BCRAN 640-605

[jdl508]

Hello all, I am taking the old bcran test tommorow and would like to know if anyonw has any tips for it. I have been studying with a router lab and boson tests to date plus work experience.
Thanks

 

[Jsteve]

I take the exam tommorow also.good luck!

 

[jdl508]

Well I sat for the exam 10 am today. As soon as I started the exam the app crashed, (vue) anyway after about an our of troubleshooting it was ready to go again, the techs there where pitiful. Anyway I scored a weak 775 but thats enough for a pass. This exam had alot of really granular questions on things i dont use alot modems, chat scripts etc. Anyway on to the new CIT and thats it. Of course the book isnt out until Nov for the new CIT.
jdl

 

[Jsteve]

I sat at 4pm and passed with a 888. I got alot of modem questions also. I got hit with alot of aaa questions too. I'm off to take the new CIT exam too, I don't know if I will wait for the new book to come out, I will do a lot of white paper reading on the cco site.

 

[Jsteve]

This CIT book should be out in a couple of days.

http://www.selfstudycerts.com/material/que/0789730219.html

 

[Jsteve]

I have been reading the following book, to prepare for the CIT exam and this is by far the best Cisco Press book I have read. It is well written and covers some of the basics for a good review. I highly recommend for anyone trouble shooting Cisco Routers.

http://www.ciscopress.com/catalog/p...uct_id={4427A921-765A-4707-B7C7-9071C7E35061}

 

[jdl508]

The CIT exam objectives were a little vague on the cisco website. By looking at the new and old objectives cisco seems to have changed quite a bit in this new test. I was curious if the new CIT exam has ipx and appletalk in it? I have been reading the 640-606 book but just skipped over these. I would like to get the book Jsteve recommended just because it looks like a good all around book to have and learn from not just for the cit exam. Jsteve are there alot of labs in that book?
Thanks and good luck when are you scheduled?

 

[Jsteve]

There are not that many labs, just a bunch of trouble shooting scenarios and a systematic approach towards fixing the problems. There are a lot of show examples and what to look for when trouble shooting, it breaks down each Item in the show and debug commands.

I sit for the new CIT this Friday. I just have to rely on what I know and hopefully past.

 

[Jsteve]

Well, after one failed attempt last week, I finally passed the new CIT exam today and I am now A CCNP. The old Cisco Press CIT books don't even cover half of the material on this new exam. No Appletalk, No IPX. There were a lot of MS/Unix questions like the command "route print"(MS) and "route -n" (Unix) displays the routing tables. arp -a displays the arp table. Also you need to know baselining, trouble shooting approach (bottom-up, top-down and divide and conqure). Also the contents of the Network Table documentation, End-system documentation and Network diagram.

 

[jdl508]

Jsteve, congrats and well done on the CCNP! I havenet sat for the CIT exam but will be soon and I will hopefully join you as a CCNP. So it sound like I am kinda waisting my time (at least for the exam) on the old 606 CIT book. I was looking at the table of contents for the new book and they are almost totally different in scope. Well I appreciate your insight and again congrats.