Finished Jeremy's IT Lab? Here's How to Find Out If You're Actually Ready
JITL taught you the theory. Take this and find out which concepts you still don't know.
A full 105-question CCNA practice exam, six question types, mixed across all domains. At the end you get a concept-level readiness map - not just a score, but the exact JITL videos to rewatch. No credit card. Code auto-applies on the next screen.
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Why I wrote this for JITL viewers
Jeremy's IT Lab is the best free CCNA video course on YouTube. I'm saying that as a senior network engineer who has watched a lot of CCNA content, not as a marketer. Jeremy explains OSPF, STP, and ACLs more clearly than most paid courses, and the fact that he gives it away free is genuinely good for the certification community.
So this page is not a "JITL alternative." That would be the wrong fight. JITL is the foundation. This is the question that comes after the foundation: "I finished all the videos. Am I ready?"
The honest answer is that finishing JITL is not the same as being CCNA-ready, and most candidates discover that the hard way - in the test center, mid-question, realizing they understood every video and still cannot pick the right answer under pressure. This page is what to do about it before that happens.
The 4 things JITL doesn't measure
JITL's job is to teach the concepts. That's a different job from measuring whether you can deploy them under exam conditions. Here's what a video course, by design, can't tell you:
1. Mixed-domain recall
JITL teaches one topic per chapter. The real exam shuffles all six domains in a 105+ question random order. You can ace every chapter quiz and still freeze when an OSPF question shows up between a NAT question and a Wi-Fi question.
2. Time pressure
Watching a video, you can pause and rewind. The CCNA gives you about 60-70 seconds per item, and you cannot go back once you confirm. That single constraint changes which answers you reach.
3. Exam-format items
The real exam includes drag-and-drop, refer-to-exhibit configuration matching, and multi-select traps where 2 of 4 answers are right. Video lectures don't drill that interaction.
4. Concept gaps you can't self-detect
The hardest concepts to identify as weak are the ones you think you understand. After a clear lecture, OSPF LSA types feel obvious. Then a practice question forces you to distinguish Type 3 from Type 5 and you realize you can't.
Closing those four gaps is what a full mixed-domain practice exam with concept-level analysis does. That's the missing step.
How the practice exam pairs with JITL
The two tools do different jobs, and they fit together cleanly. Here's the picture:
Learn the concepts
Free YouTube course. Best-in-class CCNA video lectures, labs, and chapter quizzes. This is your foundation.
Measure & diagnose
Mixed-domain 105-question practice exam plus the Exam Coach: concept-level readiness map, weak-area diagnosis, and the exact JITL videos to rewatch.
Pass with confidence
You walk into the exam knowing which concepts you can defend and which you've already retrained on. The number on the screen at the end stops being a surprise.
This is not "use FigigExams instead of JITL." This is "use FigigExams to find out where JITL hasn't landed yet, then go back to JITL to fix it." Same direction, different role.
The 4-step workflow: watch → test → diagnose → rewatch
Here's the loop I tell every junior engineer I mentor to run, once they're 70% of the way through JITL or have just finished it:
Step 1: Finish (or get close to finishing) JITL~80 hours total
Get through every chapter. Don't skip the boring ones - Wi-Fi and Automation are the most-skipped chapters and they're disproportionately represented on the exam. If you've only watched the routing chapters because they're interesting, you're not ready to take the practice exam yet; you'll just confirm the obvious gaps.
Step 2: Take a full mixed-domain practice exam~2 hours
Block off two hours. No phone, no second monitor. Take the 105-question practice exam as if it were the real one. Don't pause, don't look anything up. The whole point is to recreate exam conditions while the cost of doing it badly is zero.
Step 3: Read the concept-level diagnosis~15 minutes
This is the part most candidates skip and shouldn't. The Exam Coach doesn't just show you which questions you missed - it groups the misses into concept clusters: "you miss STP port-role questions," "you miss OSPF LSA-type questions." Those concept clusters map directly back to JITL chapters.
Step 4: Rewatch only the JITL chapters tied to your weak concepts3 to 8 hours
You are not rewatching all of JITL. You're rewatching the three or four chapters that explain the concepts you actually missed. Then you re-take a fresh exam version. Two or three cycles of this and your concept map is fully green, which is when you book the exam.
