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The "piecing it together" problem
Look at the CCNA prep stack of any candidate in any Discord, Reddit, or LinkedIn study group. It always looks roughly the same: a free YouTube course (usually Jeremy's IT Lab), a paid Udemy course bought during a flash sale, a Boson ExSim purchase a month before the exam, a PDF study guide somewhere, and a small mountain of Anki flashcards. Total cost: anywhere from $150 to $250. Total time wasted figuring out what to study next: many hours.
This isn't anyone's fault. Each component is good in isolation. The problem is that nobody designed the stack as a stack. The study guide doesn't know what your last practice exam showed. The practice exam doesn't know what's in the study guide. The flashcards don't know either. Every transition between components costs you time, mental load, and money.
The $18 stack solves that one specific problem: one product, one account, one designed-together path from reading to testing to diagnosis. That's the entire pitch. Everything below is just the detail of how it does that.
What's actually in the $18 stack
Four components, designed to be used in this order:
Focused study guide
All six CCNA 200-301 domains, organized by exam objective. Browser-readable, mobile-friendly, updated as Cisco revises the exam. No 800-page textbook to wade through.
500+ Boson-tier questions
Four full-length practice exam versions, 105+ questions each. Single-answer, multi-answer, drag-and-drop, refer-to-exhibit. Difficulty deliberately calibrated to the Boson ExSim bar.
Per-question Exam Tips
Every question has a follow-up Exam Tip written by a network engineer. Not a textbook explanation - a real-world "here's how to remember this under pressure" note.
Personal Exam Coach
After every exam attempt, a concept-level diagnosis with a personalized study plan ranked by score impact. Direct links back to the study guide chapters you need.
Each component links to the next. Read a chapter, take a practice exam, get the Coach diagnosis, the Coach links you back to the exact chapter you need to re-read. The loop closes itself, which is the whole point of a designed stack.
Pieced-together vs combo: real cost
Here's a typical CCNA prep stack a candidate ends up with after 90 days of shopping, next to the $18 combo. Prices are public list prices as of mid-2026; check vendors for current.
What most candidates end up with
One stack, designed together
Boson and Udemy pricing reflect their current listings; Boson's CCNA ExSim is around $99 on boson.com and Udemy CCNA courses run $15-20 during flash sales and $120-180 at list. We do not control those catalogs.
What "Boson-tier" actually means - and why we don't pretend the questions are Boson's
Boson ExSim is widely regarded as the gold standard for CCNA practice-question difficulty. When candidates say they want "Boson-tier" questions, they usually mean three things: realistic difficulty, deep explanations, and real-exam framing. Those are achievable bars to meet without being Boson.
"Boson-tier" is the difficulty calibration target for the FigigExams question bank, written from scratch by a senior network engineer. Specifically:
- Item difficulty is mapped to Cisco's blueprinted item-difficulty profile, not to "easy-medium-hard" subjective ratings.
- Distractor quality - every wrong answer is a plausible misconception, not filler. That's the hardest thing to get right in question writing, and it's the bar Boson is known for.
- Format coverage - single-answer, multi-answer, drag-and-drop, refer-to-exhibit. The CCNA's interaction surface, not just text questions.
The questions are not Boson's. They are independently authored. The calibration was set against Boson because that's the published quality bar most candidates trust, and meeting that bar at $18 is the actual value proposition.
A sample question (and the Exam Tip that follows)
Here's one full Boson-tier item from the IP Connectivity domain, with the Exam Tip a candidate sees after answering. This is the format every paid question follows.
A network engineer notices that OSPF neighbors on a multi-access Ethernet segment have formed adjacencies, but only with the DR and BDR. Two DROTHER routers do not establish a Full adjacency with each other. Which statement best explains this behavior?
- OSPF is not configured to support multi-access networks.
- DROTHERs intentionally form a 2-Way state with each other to reduce flooding overhead; only the DR and BDR maintain Full adjacencies with all routers.
- The Hello and Dead timers are mismatched between DROTHER routers.
