Showing posts with label Networking. Show all posts
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

CCNP Switch Passed!

My revenge was served cold well today after I finally passed CCNP switch on my second try!



Let me just say "Try as many practice exams as possible!"
Test is a test after all, what we are tested is based on what examiner wants us to know. And not all the knowledge we are required to know for the test is useful on actual operations. So getting used to as many as practice exams as possible will help you pass the test though it may not be helping you on your actual operation.

Below are free practice exam methods I have used for CCNP switch and found them useful.

a. Certprepare
http://www.certprepare.com/
Amazing. It has lots of practice sims and example questions.

b. GNS3 Labs | CCNP | CCNA Labs
http://commonerrors.blogspot.jp/search/label/CCNP%20labs
If you become excited looking through this web page, I suppose you are ready to go.
This page provides you with lots of lab questions.

c. Ping-T
http://ping-t.com/
If you are Japanese and network engineer, I guess you are already familiar with this astonishing page.
Though you need to subscribe and pay a decent amount to fully utilize this amazing page, it can help you get used to the actual test and provides you with questions and detailed descriptions.


Luckily I got a chance to take the test twice, I noticed most of the questions on the test are fixed. I mean they gave me the same lab questions and the same simulations as the first one on my second try. Here is the list.

1. VLAN, STP, VTP, Etherchannel Sim
2. dot1x and VACL Sim
3. VLAN routing and EIGRP
4. HSRP multiple questions Sim


If you are new to switch area or have forgot most of the things you had learned on CCNA (my case), I recommend to start up from watching the video of our teacher Eli, "Understanding Switches".



Friday, March 21, 2014

CCNP Switch Command list

My CCNP Switch command magic list

[Command List]
~ Configuring Access port
(config-if)# switchport mode access
(config-if)# switchport access vlan 10

~ Configuring Trunk port
(config-if)# swithcport mode trunk
(config-if)# switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
(config-if)# switchport trunk native vlan 10
(config-if)# switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,20,30
(config-if)# switchport trunk encapsulation isl
(config-if)# switchport nonegotiate

~ Checking vlan configuration
# show vlan
# show interface trunk
# show interface switchport
# show interfaces f0/1 switchport

~ Configuring VTP
(config)# vtp domain [name]
(config)# vtp password [pass]
(config)# vtp version 2
(config)# vtp mode server|client|transparent
(config)# vtp mode server|client|transparent

(config)# vtp pruning
(config-if)# switchport trunk pruning vlan 2-50
# show vtp status




~ Configuring Spanning-tree
(config)# spanning-tree stp|rstp|mstp
(config)# spanning-tree hello-time 5
(config)# spanning-tree forward-time 25
(config)# spanning-tree max-age 10
(config)# spanning-tree priority 12288
(config)# spanning-tree vlan 31-33,51-53 priority 4096
(config)# spanning-tree root primary|secondary
(config-if)# spanning-tree disable
(config-if)# spanning-tree vlan 2 port-priority 16
(config-if)# spanning-tree vlan 2 cost 14

# show spanning-tree
# show spanning-tree vlan 10
# show spanning-tree inconsistentports

~ Configuring Spanning-tree MST
(config)# spanning-tree mst configuration
(config-mst)# instance 1 vlan 10,20,30-40
(config-mst)# name ping-t
(config-mst)# resivion 0
(config-mst)# show pending

~ Configuring Spanning-tree toolkit
(config)# spanning-tree portfast default
(config-if)# spanning-tree portfast enable
(config)# spanning-tree portfast bpduguard
(config-if)# spanning-tree bpduguard enable
(config)# spanning-tree uplinkfast
(config)# spanning-tree backbonefast
(config-if)# spanning-tree guard root
(config)# spanning-tree loopguard default
(config-if)# spanning-tree guard loop
(config)# spanning-tree portfast bpdufilter default
(config-if)# spanning-tree bpdufilter enable



