BSCI Today...

remerolle

Here goes...taking the BSCI today at 1. It was not too smart to take it the week of finals, but whatever.

LOkrasa

Keep ya head up! Good luck man!

georgemc

Good Luck! Let us know how it goes, I may try to take it this week as well.

netteaser

Let us know how it goes and what you used to study

mikej412

Good Luck!

cdad2000

Good luck and breathe!!Take your time, no big deal

remerolle

I passed with a 904...I started doubting myself part of the way through, but it seems I knew my stuff.

To study I utilized:
-Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) (Authorized Self-Study Guide), 3rd Edition
-Along with the CCNP BSCI Cisco Network Academy coursework
- BSCI CBT Nuggets for further understanding
-On top of all this I was taking a course at my college which basically compromised all of these resources along with some great powerlabs.

Stotic

tell us more about those powerlabs ryan!

remerolle

Hey buddy...you passed too today. The difference between you and I is that I went down the street to take it, and you went two hours away in CT.

Stotic

yea well worth it though. gratz to both of us! yayyyy

remerolle

BCMSN next....just have to review some more content and watch the CBT Nuggets for a brush up. It looks like BCMSN will not be attempted till January. Holiday season is rough. I will be starting the ICSW and ONT material during my winter break, then I start a CCIE independent study course with Mike aka Stotic and a few other fellows. If all goes well, we will be learning a ton of information up until mid May. I may work back on my CCSP since I took a course for the SNRS and SND last spring. Or IF I am ready maybe a written exam for the CCIE. It all depends...By the time I start my new job in July, I will hopefully have my CCNP.

7255carl

great work, good luck with BCMSN

impelse

Congrats

mikej412

remerolle wrote:

you passed too today

So that means we have 2 congratulations to do, right?

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

Sounds like you guys have A PLAN!

remerolle

Yea, it helps when you have a great professor helping to push you and giving you access various lab environments and remote racks.

The courses offered are:
Wireless Networking (CWLF & some of CWLAT content)
Internet Security (CCSP focused)
Internetworking I (CCNA focused along with some BCMSN)
Internetworking II (BSCI & rest of BCMSN focused)
or the CCIE Independent study (CCIE R&S)

With each course we are basically getting credits for taking Cisco NetAcademyclasses (usually two a actual college course) while also being supplemented with weekly lab scenarios. Furthermore, at the end of each course there is a huge networking manual with topologies, configurations, and explanations that we have to design to be graded by the professor. Besides the NetAcademy finals, we complete a comprehensive final practical which takes into account everything we learned through the class in a timed (a small CCIEish lab scenario). The Internetworking I practical is about an hour whereas the other practicals are at 3-6 hours long.

I recommend the college's curriculum to anyone! BTW...its the Marist College ITS major with an IT concentration. The IS concentration is more project management based, I figured to go for the IS minor just to get that experience as well.