From: anthony.sequeira@thomson.com
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 05:53:53 ART
Yes - it sounds like you might be worrying a bit excessively here.
Remember - there should not be a task on your lab that says:
4-5: Ensure that all networks can be reached from all routers and
switches in your topology.
20 Points
Instead - you are going to have a bunch of 2 to 4 point tasks. Once all
of these tasks are complete, you should indeed have full connectivity.
It might be that Cisco does forget to have you advertise a network - or
perhaps the diagrams provided are just not that clear. Feel free to ask
a proctor what you should do with this "orphaned" network. If they are
non-committal with their response (highly likely) - I would just
advertise it in the most likely protocol that it should belong to.
Remember also that the full connectivity test is a great double check
against things you may have messed up as you are making later
configurations.
In my lab pass experience - I tested full connectivity and everything
was awesome just before lunch. I had completed the Switching, Frame, and
IGP sections.
I made some more major configurations to the network after lunch and ran
the connectivity test again. Sure enough - I broke my network.
Thankfully it was easy to pinpoint the problem based on the location of
failures. It was pretty easy to fix things and "keep on truckin" - but I
sure was glad that I had a method of testing that network to begin with!
By the way - as to your second question about suboptimal paths - I think
this comes down again to your requirements. If they make it a condition
that all paths must be optimal - then they are looking for that. If they
do not mention it - good chance they do not care.
Keep the faith as you study and stay positive! This will help to attract
the proper energy you need to pass!
- Anthony Sequeira
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Cagri Yucel
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 2:26 AM
To: Group study
Subject: Full connectivity revisited
I think I keep asking the same question but a recent post from some
other
member made me think about this:
In the real exam:
1. If a few of the loopbacks or networks are not explicitly told to be
announced. And if I don't do this. What will happen. (Ok in this case I
will
ask to the proctor). But what is the scoring approach here. Even if I do
whatever asked in all of the question can I still loose some points
because
there is no full connectivity ??? How many points should I expect to
loose
for this (whole lab ?) :)
2. Similar question, let's say if I have some suboptimal routing (but no
loops or flapping). All requirements are satisfied, full reachability
exists
but will I get some lost of points due to that ?
Am I getting too paronoid ?
-- -cagri
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