My Thoughts on the CCNP Enarsi Exam and What I Used to Prepare

[@RotiPani75]

Hey congrats, your video made me go back to studying again and even looking for Russo's course thank you for the tip. I have a dumb question he provides the layout but to follow him wouldn't it be worthwhile to know the ip's of the interfaces the way he has set or not. Just curious as that is not provided by him.

[@ChadEmery]

That’s great news! I’m glad I could aid you back on track with your journey. You’ll have to forgive me my memory has gaps since it’s been a few months since I reviewed the content Nick produced for Pluralsight. I don’t recall specifics on how the course is layered but I do remember after reviewing other content his is by far my favorite and still most recommended. I’d suggest going to his channel that is linked in the description and finding his video on the spreadsheet he created to follow along with for the ENARSI.

[@RotiPani75]

@@ChadEmery no problem at all. Just appreciate the reply! 😁

[@ChadEmery]

@@RotiPani75 always! I reached out to Nick personally on Twitter and asked him to help us out with your question. Here is his response “the reason I keep my diagrams higher level is so that they are clean and readable. cramming a network diagram full of individual IPs, subnets and/or masks, interfaces, IGP boundaries, and every other detail is often unhelpful. in my courses, I usually include a smaller zoomed-in picture in the top right corner that adds some of these details based on the context of the current discussion. I also use simple addressing that is intuitive to understand even without explanation. last, I always include complete configurations for every topology I teach, whether that's a full Pluralsight course, a KZbin video, or a blog post. in summary, there are ample opportunities for viewers to dig deeper into individual details if they think it helps them personally. As a general rule, I keep my topology visualizations higher level because the vast majority of viewers learn better with fewer distractions. My explanations and demonstrations of individual technologies should make low level details like interfaces and address is somewhat irrelevant. If I say “let's ping R7” or “let's check the BGP peer to R4” I'll always follow up with the proper command/explanation. Whether the viewer knows the IPs or interfaces to perform these actions is irrelevant. They just need to follow along with the PROCESS. This is the key to mastery.” I’ll pin his response for others to see.

[@RotiPani75]

@@ChadEmery thank you for getting that information for me!

[@konetidiane3896]

Thank you for sharing your experience. This is not a technical video but there is a lot to learn from your experience ☺️

[@Frissdas1207]

Dude, huge accomplishment!! I don't know you in real life but I'm real proud of you.

[@ChadEmery]

Thank you so much for the support!

[@tremaineakatree5335]

Love this...thank you for sharing!! Great channel!

[@celvsmachine]

Nick Russo is what I’m watching for Enarsi now and I love it so far. Congrats and go for the IE but make sure to take the channel with ya!

[@ChadEmery]

I am. I plan on posting this weekend or next about my journey to the CCIE and then do follow up videos on my progress. Thank you for the support and encouragement!

[@ardentdfender4116]

Congrats on the accomplishment, I know it’s a lot of work. I have a co-worker who just passed his CCNP ENCOR Exam this past Monday, I’ll be taking the CCNA exam in about 31 days. Anyway I decided to subscribe. As I’m on my starter journey, I just enjoy following others as well on theirs.

[@ChadEmery]

Well congratulations to your co-worker! The CCNA is such a valuable certification for the knowledge that you get from it. Very proud of you for going after it. Thank you for subscribing and hopefully my channel will aid you in some way.

[@jpsnetworkingchannel3430]

Congrats chad, welcome to the NP club

[@ChadEmery]

It is an awesome journey and experience. For those following my channel be sure to check out JP's content. He has a great selection of labs posted up and I found them to be beneficial. Thank you JP!

[@sundaymorningrides9142]

Congratulations man. Working on mine now. About one month out. Crunch time

[@JKRowl]

Congratulations 👏🏻🎉 Its a pretty tough exam actually! The amount of details is incredibly messy!

[@dookieduckie]

I know this was years ago but congratulations!!

[@ChadEmery]

I appreciate the support!

[@Sharmakeahmed-k1t]

Congratulations, Nice video thanks for that, is there was any simulation lap in the exam? or it was MCQ and drag and drop. thank you.

