CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide

Fourth Edition

• Master all 642-901 exam topics with the official study guide

• Assess your knowledge with chapter-opening quizzes

• Review key concepts with foundation summaries

• Practice with hundreds of exam questions on the CD-ROM

Brent D. Stewart

Clare Gough, CCIE® No. 2893

CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, is a best of breed Cisco® exam study guide that focuses specifically on the objectives for the BSCI exam. Successfully passing the BSCI 642-901 exam certifies that you have the knowledge and skills necessary to use advanced IP addressing and routing in implementing scalability for Cisco integrated services routers (ISR) connected to LANs and WANs.

CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, follows a logical organization of the CCNP® BSCI exam objectives. Material is presented in a concise manner, focusing on increasing readers' retention and recall of exam topics. “Do I Know This Already?” quizzes open each chapter and allow you to determine how much time you need to spend on each section. Exam topic lists and Foundation Summary tables make referencing easy and give you a quick refresher whenever you need it. Scenario-based exercises help you think about exam objectives in real-world situations, thus increasing recall during exam time. Challenging chapter-ending review questions help you assess your knowledge and reinforce key concepts.

The companion CD-ROM contains a powerful testing engine that allows you to focus on individual topic areas or take complete, timed exams. The assessment engine also tracks your performance and provides feedback on a module-by-module basis, presenting question-by-question remediation to the text.

Well regarded for its level of detail, assessment features, and challenging review questions and exercises, this book helps you master the concepts and techniques that will enable you to succeed on the exam the first time.

Brent D. Stewart, CCNP and certified Cisco instructor, is a network administrator at CommScope, where he focuses on the design and implementation of an international IP network. Brent has worked in fiber-optic manufacturing R&D and as a network consultant.

Clare Gough, CCIE® No. 2893, is an instructor and a consultant with more than 18 years of practical experience in computer networking.

The official study guide helps you master all the topics on the CCNP BSCI exam, including

• Essential routing principles for designing and managing scalable networks

• EIGRP, OSPF, and IS-IS functions and operation

• Basic BGP configuration

• Multicast routing

• Cisco IOS® routing features, including redistribution, route filtering, and DHCP

• IPv6 addressing and the transition from IPv4 to IPv6

Companion CD-ROM

The CD-ROM contains an electronic copy of the book and more than 200 practice questions for the BSCI exam, including simulation-based questions, all available in study mode, test mode, and flash card format.

This volume is part of the Exam Certification Guide Series from Cisco Press®. Books in this series provide officially developed exam preparation materials that offer assessment, review, and practice to help Cisco Career Certification candidates identify weaknesses, concentrate their study efforts, and enhance their confidence as exam day nears.

Category: Cisco Certification

Covers: CCNP BSCI exam 642-901

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 22 Ratings

Insufficient study resource - 2009-07-19
Reviewer Rating:
This book does not cover the material needed to pass the BSCI 642-901 exam. Simply put, if you use this as your sole study material, you will fail the exam. While the BSCI Self-Study Guide provides much better (aka - exam passing quality) reference on most topics, even it is lacking on some specific areas like PIMv2 BSR configuration and "aggregate-address" command in BGP. While you may say that's nit-picking, when you have 3 exam questions (out of 50-60 questions) that involve knowing what the "aggregate-address" command does like I had, then you'll understand why every little detail matters. The only other purpose this book serves in my mind is that if you find a topic or a command covered in both this book and in the Self-Study guide, then chances are Cisco has made test questions on it. It is for the above reasons that you will still probably want to pick up this book. I just can't justify giving it more than 2 stars because it would be saying to Cisco they did a good job in creating a book, by itself, that adequately prepares you to pass the exam (which is supposed to be the purpose of their "Exam-Certification" series books) when it absolutely does not.

P.S. - You can also see my review of the Self-Study guide.

A Starting Point - 2009-10-05
Reviewer Rating:
This is and excelent book to start with routing learning.

I read this book 3 times, I also practiced with the BSCI 642-901 Lab Portfolio, I studied the Portable Command Guide and finally I watched the Train Signal BSCI course.

After all this I pass the 642-901 Building Scalable Cisco Internetwork Exam with an score of 922.

I recomend this guide and also the lab portfolio, both books can be found here in amazon.

A Starting Point - 2009-10-05
Reviewer Rating:
This is and excelent book to start with routing learning.

I read this book 3 times, I also practiced with the BSCI 642-901 Lab Portfolio, I studied the Portable Command Guide and finally I watched the Train Signal BSCI course.

After all this I pass the 642-901 Building Scalable Cisco Internetwork Exam with an score of 922.

I recomend this guide and also the lab portfolio, both books can be found here in amazon.

Great book for the official BSCI exam - 2009-10-02
Reviewer Rating:
its a good book for the first step of CCNP certification, but the publisher consider that you had solid understanding of the CCNA topics.
Peace ;)

Great Study Guide which might help you to pass the CCNP BDCI - 2009-09-14
Reviewer Rating:
I am always inspired by the Cisco Press books which are my only source for my career success. When it comes to certification study guides, Cisco Press leads from the front. In this article I will try to review the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, this study guide is a first and final step towards your CCNP success.

As promised by Cisco Press the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, is indeed a best breed of Ciscor exam study guide which specifically focuses on the objective of CCNP BSCI 642-901 exam. The study guide comprises of over 600 pages divided into 21 chapters. Which covers essential routing principles, EIGRP, OSPF and IS-IS in dept as well as basic BGP configuration.

The study guide has concentrated a bit more on Multicasting and multicast routing and the IPv6 is explained well but not in too dept. The best part I liked about the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, is the Cisco IOSr routing features.

The CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, comes with a companion CD which consists of an electronics books and more than 200 practice questions which also included simulation-bases questions available in study mode, practice mode and flash card format.

Some of the features which I liked most in the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, "Do I know this already?" quizzes and "Foundation Summaries" that start off each chapter. These allow the reader to assess what they already know about an upcoming section and what they need to focus on. The end-of-chapter "Q&A" will solidify any knowledge you have gained or need to review. Also the scenarios provided at the end of the chapters are worth from exam point of view.

Overall a good supplement for the exam, but the CCNP BSCI Official Exam Certification Guide, Fourth Edition, cannot be a sole resource for the exam. It's always good to use the resources available at the Cisco learning websites. Finally I would rate 4 out of 5 for this study guide. Better luck folks and hope to see you all passing the CCNP BSCI 642-901 exam at first attempt.

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