Neal,
Congratulations passing the exam and thanks for the link. This is very
helpful.
Regards,
John Huston
"Neal Rauhauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> 100 questions, took me 32 of 120 minutes allowed, and I walked out
> with an 839 and my spiffy new CCDP :-)
>
> The exam has the following sections and I've listed my scores
>
> 1 Intro to Internetwork Design 62%
> 2 Campus LAN design 62%
> 3 TCP/IP network design 88%
> 4 desktop protocol design 80%
> 5 WAN design 76%
> 6 SNA design 71%
> 7 security issues 0% (!)(more on
> this below)
>
>
>
> For prep I used the Cisco Press CID book and the boson.com
> pretest. I spent about a month after completing my CCDP just letting my
> brain cool off then I crammed for the CID in about two weeks.
>
>
> The BCMSN material does an excellent job of covering the Campus LAN
> design portion, BSCN takes care of the TCP/IP network design, and BCRAN
> covers a bit of the WAN design questions.
>
> I studied for the CCNP 1.0 track and I took the ACRC exam last
> spring and missed it by one question. I mostly took it to get that stuff
> out of my head so I could work on switching and I didn't bother to
> retest but I feel that working through the Sybex ACRC book and the IPX
> and Appletalk labs in the CCIE Lab Study Guide really carried me on that
> portion. The information in the Cisco Press book is NOT I repeat NOT
> sufficient - you really need ACRC level skills to get by this thing.
>
> There are a number of questions on Stratacom stuff in the WAN
> portion. On pp367 of the Cisco Press CID book you will find this URL
>
>
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/wanbu/82/switch/sysm/sysmch0
1.htm
>
> Learn all of the magic incantations on this page and you will be
> protected from the ATM demon during your 640-025 exam :) I am a big fan
> of mastery rather than rote learning but in this case the boson.com exam
> proved invaluable - their questions are very, very close to what you'll
> find on the actual exam and you can practice test your way to a passing
> grade if you need to do so.
>
>
> As gross and as useless as it is for 92% of the people working on
> this certification, you *must* know a little bit about SNA.
>
> I had done workstation support in a huge SNA shop so it wasn't
> entirely foreign and a long time ago (5+ years), for reasons I forget, I
> purchased and read a large portion of Communications for Cooperating
> Systems - OSI, SNA, and TCP/IP. This book is a psychotic piece of
> IBM backed propaganda which argues for the subordination of TCP/IP and
> the OSI model in the perfect (I use the word in the facist sense) SNA
> world. If you can shield your mind from the IBM borgification procedures
> its actually not a bad read if you want to get some background on SNA.
> FWIW it is ISBN 0-201-50775-7 and my copy was 'updated with corrections'
> in 1992.
>
> If you don't have the aforementioned marvelous tome of IBM wisdom
> the CID book covers a lot of what you need to know.
>
>
> The 0% on security was quite a suprise and I still wonder if it
> isn't a misprint from the test software based on my final score- I was a
> script kiddie way back when before there was even a word for it and I am
> very used to looking at other's stuff with a .... probing eye. I guess
> the mindset of those that are trained to defend is a lot different than
> that of those of us who took the Wyatt Earp route to getting our
> sherrif's badge.
>
>
> Good luck, good studying, and if you're tired of people 'borrowing'
> your linux box take a look at www.openbsd.org - its the best script
> kiddie repellent I've found so far.
>
>
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