IE Lab 17 breakdown

Not much to complain about. I knew I missed a couple of the oddball system management and security pieces. I spent a heck of a lot of time verifying bgp and igp. I found a few additional issues in doing that. Even with all that time I still finished with an hour to spare.

IE Lab 17

This is quite possibly my last practice lab before the real thing on Sunday. In light of my weaknesses, my plan is for the following:

Take extra time verifying every single last thing
Don't worry too much about time
Take extra time playing around with multicast
Do each QoS question using MQC and Legacy formats
Play with NAT

7:15 start
7:41 diagram complete
7:54 readthrough complete
8:18am 1.1 complete, 3 points
8:18am 1.2 complte, 3 points
8:19am 1.3 complete, 2 points
8:23am 1.4 complte, 2 points
8:27am 1.5 complete, 3 points
8:31am 1.6 complte, 3 points

Switching complete, 16/16

8:48am 2.1 complete, 3 points
8:48am 2.2 complete, 3 points
8:48am 2.3 complete, 2 points

Frame complete, 8/8, 24/24

8:54 3.1 complete 3 points
8:59 3.2 complete, 3 points

PPP complete, 6/6, 30/30

9:08 4.1 complete, 3 points
9:17 4.2 complete, 3 points
9:23 4.3 complete, 2 points
9:28 4.4 complete, 3 points
9:41 4.5 complete, 2 points
9:45 4.6 complete, 2 points
9:49 4.7 complete, 2 points
9:57 4.8 complete, 2 points
10:06 skipping 4.9, 0/3 points

IGP compelte, 19/22, 49/52 total

10:24 complted 4.9

IGP complete, 22/22, 52/52 total

10:29 pingtests complete

10:56 5.1 complete, 3 points
11:13 5.2 complete, 3 points
11:41 5.3 complte, 3 points

BGP complete, 9/9, 61/61 total

12:26 pingtests complete

12:39 6.1 complete, 3/3
12:55 6.2 complete, 2/2
12:55 6.3 complete, 3/3

Multicast complete, 8/8, 69/69 total

1:00 7.1 complete, 3 points
1:08 7.2 complete, 3 points

IPv6 complete, 6/6, 75/75 total

1:10 8.1 complete, 2 points
1:14 8.2 complete, 3 points

QoS complete, 5/5, 80/80 total

1:27 9.1 complete, 2 points
1:32 9.2 complete, 2 points
skipping 9.3

Security complete, 4/6, 84/86 total

1:38 10.1 complete, 3 points
1:38 10.2 complete, 2 points
skipping 10.3

System management complete, 5/8, 89/94 total

1:59 11.1 complete, 3 points
2:05 11.2 complete, 3 points

IP Services complete, 6/6, 95/100 total

Lab complete, 95%, under 7 hours

CCIE Assessor Results

I cannot get into many details here due to restrictions.

I did not pass. I broke this down into three reasons:
40% stupid mistakes
40% not enough time
20% not enough knowledge

Stupid mistakes hurt me on switching and redistribution. The main fault here was lack of verification.

Lack of time hurt me on Multicast and IP Services. I mostly blame this on not looking things up on the DocCd. If I had more time I would have looked them up and more than likely got correct.

Lack of knowledge hurt me on Multicast and QoS. There were items here I more than likely wouldn't have got correct, even if I had enough time.

So what does this mean? If I make no stupid mistakes, verify everything, and use the DocCd exhaustively for anything questionable, I can barely pass.

I have 8 days left until my next attempt. I need to get better with Multicast, QoS, and IP Services quickly. As far as stupid mistakes--VERIFY EVERYTHING!!!

CCIE Assessor

6:45am Lab Started
7:03am Diagrams complete
7:14am Readthrough complete
7:22am 1.1 complete, 2 points
7:30am 1.2 complete, 2 points
7:38am 1.3 complete, 2 points
7:41am 1.4 complete, 2 points
7:44am 1.5 complete, 2 points

Section 1 complte, 10 points

7:49am 2.1 complete, 3 points
8:09am 2.2 complete, 2 points (unable to verify)
8:19am 2.3 complte, 3 points
8:25am 2.4 complte, 3 points
8:30am 2.5 complte, 2 points
8:32am 2.6 compelte, 3 points
8:35am 2.7 complte, 3 points

IGP complete, 19/19, 29/29 total

Pingtests complete, 8:47am

8:53am 3.1 complete, 2 points
9:14am 3.2 complete, 2 points
9:17am 3.3 complte, 2 points
9:23am 3.4 complete, 2 points
9:25am 3.5 complte, 2 points

BGP complete, 10/10, 39/39 total

skipping 4.1
9:27am 4.2 complete, 1 point
9:37am 4.3 complete, 1 point

IE Lab 16

I realized I've already done Lab 12, so I'm going to Lab 16.