~ Configuring EtherChannel
(config)# interface range fastethernet 0/10 - 11
(config-if-range)# channel-protocol lacp|pagp
(config-if-range)# channel-group 1 mode active|passive
(config-if-range)# channel-group 1 mode desirable|auto|on

# show etherchannel
# show etherchannel summary

~ Checking CEF and Adjacency table
# show ip cef
# show adjacency|adjacency detail

~ Multilayer Switching Configuring

(config)# vlan 21,22
(config)# interface vlan 21
(config-if)# ip address 192.168.20.1 255.255.255.240
(config)# interface vlan 22
(config-if)# ip address 192.168.20.97 255.255.255.240
(config)# interface Fa0/1
(config-if)# switchport mode access
(config-if)# switchport access vlan 21

(config-if)# switchport autostate exclude
(config-if)# no switchport|switchport
(config)# ip routing

~ Router “Router-on-a-Stick” Configuring
R1(config-if)# interface gigabitethernet0/1.1
R1(config-subif)# encapsulation dot1q 1 native
R1(config-subif)# ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
R1(config-subif)# interface gigabitethernet0/1.2
R1(config-subif)# encapsulation dot1q 2
R1(config-subif)# ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0



~ FHRP configuring commands
~ HSRP configuring commands
CatA(config)# interface Vlan 1
CatA(config-if)# ip address 192.168.1.100 255.255.255.0
CatA(config-if)# standby 1 ip 192.168.1.200
CatA(config-if)# standby 1 priority 200
CatA(config-if)# standby 1 track gigabitEthernet 0/1 100

CatB(config)# interface Vlan 1
CatB(config-if)# ip address 192.168.1.101 255.255.255.0
CatB(config-if)# standby 1 ip 192.168.1.200
CatB (config-if)# standby 1 priority 150
CatB(config-if)# standby 1 track gigabitEthernet 0/1 80

# show standby
# show standby brief




~ Configuring VACL commands

Deny packets of “Src: host 192.168.2.2 - Dst: 192.168.2.0/24 - Vlan 2”
(config)# ip access-list extended ping-t
(config-ext-nacl)# permit ip host 192.168.2.2 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.255
(config)# vlan access-map roue 10
(config-access-map)# match ip address ping-t
(config-access-map)# action drop
(config)# vlan access-map roue 20
(config-access-map)# action forward
(config)# vlan filter roué vlan-list 2

~ Configuring DHCP snooping
(config)# ip dhcp snooping
(config)# ip dhcp snoopinp vlan 5
(config-if)# ip dhcp snooping trust|
# show ip dhcp snooping

~ Configuring DAI (Dynamic ARP Inspection)
(config)# ip arp inspection vlan 20
(config-if)# ip arp inspection trust

~ Configuring port-security
(config-if)# switchport mode access
(config-if)# switchport port-security
(config-if)# switchport port-security maximum 5
(config-if)# switchport port-security mac-address aaaa.aaaa.aaaa
(config-if)# switchport port-security mac-address sticky
(config-if)# switchport port-security violation shutdown|restrict|protect
# show port-security
# show port-security address
(config-if)# ip verify source



~ Private VLAN Configuration
(config)#


~ AAA IEEE802.1x Configuration

(config)# aaa new-model
(config)# radius-server host 192.168.100.1 key abc777
(config)# aaa authentication dot1x default group radius
(config)# dot1x system-auth-control
(config)# interface FastEthernet 0/1
(config-if)# switchport mode access
(config-if)# dot1x port-control auto|force-authorized|force-unauthorized


Thursday, March 13, 2014

CCNP Switch - Failed

I will not forgive you cisco...
If you have time inventing new routers and switches, give some focuses on revising your garbage test and learn some grammars. Anyway, simply put I failed at CCNP Switch today, and this article features good links on CCNP Switch.

Surprisingly some of them were actual questions I faced on the test.

