Hi Everyone,
It was long time since I haven’t writing for this Blog, many things
happened for me in this year, 2014. First of All I want to thanks to Allah ,
that I’m now a part of Cisco Systems family, I Joined Cisco as a System
Engineer.
The people in Cisco are passionate, highly motivated, and all of them
are diligent, I’m very-very motivated in here ;)
I’m also glad to say that I’ve passed the CCIE-SP Lab exam several
days ago, in Mobile Lab. It was my second CCIE Attempt. I watched the
Incredible INE Video, understanding the fundamental concept and practicing the
SP Workbooks (old version and the latest version), since the old one still
contain a great resources such as QoS, Security (RTBH), Internet Access, Etc. I
was Practicing the Full scale Lab, where lab 1-2 was a warming-up lab, since I
could get above 80 on both lab on my First Attempt ;), Lab 3 was quite great,
since it was becoming more complex, and finally Lab 4 was totally complex in
limited gear fashion and there were so much restriction on the task
requirement, CCIE Lab style, hehe.
After finishing the INE Workbook, I used the CCIE-SP Sample Lab Exam,
which was available on the Cisco Partner Education Center (PEC), the lab task
seems straight forward, but the devices were bigger L.
In My opinion, strategy to tackle SP is slightly different from
tackling R/S, since in the SP everthing was related, from building your
IGP/BGP/MPLS Backbone Infrastructure to delivering Services to Tier-2 and
Tier-3 small SPs, so what I did in the exam were:
·
The first 60 minutes I read the task
requirements carefully and making the Diagrams (there were a bunch of devices
involved), making correlation between IPv4 & IPv4 IGP/BGP/MPLS related
Task, keep track the RD, RT, and the related Routers, and finally make the
aliases for both IOS & IOS-XR. I did this because once you nail the lab
task requirement, the deeper you config the more you would lose sight of what
may happened in your IGP/BGP/MPLS, so that was why I preferred to look the Big
Picture and predict what could happened in the first 60 Minutes of reading
& Drawing Diagrams.
·
I didn’t trust the Initial config, So I
configure the whole IOS/IOS-XR config in every task requirements, eventhough it
only mentioning about some expected result was not there.
·
I found bug on some feature, where I did the
verification, I detected somekind ‘unidirectional’ status on my routers on one
side but the other-side it was Ok, I try to shut and no shut the Interface, but
it was still the same. The Only option for me was to reloading the GSR Box, but
with that PRP in place, it could took 50-70 Minutes to booting up, So I just
leave the task at it is, and I have to sacrifice some points >.<
·
I managed to finish almost all the task and
still have 1.30 hours to did the re-verification on all the tasks I finished,
and counting the points I had earned.
·
I used the tclsh to verify all the prefix could
be reachable, but unfortunately you couldn’t do that on XR Box, I used manual
method instead >.<
I Thought the result would be fast like R/S, but I just got it next
morning, Since I was very tired and oversleep right after getting home. I
opened up the OLSM, and Alhamdulillah I passed the Exams.
On short I’m very grateful from what God has given me, My Family who
support me in this Journey, Mr. Himawan whom gave me Insight on Cisco Systems,
and all of you.
Let’s do the Best in this amazing years.
Cheers ;)
