It begins.

rakem

no one got any time to look at the above questions?

I'm moving onto IPv6 this week. Approx 1 month until i sit the written.

Turgon

rakem wrote: »

no one got any time to look at the above questions?

I'm moving onto IPv6 this week. Approx 1 month until i sit the written.

Do the practice questions every day now. It counts as reading. Get over 100 hours as soon as you can.

rakem

Turgon wrote: »

Do the practice questions every day now. It counts as reading. Get over 100 hours as soon as you can.

Yep thats what i'm doing, not every night but a few times a week to avoid 'tail drop'

An hour of IPv6 reading tonight and some random practice questions.

rakem

2 hours or IPv6... Struggling with it a bit.
The info in the text books is thin.... I have been reading alot of the RFCs which has helped.

Not much info around on subnetting IPv6 addresses. I'll get there though.

Turgon

It's the weekend. Study hard!

rakem

Man IPv6 is a 'dry' topic...

Anyway 4 hours this morning. Manily review questions from my text books and CD. Taking a break soon and hope to get a few hours in before going out with friends tonight.

Turgon

Not long till written test day now. Get over the 100 reading hour mark then start hitting the Boson tests each day. You have a solid reading foundation behind you now and the practice tests will be a change helping you to work what you have learned.

rakem

Yep been hitting the practice tests.
Doing well on the major topics like BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and STP but am getting let down with the smaller topics

I'll be reviewing the 'IP Services' chapters this week.

rakem

Reviewed IOS firewalls, 'IP services' and did some practice questions.

Turgon

rakem wrote: »

Reviewed IOS firewalls, 'IP services' and did some practice questions.

I wouldn't get hung up on IOS firewalls for the written. For IP services know a few things. Be familiar with config.

rakem

study, study, study

Learned some random stuff tonight which I never knew.

1) Cisco switches will use ISL encapsulation if they are auto negotiate trunks and Dot1q is not specifically configured. Seems weird, i thought ISL was on its way out....

2) there is an ACL command - log-input. This will log the source MAC and incoming interface of a packet that hits a ACE. Never new that existed before tonight.

And this is one fact about EIGRP that is important but easily forgotten (well easy for me anyway)
Bandwidth metric uses the lowest bandwidth along a link
Delay metric is the combined value of all delays across a link

down77

rakem wrote: »

study, study, study

Learned some random stuff tonight which I never knew.

1) Cisco switches will use ISL encapsulation if they are auto negotiate trunks and Dot1q is not specifically configured. Seems weird, i thought ISL was on its way out....

Remember when the material was first written and published ISL encapsulation was still an usable option. I would venture a guess that Odom either missed this tidbit in the 2009 revision (4th edition) or left it in just for the purpose of the exam. On todays "modern" Campus LAN switches (2960X, 3560X, 3750X, Nexus, etc) ISL encapsulation is no longer an option. I would remember this just for the purposes of the test and then forget it since it's no longer the standard.

Keep up the great work!

rakem

Its my Birthday (28 years old) Got a day off work so plenty of time to study.

And by study I mean drink

Turgon

rakem wrote: »

Its my Birthday (28 years old) Got a day off work so plenty of time to study.

And by study I mean drink

Congratulations! Drink heavily, and get over 100 hours. Time with practice tests counts as reading hours. Hammer them!

Turgon

rakem wrote: »

study, study, study

Learned some random stuff tonight which I never knew.

1) Cisco switches will use ISL encapsulation if they are auto negotiate trunks and Dot1q is not specifically configured. Seems weird, i thought ISL was on its way out....

2) there is an ACL command - log-input. This will log the source MAC and incoming interface of a packet that hits a ACE. Never new that existed before tonight.

And this is one fact about EIGRP that is important but easily forgotten (well easy for me anyway)
Bandwidth metric uses the lowest bandwidth along a link
Delay metric is the combined value of all delays across a link

All good written exam topics. Remember them well

rakem

No study at all over the weekend due to bday celebrations.
Back into it this week. Written exam coming up soon!

rakem

Got two hours or study done on works dollar today. Should be able to get another 2 hours done after dinner so looking to be a good day.

I finish up at my current job tomorrow so should be able to get some more study done then as well.
Happy days.

Turgon

rakem wrote: »

Got two hours or study done on works dollar today. Should be able to get another 2 hours done after dinner so looking to be a good day.

I finish up at my current job tomorrow so should be able to get some more study done then as well.
Happy days.

Keep clattering away. The written isn't far off so kill yourself with the Odom and Boson practice tests the next couple of weeks until you are sick of them. Study all the answers and explanations of any questions you get wrong.

rakem

Some EIGRP IPV6 study tonight and practise questions.

jamesp1983

rakem wrote: »

Some EIGRP IPV6 study tonight and practise questions.

Good luck man. How are you finding ipv6 overall?

rakem

jamesp1983 wrote: »

Good luck man. How are you finding ipv6 overall?

Its probably the topic I struggle with the most, and also the topic I'm least interested. I just find it boring.
The routing aspect of it is OK since most of it is fairly similar to IPv4.
It is something I need to do a fair bit more work on.

Turgon

rakem wrote: »

Its probably the topic I struggle with the most, and also the topic I'm least interested. I just find it boring.
The routing aspect of it is OK since most of it is fairly similar to IPv4.
It is something I need to do a fair bit more work on.

Know the addressing and a bit of routing for the written. Other than that move along..the fun begins with lab prep..

Ipv6 and frame relay
IPv6 tunnelling
IPv6 filtering
yada yada

rakem

Turgon wrote: »

Know the addressing and a bit of routing for the written. Other than that move along..the fun begins with lab prep..

Ipv6 and frame relay
IPv6 tunnelling
IPv6 filtering
yada yada

Yep been reading more about it this morning... its slowly sinking in...

Hope to have 100 reading hours crossed in the next few days.

rakem

3 to 4 hours tonight. Practise questions/reading/labing

rakem

Didn't feel much like reading this morning so just watched a few INE videos on IPv6. picked up some good stuff from them.

jamesp1983

rakem wrote: »

Didn't feel much like reading this morning so just watched a few INE videos on IPv6. picked up some good stuff from them.

It is nice having the option.

rakem

3 hours so far today. Passed the 100 hours of reading.

Exam booked for 5th November. Had to push it out a week since there were no available testing times on the original weekend i had planned.

So 2 weeks to go

rakem

A couple of hours this morning reading and playing with NAT.

rakem

Another hour or so this afternoon doing some BGP study and practise questions

Tired now.. going to crack a beer and enjoy whats left of my Sunday.

rakem

Started my new job today. No study.