Update 08.06.09
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on August 6th, 2009
Just peeking in to let you all know I’m still here. Apologies for the absence. Most of you know that I have the BCMSN exam coming up and yes, that is the reason I have been MIA. Absence really makes a huge difference as I’ve watched my hit count go from an average of almost 300 clicks a day down to just around 150 – lower on the weekends and special holidays. And you all know that my confidence and my worth is based on how many hit counts I get on a daily basis. It’s the sun to my superman. 
So far I’m a little behind as far as what I had planned to have reviewed by this point in time. But that’s okay. I tend to do well and catch up on my reviews towards the last week when adrenaline is high and the fight mechanism in me is at its optimum level.
I got sick towards the latter part of last week and obviously, that hampered my progress over the weekend. I intended to cover a bulk of my reviews this past weekend but just didn’t have enough juice to keep it going.
So far here are the chapters that I have covered:
- VLANs – Fundamentals, operation, implementation/configuration, verification, troubleshooting.
- VLAN trunking
- VTP
- Spanning Tree (802.1D, 802.1W, 802.1s)
- PVRST+, MSTP
- STP enhancements such as Root Guard, BPDU Guard, BPDU Filtering, Loop Guard, UDLD
- Portfast, Uplinkfast, Backbonefast
Still left to go:
- Inter-VLAN
- EtherChannel
- CEF
- Redundancy (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP)
- Multicast
- Layer 2 Security (802.1x, VACL, etc)
- Voice
- Wireless
- There’s more but I’m too lazy to list all of them.
I was going through the BCMSN Study schedule on this blog and I realized how sorely lacking it is in details. So I figured after I pass the exam, I’ll make an attempt to organize this list with the dates I covered them and publish it on the schedule page for others’ reference.
Anyway, that’s all for now. I may or may not update before the exam so just keep checking your feeds. 