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Cisco CCNP 624-813 Switch Exam Experience

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So I took and passed my CCNP Switch Exam on Monday morning. 934 out of 1000.

I’ve been meaning to do my CCNP for the past two and a half years, since I passed my CCNA, which doesn’t expire until April 2015, but will be renewed now due to the pass on switch exam.

As you may know, the current 642 CCNP series exams will be retired on 29th January, so I chose this as my hard deadline to pass the exam.

The training resources I used were

You can find my revision notes here.

Exam Experience

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Cisco CCNP Training – Bootcamp Roundup

So this post is mainly a big round-up of the day by day posts I made of my CCNP bootcamp notes.

Here is a list by topics covered each day to make it easier for you to jump into.

There is no TSHOOT posts at the moment, as the idea of TSHOOT is covered in ROUTE and SWITCH, however I will post something to do with troubleshooting in the future.

The training resources I used were

For my fancy Visio Diagrams, please find them on dropbox here. (I only ask that credit is given where used, as these were created by myself.) Examples below;

Policy-Based RoutingBGP Topologies - Full mesh - MPLSGateway Load Balacing Protocol

Cisco CCNP Training Course – Day 1 – ROUTE
  • EIGRP
  • EIGRP Timers
  • EIGRP Troubleshooting
  • EIGRP Lab Topolopy

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Cisco CCNP Training Course – Day 8 – SWITCH

So day 8 essentially was the last day of the bootcamp, with Day 9 + 10 being left for TSHOOT, of which there is very little documented, as its……. troubleshooting a broken system.

So Day 8, let’s get to it.

Here’s whats covered;

  • HSRP Continued…..
    • comparison between HSRP and VRRP
    • GLBP – Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
  • Port-Security
  • Private VLANs
  • AAA – Authentication, Authorization, Accounting
  • VLAN Access-List
  • DHCP Snooping
  • ARP Poisoning / Man in the Middle
  • IP Spoofing
  • Other security considerations
  • Logging
  • MLS-Mutli-Layer Switching
    • Process Switching
    • Fast Switching
    • CEF
  • Voice – IP Telephony
  • QoS – Quality of Service
    • Layer 2 – Class of Service
    • Layer 3 – IP Precedence (Old setting)
    • Layer 3 – DSCP – Sub Marking (New setting)
    • Configuration of QoS
  • And that’s all folks

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Cisco CCNP Training Course – Day 7 – SWITCH

Lets Jump straight in…

Covered is

  • MST Config
  • Etherchannel
  • Spanning-Tree
  • BPDU Guard, Filter, Loop Guard, Root Guard, UDLD
  • Uplink Fast, Backbone Fast
  • HSRP
MST Config
(config)#spanning-tree mode mst
(config)#spanning-tree mst configuration
(config-mst)#name (value)
(config-mst)#revision (value)
(config-mst)#instance (value) vlan (value) (Eg. 1-3, 1,3,5 or 1-3,5,7)
(config-mst)#end (applies the configuration)
(config)#spanning-tree mst (instance No.) root (primary/secondary)

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