[@andrespadilla2759]

Congrats! Thanks for sharing your experience. I passed the ENCOR a couple of weeks ago and want to keep going up in the Cisco cert path - not 100% sure if I want to go with ENARSI, yet. I was wondering if you could share what your thoughts are about ENCOR vs ENARSI. Which one did you find more difficult?

[@ChadEmery]

Hard to measure the difficulty between the two because they both are focused on different areas. I’d say the Encor is slightly more difficult based on the amount of topics being so spread out where was ENARSI dives into more detail with certain things. ENARSI was by far more fun to tackle. Hopefully this is helpful to your question. If I could reverse time I likely would have done encore, ensld, then ENARSI.

[@Vyncius]

I got my CCNA this year. I thought i'll do CCNA and will just stop. But oh well... my plan now is ccnp enterprise next year!

[@ChadEmery]

You got this! I am happy that I got my CCNP and will feel the same after my IE. Keep going!

[@unknown10.85]

Congratulations on passing the exam, and thanks for sharing your experience. Didn’t you use INE this time?

[@ChadEmery]

Only very briefly. INE is like a fire hose of information and that’s their thing. For some topics I found the white papers to be more helpful. I am using INE though for my CCIE studies.

[@unknown10.85]

I couldn’t agree more and thanks for your feedback!

[@kavishalakmal3273]

Congratulations.. ! may i know did you get a certificate after you passed ONLY the ENCORE exam ?

[@johnmclaughlin9674]

Congrats btw

[@johnmclaughlin9674]

I’m working on my cCNA and thinking ccnp and then Cissp is this a good path

[@MrGodfather00001]

Hi Chad, was there any LAB sim on the exam ??

[@ryans_nobuffet9966]

Hey man, how do you feel about about the two Certs Specialization ENSLD and ENWSLD. I currently studying for the ENARSI and don’t know where to go next. I want to go Wireless more but I feel like ENSLD would better compliment ENARSI

[@ronniekoitsiwe3521]

hi man congrats can you send the enaris white paper link thanks

[@Reason_over_Dogma]

Congrats on passing your ccnp!

[@ChadEmery]

Thank you!

[@JohnDoe-101]

Congrats.

[@KarloJamisola]

Hi Chad, congratulations! Question if I take and pass the ENARSI does my Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core also extended? my certificate will expire in Feb 2023, im thinking to retake ENCOR or take ENARSI, just to avoid expiration. Thank you

[@ChadEmery]

Yes it would since the ENCORE, and ENARSI combined would result in NP.

[@MusiKlyn]

hi congrats. is there a lab sim on the enarsi exam?

[@ChadEmery]

I didn’t have any but have heard they may added some.

[@JKRowl]

Question; did you print that certificate or is it ordered and delivered to you after you pass? I have many certificates but don’t know about this point 😂

[@ChadEmery]

Once you pass it will be printable from their site. They also mail a hard copy of you ask them too.

[@damonaniton]

Is ENCOR useful to do first? Seems like from the blueprint it is not really needed because it covers so many other topics.

[@ChadEmery]

If you’re trying for the CCNP a core exam is required along with a concentration exam. It definitely caries a lot of broad topics but it is relevant information to help you decide what to dive deeper into for the concentration exams.

[@mehrdadmomeni3678]

I faced 3 simulations yesterday and I failed to pass; where can I practice to overcome that? Thanks

[@ChadEmery]

I can’t speak for the exacts but I would suggest studying up on the areas you found the most difficult and lab certain scenarios around those same areas.

[@POPGAMING1234]

great guy

[@steneer6789]

Hi, among the resources which one recommend to go first as a whole ?

[@ChadEmery]

OCG paired with the Pluralsight course.

[@pallavi8388]

@@ChadEmery Thanks for the breakdown.

[@bighello4895]

how many months does it take to pass both encor+enarsi?

[@ChadEmery]

24. I could have done it in 12 but I really wanted to take my time and grasp everything. It's no rush, let it sink in.

[@fraser1237]

read the book, then read the book again.