The musings of an IT Consultant » Chris Bryant

Just passed the Cisco ONT, I am now a CCNP!!!!

Raj Perumal — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:34:41 +0000

Hi folks, I just passed the Cisco ONT exam!!! I am now a CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)!!!! YAY! Sorry I can’t contain my excitement, this has been a long time coming.

This exam was actually quite hard, I wasn’t sure if I was going to make it but I was able to pass it in the end. There was tons of stuff on QoS, VoIP, Wireless, and even AutoQoS with the SDM. The Cisco exam blueprint was bang on and I was able to come out with the win!

The things I used to study were my course at Boson taught by CCIE Bryan Baize, the Bryant study guide by CCIE Chris Bryant, the Cisco Press study guide, my course text books, and lots of practice using the Boson practice sims and my own lab equipment.

If you’re taking this exam don’t take it lightly, make sure you study hard!

-RP

Passed the BCMSN!

Raj Perumal — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:08:03 +0000

Hi folks! As you can probably tell from the title of this post, I passed the BCMSN! Yay! It was a hard exam but not as hard as the BSCI in my opinion. Before I had written either exam, I had heard that the BSCI was 10 times harder than the BCMSN. I don’t think that’s quite correct. It was probably more like 2 times as hard as it.

In any case, they both are difficult exams! The BCMSN had lots of different questions on redundancy, voip, wireless, STP, inter-vlan routing etc. Basically all the stuff they list on the exam guide in the Cisco exam curriculum on their website.

What did I use to study? Well I used what I learned from Bryan Baize at the Boson CCNP bootcamps and I also used the Bryant Advantage study guides again along with the normal Cisco self study guides. Combining all of that together got me the information I needed to pass!

Two more exams left in the CCNP for me. Next exam up will be the ISCW (Implementing Secure Converged Wide Area Networks) 642-825. Wish me luck!

-RP

The Bryant Advantage

Raj Perumal — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:31:46 +0000

So now that I’ve been at the bootcamp and it’s time to buckle down and get ready for the exams, I was looking for some extra training material. I wanted to find some good study guides and labs that would help me prepare. I was also looking for some rack time (renting Cisco hardware and logging on to it remotely to do labs on) since I don’t own enough equipment myself.

Well I was doing some digging and I came across this thing called The Bryant Advantage. Chris Bryant is a certified CCIE and he created his own study material which is 100% legit and is great for studying for the exam. He also provides rack time if you need it.

So I figured I’d take the plunge and I bought the Bryant Advantage materials with the rack time. I have to say the material is just great! I’ve been reading his ebook and he really does a great job of explaining everything. Also Chris is extremely helpful for any questions you might have. I can highly recommend buying his material to prepare for the CCNP.

-RP