Okay, so I finally received my Cisco Press Offical CCNP study guide books and am ready to roll. It’s been a year since I passed the CCNA exam so I guess I am going to be a bit rusty… although not too much since I deal with Cisco gear on a daily basis at work. It’s been a frustrating week. I have, while waiting for the CCNP books arrive, been skimming the pages of the various CCNA books that I have and my old notes but can’t seem to get focused on a particular subject area. I feel the I need to obviously freshen up on routing protocols since I have attacking BSCI first but I keep losing interest at RIP and EIGRP… I have though just started to read the BSCI study guide by Cisco Press and have skipped to OSPF first. I feel I more comfortable with OSPF since I am currently running it on my home lab. Actually the routers and switches in the lab have the same configs that I left them on after finishing the CCNA! I think I need to give myself a kick up the backside and start getting into the study habit… Tomorrow I will go in-depth into OSPF and will hopefully post some of my notes up.
July 23, 2008 at 10:13 pm
looking forward to your notes. Just started OSPF today myself. I don’t know how your CCNA studies were, but for some reason, I found myself referring back to my old CCNA books and notes a lot when I was going over the CCNP-level EIGRP. Somehow, I still found it more easy to understand to read the CCNA books than the CCNP study guide. Maybe it’s because the former was meant to be easier and the latter was supposed to be harder. Who knows…
July 23, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Exactly! I find it easier to actually flick through the CCNA book and still pick up tons of info to make stick in the brain but I tried that with the BSCI book and not the same thing!!