Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: The Passive Interface Command And OSPF

Monday, September 1st, 2008

To pass the BSCI exam and become a CCNP, you have to be aware of the proper use of passive interfaces. You learned about passive interfaces in your CCNA studies, but here we’ll review the basic concept and clear up one misconception regarding passive interfaces and OSPF.
Configuring an interface as passive will still allow [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using OSPF’s “Summary-Address” Command

Friday, July 4th, 2008

BSCI exam success, not to mention earning your CCNP, can come down to your OSPF route summarization skills. There are a few different commands and situations you need to be ready for, and one of these situations is the proper use of the “summary-address” command.
The summary-address command should be used on an ASBR in order [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: OSPF Router Types

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

When you’re preparing to pass the BSCI exam on the way to the coveted Cisco CCNP certification, you can be quickly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of BGP and OSPF knowledge you must demonstrate a mastery of. One set of details that some BSCI and CCNP candidates underestimate are the differences between the [...]

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Preparing to pass the CCNA exam and earn this important Cisco certification? Route summarization is just one of the many skills you’ll have to master in order to earn your CCNA. Whether it’s RIP version 2, OSPF, or EIGRP, the CCNA exam will demand that you can flawlessly configure route summarization.
Route summarization isn’t [...]

Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Floating Static Routes

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Passing the BSCI exam and earning your CCNP certification demands that you add greatly to the networking skills foundation you created when you studied for your CCNA certification. You learned quite a bit about static routing and default static routing when you passed the CCNA test, and it does seem like that should be [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: Introduction To ISIS Terminology

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

When you’re studying to pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, you’re going to be introduced to ISIS. ISIS and OSPF are both link-state protocols, but ISIS works quite differently from OSPF. You must master these details in order to earn your CCNP.
One of the major differences between OSPF and [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Route Summarization

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Summarizing routes is a vital skill to learn to pass the BSCI exam and get one step closer to earning your CCNP. The actual binary conversions are only part of the test, though! You’ve got to know how to correctly apply the summary routes, and that differs from one protocol to the next. [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: OSPF Route Redistribution Review

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

OSPF route redistribution is an important topic on the BSCI exam, and it’s a topic full of details and defaults that you need to know for the exam room and the job. To help you pass the BSCI exam, here’s a quick review of some of the OSPF route redistribution basics.
To see if a router [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using The OSPF Command

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Your BSCI and CCNP exam success depends on knowing the details, and one such detail is knowing the proper way to summarize routes in OSPF. Route summarization is not just a test of your binary conversion abilities, but knowing where and when to summarize routes. It will not surprise any CCNA or [...]

Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification: OSPF E2 vs. E1 Routes

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

OSPF is a major topic on both the CCNA and CCNP exams, and it’s also the topic that requires the most attention to detail. Where dynamic routing protocols such as RIP and IGRP have only one router type, a look at a Cisco routing table shows several different OSPF route types.
R1#show ip route
Codes: C [...]