RE: What about the troubleshooting part - allowed commands

Working late tonight. 7:30PM EST. Just encounter a problem I thought you fine gentlemen and gentlewomen might want to look at just for fun.
For me, already involved with the network, the problem become somewhat easy. Let's see how you guys breeze through.

Internet
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ASR1002
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ASA 5520
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6500
Network A-----6500----ASA5520----7206VXR-----GIGABYTE ETHERNET------NETWORK B------------INTERNET

7206VXR peer and receive BGP routes from NETWORK B. You don't have access to network B
A user from network B came into Network A, plugged the labtop in get an IP address, could get out to the internet, could get to some A facing external resorts at network B through the NATTED GIGE connection. But couldn't use Cisco VPN client to get back to his/her internal network B.
A bunch of 1/2/3/4/5 stars "elephant" (using Nadeem word) is called in to trouble shoot. How do you troubleshoot? Where do you start?
What commands will you use? Will you even be tempted to do a show run?
Already got this problem solved by the way, no free consulting needed, just think it might help with trouble shooting.

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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Marko Milivojevic
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 6:47 PM
To: Nadeem Rafi
Cc: Dan Shechter; CCIE-Newbie; Cisco certification
Subject: Re: What about the troubleshooting part - allowed commands

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 22:25, Nadeem Rafi <nrafia_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> With my little experience and very little knowledge, already offended a good
> person with misunderstanding :( which is another story, i can understand
> that a candidate should build both skills. And he should know at what stage
> where to look. If a candidate build a habit of only checking sh run then he
> can fix a lot of issues within very short time, esp. those configs which he
> build by himself. If such a user is introduced to an
> unknownB environmentB then his efficiency will be not as it should be.
> For un-knownB environmentsB and tricky things he should build his knowledge
> and TS skills B upon Debug commands and structured analytical approach.
> Just my two cents...I dont want to get involve in a battle of elephants :)
> Gentlemen i respect all of you.

If you mean me - quite the contrary... You supported my argument!.
Also, your opinion matters. Of course it does - you are the one going
after digits - we who argue endlessly already have 4-5 of 'em :-).

I actually think this discussion is very useful. Troubleshooting is no
small part of the new exam format. Many tickets there can be
approached in different ways. Doing things right during that section
can save you A LOT of time for configuration section. Every second
counts. Heck, I'm even going to go on and say that REALLY WELL
prepared student should be ably to breeze through troubleshooting
section in 55-75 minutes.

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