Ben Sanders Online Space

- -

CCNA Studying

- Benjamin Sanders | 11 October 2025 | 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

- -

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.

- -

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

- -