CCNP Building Scalable Internetworks (BSCI 642-901) Lab Portfolio

First let me say that I was NOT impressed w/ Cisco Press's Exam Certification Guide. Lots of material was not covered in detail, and it wasn't until I went through this book that those gaps were filled.NOTE: I'm actually just started the CCIE R&S 360 program, and in addition to having used this book for my BSCI, I'm currently using it for my CCIE practice labs. This is hands down the best CCNP book you will ever buy. The exercises are well thought out and very detail oriented. The command outputs from various show & debug commands are explained in detail. The variety of network topologies used is another point worth mentioning; one of my own difficulties studying for this exam was really grasping routing behavior on NBMA networks. Going through and configuring a Frame-Relay switch [and yes, they give you commands], and then seeing for yourself the difference between Frame-Relay multipoint vs. a series of logical point-to-points w/ OSPF routing...absolutely INVALUABLE. If you're using the BSCI Exam Certification Guide, this will ABSOLUTELY help you fill in the missing pieces from Multicast, esp. if you plan on going for your CCIE afterwards. This is the ONLY Cisco Press book I've read where I can finally say I "get" multicast configuration.On a final note, the test had several questions whose topics were ONLY addressed in this book. #1 was dealing w/ EIGRP over Frame Relay multipoint going out the same S0/0 interface; no sub-interfaces. Split-horizion alerts should be going off in your brain, because it's learning about all networks from the SAME PHYSICAL interface. Cisco Press's Exam Certification guide did NOT cover this. #2 Was discussing using IP Prefix Lists to filter route updates in a much more granular manner than an ACL. I.e. filtering based on subnet masks so the specific routes you plan on summarizing will NOT be redistributed, but the single summarized route WILL be. ACL's will block everything due to wildcard masks.Enough ranting. Do yourself a favor and get this book