I passed my BCMSN yesterday with a 934 and as a special present to
myself I scheduled the CIT exam early this morning.
I did basically zero preparation for the test. I spent the $30 for
the boson.com exam for CIT because boson's stuff has been a very
reliable indicator of readiness for me. I breezed through the first
practice test in about nine minutes with a 70% and figured I was ready
to go.
I found the following areas covered in the exam
1. structured troubleshooting - collect some facts, try to
isolate the problem, then an action plan. They must cover this in a
structured fashion in the classes but I've never talked to anyone that
has taken the CIT. There was a 'drag the little tabs into the
appropriate order' question ... it was common sense.
2. ISDN. backwards and forwards. Caslow is a must read for this
and I did all of the labs in the CCIE Lab Study Guide by Hutnik and
Saterlee using a real live ISDN line into my house sharing the circuit
between two S bus routers using an NT1.
3. frame relay. Once again Caslow and the CCIE Lab Study Guide
will get you right through this.
4. IP and IPX behavior. I had a CNA and a lot of time in grade
with netware and I've read W Richard Stevens TCP/IP illustrated so I had
no trouble with this.
5. VLANs in all their glory. I feel *very* lucky that I
scheduled this on top of the BCMSN instead of waiting and reviewing as I
usually do.
6. there were a lot of subtle questions about connectionless
protocols and troubleshooting in an internetwork that I did not do get.
I am going to track that stuff down and read it for my personal
satisfaction.
I started working on the CCNP stuff diligently around April of this
year after passing my CCNA last October and my CCDA in January. So,
seven months of hard work, a killer home lab when I worked for Optimum
and a not so killer home lab now that I am spending my own money, and
maybe 500 hours of study and lab time and I'm now smart enough to
accurately assess just how far I have to go for the CCIE :-(
I got the boson.com exam for the CID earlier tonight and the results
were promising :-) Am I going to be the first to knock off three of
these exams in three days? I guess we'll see ...
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