Internetwork Expert Mock Lab 6

As I said in the previous post, I attempted Mock Labs 5 and 6 weekend before and they did teach me a few things about the actual lab. So far in all the mock labs I have not been able to go back and recheck my work because I take almost 8 hours to finish.

I was able to locate the initial issues without much trouble so scored 100% on the troubleshooting section.

I did ok on the switching section but made a stupid mistake on one of the trunking tasks where I did not specify vlans 52 and 100 as prune ineligible. I also left the ip arp inspection task for the end but never got a chance to go back and configure it.

I did not have any issues with the Frame-relay and PPP tasks and was abot to get those done pretty quick.

IGP section was where I wasted most of my time.  Once again I spent way too much time on redistribution and in the end just did the basic redistribution without the complicated routing that the task was asking. Lost a few points on these.

Did not have time to attempt QoS section and this is also my weakness. I need to isolate QoS and spend a week on this. Any Suggestions?

Lost all points on Multicast because there was not enough time to figure out RPF failure. Another weak area that I should work on.

I had a few minutes in the end to work on Security but I ended up avoiding it. Did not want to make last minute ACL changes to mess up what I already had working. Another weak area

IPv6 went smooth however I forgot to disable Split Horizon and that cost me 4 points.

SNMP was a straight forward config so I am glad I didn’t mess that up.

BGP was a total disaster just because I had reachibility issues.

I ended up getting a 47 on this and I know that is NOT good. I could have easily scored a few easy points but stupid mistakes, bad time management and weak areas ended up costing me this lab.

Going forward, I will be focussing on QoS, Security and Multicast and then start redoing IE labs. I have Brian say this over and over again that we all focus on the core so much that we totally forget about the other areas like QoS, Multicast etc. If anyone has any ideas on improving these non-core technologies then feel free to help me out.