From: Brian McGahan (bmcgahan@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Thu Mar 15 2007 - 17:16:55 ART
Danny,
I would recommend the opposite. Look specifically at what the
task is asking you to accomplish. Based on this do nothing more,
nothing less. Typically you won't lose points for excess configuration,
but at the same time you won't get extra points for good design,
documentation, etc. If you spend too much time trying to design an
optimal network you will most likely run out of time in the lab exam, or
break something that wasn't part of the original problem in the first
place.
HTH,
Brian McGahan, CCIE #8593 (R&S/SP)
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Danny Cox
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 4:05 AM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: more strategies
In the lab we can keep it simple, or keep it tight.
It occurs to me, for example, that building a trunk between the switches
could have its VLANs restricted easily enough with pruning and only
allowing
the set of VLANs in use. Another would be making all interfaces passive
by
default -especially with RIP and its classful network statements. These
restrictions might not be asked for, but are good practice. So, I find
myself wondering what sort of strategy to pursue.
As I understand it, the lab marking scheme will highlight whether
something
works or not. On the other hand I gather that the assessor labs, at
least,
can be tighter than that, and highlight some things which don't
fundamentally stop things working, so I'm curious whether you good folks
have a view as to which approach to take.
Thoughts?
cheers
Danny
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