Passed BSCI 642-901 988/1000!!

eniac

Well, I passed it today. 988/1000.

It was quite tough exam! Surprisingly had a lot of questions on IPv6 and multicasting and only few on BGP. Mostly OSPF and EIGRP which I nailed

I think I will go for BCMSN next. Any recommendations what to use to prepare for it?

10x

mikej412

Congratulations!

Sa'ad

Congrats man! what study material did you use and how long did you study for?

eniac

Cisco Press Book, Learnkey Training videos and mostly Dynamips in use

It tooks me about 2 months to get ready for the exam.

optimus

Two months to get ready is very impressive. Very impressive indeed. How much time a day did you put in studying?

NightShade1

lol 2 months must be beause he has working experience and everything was easy to learn....

I have been studying BSCI for like 2 months and i just have covered almost 4 chapters of the 8 O_o well more likely 3 1/2 chapter hehe

And i still need to learn more about those 4 chapter i alredy know guess i will do this exam on september

optimus

I met a CCNP the other month who was HEAVY into working with routers, etc. and so I asked him how long it took him to pass. He told me it took him 2-3 years. Like eniac's case though, I have heard of people flying by some of these exams. I suppose that if I put in 6 hours a day, maybe five days a week, I might also be able to do it, but my current schedule is something around 1-2 hours a night, maybe 5-6 days a week. I know I should probably crank this up to 3 hours a day and 6 days a week, which is the routine I am sliding into slowly. I am planning to take this exam hopefully this summer. I will never post the exaxt time, nor tell anyone, not even my wife when the exact test date it. I believe all it does is add pressure to the exam. If I ever take the CCIE lab though, I am sure I will need to explain it to a lot of people, like my employer. There is no way I can cover up going to Sydney Australia, which is where I plan to take it since it is one of the closest places to me. I have been there before also and I am familiar with the area.

eniac

Studying 3-4 hours a day(evenings) during the week and 10 -12 hours per weekend.I missed even the party for my birthday

Inc

As I've said before: Social life is over rated

srg

Inc wrote:

As I've said before: Social life is over rated

Word

optimus

If you think social life is overrated, its because you never had a decent one in the first place. heh.

romain

Great score! Good luck for bcmsn test

markzab

I don't think 2 months sounds like too short a time at all...

This was back a long time ago but I was averaging about 1.5m per test...

640-506 CCNP - Support
13-Feb-2001 (P) CCNP

640-505 CCNP - Remote Access
19-Jan-2001 (P) CCNP

640-503 Routing
08-Nov-2000 (P) CCDP, CCNP

640-504 Switching
11-Sep-2000 (P) CCDP, CCNP

640-441 Designing Cisco Networks
31-Jul-2000 (P) CCDA10

640-407 CCNA
23-May-2000 (P) CCNA

It looks like it took me 6.5 months from the first day I opened my first CCNP test book until I passed my 4th one to get that damn cert locked up. If I remember correctly I'd spend about 2 hours max per night reading and studying. Maybe like 5 days a week. I just think it depends on how you study and how well you retain the information.

2-3 years sounds like the person who was doing it just read 5-10 pages a day. I forget which one of those is the BCMSN though (Routing, Support, Switching, or Remote Access). Unless the tests have gotten 50x harder over the past 6 years I think 2 months is a good time frame.

My .02 cents