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Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by TO

TO — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:57:25 +0000

@ RK

Great Job Man

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by TO

TO — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:56:39 +0000

@RK

Great Jop man

Please cross check above and let me i will do the exam today

Comment on SWITCH FAQs & Tips by tohritz

tohritz — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:45:54 +0000

any idea on good simulators for switch?

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Sal

Sal — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:28:21 +0000

@Anonymous

Thanx a lot… it ws very simple… now i can easily memorize

wish me gud luck for my exam on 21st.

Comment on LACP with STP Sim by WalterW

WalterW — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:01:56 +0000

@ Altreidae:

How do you know you “lost a few points there “? I never get a summary of which questions are correct or wrong … Or did you get that om the end of the exam ? That’s new for me…

Comment on SWITCH FAQs & Tips by Pradeep

Pradeep — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:07:43 +0000

Can anyone update the “Download these lab files from certprepare.com” link please its not working..

Comment on Practice Real SWITCH Labs with Packet Tracer by Pradeep

Pradeep — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:07:19 +0000

Can anyone update the “Download these lab files from certprepare.com” link please its not working..

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Africa Certified

Africa Certified — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:45:32 +0000

Non Entity is still valid, the labs are the same from this site copy run start doesn’t work but your configuration will be saved so dont worry……..

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Africa Certified

Africa Certified — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:44:35 +0000

I want to thank everyone on this site for their contribution. I passed the exam today courtsey of you guys. I want to commend you people for the great work in helping people get certified. I am off to Route………wish you all the best!!!!!!!!!!!!

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by rk

rk — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:21:02 +0000

@ To

use this one as reference which works
This configuration Posted by Dexter

1) Distribution Switch (SwitchB)
1) Do not change VTP and STP settings
2) Switch needs to be spanning-tree root for VLAN 11-13,21-23. Other VLAN’s can have default STP priority
3) VLAN’s allowed on the trunk are 1,21-23
Access Switch (SwitchA)
1) STP and VTP settings should be identical to SwitchB
2) Configure VLAN’s as per diagram
3) VLAN 1,21-23 needs to be tagged when traversing the link
4) No routing needed on SwitchA
5) VLAN 1 needs to be configured with IP – 192.168.1.11/24
My approach was configuring SwitchB (Distribution Switch) first and then moving on to SwitchA. Following is my config as i remember it
SwitchB#show cdp neighbors detail —> Get the IP address of the Router (needed to ping at the end-192.168.1.1)
SwitchB#show vtp status —>Write down the VTP mode (was set to Transparent)
SwitchB#show spanning-tree —>Write down the STP mode (was set to RSTP)
SwitchB#show vlan —> Check if any VLAN is assigned to FastEthernet 0/3 and 0/4 (VLAN 98 was assigned)
SwitchB#show vlan —>Check whats the native VLAN (can be identified by the name “TrunkNative”, VLAN 99)
SwitchB(config)#vlan 21
SwitchB(config-vlan)#name Marketing
SwitchB(config)#vlan 22
SwitchB(config-vlan)#name Sales
SwitchB(config)#vlan 23
SwitchB(config-vlan)#name Engineering
SwitchB(config)#spanning-tree vlan 11-13,21-23 root primary
***This completes VLAN configuration***
SwitchB(config)#int range fa0/3 – 4 –> Make sure you put a space between “3 – 4″ for it to accept the command  
SwitchB(config-int-range)#no shutdown
SwitchB(config-int-range)#no switchport access vlan 98 —> remove VLAN 98
SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport mode trunk
SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q —> System might not accept this command, but type it anyway
SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport trunk native vlan 99 
SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,21-23
SwitchB(config-int-range)#channel-protocol lacp 
SwitchB(config-int-range)#channel-group 1 mode active –> Distribution switch needs to be ACTIVE 
SwitchB(config-int-range)#exit
SwitchB(config-if)#int port-channel 1
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport mode trunk —> System might not accept this command, but type it anyway
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport trunk native vlan 99
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,21-23
***This complete’s Etherchannel configuration***

