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Joupin www.joupin.com ""James Gosnold"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > 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=58060&t=58019 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
