Alright, the main thing I want to know is how you study. Do you read the online lessons, take notes or just look at the answers on the internet? Also, do we have to remember the opened ports for each protocol? 'Cause I don't want to have to memorize them if I don't have to.
Wait, what? Her hand? Damn, I always thought you were a guy. I suck at telling gender over the interwebz.
First you start with the CBT nuggets cisco video's by Jeremy those are
very important, and yes you have to look at the answers or you stand no chance of passing, you can't pass just by looking at the answers and you can't pass just by watching CBT nuggets it must be both.
The key to passing CCNA is the math problems, you are going to have to know how to calculate on paper, the CBT nugget videos covers that.
And yes you must memorize the ports but it ain't that difficult it sticks after rewatching CBT a few times.
If you want you can download GNS3 from the internet so you can configure cisco devices without having to buy the hardware, GNS3 is hard to operate without a guideline so download Boson for the PDF's and download IOS 3000's from the internet, the 2800 and below ones are glitchy.
Mah as for the avatar gender confusion
Boys -> feminine males / females
Girls -> boys / bifuaxhen
the 100x100 avatars gender orientation is completely random.