From: CCIE3000 (ccie3000@googlemail.com)
Date: Sun Aug 31 2008 - 01:32:50 ART
For sure do a layer two.
I follow the IE method from the lab set up. Four boxes for your switches in
a diamond shape, Sw1 left, SW3 top sw4 right, sw2 bottom.
Show connections from routers to switches and mark whether trunk or which
vlan it should be. plus any special things concerning your interswitch
links. It should take between 5-10 minutes and closer to 5. You may not
ALWAYS need it but I'd bet you need it more times than not.
No matter how prepared you are unless you are ultra cool (and in my eyes to
be ultra cool in the lab you must be under the influence of something :) )
you heart beat is going to be up and you are going to be a little edgy
(which is a good thing, keeps ya sharp) you will have lots of things going
on in your head thinking things through, don't leave anything to chance,
have it down on paper and as an easy reference. You will be tired towards
the afternoon and should you face a problem it's better to have a diagram to
hand than try and think things through from memory.
You should be aiming to have read the lab and drawn your diagrams within 30
mins to 45. But then again it's better to spend an extra 10 minutes and get
it right.
My enlightenment was to use alias' e.g.
cc for conf t
ss for show run | section
etc..etc...You must remove the alias before the end of the exam but I noted
on my last attempt, I felt good, my nerves were in normal levels but for the
life of me I kept making silly typing mistakes which were driving me
crazy...and normally I can touch type okay. Add up the amount of repeat
commands I made and they start to eat into your overall time.
You just have to do lab after lab after lab after lab after lab...you get
the idea.
When I first start one lab could take me 4-5 days. Now I average 4-5 hours.
Good luck.
Si
On 8/30/08, Adam Elghafri <ccie.adam@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ok for me...
>
>
> I DON'T drow a L2 topology (the physical ethernet, more accurately) unless
> i
> see:
>
> "make sure vlan 73 is pruned where it is necessery"
> or "both the trunks between SW1 and SW2 should balance the traffic of vlans
> 15 and 20"
> or something else where u want to track the spanning of the vlans across
> your trunks...
>
> otherwise its useless and wast of 20 minutes.. u only need to have a good
> utilization of the L3 topology (the logical mixed up, more accurately)....
>
> now for reading the lab .. again.. after investigating with ppl who
> passed..
> here what i concluded:
> -don't read the entire thing word by word as u r trying to solve... or else
> it will be harmful !!!!.. yes.. if i do that.. then when i go back to do
> the
> lab from the beginning i just do it without thinking... i just loose the
> concentration while doing it and fall in mistakes !!!!
>
> exactly when u come "very" prepared to a class...
>
>
> so my advice.. make the reading not to exceed 10 to 15 minutes.. or a slow
> skimming ..
>
> Footnote: i dont have a ccie number.. so what i say are just conclusions to
> my "studies" experience ....
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:19 AM, KS Anpu <ksanpu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have one more month to sit the lab. Still it is very difficult to read
> the
> > full lab and draw the L2 diagram and short notes before start the lab. it
> is
> > taking nearly more than one hour . So i am expecting your advice / help
> how
> > can i speed up it ? and is there any other good practice to follow for
> speed
> > up..... other than using alias , tclsh for ping .
> >
> > Regards,
> > anbu.
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