Dear all, I passed BSCI 640-901 on Saturday with a score of 767/1000. I'm not overly pleased with the score or how I performed but my preparation wasn't the best in the fortnight leading up to the exam and I felt awful on the day of the exam (heavy cold). Also had Prometric mess me around (again) re-scheduling my exam e.t.c (may cover that on another thread).
I would also that I did 'pass the exam' more than learn the technologies really well which is not ideal, as I said I was going quite well but the couple of weeks leading up to the exam gave me some problems, work e.t.c but I suppose a pass is a pass. Hopefully the next 3 exams will go a little more smoothly, taking a break now until January having gone from zero knowledge about Cisco technologies to CCNA to passing the first CCNP exam in little over 4 months I think I've done ok and am a bit tired! As for the exam itself I would say it is quite tricky, I used both the Sybex and Cisco Press study guides although these were for the old Routing exam. Read the questions properly, not feeling great I caught myself nearly clicking 'Next' on a couple of occasions when I had clearly given the incorrect answer having not read the question properly, this scared me as I came to the end of the exam as I was wondering how many times I had done this without noticing. I was surprised the way the questions came in groups, all the EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, RIP and other questions all came in bunches, basically once you get a BGP question you will be getting 10 of them in a row which is not how I remember the CCNA exam. I received 4 questions on IS-IS and for this I had only read the text you can download from the Cisco site AND I only managed to read this the day before and scored 75% on that section so the text must be pretty good. I'm sure the usual process of elimination technique served me well on the exam too, you may not know the answer for sure but of the 4 choices you can certainly eliminate 2 of the answers and possibly a 3rd therefore leaving you with a Sherlock Holmes style conclusion "When all the impossible answers have been eliminated the only one remaining, no matter how implausible, must be the truth!" Also received one sim which I'm pretty sure I got wrong although I can't really say why or how as this would give a question away which I am not allowed to do. Just know how to configure and setup OSPF very well!!! Thanks to those of you who have answered questions I've had in the last few weeks and in fact all of you who participate in this forum which is a great help to those trying to further our professional education. Regards, James. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=58019&t=58019 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
