From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2007 - 10:13:25 ART
I say take any practice lab you like and give yourself twice the alloted
time to complete it. Write down every command you think needs doing as you
do each task, apply it, verify it with debugs as well as show and show run.
Be paranoid. Then check your final configs against the given solution. You
will be surprised how many things you will catch first time which you would
otherwise miss if you rush labs.
There is a temptation once you have a few hours of practice labs under your
belt to just machine gun commands into the IOS. Split-horizon, bad masks,
bad route-maps, bad router IDs, failed virtual links, bad frame-maps, bad
summaries, forgotten summarisations, bad ACLs, forgotten network
statements...etc, etc, etc will kill you everytime. Verification as you go
along takes time, but if it becomes engrained while your practice you will
speed up and save time in the long run. It's also rather jolly to see the
layers come up one by one as you do tasks on a lab. Helps you understand how
things work in the way they do.
HTH
Gary
HTH
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Russell" <osuphd2b@yahoo.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:28 PM
Subject: Little things that kill
>I took a mock lab this weekend and scored lower than I thought I would. I
>understood every technology that was asked. I just made stupid mistakes
>like copy-paste errors, forgetting one command on a task, etc. How do you
>guard against these kind of mistakes? I feel confident in the
>technologies, I just need to be more thorough in verification, I suppose.
>My payment date for the lab is fast approaching, and I thought I was ready
>technology-wise. I still think I am ready tech wise, but what about the
>details that truly make or brake the lab?
>
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