8:15am Lab started
8:36am diagrams complete
9:15am readthrough complete
9:32am 1.1 complete, 3 points
9:47am 1.2 complete, 3 points
9:55am 1.3 complete, 3 points
10:02am 1.4 complete, 3 points

Switching complete, 12/12

10:12am 2.1 complete, 3 points
10:49am 2.2 complete, 3 points--bridge 1 route ip
10:53am 2.3 complete, 3 points
10:55am 2.4 complete, 2 points

WAN complete, 11/11, 23/23 total

11:06am 3.1 complete, 3 points
11:43am 3.2 complte, 3 points
12:09am 3.3 complete, 3 points
12:17am 3.4 complete, 3 points
12:19pm 3.5 complete, 3 points

IGP complete, 15/15, 38/38 total

12:19pm taking lunch
1:02pm back from lunch
1:50pm Task 4.1 complete. There was missing information on the lab, 3 points
2:02 Task 4.2 complete, 3 points
2:05 Task 4.3 complte, 3 points
2:20 Task 4.4 complte, 3 points
2:24 Task 4.5 complete, 3 points

BGP complete, 15/15, 53/53 total

2:32 Task 5.1 complete, 2 points
3:24 Task 5.2 complete, 3 points
3:31 Task 5.3 complete, 3 points

Multicast complete, 8/8, 61/61 total

3:37 Task 6.1 complete, 2 points
3:41 Task 6.2 complete, 3 points
4:04 Task 6.3 complete, 3 points
4:35 Task 6.4 complete, 3 points

IPv6 complete, 11/11, 72/72 total

4:42 Task 7.1 compelte, 3 points
4:58 TASK7.2 complete, 3 points
5:03 Task7.3 complte, 3 points

QoS complte, 9/9, 81/81 total

5:05 Task8.1 complete, 2 points
5:08 Task8.2 complete, 3 points

Security complete, 5/5, 86/86 total

5:18 Task 9.1 complete, 3 points

Status Update

Here are some thoughts on the status for my preparations for mock lab #2.

I now understand:

• How to set cost and port priority for mstp
• BGP address families
• ip forward-protocol
• ospf demand routing
• ospf authentication null
• bgp next-hop-self
• bgp cluster-id
• police cir

I've changed my strategy as follows:

• I now make a detailed L2 diagram
• I now make a loopback checklist
• I now add multicast information to the L3 diagram
• I now use 10 telnet windows instead of a single console

I'm still weak with:

• attention to detail
• verification plan
• multicast troubleshooting
• Catalyst QoS

IE Mock Lab #2 (Repeat)

I scored a 54 the first time around. I better be pretty close to perfect this time.

5:24am lab started
5:42am diagrams complete
6:08am readthrough complete
6:23am troubleshooting complete, 2 points
6:42am 1.1 complete, 3 points
6:42am 1.2 complete, 3 points
6:50am 1.3 complete, 2 points
6:52am 1.4 complete, 2 points

Switching complete, 12/12

7:05am 2.1 complete, 3 points
7:16am 2.2 complete, 2 points
7:24am 2.3 complete, 2 points

Frame relay complete, 7/7, 19/19

7:27am 3.1 complete, 3 points
7:39am 3.2 complete, 2 points
7:39am 3.3 complete, 4 points
8:00am 3.4 complete, 3 points
8:00am 3.5 complete, 3 points
8:15am 3.6 complete, 3 points
8:15am 3.7 complete, 3 points
8:18am 3.8 complete, 3 points
8:36am 3.9 complete, 3 points
8:53am Pingtests complete
9:11am 3.10 complete, 3 points

IGP complete, 30/30, 49/49

9:26am 4.1 complete, 4 points
9:38am 4.2 complete, 3 points
9:43am 4.3 complete, 3 points
10:17am 4.4 complete, 3 points
10:22am Pingtests complete

EGP complete, 13/13, 62/62 total

11:21am 5.1 complete, 3 points
11:25am 5.2 complete, 2 points
11:31am 5.3 complete, 2 points

Multicast complete, 7/7, 69/69 total

11:33 6.1 complete, 2 points
11:46 6.2 complete, 3 points
11:49 6.3 complete, 2 points

IPv6 complete, 7/7, 76/76 total

12:12 7.1 complete, 2 points
12:20 7.2 complete, 3 points
12:29 7.3 complete, 2 points
12:35 7.4 complete, 2 points
12:51 7.5 complete, 2 points (iffy)

QoS complete, 11/11, 87/87 total

12:54 8.1 complete, 2 points
1:00 8.2 complete, 3 points

Security complete, 5/5, 92/92 total

1:07 9.1 complete, 3 points
1:09 9.2 complete, 3 points

System management complete, 6/6, 98/98 total

1:10 10.1 complete, 2 points, 100/100 total

I have 14 minutes left to review

1:28 lab complete. In review I found I missed the CDP domain name.