I have completed many full scale as of now and came out with a strategy for attempting a CCIE R&S labs. From now on I will try to approach a practice or real lab with these steps. The time is 6 hours for completing the entire lab.
1. Read the instructions very carefully. ---- 2 min
2. Draw your own L3 logical Diagram. Rough diagram only. ---- 5 min
3. Read the entire lab (Mark the important points in the diagram) ---- 15 min
3.1. Layer 2 section will help to draw L2 Diagram. ---- 5 min
4. Identify the core and none core tasks in the entire lab. --- 2 min
5. Prepare a table like this to track your time, tasks and points. ---- 1min
TIME HOURS TASKS POINTS ROUND1 TASKS?(unsolved)
9:00-9:30 30 min 2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4 2+0+3+2 Tick 2.2
5. Start configuring ONLY the core topics first, make sure full IP connectivity is there.This also includes IPv6 tasks. If you do not know how to configure the core task do some alternative e.g. you are required to form an OSPF adjacency on IP unnumbered interfaces for some reason it not happening, in that case give some ip address to the interfaces so that you have OSPF adjacency for full IP connectivity. Though you may lose points for this task but will help getting points in the following tasks. ---- 3 hours
6. Verify each and every core tasks once it is configured
7. If this is a practice lab; once you configure a task verify it from the solution guide. If solution guide has a different approach then try to remember both the approaches. ---- 2 hour
8. Pick out the easiest tasks in the lab and configure them. Easy task are task which you can configure them without the help of configuration guide or even command line. ---- 1 hour
9. Verify each task once it is configured.
10. Pick out the task which you think you can configure with the help of configuration guide. ---- 1/2 hour
11. Verify these tasks as well.
12. There may be few tasks still left over, just DO NOT try to configure them. Leave them as of now.
13. Verify the entire lab task from starting to end. ---- 1 hour
14. If time is still left then try the configure the left over tasks. Make sure you are not breaking the previous verified task or connectivity.
Excluding step 7, all the steps need to be followed for real lab. So total time is 6 hours to finish the lab. If step 7 is also included for practice labs the total time is 8 hours to complete the lab.
1. Read the instructions very carefully. ---- 2 min
2. Draw your own L3 logical Diagram. Rough diagram only. ---- 5 min
3. Read the entire lab (Mark the important points in the diagram) ---- 15 min
3.1. Layer 2 section will help to draw L2 Diagram. ---- 5 min
4. Identify the core and none core tasks in the entire lab. --- 2 min
5. Prepare a table like this to track your time, tasks and points. ---- 1min
TIME HOURS TASKS POINTS ROUND1 TASKS?(unsolved)
9:00-9:30 30 min 2.1,2.2,2.3,2.4 2+0+3+2 Tick 2.2
5. Start configuring ONLY the core topics first, make sure full IP connectivity is there.This also includes IPv6 tasks. If you do not know how to configure the core task do some alternative e.g. you are required to form an OSPF adjacency on IP unnumbered interfaces for some reason it not happening, in that case give some ip address to the interfaces so that you have OSPF adjacency for full IP connectivity. Though you may lose points for this task but will help getting points in the following tasks. ---- 3 hours
6. Verify each and every core tasks once it is configured
7. If this is a practice lab; once you configure a task verify it from the solution guide. If solution guide has a different approach then try to remember both the approaches. ---- 2 hour
8. Pick out the easiest tasks in the lab and configure them. Easy task are task which you can configure them without the help of configuration guide or even command line. ---- 1 hour
9. Verify each task once it is configured.
10. Pick out the task which you think you can configure with the help of configuration guide. ---- 1/2 hour
11. Verify these tasks as well.
12. There may be few tasks still left over, just DO NOT try to configure them. Leave them as of now.
13. Verify the entire lab task from starting to end. ---- 1 hour
14. If time is still left then try the configure the left over tasks. Make sure you are not breaking the previous verified task or connectivity.
Excluding step 7, all the steps need to be followed for real lab. So total time is 6 hours to finish the lab. If step 7 is also included for practice labs the total time is 8 hours to complete the lab.
