Hey all,

I passed the ICND 2 yesterday and it was tough! Different from ICND 1 in the sense of there were quite a few scenario questions that make you think. How 2 Pass was a great help, but you also need to know the theory behind the questions. There are three things I would suggest when preparing for the exam. First, I suggest reading the ICND 2 book by Todd Lamle because that would give you a great foundation. Secondly, use How 2 Pass. This is a great program, but you will not pass the test on this alone. Finally, study, study, and then study. And when you are tired of studying, study some more. Seriously, I don't think I have studied so much in my life. But it is worth it. Good luck to you all. Everyone on this forum is mad supportive and is a big help.

Ninjagaiden78

Hi guys,

Passed ROUTE exam 07/07/2011 with a 965 - H2P bob on the money again, now on to SWITCH!

4 Labs:

-SPF Stub: Area and PID of 35
-Redistribution: I was asked to make sure telnet worked between R1 and R4 but the telnet command wouldn?t work
-Virtual-Link: Same
-PBR: different next-hop IP

Drag and Drop:

-Whats needed for OSPF
-Stub/Authentication/Redistribution/Bandwidth Management

Questions were pretty much the same with an IPv4 > IPv6 conversion question.

Cheers,

Peter

ICND2 tomorrow at 11:30.... Preparing for about a month now. I am now reviewing as much as I can!
Hopefully is not as hard as I think!
I passed ICND1 last month, and it was a breeze!
Addy
;D

Just passed my CCNP Router test with 903 total scores. Thanks to H2P forum the Cisco press books are still the best. I used that with Lab Manual and Video mentors...

Scored
EIGRP - 93%
OSPF - 83%
BGP - 100%
IPv6 - 75%
Redistribution - 88%
PBR - 100%

Used the following items to study:
Cisco Press Book - I must say this one is well written vs old BSCI book.
CBT Nuggets with Jeremy.
Used my own real routers since GNS3 latest version is unstable. (3) 2621xm Routers and (1) 2651xm Router, Using 12.4 AdvEnt. 48MB Flash, 256MB Dram.
Used H2P to solidify my knowladge of what I covered in Route book. H2P is dead on! Used them for CCNA Composite, CCNP BCMSN, Now ROUTE.

Thanks H2P

Just on doing a few last minute questions.  All being well this time tomorrow I will have  CCNA.  8)

Took and passed ROUTE with a score of 918 on the 2nd attempt. 

The performance assessments were as follows:

Implement an EIGRP based solution 86%
Implement a multi-area OSPF network 78%
Implement an eBGP based solution 83%
Implement an IPv6 based solution 100%
Implement an IPv4 or IPv6 based redistribution solution 100%
Implement Layer 3 Path Control Solution 100%
Implement basic teleworker and branch services 100%

Both times I took the test there were simulation questions similar to Labs 3, 4, 6 & 7 and no testlets either time. 

Looks like I was weakest with OSPF.  I believe the lab that I may not have completed correctly was the one similar to Lab #3.  Everything was okay except for configuring the totally stubby area.  It seems that the test calls for the area 2 to not receive any external or inter-area routes.  This is fine except that when you attempt to go to global config mode on the Lab C router (named differently on the test) it will not allow it.  Note that the routers are named differently on the test and the areas are numbered differently.

A fair word of warning regarding Lab #7:  H2P gives you the EIGRP metrics but the test expects you to look them up.  Not a major deal but if like me on the first attempt you are looking at the test timer and starting to feel a little stress it can become distracting.  When you actually look up the metrics on a real router (and on the test simulation) you get something like:

R2#show int s0/0/0
!<snip>
!MTU 1500 bytes, BW 128 Kbit, DLY 20000 usec, reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255

?not exactly the same order that you would use in the redistribute eigrp 100 command.

My advice is if you don?t have a router, router simulator or router emulator is to practice each lab with NotePad or a word processor.  That way you?re not being helped by the practice lab prompts.  It?s okay to understand it but in the test environment you pretty much have to understand the topology and what is being accomplished in order to come out ahead of the timer.  The fact that you can?t go back to a question makes it difficult when you?re struggling with a lab.

The other thing that took time on the first attempt was the question where they gave a hexadecimal address and asked to convert it to decimal.  Basic things like that cost me the first time around.

Also used several resources for studying namely:

1) CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Official Certification Guide by Wendell Odom (Cisco Press)
2) CCNP ROUTE Portable Command Guide by Scott Empson & Hans Roth (Cisco Press)
3) Cisco CCNP ROUTE 642-902 Cert Flash Cards for my iPhone app
4) CBTNuggets Cisco 642-902 CCNP ROUTE CBT by Jeremy Cioara (excellent teacher)
5) GNS3 router emulation software
6) Boson ExSim-Max practice exams & test
7) Last but not least How2Pass subscription

How2Pass? labs are really close but Boson?s practice test does a much better job explaining the answers.  This will probably improve over time.  I submitted about ten explanations to H2P that I encountered.

I read the Cisco book back to back for like 6 times and I did all the questions, I am preparing for CCIE so i really wanted to know the technology, it's better i fail CCNp than fail CCIE. I scored 906

Same story as everyone else.  Do the section questions, get the concepts down then spend the last couple of weeks hammering the exam section.  Finished the test in about 40 minutes.  And in the 40 minutes I was actually trying to take my time to verify every answer I threw in.  On to ICND2.

Don't just memorize the questions, work through them and know the concepts and you'll be fine.  Oh yea, and know how to subnet.  I can't stress this enough.

Like others on here, I used h2p and breezed through the exam w/ a final score of around 950/1000. Do all the questions on h2p, then hit the final exam for a couple weeks (I did two final practice tests a day for 2 weeks) and you'll blow through the exam.

Thanks how2pass!