July 15th I Failed ENASRI seeking advice

[greaterzen1]

Hi to all,

Hope all is well. I am reaching out to the community (including admin or forum support) for advice. See, before I came across this site, I already had my first attempt at the exam. failed, had a total score of 61.8 if I add up the weighted total. Used examtopics as a source of study material (in my opinion a lot of examtopics questions seem like they were stolen from this site, but that's my opinion). However, I've encountered a new bgp sim. It had 6 routers 4 of them you can interact with. It dealt with path control / manipulation. I am going to be honest, my weakness is the following topics:

• BGP best attribute path
  
• BGP path control / manipulation
  
• route redistribution  ( i know it, just don't understand the order in how it's explain. the source is the one that is being route redistributed? for example router ospf 1 < {the destination}  route redistribute EIGRP < {would be the source that is redistributed into ospf } subnets ( could add a route-map to do tagging. )
  
•  BGP policies
  
• vaguely AAA
  

Now on this site the test question set my average are as follow:

• layer 3 technologies part 1 - average 90 percent
  
• later 3 technologies part 2 - average 88 percent
  
• virtualization - average 90 percent
  
• Security - around 90 percent ( I say this because once i attempt to retake it again, might not be the case. Plus i am naturally weak to security topics because of access-list)
  
• services - average 90 percent
  
• new questions - 70 percent
  

I've been labing a lot and started to learn more bgp. However, I feel as if I am missing something or am I just overly worried? My next exam date is 6 weeks away on sept 25th. Any advice? 

P.S: I plan to go to networklessons.com and do there free course to gain more knowledge.

[chewosaurus]

Hey unlucky on your first attempt, it's not uncommon to fail first try so don't let it get you down.

Just looking over what you wrote, I'd advise labbing a LOT more specifically with BGP and redistribution you'll be surprised by how much "gaps" in your knowledge will be filled in by labbing the same topics over and over and get experimental it.

Are you using GNS3? - I'd highly recommend labbing with that.

Also, are you taking the test questions with the intention to simply just remember them or are you actually understanding what you're reading? Not saying it will work for you, but for me, I'll take the test questions then I'll screenshot all the questions I either got wrong or just guessed and luckily got correct then I'll correct a word doc and explain (in my own words) why I got it wrong, or what I don't understand - It helps a lot!

Networklessons.com is great, but so is AI you can ask it anything and even post those very same screenshots I mentioned. But take it with a grain of salt because it's not always 100% accurate. I've had a couple arguments with AI based on this

Wish you best on your next attempt.

[serbancalin]

Hello,


I think the best advice is to keep going and dont give up,
There were much questions which are not present here?


Best Regards!

[greaterzen1]

Hey unlucky on your first attempt, it's not uncommon to fail first try so don't let it get you down.

Just looking over what you wrote, I'd advise labbing a LOT more specifically with BGP and redistribution you'll be surprised by how much "gaps" in your knowledge will be filled in by labbing the same topics over and over and get experimental it.

Are you using GNS3? - I'd highly recommend labbing with that.

Also, are you taking the test questions with the intention to simply just remember them or are you actually understanding what you're reading? Not saying it will work for you, but for me, I'll take the test questions then I'll screenshot all the questions I either got wrong or just guessed and luckily got correct then I'll correct a word doc and explain (in my own words) why I got it wrong, or what I don't understand - It helps a lot!

Networklessons.com is great, but so is AI you can ask it anything and even post those very same screenshots I mentioned. But take it with a grain of salt because it's not always 100% accurate. I've had a couple arguments with AI based on this

Wish you best on your next attempt.

Hey Chew,

read your advice when you posted it. Decided to follow it with a few tweaks. Nonetheless, I've grown stronger in bgp. I understand it now. My main problem was treating it as if it was an IGP (EIGRP, RIP, OSPF). Once i practiced and did researched and labs...I started to understand BGP is just so...manual...It doesn't do anything FOR you, it does what you tell it.. Route redistribution I've gotten better just sometimes brain derp on the direction of source and destination. Typically the source i just the protocol "being" redistributed OSPF > EIGRP AS would be the the one being redistributed. I thank you very much. If I pass I will post it and give a special thanks to you. It's in two days. Very nervous...

once again thank you.