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| josegt 2002-07-02, 7:33 pm |
| Hey, I took bscn yesterday and passed, it's not as hard as I was thinking, and the simulation was really easy. | |
| NetChild1985 2002-07-02, 8:02 pm |
| Congrats! | |
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| guess007 2002-07-03, 12:16 pm |
| What came up in the exam? DO you have to fill in empty boxes, for exqample:
What is the command to view EIGRP routes?
Or are they all multi choice with simulation?
What subjects came up?
Any help would be nice, I am sitting my BSCN exam tomorrow.
Thanks,
Ace | |
| ciscoteacher 2002-07-03, 6:54 pm |
| Congrats, good job! | |
| cross36 2002-07-03, 7:23 pm |
| Glad to hear you seemed it to be simple. Congrads! | |
| mikeghet 2002-07-03, 9:24 pm |
| josegt
Do you think you need to have a cisco network to pass this? I have a 1601 but when I was studying this(bscn) before I felt as if I neede three rotuers so I could do the area in ospf and othere things like that. Is a 1601 good enough or should i invest the money?  | |
| kalejaiye 2002-07-04, 12:30 pm |
| its very good to hear news like this. Congrats. | |
| SureshHomepage 2002-07-04, 9:23 pm |
| Congratulations! | |
| sukuvi 2002-07-07, 12:12 am |
| quote:
Do you think you need to have a cisco network to pass this? I have a 1601 but when I was studying this(bscn) before I felt as if I neede three rotuers so I could do the area in ospf and othere things like that. Is a 1601 good enough or should i invest the money?
Mikeghet,
Your statement made me wonder if you are studying just to pass the exam or to know how to work with Cisco routers for your career.
If you are studying for your career, then you need to know it's important to have a network with more than one router if you have the means to invest in it. Could you believe what you will acquire in having your own lab at home?
Just in case you are just studying for the test, I don't think you even need a router.
I remember a post by one of the members who said after passing the exam, he came home and went back to the books of the same course he just passed. Why? He missed some questions he had no idea what they were. So he went through the course again, even though he already passed exam, and reviewed everything that he wasn't sure about on the test. This shows that he is studying for his job and career and not for the exam.
And I do that every time after I take a test and that explains why I have never sold any of my course books, no matter what certification it is for, because I will still need them for my job and career.
Right now I still have the routers I bought for my Cisco studies. As I'm not studying for the exams, I will keep them unless I'd like to replace them with newer ones.
So the bottomline is if you are studying just for test then you don't even need a router, so go ahead and sell the 1601.
Otherwise I strongly encourage you to invest in more routers. I can't tell you what you will get from having a lab at home, but if you are honest enough with this forum, I'm convinced you will be back here to post the results for possessing you own lab at home for all the members to read, the same way that many others have done and express their appreciations about being on this forum.
Good Luck. | |
| mikeghet 2002-07-07, 4:14 am |
| I agree with the comment just trying to pass the cert or actualy know. I got a 1601 for my cnna. I dropped the ccnp for a while because college classes were consuming to much of my time. I have read through the cisco press book bscn 1.5 times. I have started to pick it back up recenlty and am a work in progress :-) Althogh I have read the book I hardly did any of the hard work(command, and configuration). I am trying to put off buying routers because of costs. I was just curious if anyone else thought someone could study without having a decent lab and without using cheet sheat stuff. There is no honor is passing that way. Josegt had just passed this test and I was kinda inquiring as to what he used. As of right now someone (trainer or saleman) poseted what he suggested for a lab and that pretty much answered my questions as does your comment "Otherwise I strongly encourage you to invest in more routers.". I also never sell any of my computer books for the same reasons as you.
Have u ever seen anyone start as many sentences as me with the letter "I"?
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| cahillrobert 2002-07-07, 8:51 am |
| While I was studying for the router course I was very happy to have 25xx and 26xx class routers at home. Fortunately I was able to use RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF at work. Not BGP, all of the BGP studies were done at home.
Afterwards I was able use the routers for the Remote and Support exams. I use one of my NT devices as a TACACS+ and tftp device so I have been able to test AAA configurations and save a variety of configs. I don't think that I will be purchasing any more fixed format devices in the futute.
I also find them useful when I read an article or see an interesting forum item regarding a configuration. I can upload the config and see how it works. What changes it makes, to a protocol, debug statements, etc.
Regarding books, if you have the acrobat files that came with your books, aren't they a better alternative to carrying the books around. One CD R/W and you have all the references that you used for your studies. Additionally I converted all of those pdf files into a format suitable for my pda. It works wonderfully.
=Bob= | |
| shahandiza 2002-07-09, 1:08 am |
| hmmmm,
i think i'm lucky in term of equipment ie routers, switch etc ..working as network engineer in major isp in my country for the past 3 years, dealing with cisco hardware from 1600 up to 12000 series, cat5000,6000, as5300 and many more.
i have my own lab in my office, do not have any problem to have 5 routers from various model and stimulate real network ..and compare live backbone router config that running mpls, bgp, ospf, rip etc ...
furhermore, my company sponsored me to go for ccnp and ccdp class with official training partner and give me only two months to pass both cert. until now, i only have last paper, which is cid to go. my life full with cisco, cisco, cisco routers inside outside.
somehow, after reading and been here for the past one month, i just realized not everyone have what i have rite now. in our store, there was plenty of 2500 and 4000 series that we took out because not suitable for our network. i think i will go and see my boss and will open a lab with minimal fee just to let everyone use the facility.
(good for me also as a part tutor).
well, after i got my ccnp, my boss give me one year to get the CCIE. you know what i think, i need two months off 
well, do keep in touch. sorry for my poor english.
rgds,
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