From: Tom Rogers (cccie71@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 15:09:18 GMT-3
Hi,
This is the strategy I used on 2nd and 3rd attpemts. In the first I was clueless. But 3rd was the charm.
1)I quickly scanned the whole lab from a to z in 10 min, just to get an idea. Dont try to remember everything, coz U ll have to read 3-4 times each question before you configure a task.
2)Draw a quick diagram and write down the each routers interface #s their dlci's and to what switch what interface is connected to. I got a habit of marking in blue and red for different swiches. This way I know fast enough, as to what port on what switch needs to be in right vlan.
3)Concentrate as much time as you can on layer 2 ie switching and bridging section.Dont panic, it takes time to do the layer 2. Those re the give away easy points. you cant go wrong there. If you're still having issues there, then your whole moral would be down. You need to boost your courage and confidence all the time. And what an easy way to start with.
4)Now you need to read the routing part and understand the pit falls. By reading the IGP you should be able to analyse whats the catch, and you should be able to formulate one of the correct ways out of several.
5)Check each protocol brefore redistribution and check what breaks after redistribtion.
6)I would recommend to configure ISDN the order it appears on the question.
7) 20 mins before going to lunch (People might not agree here) stop configuring. Save and reboot all your routers and read as many questions as U can and understand them good. By now you should be 60% done. And go for lunch.
8)Eat, think and plan your move in 1/2 an hour lunch. This might now work for everyone, coz U might like to give yourself a break. But it worked for me. I came with several ideas and could not wait to get back to my desk.
9)After lunch check your routing. Hopefully reboot might come useful here.
10)Wrap the 40% and now do your ping scripts and traceroute scripts.
I used this approach from the 2 attempt. I comleted the lab 2 hours earlier, but failed. And 3rd was complete 1/2 an hour after lunch with errors. I checked 7-8 times and found mistakes in almost 1-3. When the proctor said times up and logoff, I still did not want to leave :-) I had saved my configs 4 times after final check. but still wanted to save once again when the time was up. I could never figure out why.
Bottomline, U need to check and recheck your config and read the questions on every check and dont assume that you know the questions coz you have already read it 5 times during your configuration. This part is important.
Everyone knows the ping scripts, but if you dont know the trace one, do a search on gs, some one had given in detail how to find all the nets and then edit on a wordpad and paste on all the routers.
Basically, you ll be pasting on every router sh ip route x.x.x.x m.a.s.k | i not
This will tell you the missing route
Those ips can be used for ping scripts also.
Thats it folks.
Goodluck
Tom
Peter van Oene <pvo@usermail.com> wrote:
At 11:46 AM 7/9/2004, CCIE wrote:
>I will have my CCIE Lab in the next weeks. I want to know how was/is your
>strategy for the Lab Day.
>
>1. Did you read the whole Lab tasks before you begin to configure?
>
>2. How is you it with the time management?
>
>Some other tips for the Lab day??
I'd recommend getting 80 points or so ;-)
Chuck L - the long and ever winding road used to have a link to many posts which covered a lot of this stuff actually.
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