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 [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

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