There was an old blog post by a Cisco employee who sat the beta lab exam V4 and she said there was no physical book when you sit for the V4 lab. Everything was on the computer screen including the lab diagram. She recommended drawing the diagram on paper otherwise it was distracting flipping between the lab diagram and the SecureCRT windows. Does anyone know if Cisco kept it this way or are they providing the workbook during the V4 lab exam?

On Oct 18, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Rick Mur wrote:

Indeed the troubleshooting section will run on IOU. This is Cisco's internal simulation software, that's been around a long time, much longer than Dynamips (I wonder why people always call it GNS3, as that's just a GUI :-P). IOU is used within Advanced Services to simulate a customers network as it's too expensive to spend a lot of time building a separate lab for each customer over and over again.

For now there are no switching scenario's in the troubleshooting section, although there are things going on at Cisco in terms of virtualizing many more things than just the router IOS, so I wouldn't be surprised that switches are added quite soon. Therefore we keep teaching our students to do troubleshooting on switches and we included layer 2 stuff in our troubleshooting labs!

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Regards,

Rick Mur
CCIE2 #21946 (R&S / Service Provider)
Sr. Support Engineer – IPexpert, Inc.
URL: http://www.IPexpert.com

On 16 okt 2009, at 03:25, Dale Shaw wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:30 AM, nicholas golden <[email protected] > wrote:

I didn't know that about the troubleshooting section, so it's virtual as in like a simulator? I wonder how complicated it will get, I know when I did the CCNA/CCNP recently the scenarios were not that complex just due to software limitations.

Topologies of up to 30 routers.

Routers are virtual, running IOU (IOS On UNIX).

No Catalyst-based switching.

cheers,
Dale
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