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Can you create a networking implementation plan for each technology area on the CCNP

exams? Can you create a verification plan for those same technologies? According to the

CCNP Exam Topics, these skills now fall into the scope of topics on the CCNP exams.

However, Cisco can’t reasonably ask you a question as open-ended as “Create an entire

EIGRP implementation plan based on the following design document.” Such a question

would take too much time relative to the typical 1 minute 15 seconds or so average question

time for a typical Cisco exam.

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Even though the exam may not ask you to literally create a plan, you do need the skills to

perform those same tasks. As with any other exam topic, expect the exam to ask questions

that zero in on a small subset of the required skill.

To prepare for the planning-oriented topics, you do NOT need to learn any more facts

about the technology or commands. The CCNP Exam Topics already cover the technology,

particularly the configuration, verification, and troubleshooting of the listed technologies.

For the planning-related Exam Topics, however, you do need to think about

those technologies with a slightly different perspective. The question is whether you

could, with only pencil, paper, and a word processor—but definitely without a router or

switch CLI—do the following:

Step 1.

that meets those goals, and discover missing information that needs to be

gathered before you can complete the configuration.

Read design goals extracted from a design document, develop a configuration

Step 2.

is wrong or missing.

Read an extract from the design and implementation plans to determine what

Step 3.

create the verification steps that would confirm whether the feature was

working.

Read a configuration and design goal as stated in an implementation plan, and

Step 4.

and design goals, and determine any problems or missing elements in the verification

plan.

Figure 1-1 shows the same concepts, with numbers referencing the preceding steps.

After you have a solid understanding of the configuration and verification commands for a

topic, to prepare for the planning-related Exam Topics, you simply need to take the time to

think about those same topics, but from the perspective of the tasks shown in Figure 1-1.

To that end, this book adds some tools to the end of each chapter. These tools should help

organize your thinking and remind you to take some time to ponder the topics in a chapter

from a design perspective.

The end of most chapters in this book include a new section titled “Planning Preparation”

as part of the broader “Foundation Summary” review section. The “Planning Preparation”

guides you through various aspects of the planning process, focused on the technologies

included in that chapter. All the Planning Preparation tables list some information and give

you the opportunity to complete the tables as an exercise. Appendix F, “Completed Planning

Practice Tables,” found on the CD included with this book, lists completed versions

of the tables for reference. This section uses four different types of tables that mimic some

of the planning and analysis tasks, as described under the next four headings.

Analyze a portion of a verification plan, along with the stated configuration

Note:

“EIGRP Overview and Neighbor Relationships,” for perspective as you read through this

chapter.

You may want to glance at the Planning Preparation tables at the end of Chapter 2,

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Planning Tasks for the CCNP Candidate

Planning Preparation: Design Review Table

When in a real design review, a network engineer must look at the requirements and decide

what configuration options might be used. The Design Review table in the Planning

Preparation section of most chapters lists design goals that you might see in a design document.

Your job is to interpret each design goal, think about what features might be used

to reach the goal, and then list those features.

This tool is designed to help you think about the broader view of a network that is typically

seen in design documents.

Planning Preparation: Implementation Plan Peer Review Table

When you attend a real implementation plan peer review, you and other engineers can see

the plan and immediately think of different questions. Those questions may be questions

about the technology—some fact you used to know but forgot, some confusion about

how a command would work given the specific design, or some question about the design

goal that led to the listed configuration.

The Implementation Plan Peer Review table predicts some of the questions that might

come to mind when performing a peer review. Your job with this table is to then answer

the questions. Some questions may be basic, and really meant more for review, whereas

others strive to force you to think about some of the subtleties of the topics in the chapter.

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Create an Implementation Plan Table

The Implementation Plan table is a pure memory aid, but the task fits directly into the

Exam Topics that read “Create a _________ implementation plan.” This tool uses a table

that simply lists the configuration topics from the chapter and asks that you write all related

configuration commands from memory. Although you may not need to memorize

every command and parameter for the exam, this exercise can help you mentally group

commands together, which may aid in questions directed at building implementation plans.

Choose Commands for a Verification Plan Table

This final tool helps you think about verification commands by first thinking of the fact

you need to discover and then choosing the command that lists the fact. Many resources—

including Cisco documents, many Cisco authorized courses, and many books

(mine included)—begin with the

by the command. The reverse order of thinking is required to be prepared to create

a verification plan. You must first decide what facts must be discovered to confirm a feature

is working and then remember which commands supply that information.

This final planning preparation tool lists many of the key individual pieces of information

that matter to the technologies included in that chapter. Your job is to list the commands

that display the requested piece of information.show commands and then explain the information displayed