BSCI Study Schedule
Study Materials:
- Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) (Authorized Self-Study Guide) (3rd Edition)
- Routing TCP/IP, Volume 1 (2nd Edition) (CCIE Professional Development (Used sparingly)
- Routing TCP/IP, Volume II (CCIE Professional Development) (Used sparingly)
- CCNP Building Scalable Internetworks Lab Portfolio
- CBT Nuggets
- Dynagen/Dynamips
- Cisco Documentation
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Monday, June 30, 2008 |
CHAPTER 1: Network Architecture Framework |
Page 1-18 (18 pages |
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Tuesday, July 01, 2008 |
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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 |
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 |
CHAPTER 2: Routing Principles |
Pages 21-62 (41 pages) |
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Friday, July 04, 2008 |
Read pp. 21-41 | Take notes | |
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 |
Read pp. 42-62 | Take notes | |
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Sunday, July 06, 2008 |
Lab |
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Monday, July 07, 2008 |
Chapter 3: EIGRP Overview and Configuration |
Pages 67-107 (40 pages) |
Read 67-76 |
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Tuesday, July 08, 2008 |
Read pp. 77-86 | Take notes | |
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008 |
Read pp. 87-96 | Take notes | |
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 |
Read pp. 97-107 | Take notes | |
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Friday, July 11, 2008 |
Labs | Labs | |
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Saturday, July 12, 2008 |
Out of Town | ||
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Sunday, July 13, 2008 |
Out of Town |
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Monday, July 14, 2008 |
Chapter 3: EIGRP cont. |
Pages 107-159 (52 pages) |
Read pp. 107-116 |
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 |
Read pp. 117-126 | Take notes | |
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008 |
Read pp. 127-136 | Take notes | |
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Thursday, July 17, 2008 |
Read pp. 137-145 | Take Notes | |
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Friday, July 18, 2008 |
Read pp. 145-159 | Configure Lab | |
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Saturday July, 19, 2008 |
Continue Labs and Notes | ||
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Sunday July 20, 2008 |
Continue Labs and Notes |
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Chapter 5: Advanced OPSF
Tue, August 19: OSPF Route Summarization & OSPF Area Types (Pages 240-250 of the Self-study guide)
Wed, August 20: Configuring and Verifying OSPF Area Types (Pages 250-260 of the Self-study guide)
Thu, August 21: OSPF Virtual Links (Pages 261-266)
Fri, August 22: OSPF Authentication (Pages 266-279)
Sat, August 23: Try to get through the Lab portion
Sun, August 24: Re-read unclear topics
Chapter 7: Routing Updates and Redistribution
Mon, September 15: Read pp. 372-382 – Redistribution overview
Tue, September 16: Read pp. 383-394 – Redistributing RIP, Ridistributing OSPF
Wed, September 17: Read pp. 394-404 – Redistributing EIGRP, IS-IS, default-metric, passive-interface
Thu, September 18: Read pp. 405-416 – Controlling routing update traffic, Distribute List, Route Map.
Fri, September 19: Read pp. 416-427 – Configuring route maps, Redistribution using AD,
Sat, September 20: Read pp. 428-439 – Configuring DHCP, DHCP Server
Sun, September 21: Read pp. 440-448 – DHCp Server Options, Relay Agent, DHCP Client
July 18th, 2008 at 6:54 am
Great schedule and you were absolutely correct about having a schedule because surely I’m always all over the place. I’ve finally put a schedule in full effect and has forced myself to follow it. I’ll be doing some Labs this weekend in between of family and church. Keep up the good work!
July 18th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Thanks! I plan to post more of it this weekend. Hopefully it can also benefit others by giving some idea of how I do it myself. You should post yours too so we can compare.
I’m definitely going to be modifying it a lot. I haven’t even done any of the labs because I’m already behind my readings. The only consolation, if you can call it that, is that I know how much I have to catch up on just to stay within my schedule.
However, I’m putting more emphasis on getting a solid understanding of the materials over following my schedule – that’s why I’m behind. I don’t plan to stay strictly on my schedule just for the sake of being on schedule. I use it to give me a clear direction and if I stray a little bit, it’s OK for me. I’m just trying to make sure, though, that I don’t give myself too much excuses and never moving on.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:12 am
hey man I am right here with you. Where’s the rest of the schedule?
