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Sitting BSCI in a few days... few questions...
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| voirin 2002-12-22, 5:53 am |
| Hi, I'll be sitting BSCI in a few days. I was just wanting to know a few things:
1. What is the duration of the actual exam (not including the survey time).
2. I heard from someone they are now including 3 sims on the exam (instead of the original 1). Is this true or have I been told a nasty lie?
3. I know I'll get questions which ask you to select the command to do this or that operation (i.e. given a list of commands). I was wondering if there are any questions where they don't give you a list of commands to choose from, but instead ask you to type out the command in the blank field provided?
Any other tips? I've done remote access (which is a flash exam). The BSCI is a similar format to that, yes?
Thanks again!
Cheers,
voirin | |
| aztec7 2002-12-29, 4:52 am |
| Hi voirin,
The only thing I know for sure on this test (or any other Cisco test) is that they usually do require you to type in commands, and you can not use abbreviated commands on the sims or the type-in-the-command questions. You probably already know this, but if not, it hopefully will help you. Best of luck to you! | |
| voirin 2002-12-29, 5:07 am |
| Hi aztec7
Thanks for the reply. I however sat BSCI a week ago  Tough little exam. Glad it's done.
All the best!
voirin | |
| aztec7 2002-12-29, 5:19 am |
| Sounds like you did well--congrats. Good luck on the next one... | |
| karenccc 2002-12-30, 9:47 am |
| Someone else told me you can't use abreviated commands, but when I took my ccna in July I didn't know. The flash sims took the commands though. That someone said they probably took off points for that. When I took the switching exam in October, some of the questions were worded really poorly. One of the questions for example refers to a picture of routers a,b, and c but the answer choices refer to routers d,e and f. Does that make any sense? I never wrote comments during certs but I made an exception for this exam. | |
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| karenccc 2002-12-30, 10:13 am |
| Thanks for the link. I actually saw that in like March when they first added the sims. I just didn't read the whole page. I hope the BCSI is not that hard, because the protocols really kick my butt. What do they focus on? I think I'm taking that next. | |
| voirin 2002-12-30, 10:41 am |
| Hi, well the main focus of attention was obviously on routing protocols: IS-IS, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP, and the redistribution of such routing protocols into eachother.
Route summarization is also a topic examined on quite heavily within the exam. You will be given atleast one summarization question where you have to calculate something, for example, the last subnet represented within the summarization chosen.
Another focus on the exam was for your understanding of things like routing policies, prefix lists, access lists, distribute lists etc. This can get a little confusing, knowing when to use what for which situation, so know it well. The same can be said about default routs and static routes.
Another topic focused on (had several questions on) was on how to avoid routing loops.
I sat BSCI as my final exam. I am glad I did this, it was the most challenging of all the cisco exams I sat. The order in which I sat them (and would again if I was time-warped back into the past) was:
Switching
Remote Access
CCDA
Support
CID
BSCI
Best of luck with BSCI!
Cheers,
voirin | |
| ZacDogg 2002-12-31, 7:32 pm |
| my 2 cents:
I would absolutely recommend taking Routing first. Every other test, and your learning of what is being presented in the material to pass the other test builds on routing. Maybe you could take switching first, but how can you completely understand HSRP or InterVlan routing if you don't routing? Or to pass the Support exam you are expected to be able to troubleshoot routing and routing protocols that you have not yet learned and may possibly not know anything about. | |
| voirin 2002-12-31, 7:51 pm |
| Ive found that minimum routing knowledge (only to CCNA standard) is required to understand Switching, Remote Access and CIT. We are all different in our approaches |
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