BCRAN 642-821

[andreyts]

Hello my freinds,
I am going to make my second attempt for this test in the next week , anybody pass this one later ?
Maybe he can shere with me some tips about it ?
Thanks again , anything can help....

Best Regards,

Andrey
CCNA

 

[Cheeseontoast]

this exam seem to be a pig at the moment. I studied the cisco book from top to bottom and still failed it with most of the stuff in the book not being in the exam. If i were you i would study from the cisco course notes if you can get a copy as they give you more of an outline of whats in the exam than the book does. If you do fail though dont worry as no one in the company has passed this one first time recently and that included the Guru's.

Good luck all the same.

 

[Belushi]

Its a tough test, I personally thought it and CIT were the two toughest of the CCNP exams and I'll debate that with anyone.

Everything you need is in the Cisco Press Exam certification guide but it may not be as detailed as you need to trully understand the concepts. My advice is to really study the concets in the book and re-inforce it with information that can be found on CCO. For example, lets take ISDN call setup and teardown. Do you understand all of the steps associated with it and can you take a look at a debug from it and tell us what every line means? If you can't, don't take the test yet. The same goes for IPSEC, Frame-relay, DDR, etc.

Its a detailed orieted test that requires a lot of analyzing.

 

[jonez90]

To pass this test, I used both the certification guide and the self study guide as both contain different information. The IPsec chapter in the self-study is over a 100 pages long and about 20 in the certification guide. I would also recommend reading up on pppoa and pppoe on the Cisco website as these topics are not covered that well in either book. another thing that helped as I don't have that much exposure to ISDN anymore, was online labs as you can turn on the debugging and duplicate the problems.