Passed! My Notes

[elpotatoexperto]

Passed this morning. Thought i'd bombed it but low and behold...... PASS
3 sims up front. Got no drag and drops this time. Several of the multiple choice questions were new. Maybe 4 of the 40 questions were ones not seen here.
The sims:

all my sims were very similar to the ones found here but there were drastic changes on some. 


VRF & EIGRP Sim:
The IP between R2 and R3 Admin was a 192.168.x.x while all the rest were some form of a 10.x.x.x/30 
for this I:
router eig <AS>
network 10.0.0.0
and or
network 192.168.0.0 
^^^ that popped all the wings into the EIGRP routing 

Next step was to fix some bad autosummarization on R6 with its loopback. I wasn't able to get this but i compared this config to the R5 set up since i figured they should be the same and R5 would be working since not mentioned. 


DHCP, IP SLA & NetFlow Sim # 2:
The DHCP portion was darn near spot on. Just had to fix the default-router then flip on the interface on the R6 and finally point vlan 20 to the right spot

The change is that they wanted R2, which they called SW2 to use IP SLA tcp-connect down to R5 over tcp 80. The SW was partially set up but the big thing, going down to R5 and flipping on ip sla responder so it'll reply back as needed.

There was no Netflow on this one for me 

DMVPN OSPF Sim:
Was pretty spot on. The configs were already basically there. Just had to flip on the entire crypto isakmp and ipsec process for H0 and then apply it to the tunnel. There was a note that the BR1 and 2 needed to establish connection directly to one another. I wasn't able to get this to work and the show dmvpn on the BR1 and 2 only showed the hub but the Routers and Sw were able to ping one another just fine.


Remember: Study and know WHY you are doing what you are doing. Not just rote muscle memory.

[help_desk]

Congratulations!

In the DMVPN OSPF simulation, the task stating that the spokes must communicate with each other indicates that you need to configure DMVPN Phase 2. In Phase 2, the spokes communicate directly with each other instead of sending all traffic through the hub.

Congratulations again, and best of luck with your future endeavors! If you have a moment, we'd also greatly appreciate it if you could share your experience on our testimonials page.

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[elpotatoexperto]

Congratulations!

In the DMVPN OSPF simulation, the task stating that the spokes must communicate with each other indicates that you need to configure DMVPN Phase 2. In Phase 2, the spokes communicate directly with each other instead of sending all traffic through the hub.

Congratulations again, and best of luck with your future endeavors! If you have a moment, we'd also greatly appreciate it if you could share your experience on our testimonials page.

https://www.how2pass.com/comments-testimonials.php

If i remember the preconfigured cli on the parts; the main thing missing would be to change the already set up 'ip nhrp map multi <HUB PHYSICAL INTERFACE>' over to dynamic on the spokes. This should have popped them into directly communicating.

[adilnasser3]

Passed this morning. Thought i'd bombed it but low and behold...... PASS
3 sims up front. Got no drag and drops this time. Several of the multiple choice questions were new. Maybe 4 of the 40 questions were ones not seen here.
The sims:

all my sims were very similar to the ones found here but there were drastic changes on some. 


VRF & EIGRP Sim:
The IP between R2 and R3 Admin was a 192.168.x.x while all the rest were some form of a 10.x.x.x/30 
for this I:
router eig <AS>
network 10.0.0.0
and or
network 192.168.0.0 
^^^ that popped all the wings into the EIGRP routing 

Next step was to fix some bad autosummarization on R6 with its loopback. I wasn't able to get this but i compared this config to the R5 set up since i figured they should be the same and R5 would be working since not mentioned. 


DHCP, IP SLA & NetFlow Sim # 2:
The DHCP portion was darn near spot on. Just had to fix the default-router then flip on the interface on the R6 and finally point vlan 20 to the right spot

The change is that they wanted R2, which they called SW2 to use IP SLA tcp-connect down to R5 over tcp 80. The SW was partially set up but the big thing, going down to R5 and flipping on ip sla responder so it'll reply back as needed.

There was no Netflow on this one for me 

DMVPN OSPF Sim:
Was pretty spot on. The configs were already basically there. Just had to flip on the entire crypto isakmp and ipsec process for H0 and then apply it to the tunnel. There was a note that the BR1 and 2 needed to establish connection directly to one another. I wasn't able to get this to work and the show dmvpn on the BR1 and 2 only showed the hub but the Routers and Sw were able to ping one another just fine.


Remember: Study and know WHY you are doing what you are doing. Not just rote muscle memory.

Congratulations and thank you so much for the feedback!  I wish you the best in your future endeavors!

[ratedr]

How well did you do on the practice test before taking the exam?

[elpotatoexperto]

How well did you do on the practice test before taking the exam?

Read the Official Cert Guide books plus some work with coworkers and this site for about 4 or so months. Basically 2 rounds of prep from here plus the outside work and prior to this work.

[ratedr]

How well did you do on the practice test before taking the exam?

Read the Official Cert Guide books plus some work with coworkers and this site for about 4 or so months. Basically 2 rounds of prep from here plus the outside work and prior to this work.

I have read the OGC. What do you mean by 2 rounds of prep from here? What did you do differently the second time from your 1st fail attrempt?

[elpotatoexperto]

How well did you do on the practice test before taking the exam?

I would aim to get no less than 90% per section when I did these test sets and no less than 85% when i did a random test. 

Then for the sims I set up as best I could a GNS3 server in my home lab network and ran the same labs they had from scratch. You get to know the config when you have to build the sucker. Then I also turned and started using the labs here as I could do it all on my side in time.

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How well did you do on the practice test before taking the exam?

Read the Official Cert Guide books plus some work with coworkers and this site for about 4 or so months. Basically 2 rounds of prep from here plus the outside work and prior to this work.

I have read the OGC. What do you mean by 2 rounds of prep from here? What did you do differently the second time from your 1st fail attrempt?

2 rounds: I paid for 2 sessions of the test prep is what I mean.

When I failed and had to do it again what I did differently was studied the labs a bit more then went to google and looked up the scenarios for the sims i actually got in the test. Then went to my GNS3 lab and tried a few variations. None legit worked in my lab. Simply because I wasn't aiming to get full network set up only to know how to do different kinds of IP SLA or googled tips and tricks on what to look for with EIGRP or OSPF over a GRE tunnel. Things I got tossed on the actual test and couldn't remember or figure out.