Kingsley,
This is my two cents, which most of it is in line with Tyson and others:
1. I am one of those that are strong advocates for redrawing the diagram,
but IT MUST be in your practice routine. It does two things:
A. Allows you to become intimate with the topology
B. Allows you to have one place to document your VPN terminations, your
firewall locations, etc.
2. Definitely have a checklist (either in Notepad or by hand), but make sure
that you have checked your work before marking it off.
3. Read the entire lab. I actually read the lab in its entirety, but that is
up to you. Just make sure you have an idea of the high level topics and make
note of later tasks that might impact any earlier tasks.
4. I used premilinary configs and checks that I put on all routers and
switches as follows:
A. Preliminary config ( enable ip cef, logging synch, no ip
domain-lookup, etc.)
conf t
!
no ip domain-lookup
ip cef
!
ip tcp synwait 5
ip inspect log drop
!
logging buffered
!
line con 0
logging synch
!
end
wr
B. Preliminary checks (allows to see were troubleshooting landmines
might be)
sh run | i access-list
sh run | i access-group
sh run | i filter
sh run | i vlan access
sh run | i inspection
sh run | i class-map
sh run | i policy-map
sh run | i service-policy
5. Ask the proctor questions if you are unclear. Make sure that the
questions are close-ended and they show the proctor you know your stuff.
6. Recheck your work when you are done to make sure you didn't miss
something.
One last note - you will do under pressure what is inate, so make sure that
whatever you do in practice becomes ingrained, so that it is second nature
when you are up to your waist in pressure. And, last but not least,
over-prepare and relax!
Thanks,
Jamie Brogdon, CCIE #6541 (Security, SP and R&S) / JNCIE-M #381
Verizon Telecom, IP Networks
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kingsley
Charles
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2010 5:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Security] CCIE lab stratergy
Hi all
Can someone share the most common working strategy that we should use during
our real lab like drawing out your own lab layout, going through the entire
lab, take VPN section at the last.
It would be great, if you can give it in an order from start of the lab to
end of the lab.
With regards
Kings
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