Practice Subnetting and Other Math-Related Skills

Like it or not, some of the questions on the DCICN exam require you to do some math. To pass, you have to be good at the math. You also need to know when to use each process.

The Cisco exams also have a timer. Some of the math crops up often enough so that if you go slow with the math, or if you have to write down all the details of how you compute the answers, you might well run out of time to answer all the questions. (The two biggest reasons we hear as to why people do not finish on time are: slow speed with the math-related work and slow speed when doing simulator questions using the CLI.)

However, look at these math processes and the time crunch as a positive instead of a negative. Right ...

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