Move on to SwitchA (Access Switch)
SwitchA#show vlan —> check if any of the required VLAN’s are pre-configured (Need to configure 21-23,99)
SwitchA#show vtp status —> Check VTP mode of switch (Switch is in Server mode, need to change to Transparent)
SwitchA#show spanning-tree —> Check STP mode (Change to RSTP)
SwitchA(config)#vtp mode transparent
SwitchA(config)#spanning-tree mode rstp
***This complete’s STP and VTP configuration***
SwitchA(config)#vlan 21
SwitchA(config-vlan)#name Marketing (This are the actual Vlan names I got on my test)
SwitchA(config)#vlan 22
SwitchA(config-vlan)#name Sales
SwitchA(config)#vlan 23
SwitchA(config-vlan)#name Engineering
SwitchA(config)#vlan 99
SwitchA(config-vlan)#name TrunkNative
***This completes VLAN configuration***
SwitchA(config)#int range fa 0/9 – 10  
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport mode access 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport access vlan 21 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#spanning-tree portfast
SwitchA(config-int-range)#no shutdown
SwitchA(config)#int range fa 0/13 – 14 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport mode access 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport access vlan 22 
SwitchA(config-int-range)# spanning-tree portfast
SwitchA(config-int-range)#no shutdown
SwitchA(config)#int range fa 0/15 – 16 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport mode access 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport access vlan 23 
SwitchA(config-int-range)# spanning-tree portfast
SwitchA(config-int-range)#no shutdown
SwitchA(config)#int vlan 1
SwitchA(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.11 255.255.255.0
SwitchA(config)#ip default-gateway 192.1.68.1.1 —> You shouldn’t require this command, but i typed it anyway

***This completes access ports configuration***

SwitchA(config)#int range fa0/3 – 4 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#no shutdown 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport mode trunk
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport trunk native vlan 99 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,21-23
SwitchA(config-int-range)#channel-protocol lacp 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#channel-group 1 mode passive –> Access switch needs to be PASSIVE 
SwitchA(config-int-range)#exit
SwitchA(config-if)#int port-channel 1
SwitchA(config-if)#switchport mode trunk —> System might not accept this command, but type it anyway
SwitchA(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
SwitchA(config-if)#switchport trunk native vlan 99
SwitchA(config-if)#switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,21-23
***This complete’s Etherchannel configuration***
SwitchA#ping 192.168.1.1

Comment on LACP with STP Sim by Prasad

Prasad — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:07:30 +0000

there is a bug on the lacp sim.. i got stp as pvrst+.. but i was rcving stp error messages with inconsistent port types. i configured the same way as it is supposed to be

and again could not confirm any parameters the port channel could just add native vlan and allowed vlan..

not sure if lab was correct..

i was not able to ping the router ip.

Comment on STP Hotspot by Auger3

Auger3 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:06:59 +0000

Based on the Cisco website link above, there is no doubt about Q1 answer. Cisco says,

“Type P2p Peer(STP) represents that the neighbor switch runs PVST”

So case closed!

Comment on LACP with STP Sim by Prasad

Prasad — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:03:08 +0000

passed the exam today with 901. thanks to certprepare

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by TO

TO — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:47:06 +0000

this is Spanning-tree vlan 1,21,22,23,99 proity 61440 is correct

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by RAN

RAN — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:50:05 +0000

Thanks for the info. I know from previous experience that not all questions are marked from cisco exams. It could be that the lab you skipped was marked zero. I don’t think running some show commands would lower your score on the lab, as long as you don’t modify your config.

Goodluck on the 2nd attempt.

Comment on AAAdot1x Lab Sim by Saber

Saber — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:34:10 +0000

Dear Aledn i think it need L3 switch, this comman is not working at L2 switch. Please clear if i am wrong.

Comment on AAAdot1x Lab Sim by Saber

Saber — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:32:45 +0000

Can any one help me to get IOS for GNS3 to test.

tanh123@hotmail.com

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by NA

NA — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:39:49 +0000

Hi all i crashed and burned on the exam, all sims were there and i thought i passed because the only one that i was stuck on was AAAdot1x. Is it possible that this lab is weighed heavier than the rest, beacues i skipped it thinking my score was high enough. Anyway i have to wait 5 days and i will hit AAAdot1x hard. BTW my score was 781. Also on the MLS sim i was able to ping from the MLS and one of the pc to the server but not the other pc. I did a couple of sh runs and sh ip route commands to see but i did not do a sh ip eigrp neighbor command. Nevertheless it seems that with me digging in the config i inadvertently dropped my score trying to troubleshoot. Can anyone confirm this? Please priovide any suggestions my 5 days slowly ticking away. Thank you all

1 wireless and 2 voice question
3 drag and drop
3 labs mls with Eigrp, LACP with STP and AAA Dot1x
HSRP hot spot only

BTW my LACP etherchannel would not come up until i did a shut no shut on the interface ranges twice on each side. There were some new questions but very similar to nonentity so no issues but i guess in my case i need to revisit.

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by ted

ted — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:12:12 +0000

is VTP simulation/lab still in the exam???

