Any advice on BCRAN 642-821?

[shadow123]

I am scheduled to take the BCRAN 642-821 next week. I have not attended a BCRAN class and have been working with Catherine Paquet's book Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (Tenth printing, December 2002, ISBN: 1-57870-091-4). I went to the Cisco Cert site and saw that configuring DSL was one of the objectives. This isn't covered in the book and am not sure how/what/if DSL is covered. Can anyone provide some guidance on the exam? Also, does anyone recomend the Boson BCRAN test? If so, how is it compaired to the test?

Thanks!

 

[Fruit]

Know from second hand that xDSL is in, you should know the differences of the various flavors.
The boson test is normally a wee bit harder than the actual test, so if you score like 90% on the Bosons you probably doing ok at the exams.
Good luck.

 

[shadow123]

Thanks for the information. I will take a look at the Boson test tonight. I found a copy of TestKing's 642-821 BCRAN version 1.0 and went through it. I didn't like many of the questions and answers. Felt like they were vague and taken out of context. It had a question about Cable Modems. I'm starting to feel like the book and experiance isn't enough.....

 

[ntengg]

Shadow -

You mentioned that you found the Test-King 642-821 BCRAN test. Can you share that or where you found it?

Thanks!

 

[shadow123]

ntengg-

I do not remember the site. I did a search on google for "BCRAN 642-821 questions" (or something close). I don't put a lot of trust into just running across notes/test on the net. You never know if the content is good. Besides $40 for the Boson test or $60 for the TestKing test notes, is well work the piece of mind of knowing the content is good is worth it.

 

[wybnormal]

Just for the record, I took a look at the supposed "cheet sheets" that were floating around and I found several errors on the answers. I would not trust anyone or anything that purports to be "real" questions. Transcender is what I used and while they cost more, the quality is better across the tests then many of the others.

MikeS


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