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

Congratulations!!

Celebrate a little bit

and then back to the books!

wirerat

Congrats on the pass!

miller811

Well done, great score
Congrats

Congratulations!

Nice job!

Thanks all!

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.

bmunroe

Morty3 wrote: »

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).

Hope this helps. Best of luck!

Firemarshalbill.com

Congrats, I found the ONT to be the easiest

bmunroe

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?

Thanks.

Firemarshalbill.com

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

captobvious

Good job!

Enjoy the