RE: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and

From: Joseph Brunner (joe@affirmedsystems.com)
Date: Thu Jan 15 2009 - 20:14:26 ARST


Give it a break guys... that is an easy question... I pray I would get
points on a real ccie lab for something so simple....

"how do you configure split tunneling on a vpn 3000 concentrator"

God I wish it was that easy.

If you go through the workbooks with half a brain cell activated the
Physical frame-relay nbma mode with 30/120 timers should be glaringly
obvious, oh, and the issue of the hub needing the neighor w.x.y.z
For each neighbor with a pvc

-Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Bogdan Sass
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 3:05 PM
To: Scott Morris; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Changes to CCIE Lab and Written Exam Question Format and
Scoring

Scott Morris wrote:
> However, if I asked you "Please tell me the default OSPF network type on a
> frame-relay physical interface and what timers are associated with that"
are
> you telling me that after months/years of studying for the lab exam that
you
> could not answer that?
>
    Actually, this is _exactly_ the kind of questions I would be afraid
of. Why? Because I recently passed my CCIE RS exam, and yet I don't know
the default timers Cisco uses for various protocols on various interface
types.
    Why is that? Because I do not need that information in order to
_configure_ and _troubleshoot_ that protocol (which should be the
primary objective of the CCIE lab exam). I know that those timers exist.
I know that for some protocols mismatching timers can lead to neighbors
not establishing an adjacency. Therefore, I know that when my neighbors
do not come up, one of the things I need to check is the value of the
timers on both ends.
    However, I really don't see a situation in which I need to know that
"Cisco uses a default hello interval of 10 seconds for OSPF on broadcast
links". Even if I am required not to change the hello time on one end of
the link, I can still go to that router, do a "sh ip ospf int", and see
the current value.

-- 
Bogdan Sass
CCAI,CCSP,JNCIA-ER,CCIE #22221 (RS)
Information Systems Security Professional
"Curiosity was framed - ignorance killed the cat"

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