From 359f3309c97fc894b63e0a295c76ab298504d635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Sanders Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:24:53 -0400 Subject: added article going over my plans for studying for the ccna --- _posts/2025-09-12-ccna-studying.md | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _site/blog.html | 2 ++ assets/images/wgu-remaining-time.png | Bin 0 -> 21072 bytes 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+) create mode 100644 _posts/2025-09-12-ccna-studying.md create mode 100644 assets/images/wgu-remaining-time.png diff --git a/_posts/2025-09-12-ccna-studying.md b/_posts/2025-09-12-ccna-studying.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..edaf25c --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2025-09-12-ccna-studying.md @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "CCNA Studying" +date: 2025-10-11 +permalink: "/blog/ccna-studying" +author: Benjamin Sanders +catagories: ccna +--- +I've been wanting to write this post for a few weeks now but since I'm in a new term for my school seems like a good time to reflect. + +Currently I am studying for my CCNA and in, hopefully, my final term for my Bachelor's of Science in Network Operations and Security at WGU. +As it stands I have attemped the CCNA exam twice now and failed so I'm working on changing up my study method to go in and ace it on the third +attempt. I'd also like to try to blog here while I spend time in Packet Tracer labbing and reviewing JeremyITLab's and CBT Nuggets courses. + +Hopefully what I write here will help someone else who is currently studying or just wants to learn more about how networks work as well as +be a way for me to cement enough information into my head for the exam. + +![alt text](/assets/images/wgu-remaining-time.png) + +As of the writing of this post I have 24 weeks in this term to go through and study up on my week areas and pass two more courses to recieve my +degree. I think the way the I will update this blog will be to work on an article through the week of studying and labbing or have an article +for each topic I work on which will be focused on the following from the [Cisco Exam Topics Guide](https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/ccna-exam-topics). + +Topic 2 +* VLANS +* Etherchannel +* CDP and LLDP + +Topic 3 +* Static routing for IPv4 and IPv6 +* OSPF + +Topic 5 +* ACLs + +Well, enough writing this little introduction article. It is Saturday so I'm going to get started working on some subnetting then VLAN labbing. + +Thanks for reading, +~Ben \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_site/blog.html b/_site/blog.html index 921f29e..ad49071 100644 --- a/_site/blog.html +++ b/_site/blog.html @@ -43,6 +43,8 @@