I completely missed the first lab on IPV6 virtual links. I was ready but in my nervous haste, I clicked the Next button thinking it would bring me to the screen with the command line. Sadly, it moved me to the next question. I tried to get the proctor to reset but she had to call Cisco. She was on the phone for 20 minutes. All they would do was give me my lost time back. Anyway, How2Pass was right on for most of the questions. There were a few oddball questions on multicasting and ISIS. My only advise....try to relax and go slow with the labs. Good luck to all of you!

I am logged in via my neighbors WLAN with his permission and we both use Roadrunner... I was online last night running router simulators and got cut-off.... I cannot even tracert from my IP to yoursite

What the heck?

;D

Thank you how2pass.  I normally don't write these messages but I'm very happy. I used how2pass to practice for both ICND1 and ICDND2 exams where I got 950 and 930 respectively.

Definitely for me ICND2 was more stressful as I'm more familiar with subnetting than routing but it turned out ok.  I finished with 8 minutes to spare but I was super stressed halfway through as I got a bunch of difficult questions right at the start.  The last 10 were a breeze.

The practice simulations were helpful.  I ended up getting an OSPF sim in the exam and it was not exactly the same as in the practice sims here but I knew enough to figure it out obviously from studying here.

Thanks BATMAN!  8)
-toko, CCNA

The answer for this question has a directly connect port being blocked. the connection from sw1 back to the root switch sw3. I thought each path from the root switch that is directly connected to the root is marked as a root port, and the election for the other ports of the non root switch would make a selection to forward or block. what am I missing?

(a) Active Directory is a single point of network resource management which stores information about network resources and the services that make the information available.

(i) Describe the four basic logical components comprising the Windows 2003 Active Directory hierarchical structure.
[12 marks]

(ii) Other than the Windows 2000/2003 Server operating system, what prerequisite service must be installed prior to installing Active Directory?
[1 mark]

(b) The Global Catalogue contains selected information about every object in all domains of a forest.  A ?query? is a specific request made by a user to the global catalogue to retrieve, modify or delete Active Directory data.  Describe the steps involved in the query process, indicating the entities involved in the transactions.  Support your answer with the aid of a diagram,
[12 marks]

© Group Policies Objects (GPOs) are collections of user and computer configuration settings that can be linked to computers, sites domains and organisational units (OUs) to specify the behaviour of users? desktops.  By default, they are applied hierarchically from the least restrictive (upper levels) to the most restrictive group and are cumulative.  Describe the settings that can be applied to group policies that override the default behaviour (e.g. a computer that is part of a work group would only process its local GPO).
[8 marks]

(a) Ethernet standards were originally developed by Xerox with several other companies.  IEEE later developed the 802.3 standard with a few changes.

(i) How does the data carried in the Type and Data fields for Ethernet differ from that of IEEE 802.3?


(ii) Would a station implementing Ethernet be able to communicate with a station implementing IEEE 802.3?


(iii) Can the two implementations co-exist on the same local area network?

© An organisation is to set up a network that supports 2000 hosts.  The Internet router attached to the organisation?s gateway (219.138.120.1) has the following entries in its routing table:

219.138.120.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.121.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.122.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.123.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.124.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.125.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.126.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1
219.138.127.0 255.255.255.0 219.138.120.1

(i) What are the reasons for allocating eight Class C addresses rather than a single Class B address?


(ii) What inefficiency would result from having eight network addresses point to the same network?


(iii) What is the solution to solve the inefficiency?

I had three Labs and one Simlet:

Labs -
OSPF Stub
ISIS/EIGRP Redistribution
IPV6 Virtual Links

Simlet -
EIGRP Topology Output

This is the first time that I have ever taken a certification test and in the first 10 minutes thought I would fail.  I had about 20 questions I had never seen before, tons of multicasting. I got so shaken in the first 10 minutes, I didn't even answer the Virtual Links lab-just completely skipped it cause I was stressed and didn't slow down and think.

This is also the first time I had not checked these forums prior to my test - big mistake but my fault.

But, I somehow passed and the ospf and redistribution labs were easy along with EIGRP sim. All I did was read the Cisco Press book and H2P. This was the hardest test I had to take so far.

Make sure you know the theory and it does help to know how to read the command outputs!

GL

Passed BSCI today with a 833 for my second time recertifying my CCNA/CCDA/CCDP/CCNP.

This is the second time I used HOW2PASS and it didn't disappoint. The forum is a big assist to.
I bought the current 4th edition Cisco CCNP BSCI Exam  Certification book to. 
Also used all the free testing engines I could find on the internet but only paid for HOW2PASS since I used them the first time I certified.

Had 3 labs and 1 simlet same as "BAMF"
  OSPF Stub
  ISIS/EIGRP Redistribution
  IPV6 Virtual Links
Simlet
  EIGRP Topology Output.

Thanks to the posting by "BAMF" to look out for the IPV6 Virtual Link lab.
I found a link which is all you need to understand to configure it.
http://digitaltut.com/bsci-lab-sim/20-bs...l-link-sim

Seemed also to have allot of questions on BGP and multicasting.
Spent two months studying. I suggest take the exam in the afternoon and cram for it in the morning, thats what I did.

Today I just passed the CCNA exam getting 916 which is roughly about 94.5%

I would say that knowing your sims are going to stand you in good stead (don`t forget the Nat sim in the hands on labs) I had the Nat sim , router settings ,frame-relay and switch simlet

There was also 3 ipv6 questions but 2 of them are covered on here and the other you can learn from reading up on ipv6

this site has been a great help in prep but I also completed the instructor run exploration course

stick at it and remember that if you are feeling the pressure on a question take a sit back for 5 seconds


oh and also you can use the ? in the exam simlets not like on here  ;D ;D


good luck everyone