Re: Strategy for Troubleshooting Section in Exam

Hi
I think you can start from any vendor's workbook to understand and enhance
your TS skills. Then you should create your own topology for 30-40 routers
in Dynamips. Try to put as many configs as possible and then break them, you
can get help from your friends to break your configs and don't let you know
whats have been broken. This can help a lot, and it helped me a lot. I was
able to fix at least 9 out of 10 tickets with proper verification during my
lab attempt "first and final".

 To solve issues, diagram in lab is very crucial, it has every thing you
need to understand the scenario. But plz dont waste time to understand in
depth whats going on, its not required to do so.
Time is very important factor to solve the lab, given 120 minutes for 10
tickets, if you stuck on any ticket it will give you a lot of stress while
solving other tickets. First try to solve tickets which you feel are easy to
fix and then return to other tickets. Solving each ticket is not required
but at least 8 are must. TS is all about basic skills, not in dept or
gotcha/tricky commands. If you know basic skills its more than enough to
pass TS.

Try to increase the speed which can only be done through practice. This
practice will help you to make your plan to solve tickets in different
approaches, like top down approach, from down to upward or try to solve it
from middle. No single approach can help, and practice will give you what
all you need to work with TS. TS is best part of Lab which i liked and it
helped me a lot to understand things in quick and precise manner.

Try to work with debug and show commands as much as possible, but don't
forget that there is no restriction to "do sh run". You just have to find a
proper equilibrium among sh run and other show/debug commands.

HTH

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Roy Waterman <roy.waterman_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Just an additional thing to Nathan's essential recommendation to read the
> restrictions is to ideally (after solving each ticket), verify that in the
> resolution of that ticket, that you haven't violated any restrictions.
> It's all too easy to read the restrictions at the start & then to
> potentially forget them in the heat of battle.
> It's also all too easy to believe that in verifying the solution works, you
> have your points, when in fact you've violated some restriction.
>
> It may well be overkill to some to check restrictions after each ticket,
> but
> it's what I'm going to do when I next pay a visit to the lab.
>
> Regards
> Roy
> @routelaker
>
> On 5 May 2011 16:59, Ahmed <ahmedsalim_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I would also add that to move on if you;r stuck in a particular question
> > and
> > come back to that later. Time is of the essence.
> >
> > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Nathan Falcon <nathan.falcon_at_gmail.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Simple thing to remember, but make sure you read the restrictions.
> > > They're easy to miss in the troubleshooting section.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Carl Gosselin
> > > <carl.gosselin_at_altizone.com>wrote:
> > >
> > > > A great source of information in the troubleshooting section of the
> lab
> > > is
> > > > the overall network diagram.
> > > >
> > > > You have 10 to 12 minutes to solve a ticket.
> > > >
> > > > You should take 30 seconds to a minute (max) to study the network and
> > > scope
> > > > the routers that are invoved in the current ticket and potential
> > issues.
> > > > For example...
> > > > Traffic flow ?
> > > > Redistribution points ?
> > > > OSPF areas ?
> > > > Authentication ?
> > > >
> > > > The rest depends on your preparation and knowledge of the material
> and
> > > > knowing when to skip and go to the next ticket...
> > > >
> > > > IMHO
> > > >
> > > > Goodluck!
> > > >
> > > > -Carl
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:57 AM, imran ali <immrccie_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > not an expert yet but i suggest the following
> > > > >
> > > > > 1)identify the problem fist ...make sure what is being asked
> > > > > 2)check on what routers u need to configure
> > > > >
> > > > > 3)use sh run | in ...sh run | sec ....sh run | beg ...and other
> > > relavent
> > > > > show commans
> > > > >
> > > > > then comes resolution ...
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, May , 2011 at 2:51 PM, Paul Tim <paultim68_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi
> > > > > > Seeking for Experts point of view on "Strategy for
> Troubleshooting
> > > > > Section
> > > > > > "
> > > > > >
> > > > > > cheers
> > > > > > Paul
> > > > > >
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