Passed MPLS and BGP

I passed the MPLS and BGP exam on Thursday. This time around the questions seemed harder, but with the extra couple of weeks of study I passed fairly easily. Looking back on it I should have done the separate exams. The MPLS Fundamentals book is good, but not enough for the exam. There were a few things I had to rely on the "MPLS and VPN Architectures CCIP Edition" book for. I had underestimated the BGP section. While I have worked for an ISP before I didn't really understand some of what was happening under the covers (even though I new enough to make BGP do what I wanted). The "Internet Routing Architectures" book is still one of the better books for this exam, but it is not enough. I would say you need to do a little general design research as well.

On to BSCI. I am not really in a hurry to do the exam - I am planning on doing enough routing, IPv6 and Multicast study for the BSCI so that I am at CCIE written level. Once I have done that I'll do the exam then move on to studying the rest of the CCIE written.