Getting back to it & Management

so I had some stuff going on and I haven't been Tshooting or simulating for while ...

I hope I can say that this is like riding a bike or shooting a basketball, but my skills do marginally fade without constant practise. so I'll be hitting the GNS3 /Boson simulators hard to gain my touch and my insticts ..

so since I haven't been doing a lot of technical stuff that i can share lately - we can tackle management in this post .

you want to pass the exam ? you'd better manage your time to the best you can ..

My rough calculations is around 9 mins per ticket should be fine , but of course we'd get ticket that would be sorted within 5 mins and some will need 15 so lets just stick to an average.


from Cisco test exam . I can see if you go back to a machine after just closing the ticket you can still run the same commands you have just ran for the previous ticket, for example , machine X cannot ping this server. I would run a traceroute and some pings than I can re run by pressing the "up key" a few times and that would save me some time ..

another trick which is very very important in time management is when you have a ticket so easy that you solved in a coulpe minutes , DO NOT SOLVE IT YET BUT RATHER MAKE IT YOUR BENCH MARK FOR CORRECT ANSWERS.



just don't forget to write down your answer so you can go back and answer it at the end .

Cisco TSHOOT Topology Simulation

I am not gonna take credit for this - I will just re direct you to a very useful link that would be very helpful in case you're interested in doing some TSHOOTING prior to your test and cover almost all the topics in the TSHOOT exam :

http://www.chainringcircus.org/?p=1233

what Jud has done is he has mixed the three Topologies provided by Cisco
into one Topology and tackled all topics in one topology.


Make sure you post your thanks to Jud .


I used to be a Boson Fan when it came to simulation, But have recently switched to GNS3. Although it gave me some headaches because I have Vista and also couldn't find a lot of good IOS images to start with.


If you have any issues with starting up GNS3 don't hesitate to let me know - I think in two days I have encountered every problem possible , from TELNETing in Windows Vista up to using the wrong IOS and realizing that 5 hours later...

OSPF Area Types - One Image

This is an Image I found in the forums and I think is very helpful.

literally worth a thousand words.

IPV6 - What do we need to cover for Cisco TSHOOT ?

I started off by downloading the whole E book from

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/ipv6/configuration/guide/ip6-tunnel.html

and went quickly through four sections:

Implementing OSFP for IPV6
Implementing RIP for IPV6
Implementing Static Routes for IPV6
Implementing Tunneling for IPV6

and now feel pretty confident about my IPV6 knowledge.


this shouldn't take more than 5 hours in total. I will definitely come back to this E Book and try to summarize what I really need to study for the day before the exam.

My first Post - Cisco TSHOOT & me

So this is a challenge unlike the other tests we've taken ..

This Cisco TSHOOT test requires not only knowledge of commands but also knowledge of when do we want to use them - and how to use them ? and how to interpret the output. All in a "timely manner".

I have recently sat for my BSCI and BCMSN and passed with ease - using the usual study methods and doing my lab work and simulations .

I have decided to blog about my TSHOOT experience as it I think it will help me and help others as well.

Right now I think I am about 20 % ready .

I started off with trying to compile all the code I need and try to feel very comfortable with it.'

I am a basketball fan by the way .. and they say to shoot the basketball better you have to keep shooting to develop muscle memory. with TSHOOT I think we'd need both the physical and mental memories while troubleshooting so we can type and interpret commands so freely and save time ..

more to follow ..