What your readiness map looks like after the exam
This is a static preview of what the Exam Coach generates for a candidate who finished JITL and scored 64% on their first practice exam. The point of the preview is to show you the level of detail - not domain-level, concept-level.
JITL's subnetting chapter clearly landed. The only systematic miss is IPv6 SLAAC vs DHCPv6 - rewatch JITL Day 27 (IPv6 Part 2).
VLAN creation is fine, but STP port-role identification is consistently confused under exam pressure. Rewatch JITL Days 19-21 (STP, RSTP, EtherChannel) and re-attempt the STP practice questions here before the next full exam.
Single-area OSPF is solid. Multi-area OSPF and LSA type distinctions are where the misses are. Rewatch JITL Days 35-37 and pair with the OSPF configuration guide.
Classic JITL-viewer pattern - Wi-Fi is one of the later chapters and the easiest to under-watch. Rewatch JITL Days 50-52 specifically. This domain is small but cheap to recover.
Every concept tag in this map is clickable inside the real Coach. Click any red tag and you get the exact JITL chapter to rewatch, plus the FigigExams study page for that concept. The point is to make "what do I study next" a one-click answer.
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 I'm reproducing it here, on a JITL-themed page: the candidate had three days to their exam and what they wanted was a way to find out whether they were ready. That's the exact slot this page is built for.
When you don't need this yet
I'd rather you take the practice exam at the right time than at the wrong time. Skip this if any of the following are true:
- You're under 60% of the way through JITL. You'll get a low score, you'll know it before you take the test, and the Coach diagnosis won't tell you anything you couldn't predict. Finish more videos first.
- You haven't done a single Packet Tracer lab. JITL has a labs course alongside the lectures. The exam tests hands-on reasoning, not just recognition. If you've only watched and never typed
configure terminal, do a couple of labs before measuring readiness. - You took a practice exam less than 48 hours ago. Cooling off between attempts matters - repeated short-interval testing measures memorization of the previous exam, not retention.
If none of those apply, you're in the right spot. Take the readiness test below.
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105 questions across all six domains. Concept-level analysis at the end. The exact JITL chapters to rewatch. 90 minutes, free, no credit card.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is FigigExams affiliated with Jeremy's IT Lab?
No. I'm a fan of JITL like everyone else in the CCNA community, and this page is positioned as a complement, not a replacement. Jeremy makes the best free CCNA video course on YouTube. FigigExams is what you take after his course to find out which concepts you still miss.
Why aren't JITL's own chapter quizzes enough?
JITL's quizzes are great chapter-end checks tied to a specific video. They tell you whether you absorbed that video. They don't tell you whether you can perform under exam pressure across mixed domains, with refer-to-exhibit and drag-and-drop items, in 120 minutes. A full mixed-domain practice exam is a different test, and it measures a different thing.
Do I need to finish all of JITL before taking the practice exam?
You'll get more useful feedback if you have, but you don't have to. Many candidates take the free exam halfway through JITL to identify which upcoming videos to focus on. The Exam Coach concept map works whether you scored 38% or 88% - the diagnosis just changes shape.
Is the practice exam actually free?
Yes. Use the code CCNA-EXAM-FULL at checkout for a full 105-question CCNA practice exam, with the Exam Coach analysis at the end. No credit card. An account is required so your result and study plan are saved.
What does the Exam Coach tell me that JITL's quizzes don't?
The Coach diagnoses you at the concept level, not the domain level. Instead of "you scored 52% on Network Access," it says "you miss STP port-role questions and EtherChannel protocol-matrix questions specifically." Then it builds a study plan ordered by score impact and points you back at the JITL videos to rewatch.
How is this different from Boson ExSim?
Boson is the well-known paid alternative at around $99 per exam. FigigExams is $18 per exam with a free version. If you want the full comparison, see the Boson alternative for CCNA page. For JITL viewers specifically, the more important comparison is "free chapter quiz" vs "free full-length mixed-domain exam with concept analysis," and that's what this page is about.