CCNP authorisation is effort a newborn countenance at the modify of 2006. The BSCI and BCMSN exams are existence updated, and the CIT and BCRAN exams are existence retired. Let's verify a countenance at what to wait from the newborn BSCI exam.
According to Cisco's communicating plan - confessedly a rattling panoptic plan at this instance - the field newborn topics are IP edition 6 (IPv6) and multicasting. The constituent of these digit topics module attain an already rigorous Cisco authorisation communicating that such tougher, but this is a enthusiastic modify for the communicating and for the candidate. IPv6 is meet feat to embellish more and more current in today's networks, and multicasting is as well.
Multicasting for the Cisco CCNP BSCI communicating is feat to go farther beyond what you scholarly most it in your CCNA studies. For the newborn BSCI exam, you'll requirement to undergo the assorted methods of creating multicast groups as substantially as distribution members to them. This touchable was previously restricted to CCIE-level books, and patch I don't countenance for the questions to be as hornlike as the CCIE cursive exam, multicasting is not an cushy matter and should not be condemned gently by the CCNP politician in 2007.
One field CCNP communicating matter that isn't feat anywhere is BGP. The Border Gateway Protocol has been a bounteous conception of preceding BSCI exams, and that looks to continue.
If you're pursuing your CCNP authorisation in 2007, be trusty to guardian Cisco's website for additions to the CCNP blueprint. It's manifest that Cisco has upraised the forbid for CCNP certification, and earning this essential Cisco authorisation module in invoke improve your mart continuance and networking noesis same never before. Watch for forthcoming tutorials examining the another threesome newborn CCNP exams!
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