BSCI Next Monday - EDIT : Passed!!

gorebrush

Well

Time is drawing to a close on my BSCI studies.

So far I feel very confident with EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, Router based DHCP.

I need some slight review on Multicast, and IPv6 (remembering all the various types of addresses)

Bit more work required with BGP, though it's just a routing protocol like the other three.. so it shouldn't be that hard.

Materials used so far: -

Cisco BSCI Exam Book
CCIE TCP/IP Routing (not a lot, but some)
BSCI Lab Portfolio + GNS
CBT Nuggets BSCI

Should be OK, I hope!!

nel

Good luck mate.

Ive been following your posts and you seem to be doing very well lately. The hard work will pay off.

Best of luck man!

kpjungle

Good luck on it!

gorebrush

nel wrote:

Good luck mate.

Ive been following your posts and you seem to be doing very well lately. The hard work will pay off.

Best of luck man!

Cheers

It's been a busy year this year: -

Vista MCTS in March
New job in June
CCNA in September
Exchange 2007 MCTS in October
BSCI December

APA

good luck!

Mrock4

Good luck. I'm sure you'll do fine. Definitely hit Multicast. I labbed multicast quite a bit, and found the lab portion to really be helpful as it relates to the BSCI.

miller811

Good luck

networker050184

Good luck!

Definitely study up on the BGP, IPv6 and multicasting. This is an exam you want to bee 100% on all topics before testing. I'm sure you will do fine though!

jamesp1983

good luck man!!

cisco_trooper

Good luck man. It's not as bad as people make it out to be...the reputation of this exam (IMO) comes more from the simple fact that this is the first pro level exam a lot of people take....

If you studied the blue print and put your time in on labs, you'll be fine.

gojericho0

Good Luck! You've put a lot of hard work in

cdad2000

Good luck!! Relax , pace yourself, and read everything clearly.

networker050184

cisco_trooper wrote:

Good luck man. It's not as bad as people make it out to be...the reputation of this exam (IMO) comes more from the simple fact that this is the first pro level exam a lot of people take....

If you studied the blue print and put your time in on labs, you'll be fine.

I agree about people finding it difficult due to it being their first pro level exam. I went the other route and did BCMSN first and I felt that one was more difficult then BSCI. It may have been due to the fact that the material wasn't as familiar to me as BSCI, but it may have had to due with the fact that it was my first pro exam also.

redwarrior

Good Luck!

I did ONT as my first pro exam under the assumption that it was the "easiest" of the exams...well I failed my first attempt. I think most of it was due to the fact that it was my first pro exam and I didn't realize how much different my study methods would need to be. I'm sure hanging out in this forum that you will be better prepared than I was and will kick this exam to the curb!

gorebrush

Well I did the BSCI because I heard ISCW/ONT were the harder pair of the four, so wanted to do BSCI/BCMSN first.

This will be the first "Pro" level exam i've ever done, but I am not alien to certifications, so I should be OK.

Tonight I'm going to lab BGP, finishing tomorrow if I don't get it all done..

IPv6 shouldn't require much more work. Multicasting shouldn't be a big deal either, but more to do though...

Still, I'll keep you all posted.

mikej412

Good Luck!

mikearama

Sounds like you have your head on straight regarding this exam. I used similar resources (Cert Guide, the Lab portfolio, and the Chris Bryant material), however, I totally underestimated the level of detail required to be memorized, and failed big time the first time around.

Stuck the landing on the second attempt, though.

Good luck to you.

gorebrush

Thanks for all the kind advice

The one thing I am worried about is how far the BSCI material goes in terms of BGP.

I know Cisco Trooper read far beyond, and he recommended the Doyle TCP/IP Routing volumes, hence I've been reading them some, but NOT A LOT...

Just hope I've read enough ...

We shall soon see

Plazma

gorebrush wrote:

Well

Time is drawing to a close on my BSCI studies.

There is no such thing as a 'close' on any form of study

Mrock4

gorebrush wrote:

Thanks for all the kind advice

The one thing I am worried about is how far the BSCI material goes in terms of BGP.

I didn't find the depth of BGP on the BSCI to be anything to be feared..but I did feel the BSCI tested you hard on the fundamentals of BGP.

gorebrush

Plazma wrote:

gorebrush wrote:

Well

Time is drawing to a close on my BSCI studies.

There is no such thing as a 'close' on any form of study

Close is when your still going at 2:00am the night before

kingpinofdisks

I just passed the BCSI recently. My printout showed 47% for BGP. It is the one protocol I just never have used in the real world one time. Probably cause I have never worked for an ISP

I nailed EIGRP (pronounced e-grip) and OSPF (pronounced os-pif) 100%, which is why I ended up passing with one of the lowest scores possible. But a pass is a pass!!!!

If you can nail 5 our of 6 categories with 90% plus, then doing poor on one category won't kill you.

gorebrush

I'm not worried

I'm pretty confident. My only concern was if the BSCI book was poor compared to the exam in terms of how much they test BGP

networker050184

kingpinofdisks wrote:

I just passed the BCSI recently. My printout showed 47% for BGP. It is the one protocol I just never have used in the real world one time. Probably cause I have never worked for an ISP

I nailed EIGRP (pronounced e-grip) and OSPF (pronounced os-pif) 100%, which is why I ended up passing with one of the lowest scores possible. But a pass is a pass!!!!

If you can nail 5 our of 6 categories with 90% plus, then doing poor on one category won't kill you.

How did you come up with those pronunciations? Maybe you were joking......

gorebrush

I've always pronounced them E I G R P and err O S P F... like everyone else does

redwarrior

That pronunciation drives me about as nuts as the VPN videos on the ISCW study portion of Cisco's website where the lady keeps referring to an ACL as an "Ackle." I swear, I've never heard a person call them an "Ackle" except when they barely knew what they were talking about. It could just be a regional thing that I've only heard them called "Ay Cee Elll's," but it really drove me nuts!

JavonR

I've heard the term "Nackle" referring to the named ACL configuration line.... but I think ackle would drive me insane :P

networker050184

Its kind of like how people pronounce BPDU.

I have always just pronounced it as the letters B-P-D-U. I have heard some people refer to it as a BiP-Doo though which always makes cringe.

JavonR

networker050184 wrote:

Its kind of like how people pronounce BPDU.

I have always just pronounced it as the letters B-P-D-U. I have heard some people refer to it as a BiP-Doo though which always makes cringe.

LOL, that would surely warrant a 5+ second stare if I heard someone say that.

redwarrior

Bip-Doo sounds like something my dog would do to our carpet. "Dang it, Clyde, why did you have to do a Bip-Doo on the rug?!!!"

kingpinofdisks

networker050184 wrote:

kingpinofdisks wrote:

I just passed the BCSI recently. My printout showed 47% for BGP. It is the one protocol I just never have used in the real world one time. Probably cause I have never worked for an ISP

I nailed EIGRP (pronounced e-grip) and OSPF (pronounced os-pif) 100%, which is why I ended up passing with one of the lowest scores possible. But a pass is a pass!!!!

If you can nail 5 our of 6 categories with 90% plus, then doing poor on one category won't kill you.

How did you come up with those pronunciations? Maybe you were joking......

yep, I was joking - heard them on a Cisco tech support call years ago and have laughed about them ever since...

I can't believe anyone would post a reply to an admittedly stupid insider joke of mine from 10 years ago...