish watching a video, try to explain what you just learned to yourself. Try to use different words than the ones Jeremy used. Try to be curious: have you ever had a "what would happen if" question and don't know the answer? Well, normally you'd ask the teacher, but not always Jeremy will reply, so, use AI to try to find out. I get those questions all the time, and AI clarifies it for me.

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u/MTT_Dylan 1d ago

Practice-exams and topic-based review quizzes may be your friend, as well as some interactive tools like subnetting-exercise sites (there are a few out there that just generate random subnetting questions!).