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Axai

Axai — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:00:09 +0000

thx every1 for sharing ur exp
pls share what D&D u got especially if they’re the wireless and voice D&D
and ofc u’re answer
plus the voice and wireless Multichoice questions and which hotspot u got
ty

Comment on STP Hotspot by PVST question 1

PVST question 1 — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:10:04 +0000

I would say C is correct based on this link from Cisco’s site.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps708/products_configuration_example09186a00807b0670.shtml

CONCERNING TEXT FROM LINK BELOW

Access1#show spanning-tree vlan 10

VLAN0010
Spanning tree enabled protocol rstp
Root ID Priority 24586
Address 0015.63f6.b700
Cost 19
Port 107 (FastEthernet3/0/1)
Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec

Bridge ID Priority 32778 (priority 32768 sys-id-ext 10)
Address 000f.f794.3d00
Hello Time 2 sec Max Age 20 sec Forward Delay 15 sec
Aging Time 300

Interface Role Sts Cost Prio.Nbr Type
—————- —- — ——— ——– ——————————–
Fa3/0/1 Root FWD 19 128.107 P2p Peer(STP)
Fa3/0/2 Altn BLK 19 128.108 P2p Peer(STP)

!— Type P2p Peer(STP) represents that the neighbor switch runs PVST.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:31:13 +0000

@sal
in the option uncheck the option randmise question

Comment on MLS and EIGRP Sim by Perez

Perez — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:20:15 +0000

Hi i m passed 912

Thanks Certprepare

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by @Atul

@Atul — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:18:53 +0000

Which one is the best Simulator for CCNP Switch preparation

Comment on SWITCH FAQs & Tips by Prasad

Prasad — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:58:30 +0000

Hi Atreidae.. congrats… im going to write the exam tomorrow.. gone through braindump file from nonentity… is that ok if i only go through that.. i had read somewhere that the particular dump is almost same as p4s..

can n e 1 confirm

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by RAN

RAN — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:57:35 +0000

Unfortunately, I had the same problem. I took a screen shot of the questions I had problems with and pasted them into word to review later.

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Sal

Sal — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:48:59 +0000

@ AADVARK,
ALL

CAN YOU PLEASE TELL ME HOW DID YOU PREPARED FROM NON-ENTITY,

COZ THERE ARE 346Q I CANT FINISH THIS IN ONE DAY, AND WHEN I CLOSED THIS VCE, THE QUESTION SEQUENCE CHANGES. I WANT TO START WHERE I STOPPED.

Comment on AAAdot1x Lab Sim by Alden

Alden — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:13:57 +0000

This command is not working at real switch i check at both 2950 and 2960 , please help

DSW1(config)#vlan access-map MYACCMAP 10

Thanks in advanced
http://20best.blogspot.com

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by aadvark

aadvark — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:18:36 +0000

Hi, Friends!
passed today with 967
nonentity rev 4 still valid (1 or 2 new questions)
3 labs mls with Eigrp, LACP with STP, AAA Dot1x
1 HSRP hot spot
1 drag and drop
1 wireless and 1 voice question

Thanks to certprepare

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by @Atul

@Atul — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:29:31 +0000

Which one is the best Simulator for CCNP Switch preparation.

Thanx.

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by To

To — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:43:54 +0000

@RK

Thanks so much,

Please about Spainning-tree command.

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Kaust

Kaust — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:16:45 +0000

Hi Friend,
M preparing for CCNP Switch and want latest dumps please send me on kaustubh.gidh@gmail.com awaiting for your reply.

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by RK

RK — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:01:12 +0000

@ To

switch(config)#vtp mode transparent <<<<< is the command to set the switch in Transparent mode

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by To

To — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:53:53 +0000

@ RK

About the VTP configurtion i thinks the below commands to do it :

#vlan database
Router(vlan)#
Router(vlan)#
Router(vlan)#vtp {client | server | transparent}

Please the above commands is correct ?

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by To

To — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:39:17 +0000

@RK

Thanks very much

it’s ok the pictrue is clean now but what’s regarding Spainning-tree ?

Comment on LACP with STP Sim by Atreidae

Atreidae — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:33:45 +0000

Just passed this one (934/1000), was my first question.

As above is almost correct.

