bharvey92 wrote: » Cheers man. When's your date? Good luck for your exam, I've followed some of your previous posts regarding your studies.
Danielh22185 wrote: » Unfortunetly I wasn't able to gather the funds in time to schedule the exam yet. I am hopeful on doing it on the 13th. I'm trying to bug my work to pay for it so I am not out of pocket the $250 right before the holidays. I look forward to hearing of your experience!
bharvey92 wrote: » Sorry to hear that bud, expensive time over the xmas period. Good luck for the 13th! If it's a good company you work for and you enjoy your current position definitely bug them! It's a good deal for both you and them. I sat my Switch today and passed with 879. Lower than my Route exam (which surprised me as Switch is my stronger subject!). Found the exam tough but fair, exam was mainly High-Availability services, L3 switching and Spanning-Tree. Can't actually remember Wireless featuring much (which I suppose is due to the Cisco Wireless path being introduced). Onward to TShoot, hopefully wrap up the NP before the cut-off!
Danielh22185 wrote: » Fantastic news! Congrats man! TSHOOT should be a breeze! I also have some good news! My work has agreed to pay for the test if I show them a pass so it's hardcore review mode now! I am going to have to reschedule my exam once more as I have a work x-mas party the night of the 12th so I am going to move it up to that morning. Hopefully will have something to party more about!
bharvey92 wrote: » Cheers mate! I have come down with a damn cold so I am taking a few days off before I roll into the TShoot material! Thant's fantastic news about the test, as I said it is both a good deal for you and you employers! Look forward to hearing your pass! Just remember to lab lab lab and know the basics like configuring Root Primary switches and Active HSRP standby routers etc. Have them down cold and it'll be a breeze!
Hondabuff wrote: » Good to hear that you passed, Congrats! The Switch exam I have been told is the tougher of the 2 to study for. I got approved for Cisco live back at the end on Jan and spent 3.5 months getting ready. Route has been about 2 months. After I sit the Route next week I'm going to try to a 7 day cram to get the T-shoot done before the new year. We are working on our budget for training next year and put in a request for Lammle's CCNA Security 4 day boot camp. I was already told no on the 12 day CCNP boot camp.
Danielh22185 wrote: » I meant to ask you what study materials you used as well. Yes this next week my wife is going to hate me. I will be living out of my study. Its full emersion mode! I'll have CBT nuggets playing in my ear all day today. I have done labbing as well I ran through the SLM for switch, actually found it quite easy so was going to do some labs from the simplified book as well.
Hondabuff wrote: » What are you guys using for Tshoot? I started watching the CBT Nuggets on Tshoot but had a hard time staying focused. I have been seeing a few strategies out there for knocking out the Tshoot exam.
Hondabuff wrote: » After looking at the Tshoot demo, It has me second guessing how long of prep time I might need. I'm going to have to learn the topology and more than likely have to build it out in Packet Tracer or GNS3. Trying to work within the construct of the exam window, I was annoyed with the size of the window to work in. Its like looking through a toilet paper tube at the topology. I'm going spend a few days digging through some forums to see how most people are approaching this.
fredrikjj wrote: » I would schedule 2 weeks and follow this process: 1. Review any material from the other two exams that seems relevant to the topology. This means that you for example could skip most BGP stuff since the topology only has a single eBGP neighbor. 2. NAT and DHCP are on the Tshoot blueprint: 2.5 Troubleshoot a DHCP client and server solution2.6 Troubleshoot NATHowever, they are not covered in Route and Switch. If you feel like these are weak areas for you, study them. Technically, I guess this is CCNA stuff. 3. Learn the topology. It makes things easier if you know the IP addresses used. Packettracer like you said is probably a solid choice for this since I imagine that the latest version actually supports everything you need. 4. Do the exam demo and read up on how the exam actually works. Never pick an answer that you aren't 100% certain of because the errors aren't that complicated - if all answers are strange, it's likely because you picked the wrong path earlier in the question. Skip tickets that you aren't comfortable with and return later since you are likely to spend very little time on the majority of them, leaving you with plenty of time at the end to tie up any loose ends.
Hondabuff wrote: » From what my intel has gathered 13 Trouble tickets with 3 answers each and 3-5 questions and or Drag-n-Drops from a pool of 17.
Hondabuff wrote: » Pretty easy to find if you know where to look.
bharvey92 wrote: » Nice! Is that custom built in Packet-Tracer? Didn't realise there was some Frame-Relay on the exam! I need to brush up on that as that was hardly (if at all) covered in Route exam.