August 5th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Thanks for stopping by Steve. I’ve changed the schedule a million times because of changes in my pace and also circumstances around work.
I haven’t decided if I will post the whole schedule all at once or post up week by week schedule. So far I have a set schedule until the end of this week. I’m going to have to re-do the rest after I’m done with this weeks material.
I’ll try to post up this weeks’ schedule between today and tomorrow. Please come by often and let me know how you’re doing in your studies.
September 5th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
good one …. i have a similar schedule but not as picture perfect as yours .hehe
ne ways good luck …
regards
rakesh
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
What material are you using for the Study schedule? Is it a Cisco Press book? Or a Cisco Class workbook? Or something you developed on your own using various books and or material. I would like to follow along but need to know where you are getting the page numbers from. Thanks, B
February 4th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Brandon, Thanks for stopping by and dropping a line.
The main book I use is Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) (Authorized Self-Study Guide) (3rd Edition) by Diane Teare and Catherine Paquet.
I also used part of Routing TCP/IP, Volume I (2nd Edition) and Volume II (CCIE Professional Development) series sparingly for a deeper perspective of the theories.
Apologies for those trying to follow my schedule. Somewhere along the way my schedule went haywire and it became harder and harder to maintain a definite agenda. Nowadays I focus on certain technologies and spend as much time as I need depending on how I feel about the subject. You can probably benefit more by following my technology related posts to follow where I’m at at certain points in my studies.
July 5th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
dewd, nice schedule. you have here a fully awesome study regimen. Mine had all the best intentions, but you know what happens with those. I stopped reading around Multi-Area OSPF, and am now trying to catch up with the study group I founded. kwayzee, eh?
August 5th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
Nice schedule. I have never wrote a formal study schedule I would just work off what i fealt was a realistic timeline it would take to study and pass the test and would fit my studies and exam prep with in that timeline. For example when I was studying to recertify for the CCNA (my last one expired in 2002) I started in March 2009 and passed in May. Granted it was a recert so the material wasn’t new to me. Now that I am on the CCNP track I had to give myself more time realistically. I started in June ‘09 finished studying the Cisco text book by Clare Gough (CCNP BSCI)in early July started my exam prep practice tests and fealt like the book missed to many specifics so I order the Train Signal DVD by Chris Bryant because it got good reviews, and Im currently going through that now. Ive gotten through the first DVD and in my opinion it is incredible, Its about 21 hours worth of material but you pick the info up so much quicker because your watching him do the material he’s teaching real time in IOS. Any way its much more intuitive if you read the Cisco Press book first than watch the video. I got the DVD last week July 31st Ive gone through about 12 hours so far. I plan on taking the test at the end of this month. Ill let you know how it goes. My overall plan is to take 3 months a test and have my CCNP by early 2010.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:56 am
@Pete: It’s good to see here
Of course we have the best intention. Sometimes they are unfulfilled but sometimes they are not. But we keep trying, right?
@Omar: I’ve heard great things about Chris Bryant. More so now. I’m just bummed I didn’t get his material early enough. But maybe I’ll throw down some cash to get the materials for ISCW and ONT.
If you’re goals go according to plan, we might finish the CCNP around the same time. I took longer, of course, ’cause I started last year.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Its definitely worth it. Its $395 per test or $995 for the whole ccnp set. I paid the $395 for the BSCI but am seriously considering upgrading to the full set. Its definitely worth it for all 4 test. Most of all it is much more productive and obviously cheaper than taking a boot camp class. It comes with a free transcender exam for each test. I am passing these exams with ease now after going through each topic.
How did you find the BSCI exam when you took it? I get the impression that they will be focusing more on BGP and OSPF than the other topics.
August 6th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
@Omar: Here’s the write-up I did after I took the BSCI.
January 23rd, 2010 at 11:45 am
Came across this blog only today. I too and am somewhat in the same boat as you – fighting to refocus on my CCNP studies.. What progress have you made. Did you somplete BSCI/BCMSN?
Regards,
Donavan