CCNP Switch – Planning Topics
http://dhucaby.wordpress.com/2010/06/04/ccnp-switch-planning-topics/

CCNP, SWITCH
SWITCH – Epic Fail
http://aconaway.com/2010/05/06/switch-epic-fail/

SWITCH 642-813 Exam Information & Practice Tests
http://www.how2pass.com/ccnp/switch_642-813.htm

Spanning Tree Lab Sim
http://www.certprepare.com/spanning-tree-lab-sim

AAAdot1x Lab Sim
http://www.certprepare.com/aaadot1x-lab-sim

MLS and EIGRP Sim
http://www.certprepare.com/mls-and-eigrp-sim

CCNP Questions 27
http://www.ccnpswitch.org/ccnp/braindumps-642-813-dumps/cisco-ccnp-642-813-exam-questions-27.html


Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Passed CCNP Route

Hooray! I have finally passed CCNP Route test(642-902J). Phww I barely kept my promise to take it by the end of January.
Anyway I’d like to hereby write down about my record of taking CCNP Route.

【Test Details】
Test Date Time: January 28th 2014 15:30-17:30
Test Duration: 120mins
Questions: 50 questions
Study period: 1 and a half month from Dec 13th 2013 to Jan 28th 2014



【5 Things you would want to know before taking the test】

1. Focus on 3 major routing protocols, and then you would pass.

 This is my ultimate thought after passing the test. CCNP Route includes 3 major routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), route redistributing and path controlling, IPv6 and Internet connection etc…
My opinion is you may skip Internet part and Ipv6 part since Cisco will not ask you the details on these parts. If you are so confident enough on routing protocols and redistributing, you are ready to go. ※Note: this is when your goal is just to pass the test asap because your company requires you to do so.

2. Scenario questions are always the same?

 This may be the case only applies to Japanese version of the test. But it seems like scenario questions in CCNP Route test are somewhat determined. Many of my friends recently took the test and all said they faced the same scenario questions.
Besides, the points in CCNP Route are easy to be guessed. After all, what are asked to answer in a test are actual problems we network engineer or our ancestors have faced before. Below is the list of frequently asked scenario questions.

・OSPF-EIGRP Redistribute
(there are OSPF area and EIGRP area, two area cannot communicate each other. Use redistribute to fix it as keeping the redundancy.)

・OSPF isolated Area 0 outage
(an outage occurred within OSPF area 0, and then some routers lost their routes a lot!! How can we fix it though another area?)

・IP Policy packet distribution
(A site has two ISP paths to choose. They want only html packets to go to ISP1 not ISP2, use PBR to make it happen.)

・EIGRP stub + summary
(There are R1 and R2 and R3. They communicate with EIGRP. Someone botched the setting and no more connections between them. What happened and how to fix it?)


3. You are allowed to use Tab-key and ? key

 This is the most important thing I wished I would have known before taking the test. You can use “Tab-key” auto-fill-in system, and “?” during the test! That’s something!
I thought, of course because this is something we call TEST, we would not be allowed to use these fancy commands and be asked to put all commands in my mind. Cisco thinks more realistically than I thought it does.

 If you are working with actual Cisco devices, you will never be banned to use these fancy and nice helps like Tab and ?. However, LPIC Lv1 asks you to memorize all the basic commands with their brutal options. Unrealistic.
So you can stop memorizing the commands with your flip card.

4. If you think they will not ask something, they would not.

 Just as its title says, they actually didn’t ask any questions on routing protocols’ authentication, IP SLA, DHCP and IP helper address. They are actually useful skills which come in handy in some ways but I sensed just as many other CCNP holders did, these topics cannot be the face of the test.

5. If there is a list on your textbook, memorize it completely.

 Opposite advice from the previous article. There are lots of “lists” on my CCNP Route textbook like OSPF neighbor status, OSFP and EIGPR packets types, OSPF LSA types, how BGP chooses the best path, IPv6 address types. If a list is shown on your textbook, memorize it all.




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