From: Jennifer Bellucci (Jennifer_bellucci@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 18:12:06 GMT-3
Hello
I think you should concentrate on the core area IGP/BGP, multicast, NAT,
Frame Relay and kill ISDN (spent ages learning it). ATM, think of it as a
WAN technology...I was given some good advice when it comes to learning it.
think of ATM as Frame Relay with a few extra commands and don't expect to
understand it until you have been through the spectrum. With time (which is
limited for you) everything about ATM will fall into place.
DLSW, route-maps and the various types of ACL's...like reflective, extended
and named are just a few. If you go on CCO and look at the security config
guide you will see stuff like CBAC, worth having a look at.
One thing you have to be awesome is in 3550 config, pay special attention to
what the switch can do at layer 3 and what protocols are supported...IS-IS
is not supported (someone correct me if I am wrong and if you do...how in
the blue hell did you get it to work?)
One thing I think will be growing in the lab is QOS on 3550 and how it
interacts with a router, they have replaced 2500's with 2600's, which can do
some nifty things.
I think your best friends should be the command guides...my IP Routing book
is full of dribble stains (who needs sleeping pills when you got these
books?).
When going through IGP's, try to get OSPF running with a discontinuous area
0, add another ospf domain, redistribute, add virtual-links, add EIGRP,
IS-IS and RIPv1/2 and perform mutual redistribution between all of them and
get rid of all the loop's...use as many different methods to filter the
routes, route-map, distribute-list...authentication, everything possible.
Use the tagging features, what can they do and why, when's the best time to
use them?
You got tons to learn and not alot of time. Sit in front of the routers and
play...things I remember most are the stuff I learnt by just playing around.
Make a timetable and stick to it...need solid discipline, which I lack
sadly.
I am not certified yet but not long to go until my first and hopefully last
attempt.
Mail off-line if you want to chat more.
Jbell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Juggins" <sjuggins@cisco.com>
To: "CCIELAB" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2002 9:46 AM
Subject: Limited time to Study, which topics to cover?
> Hi All,
>
> I am currently scheduled to take my Lab in Brussels on February 28th,
> unfortunately I cannot move it as my 18 months is up a couple of days
later.
> I don't really want to take the written again, and would like to have a
> crack at the lab to gauge what it's like. What I would like to know, is
> given that I only have 3 months to study (due to some long term illness),
> which topics should I concentrate on (I'm not expecting to pass, more of a
> recon) I've read Doyle I and some of Doyle II, Halabi, Caslow and some of
> Solie. I'm really looking to do practice now, and if I could nail IGP and
> BGP on the day I would be happy :)
>
> Any advice is much appreciated.
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