Passed ISCW Today
I passed the ISCW today with a score of 956. Did the BSCI earlier this year. Now on to BCMSN and then ONT. I rarely post, but appreciate all of the great dialogue and inspiration I find on this site. Keep up the great work all.
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mikej412
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Congratulations!!
Celebrate a little bit
and then back to the books! 
:mike: Cisco Certifications -- Collect the Entire Set! -
miller811
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Well done, great score
CongratsI don't claim to be an expert, but I sure would like to become one someday.
Quest for 11K pages read in 2011
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Morty3
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Tell us (read: me) the study sources you used! I'm going to use
Aswell as Jer's CBT-nuggets, and i'm building a lab as well. Also going for the ISCW.CCNA, CCNA:Sec, Net+, Sonicwall Admin (fwiw). Constantly getting into new stuff. -
bmunroe
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Tell us (read: me) the study sources you used! I'm going to use
Aswell as Jer's CBT-nuggets, and i'm building a lab as well. Also going for the ISCW.
Watched the following video sets. Both excellent for different reasons.
Cioara - CBT Nuggets
Bryant - Train Signal
Read portions of the following, but used mostly for reference and clarification of concepts.
CCNP ISCW Official Exam Certification Guide (Morgan/Lovering, 2007)
CCNP ISCW Portable Command Guide (Roth, 200
Did every single lab... some multiple times.
CCNP ISCW (ISCW 642-825) Lab Portfolio (Cisco Networking Academy) (Kotfila, et. al, 2007)
Answered all the practice questions in the Cisco Press book.
For lab equipment, I was fortunate enough to use spare gear at work (2821, 3550, and 2620 routers, with a 3560 switch for connectivity). Dynamips/GNS3 actually worked fantastic for all of the CLI labs, but I could never get it to play nice with the SDM ones. Some people have had success creating a virtual NIC on the same machine running SDM & GNS3. I was able to do so, but with only limited success (a bit flaky/finicky).
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bmunroe
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Firemarshalbill.com wrote: »Congrats, I found the ONT to be the easiest
I find that very encouraging. I'm not terribly concerned about BCMSN, as I most of my job revolves around switching. I was a bit worried about the ONT though. Less so now. Why do you think you found it easiest?
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Firemarshalbill.com
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It may be a little of the reason you are not worried about the BCMSN, I spent from 2007 to early this year at Sprint as a network design engineer and a major part of that was the use of COS and QOS in IP/MPLS designs, which was exactly what alot of the ONT question where about. I also did not think the level of complexity got to the levels of the BSCI and BCMSN
