Just a few days left and I am still on schedule. I completed the IPX Volume 2 and IPX Vol3 Lab5 again for the second time. In summary, they are long tedious labs, but I would strongly suggest editing the igp,ldp and bgp authentication as well as community filters out of the initial configs. This will allow you to skip a lot of requirements and get straight to the meat of the lab. Yes, absolutely, I agree with the others, they are definitely a must. I noticed that the same “feature” questions caught me off guard as on the first time, but the multi SP CSC over Inter-AS scenarios hardly receive any troubleshooting and debugging anymore. Next up is the Vol3 labs which I started with. I will leave (skip) the two easy labs ( Lab 1 and 2) in case I want to do some lab practice while in Brussels to kill time.
Vol2 and Vol3 has been consolidated into one workbook and I noticed the Vol3 is not on the site as well. Unfortunately the new workbooks are not available for download yet.
Read the complete first review.
Update: I will run through these labs a third time under timed conditions. I think it is important to get these labs done in 6 hours or less.
