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In all seriousness, the biggest things you can do here are to analyze every show command and debug option for the major areas of the exam:
RIPv2 EIGRP BGP OSPF WAN topics (Frame Relay, PPP, etc) Basic security stuff QoS
Just use the question mark and take them one by one, setting up scenarios on your own as you go. Continually make yourself demonstrate with show and debug commands exactly what the protocols are doing. For each of the major topics you should be able to instantly think of a couple of different ways of verifying major events:
How do I know if I’ve gotten the neighbor state I want? How do I figure out what prefixes I’m advertising? How do I figure out who sent me a prefix? How do I determine why I’m choosing path A instead of path B? How do I know if something’s getting dropped due to a L2, L3, or L4 issue? Etc.
Another thing I try to do habitually is to ask myself (especially with more obscure diagnostics) “why did the developers put this command in?” In a lot of cases, they probably either had a request from TAC, or a customer feature request, or an escalated internal issue that made somebody think “hmm, it sure would be nice if we had a command that did X.” I try to figure out what those situations might have been–this will give you insights into the protocols that you might otherwise have missed.
Another question to ask yourself is “why did they choose to do it this way, when another way might have worked too?” Case in point: when I was first learning about the internals of routing protocols, it really bugged me that you use the “network” command to enable routing on an interface level. Why not do it on the interface instead? In some protocols you can: IS-IS, or in recent IOS versions, OSPF. Or in IPv6. Or IPX, for that matter. This is a fairly simple question and I’m sure you can think of lots of reasons to do it one way or another, but it’s an example of an exercise you can go through to think about the protocols in different ways.
Jay #17783
—–Original Message—– From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Cecil Wilson Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2007 11:11 AM To: Joseph Brunner; suri tk; ccielab@groupstudy.com Subject: BAD Santa,
Hello One of my biggest problem is been able to verify my answers, (in a timely manner)
-Is there a link, or book etc, that would help with this issue? -If I had to purchase 2 workbooks? Which ones would you recommended
- I just did my lab in RTP, lets just say santa was NOT good to me
Thanks for ALL suggestions
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