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This exercise can help you focus on the review. It also exercises the memory connectors in
your brain, plus it makes you think about the information without as much information,
which forces a little more contemplation about the facts.
Appendix E, also a PDF located on the CD, lists the completed tables to check yourself.
Yo u c a n a l s o j u s t r e fe r t o t h e t a b l e s a s p r i n t e d i n t h e b o o k .
Chapters 1 through 15 each have several features in the “Exam Preparation Tasks” and
“Q&A” sections at the end of the chapter. You might have already worked through these
in each chapter. It can also be useful to use these tools again as you make your final prepa-
rations for the exam.
This section lists a suggested study plan from the point at which you finish reading
through Chapter 16, until you take the 640-864 CCDA exam. Certainly, you can ignore
this plan, use it as is, or just take suggestions from it.
The plan uses five steps:
Step 1.
Review key topics and DIKTA questions:
Yo u c a n u s e t h e t a b l e t h a t l i s t s t h e
key topics in each chapter, or just flip the pages looking for key topics. Also,
reviewing the DIKTA questions from the beginning of the chapter can be help-
ful for review.
Step 2.
Complete memory tables:
Open Appendix D on the CD and print the entire
thing, or print the tables by major part. Then complete the tables.
Step 3.
Review “Q&A” sections:
Go through the Q&A questions at the end of each
chapter to identify areas you need more study.
Step 4.
Subnetting practice:
If you can no longer do subnetting well and quickly,
without a subnetting calculator, take some time to get better and faster before
going to take the 640-864 CCDA exam.
Step 5.
Use the Pearson Cert Practice Test engine to practice:
The Pearson Cert
Practice Test engine on the CD can be used to study using a bank of unique
exam-realistic questions available only with this topic.
This topic assumes that you have mastered subnetting and the related math. However,
many people who progress through CCNA and move on to CCDA follow a path like this:
Step 1.
Learn subnetting conceptually.
Step 2.
Get really good at doing the math quickly.