- OSPF process IDs differ between the DROTHER routers, preventing full adjacency.
That tip is what "per-question Exam Tip" means - not a textbook paragraph, but a memorable distillation of the trap pattern. Across 500+ questions, that's where a meaningful share of your score improvement comes from.
The Exam Coach: your weak-area diagnosis after each exam
Every exam attempt feeds the Exam Coach. The Coach produces a personalized report that names your weak concepts, ranks them by score impact, and points back to the specific study-guide chapters that fix them. Here's a static preview.
Read the OSPF Configuration chapter sections 4-6, then re-attempt the OSPF question set in version v3.
Read the STP chapter end-to-end. Highest single-domain score impact.
ACL chapter, sections 2 and 3. The mistakes cluster on standard vs extended placement.
No action needed. Maintain with a light pass on exam week.
This is the loop that competing tools don't have. Boson gives you a great question and a great explanation, but the next "what should I study" decision is on you. Udemy gives you lectures, but no diagnosis. The combo's Coach closes that loop and points you back at exactly which study-guide chapter to re-read - which is why the stack is worth more than its parts.
What a real CCNA candidate said
"the free test is way better than boson imo and its free and 105 questions and it shows you the result and what you had wrong in the end, you can use a mock email to create the account idk why you guys hate so much, I have my ccna on tuesday and got 96% on this practice test which really boosted my confidence"
Quote preserved verbatim. The reason it sits at the bottom of a $18 combo page: the candidate validated the question quality before paying. That's the entire intent of the free tier, and that's why the top CTA on this page is "try the free exam first" rather than "buy now." If the free exam meets the Boson bar for you, the $18 stack is worth the upgrade. If it doesn't, you've lost nothing.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What does "Boson-tier" mean exactly?
Boson ExSim is widely regarded as the gold standard for CCNA practice-question difficulty and realism. "Boson-tier" is the calibration target for the FigigExams question bank: items written to match the difficulty profile of real Cisco questions and the depth of explanation Boson is known for. It does not mean the questions are Boson's - they are originally written. It does mean the difficulty bar was deliberately set to match.
What's actually in the $18 stack?
One $18 purchase gets you: a focused CCNA 200-301 study guide covering all six domains, 4 full-length practice exam versions with 105+ questions each (500+ total questions), per-question Exam Tips written by a network engineer, a personalized Exam Coach that diagnoses your weak concepts after every attempt, and lifetime access with no expiration. The free tier on top of that includes a full 105-question practice exam via the code CCNA-EXAM-FULL.
How does this compare to piecing it together yourself?
A typical pieced-together stack is Boson at $99, a Udemy course at $15-20, a study guide PDF at $30-40, and a chapter-quiz workbook at $25 - $170-185 minimum, no integrated weak-area diagnosis, and the components weren't designed to be used together. The $18 stack is one purchase, one account, one continuous study path from reading to testing to diagnosis. See the side-by-side above.
Is the study guide a PDF I can download?
No. The study guide is a browser-readable, mobile-friendly study path organized by exam domain and updated as Cisco revises the CCNA. PDFs go stale the moment Cisco changes the exam objectives - the browser-based guide doesn't. You don't need to download anything; just log in and read.
How is this different from the Boson alternative for CCNA page?
The Boson alternative page is a head-to-head comparison for candidates already choosing between FigigExams and Boson on price. This page is about the complete stack - what "piecing prep together" looks like and why a bundled approach saves time and money. Different question, different page. If you've decided you want Boson-quality questions at $18, you're in the right place; if you specifically want a side-by-side, the Boson alternative page is the better read.
What's the catch? Why is it $18 if Boson is $99?
No catch, just a different cost structure. FigigExams is a solo-engineer product, not an editorial team. The same network engineer who writes the questions also writes the study guide and builds the platform, so the editorial overhead Boson has to amortize over $99 isn't part of the price. You get the same difficulty bar at a lower price; what you don't get is Boson's brand recognition with hiring managers, which is a real thing and is the only honest argument for the $99.