With as quickly as we move through these course materials, I think it could be easy get overwhelmed by the amount of information you're expected to memorize. Something I found when I got my CompTIA certifications is that, in these books and other documentation, there are ofter details emphasized that aren't necessarily relevant to the exam objectives. Some points made might aid in understanding a concept you will be tested on but may not be pertinent to the exam itself.
I have spent countless hours trying to cram port numbers, protocols, obsolete media attributes, commands, etc into my brain in preparation for one of these certification exams to later find that half of these weren't even possible test questions on my exam. Considering this, I suggest everyone interested in taking their CCNA or any other certification exam regularly read their exam objectives, that way you know what to focus on.
Below are links to the 640-802 [current CCNA] exam objectives. Print them, keep them with you, look over them daily and especially before you do any reading/studying. Eventually, as you read each bullet, answers with come to mind automatically. Both lists are broken up into 8 categories with bullets marking subpoints or specific questions in each primary category. It seems like they're listed by the order Cisco wants you to learn the objectives in, meaning the categories labeled "Describe how a network works" and "Configure, verify and troubleshoot a switch with VLANs and interswitch communications" would be the focus of the first quarter Cisco Exploration class. I could be wrong about that, though. In any case, here are the links.
The first seems to be a public page:
http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/current_exams/640-802.html
The second one asked me to log into my Cisco account and seems to have the same information but with a few more related links posted:
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-4976
That's all for now, good luck!
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