OK, so now you've been studying for a while? Read the material once or twice, made notes. Have you read more details about a command in the command reference guide, or more details about a technique in the FCIP Admin Guide or the FOS guide? Or how do you do …

Another studying tip! Head over to the forum/community at Brocade. Do it. After you read this post :p For example in the BCFP there will be questions about NPIV, so it makes sense to read the forum for threads regarding NPIV. Right? I mean there's bound to be troubleshooting …

A bit quiet here. I'm quite busy at work and also studying for the BCFP. Currently wrapping up the end of 'going through the material and putting what I find interesting in a document so that I can print it and re-read it and make notes etc'. One thing I …

The free material does not go through the virtual fabrics and the exam objectives does not mention them specifically. Even so - it's probably a good idea to get some grip about it anyway as it is mentioned in the BCFP 8G material and there are questions concerning it in the …

Still studying for Brocade's BCFP Exam. This post is to try to put light on some of the terms/technologies you'll be surrounded by when learning about FCIP. Guides you should see are the "Fabric OS FCIP Administrator's Guide" and you should probably start with the material for BCFP - part …

FCR; Fibre Channel Routing; FC-FC Routing; etc; etc. This has many names. FC-FC Routing service provides FCR (fibre channel routing). Basically what it does is that it lets you zone devices in two separate fabrics without merging them. These two separate fabrics are called 'edge fabrics' in Brocade lingo, they …

More studying. Only a month and a half to go. Currently repeating/re-reading BCFA stuff and mostly focusing on the new stuff. Expect to do this this whole week but gradually weave in more BCFP stuff. An idea - I don't think I need to re-hearse the BCFA that much. The …

I am currently going for the BCFP - fabric professional - exam, but I did the BCFA 6 months ago so I'll re-read the material and of course there's the new stuff with FOS 7, new hardware, 16g, new ASIC that I should probably learn as well. Some new stuff 'fabric name' …

Right now I'm reading through the BCFA material and writing what I find useful in a google docs document - later I will take this and send to my Kindle - for some of that memorization :) Think it's a good idea to refresh some of the BCFA stuff before tackling the BCFP …

After the announcement of the available material Fabric OS 7.0.0a has been released. On the page http://community.brocade.com/docs/DOC-2041 only the first revision of the 7.0 release notes is available. The BCFA 16G beta course material is also available, probably a good idea to …