One thing I forgot, Trunks are NOT allowed to negotiate.. I forgot the
“swtichport trunk nonegotiate” command and lost a few points there

Dont set the native vlan to 1 either, the requirement states that vlan 1 needs to be tagged (not encapsulated) so use 802.1q and change the native vlan to 99 (there is a vlan on Switch A for this)
As VTP is transparent the vlans are not re-created on the other switch.
For it to become a root for those vlans as well add each vlan to Switch A as well as swtich B

There should be no need to remove the vlan 98 (this is for unused ports)

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Sal

Sal — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:11:58 +0000

is there anyway that non-entity sequence of question wont change everytime restart VCE.
…

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Stevo

Stevo — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:21:29 +0000

It is C and E
The native vlan will not be tagged in this case it is Vlan 1 and because Gi0/1 is a trunk it will not appear in the show vlan command.

Cheers

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Shasta

Shasta — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:41:49 +0000

Please ,

i need to know what is the correct answer for the below question

http://www.aiotestking.com/cisco/2011/09/basis-output-generated-show-commands-statements-true/

i think C,F and nonenatiy v4 C,F what do you think.

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by RK

RK — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:33:31 +0000

http://www.ciscobibles.com/archives/3604.html

LACP question is very similar except the vlan names are Marketing, Sales and Engineering

Thanks

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:30:10 +0000

@ To check the config and question posted by spy under lacp with STP LAB Sim it is very much similar

SwitchB(config)#int range fa0/3 – 4
 SwitchB(config-int-range)#no shutdown
 SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport mode trunk
SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport trunk native vlan 99
 SwitchB(config-int-range)#switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,21-23
SwitchB(config-int-range)#channel-protocol lacp
 SwitchB(config-int-range)#channel-group 1 mode passive –> Access switch needs to be PASSIVE 
SwitchB(config-int-range)#exit
SwitchB(config-if)#int port-channel 1
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport mode trunk —> System might not accept this command, but type it anyway
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport trunk native vlan 99
SwitchB(config-if)#switchport trunk allowed vlan 1,21-23

just be wary to check the switch vtp mode by running sh vtp status command

Thanks,
RK

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by To

To — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:41:20 +0000

@ RK

Thanks for your reply.

Please , configuration interface fa 0/3-4 and the configuration port-channel1

Is there any configuration for VTP ?

Comment on SWITCH FAQs & Tips by Atreidae

Atreidae — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:39:53 +0000

Passed just over an hour ago
Thanks to certprepare.com, my training instructor (who reccomends this site) and a few runs through P4S…. 934/1000

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Osman

Osman — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:10:45 +0000

passed my switching yesterday thanx to

certprepare and

http://www.ciscobibles.com/archives/3604.html

Comment on MLS and EIGRP Sim by Newbie !

Newbie ! — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:32:56 +0000

I feel every is skipping one step from the configuration. ” Switch port access vlan 2/3 ” .
Except “dwlms3″ no one has mentioned about this statement or is it predefined in the switch ????

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by rk

rk — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:24:45 +0000

@ TO and Anonymous how can i help you with the LACP config ??
i have issues no shut command just heads up that you will be seeing lot of warning msgs until you configure on boths swithches

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by To

To — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:29:02 +0000

@RK

Could you please help me regarding the LACP Lab like configuration

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 07:28:35 +0000

@RK,

Could you please help me regarding the LACP Lab like configuration

Comment on LACP with STP Sim by Flordieboy

Flordieboy — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:05:05 +0000

On the real exam, the set-up of the switch was interchanged.

SwB SwA Router

I have answered this one, although some points were deducted.
*Note: Do not change VTP and STP on Switch A.

So, you should change the priority on SwB and put on the highest possible value which is 61440.
This is to make the SwA the root bridge what ever value it has.

By the way, the question requires that SwA should be the root brdige for vlan 11,12,13,21,22 and 23. Other VLAN should be default.

Other requirements not mentioned in this Sim.

*Swich B STP mode should be the same with Switch A.

SwA is on “rapid pvst” while SwB is only on pvst.

*Switch B VTP set-up should be the same with SwS.

SwA is set to VTP transparent while SwB is set as Server.
Just change SwB VTP mode to Transparent.

Also, another advice. remove “switchport access vlan 98″ on SwA fa0/3 – 4 to avoid VLANs mismatch.
you may add “switchport trunk native vlan 1″ to avoid native vlan mismatch. (SwB’s native vlan is on default which is vlan 1)

spanning-tree allowed vlans will not work.

Use “switchport trunk allowed vlan 11-13,21-23 (on the question, even 11-13 is also need to be allowed, when you do the manual pruning).

Hope this helps.

Got a score of 967/1000. Yay!
Goodluck guys.

Comment on Share your SWITCH Experience by RK

RK — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:34:23 +0000

@Axai

i had only HSRP hotsop
one voice question multiple choice and 3 Voice question from nonentity4
3 D&D