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

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...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using Distribute Lists

To be successful on the BSCI exam and in earning your CCNP, you’ve got to master route redistribution. This isn’t as easy as it sounds, because configuring route redistribution is only half the battle. Whether it’s...

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

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 well review the basic concept and clear up...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: The BGP Attribute MED

Your BSCI exam and CCNP certification success depend on mastering BGP, and a big part of that is knowing how and when to use the many BGP attributes. And for those of you with an eye on the CCIE, believe me – you’ve got...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Ten IP Routing Details You Must Know!

To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP, you’ve got to keep a lot of details in mind. It’s easy to overlook the “simpler” protocols and services such as static routing and distance vector...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: RIP Update Packet Authentication

When you earned your CCNA, you thought you learned everything there is to know about RIP. Close, but not quite! There are some additional details you need to know to pass the BSCI exam and get one step closer to the CCNP...

Cisco_CCNP___BSCI_Exam_Tutorial___OSPF_Route_Redistribution_ReviewOSPF 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...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Not All Static Routes Are Created Equal

As a CCNP candidate, as a CCNA, and in getting ready to pass the BSCI exam, you may be tempted to breeze through your static route studies, or even skip them! That’s because static routes are easy enough to...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Leading Zero Compression

The BSCI exam and CCNP certification requires that you be well versed in the basics of IP Version 6, or IPv6. If you’re new to IPv6, you’ll quickly learn that it’s not exactly just two more octets slapped onto...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: ISIS Router Types

To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP, you’ve got to know ISIS inside and out. There are many similarities between ISIS and OSPF, but one major difference is that ISIS has three different types of routers – Level 1 (L1),...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: IP Version 6 Zero Compression

BSCI exam success is all part of becoming a CCNP, and part of that success is now learning the basics of IP Version 6, or IPv6. One of the most difficult parts of learning IPv6 concepts is the radically different addressing...

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Introduction To Policy Routing

Policy routing is a major topic on your BSCI exam, and you’ll find quite a bit of policy routing going on in today’s production networks. But what exactly is policy routing?

Policy-based routing,...