Just scheduled BSCI Monday at 2pm...

scheistermeister

Yes, Paul, at 3:33am I again just up and decided to schedule it :P hehe

Honestly if I were to take it this very minute I think it would be slim that I would pass it. Mainly because I haven't reviewed all that much for multicast and IPv6 yet. Having it on Monday should motivate me though. I should have probably scheduled it sooner to motivate me to actually study. So any good advice from you guys on this one? You guys have been great on helping me with the others I have had. This one does make me nervous though simply because of the amount of material it covers. Anyways back to the books!

jamesp1983

good luck!!

jamesp1983

scheistermeister wrote:

Yes, Paul, at 3:33am I again just up and decided to schedule it :P hehe

Honestly if I were to take it this very minute I think it would be slim that I would pass it. Mainly because I haven't reviewed all that much for multicast and IPv6 yet. Having it on Monday should motivate me though. I should have probably scheduled it sooner to motivate me to actually study. So any good advice from you guys on this one? You guys have been great on helping me with the others I have had. This one does make me nervous though simply because of the amount of material it covers. Anyways back to the books!

if you can find a couple different books on ipv6, it may help. My boss gave me a book called ipv6 ip addressing and subnetting. It was a huge help.

gojericho0

good luck man! i had a tough time with multicast because...make sure you know it pretty well

btowntech

Good luck!

josunin75

I'll be taking it on Tuesday.
Same here! It would motivate me more to study.
Good Luck to u and to me.

Plazma

good luck

astorrs

Good luck to both of you!

Slowhand

Good luck, we'll all be scanning the threads for that "I PASSED!!!" update on Monday.

mikej412

scheistermeister wrote:

decided to schedule it

josunin75 wrote:

I'll be taking it on Tuesday.

Good Luck x 2!

ITdude

I second that motion! Multicast and ipv6 are your friends.

scheistermeister

Alright, I've gotten to the extremely nervous point... If I didn't have the secondchance option I would reschedule it. I've completely read the Self Study guide, read the Net Acad stuff (quite a few months back) and watched the CBT Nuggets quite a few times. But having been through two other NP tests I know they ask the most off the wall questions concerning the topics they talked the least about. Also concerned about time.

For comparision how long did it take you guys who had problems with time to do the ONT and BCMSN? On those I had about 30+ minutes left when I finished them and I answer the multiple choice/multiple answer questions very quickly usually without thinking about them all that much. I am a firm believer in go with your gut and don't second guess yourself.

But yeah, I see the failboat off the coast and approaching fast! If I do fail I'll make sure I post a humorous picture...

Edit: Forgot to mention, My strong points are EIGRP, Multicast, DHCP and IS-IS. OSPF I am alright on, but not confident enough to say it is a strong point. I am not really sure where I stand with BGP as I have not gone through any practice tests for it yet, I know on the concepts I get those fine, not sure about the configs. And I just plain HATE IPv6 and redistribution.

APA

Good Luck

kpjungle

Good luck tomorrow scheistermeister!

dynamik

I hate scheduling my exams in the afternoon; I'm antsy until I get to sit the exam. I just want to get it out of the way first thing in the morning and get on with my day. You're a stronger man than me.

I'm sure you'll do fine. Good luck!

P.S. How're your eyes doing? Good as new?

scheistermeister

dynamik wrote:

I hate scheduling my exams in the afternoon; I'm antsy until I get to sit the exam. I just want to get it out of the way first thing in the morning and get on with my day. You're a stronger man than I.

I'm sure you'll do fine. Good luck!

P.S. How're your eyes doing? Good as new?

Actually, I am the same way. I have always scheduled my tests at 2pm just in case I can't sleep the night before and wake up late. I usually show up 3-4 hours early and they let me take it then anyways.

The eyes are alright, not great, but not as bad as they were. Waking up is the worst part since they are so dry I have to peal my eye lids off of them. Then use massive quantities of eye drops for the next hour during which time everything is super blurry and I really can't see. After that though it just depends on the day. Some days are great others I see double and everything is blurry. One thing is pretty consistent though and that is they tend to constantly focus in and out through out the day. It's like looking through a video camera that is trying to auto-focus but can't quite find the right spot.

They don't lie about the dryness though, eye drops are my crack. I was told they are still healing and the last time I went in the swelling had only dropped by 30% and that was 3 weeks after I had it done. They tell me it take 3 months for them to heal completely... So I wait...

singh8281

Good luck. Let us know how you did.

What sources are you using to prepare?

scheistermeister

singh8281 wrote:

Good luck. Let us know how you did.

What sources are you using to prepare?

To prepare I went through the Net Acad program a few months ago but basically had to relearn it since I didn't use it as much in the following NP courses. Besides that I used:

Cisco Press Self Study Guide
CBT Nuggets
642-801 Version of the Cisco Press Practice test (A LOT is different in this!)
Dynamips

I tried Boson lab sim for like 5 minutes but hated it. You have to do the labs EXACTLY the way they want them with no shortcuts or or alternative methods for it to grade you correctly. You also have to constantly do stupid stuff like enable descriptions (what they thought it should be described as) and telnet passwords on labs like redistribution.

The two things I used the most were the Self Study Guide and CBT Nuggets. I recently ordered a few routers but they did not make it here in time for me to practice with. If I do fail I would think it would be because I did not have enough hands on and will hit the lab hard for a week and go back to re-test.

singh8281

scheistermeister wrote:

singh8281 wrote:

Good luck. Let us know how you did.

What sources are you using to prepare?

To prepare I went through the Net Acad program a few months ago but basically had to relearn it since I didn't use it as much in the following NP courses. Besides that I used:

Cisco Press Self Study Guide
CBT Nuggets
642-801 Version of the Cisco Press Practice test (A LOT is different in this!)
Dynamips

I tried Boson lab sim for like 5 minutes but hated it. You have to do the labs EXACTLY the way they want them with no shortcuts or or alternative methods for it to grade you correctly. You also have to constantly do stupid stuff like enable descriptions (what they thought it should be described as) and telnet passwords on labs like redistribution.

The two things I used the most were the Self Study Guide and CBT Nuggets. I recently ordered a few routers but they did not make it here in time for me to practice with. If I do fail I would think it would be because I did not have enough hands on and will hit the lab hard for a week and go back to re-test.

I tried Boson in the beginning for CCNA and never went back to it. In my opinion instructor led training for BSCI isn’t very effective unless you have a background in routing. My BSCI semester lasted for month and a half and honesty 90 days isn’t enough time to get the routing through your head. The online academy material is invaluable so make the best use of it as long as you have access.

shednik

Best of luck tomorrow!!