I passed my Cisco BCMSN exam with flying colours, despite a really bad feeling I had about the exam before clicking the final “submit” button. Cisco have changed the format of the exam, and while it certainly looks more modern, I couldn’t really say whether it’s an improvement or not.

I’ve decided to study for the BSCI exam next, which should hopefully be a little more of the topics I’m used to – routing, IP subnetting, etc. Finding time to study has been difficult lately, with work starting to get a little busier. My estimate of two weeks of study per exam might need a little tweaking, or at least consideration of a couple of weeks between each study run.

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to get my own blog. What kind of a lazy geek am I?

I’ve finally started on studying for my CCNP, five years after passing my CCNA. What a slob. The first exam I’m doing is BCMSN, and I’ve never read so much guff about spanning tree in my life. Quite a large chunk of what is in the study guide is rapidly becoming obsolete and superceded by newer (and standards-based, instead of Cisco proprietary) technologies. Hopefully Cisco don’t update the exams half way through me studying for them.