BCMSN booked for Wednesday 14th...

Committed, much sooner than I was expecting. Although July has crept up very quickly.

I'm very unsure of what to expect from the exam. I took my CCNA 2 years ago and have since been working for a largish network (around 2000 computers/2500 phones/250 servers). Since casually starting the BCMSN 6 months ago, I feel that I haven't overly learnt a lot of new stuff? Which is very off putting. Are we expected to know the distance all the fibre types can travel?

I booked this exam as more of a mock test, and will take the results to see what I need to concentrate on to retake ASAP.

How did you spend your last 5 days before the exam?

Oh well, wish me luck.

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burbankmarc

The last 5 days I think I just ran through some labs of topics that weren't my strongest. That and I went over wireless again since I had no wireless hardware to lab on.

peanutnoggin

Good luck... You'll be fine. Lab as much as you can... That way you'll reinforce any topic that may be weak for you! Again, good luck!!!

Trifidw

For anyone who has the fourth edition BCMSN exam certification guide. Can you look at the private vlan chapter, page 419, example 16-3. Associating secondary vlans to primary vlans. Are the following commands made up?

private-vlan isolated vlan 50
private-vlan community vlan 200

tried these on a Cisco 4948 and they are unrecognised from vlan 50 and vlan 200...

Cyanic

On the correct OS those commands are very real.

Trifidw

Cyanic wrote: »

On the correct OS those commands are very real.

That's annoying. Any idea which IOS is needed for them or whether there is a alternative? IIRC it was running a IP Base OS, not sure what revision.

edit: I should have have added in my previous reply that I wasn't convinced they had the vlans correct in the example.

Cyanic

Trifidw wrote: »

That's annoying. Any idea which IOS is needed for them or whether there is a alternative? IIRC it was running a IP Base OS, not sure what revision.

edit: I should have have added in my previous reply that I wasn't convinced they had the vlans correct in the example.

I see, if you are entering the entire string as you have listed this may be your problem. You just enter private-vlan {isolated|promiscuous|community} under the vlan config for that particular vlan.

Here is a nice write up.

http://www.cciestudywiki.com/wiki/VLANs_-_Private_VLANs

Trifidw

That link confirms my understanding.

For those who don't have the book at hand, this is what the eample states (I have made any typos):

Consider the SVI for the primary VLAN, VLAN 100, that has a IP address and participates in routing traffic. Secondary VLANs 40 (isolated) and 50 (community) are associated at layer 2 with primary VLAN 100 using the configuration in example 16-3.

(config)Vlan 40
(config-vlan)private-vlan isolated vlan 50
(config-vlan)private-vlan community vlan 200
(config-vlan)private-vlan primary
(config-vlan)private-vlan association 40,50
(config-vlan)exit
(config)int vlan 200
(config-if) ip address ...

Cyanic

Perhaps they mean this.

(config)Vlan 40
(config-vlan)private-vlan isolated
(config-vlan)vlan 50
(config-vlan)private-vlan community
(config-vlan)vlan 200
(config-vlan)private-vlan primary
(config-vlan)private-vlan association 40,50
(config-vlan)exit
(config)int vlan 200

Trifidw

\o/

Route is next then...

peanutnoggin

Trifidw wrote: »

\o/

Route is next then...

I'm assuming thats a PASS on the BCMSN? If so, CONGRATS!!!!!

-Peanut

Trifidw

It is. Both myself and a friend who I was studying with passed.

I didn't do too well on time management. Had 2 labs within the first 10 questions and used up 30 minutes, didn't verify my work on the second lab. Rushed through it until the last 10 minutes.

burbankmarc

Trifidw wrote: »

It is. Both myself and a friend who I was studying with passed.

I didn't do too well on time management. Had 2 labs within the first 10 questions and used up 30 minutes, didn't verify my work on the second lab. Rushed through it until the last 10 minutes.

A pass is a pass, congrats man!

What's next, ROUTE?

Trifidw

Yeah, routing is next. Might throw in a CCDA.

alan2308

Congrats!

billscott92787

Congrats on the pass and good luck on ROUTE studies!!!

Don't forget to celebrate as well!!!