OSI

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Wasn't quite sure where to post this, but here might be a good place.

Just started studying for my last exam of my MCSA, the 70-291 and noticed that there is some reference to the OSI.

I've done my Comptia N+, and learnt the OSI according to comptia. Then I bought the CCNA book and considered doing my CCNA before finishing my MCSA, but decided not to, because I didn't want to learn the OSI according to... Cisco yet. Now I find that we have to know the OSI according to Microsoft.

Does anyone know if the OSI is a big part of the 70-291, as I've checked the Microsoft exam criteria and couldn't really find any reference to it.

Thanks in advance chappys and chappesses.

 

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Lud i got the ms press book and the 1st few chapters take you through a bit of networks theory. Subnetting is big thou.APIPA addressing... Let me crack the book open again and see because those were off the top of my head...

 

re the OSI, it's the same regardless of who talks about it as its an ISO model, not a cisco, microsoft or comptia model.

That said, some explanations are better than others. If you understand it, you should be ok for any vendor... just like if you know tcp/ip, or DNS or DHCP it's pretty much the same for any vendor

 

OSI shouldn't be that different between N+, Cisco and M$.

Part of the problem is that few real world protocol stacks map exactly to OSI, there are some fuzzy edges.

But the basics should be the same.

Harry.