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DID YOU PASS THE EXAM??? :)

DID YOU PASS THE EXAM????? :)

Can you please confirm if these DND are the ones appearing in the exam?

Drag and Drop

VSS and Stack

VSS:

1. Combines exactly two devices
2. Supported on Cisco 4500 and 6500 series
3. Supported devices that are geographically separated

Stack:

1. Supported on Cisco 3750 and 3850 devices
2. Supported up to nine devices
3. Uses proprietary cabling

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HSRP vs VRRP

HSRP:

1. MAC Address used – 000.0c9f.f000 to 0000.09c.ffff
2. Multicast address 224.0.0.102
3. Uses only one virtual IP Address

VRRP:

1. IP Protocol 112
2. Track Interfaced
3. Uses Physical Interface

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RSPAN

Create remote VLAN
Create span source IP
Create destination remote VLAN
Create source remote VLAN
Create destination as interface

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Radius

Combines authentication and authorization
Encrypts only the password
Multi-Vendors
UDP

Tacacs+

Encrypts the entire body
Proprietary
Separate AAA
TCP

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Drag and Drop – PVST+ / Rapid PVST+ / MSTP

PVST

802.1d standard
default STP

RapidPVST

802.1w standard
Discarding port state

MST
802.1s standard
group vlan int instance

Source Port:

It can be trunk or an access port
It can be monitored as a bundled logical port or as individual physical ports
Multiple VLANs can be included in a single session

Destination Port:
It acts as the monitoring port
It is not supported as part of a VLAN
Its original configuration is overwritten by the SPAN configuration

Are these all the DND we need to study?

Hi everyone. I passed today with 9xx score. I got the usual labs/sims, LACP with STP, VTPv3, HSRP. For LACP with STP SWA didn’t accept command “switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q” but SWB accepted the command and I confirmed the trunk was created successfully with dot1q encapsulation.

For VTPv3, SW1 and SW2 were both in “Server” mode, didn’t have such thing as “Primary server” so the answer was the same provided here in Certprepare, “Configure VLAN 500 & VLAN 600 on both SW1 & SW2.”

HSRP was exactly as shown here in Certprepare.

Got 50% of the questions Rick and M.Shahin posted here, the other 50% if you study the dumps you can solve them.

For the Drag and Drop got 3 in total:

D&D 1. STP Switch Priority: “Increment of 4096” and “The lowest value is preferred”
STP Port Priority: “Increments of 16” and “Default value of 128”
STP Path cost: “Default value is based on interface speed” and “Value range from 1-200000”

D&D 2. True of RSPAN VLANs:
MAC address learning is not supported.
They can be configured only on trunk ports.
They can be configured with STP only on the source port.
They can use VLANs from 2 through 1024.

False of RSPAN VLANs:
They are not supported with VTP.
They can be configured only on access port.
They can use VLANs from 2 through 1005.

D&D 3. CDP:
Uses multicast address 0100.0cc.cccc
Supports IEEE 802.2 and 802.3 encapsulation
Default time between protocol frames is 60 seconds.

LLDP:
Sends topology change notification
Uses multicast address 0180.c200.000e
Default time between protocol frames is 30 seconds.

That’s it, let me know if you have any questions, I’ll be around here for 1-2 days more. See you in TSHOOT!

Hi Guys, just passed the exam today. (1/29/20)
SIMS: are the same as everyone else LACP with STP/VTPv3/HSRP
RSPAN as the Drag and Drop
just review the ones that has been shared here on the post. IP Helper Aug2019 and SWITCH OCT 2019.
you should be fine. shouldn’t take you more than a week. and of course you have to understand the concept as well.

Good Luck guys and thank you all for the help I found on this forum.

on to TSHOOT to get the full CCNP before Feb 24, 2020 :)

sorry my mistake end of old exam Feb 23, 2020.

Good Luck in your studies and hopefully everyone can get it before it expires.

Oh, something I forgot to mention, in HSRP sim, they asked about port E1/0 connected to router R5 goes down instead of “If router R1 interface Etherne0/0 goes down and recovers, which of the statement regarding HSRP priority is true?” “, so the answer is “The interface will default to a priority of 100 for HSRP group 1” and NOT “The interface will have its current priority incremented by 40 for HSRP group 1”

@CCNP-Switch. I didnt get any question that connects to R5 so my answer to this that was incremented by 40. but that is good to know before people just pick increment by 40 without reading the questions first.

see you at TSHOOT

@CCNP-Switch

Do you suggest to study all the DND in the AugustIPHelper?

DO YOU REMEMBER SOME OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE EXAM?

CCNP-Switch, may I ask when you do a show running-config on R1 you see track 1 decrement 40 what does that mean? and what is the priority of the switch before it goes down ? What happens when the Switch comes back up ? what will be its position in the topology ? Perhaps I need to read the concepts of HSRP again, but I believe the recovered Switch will be incremented by 40 now its back online. What is the meaning of Preempt in the config ?

Hi All,

I’ve been monitoring users who took CCNP Switch and it appears that the DND are randomly appearing to different users.

Most of the time the DND are as follows ( VSS and Stack , HSRP and VRRP ).
However, recently passed users are telling that they got different DND.

Radius and Tacacs+ , Span Ports and Destination , CDP and LLDP , PVST and RapidPVST and MST.

Looking at these DND, do you suggest to study all 34 Questions for DND just to be safe?

Looking forward to your feedback.

Proton as you stated the the DND are random, so I suggest learn all of them, that way you cant miss

Noted Racko

I still cannot get a clear answer on this one

Which two statements about static MAC addresses are true? (Choose two)
A. They are configured without an aging time.
B. They have a default aging time of 300 seconds.
C. They supersede dynamically learned MAC address.
D. They can be configured on multiple interfaces in the same VLAN.
E. They have a default aging time of 60 seconds.
Answer: A D

why not C???

@GOKUSWITCH. The same happened to me, I was just about to select the “incremented by 40” response when I realized the question mentioned Ethernet 1/0 connected to R5. When checked the sh run realized it was the same scenario described in the dump Cisco-300-115-by-IPHelper-1129q-30-07-2019:

“QUESTION 5 HINT: This question is similar to “Refer to the exhibit. If router R1 interface Etherne0/0 goes down and recovers, which of the statement regarding
HSRP priority is true?” but answer will be different according to a candidate experience.
Refer to the exhibit. If router R5 interface Etherne0/1 goes down and recovers, which of the statement regarding HSRP priority is true?
A. The interface will have the priority decremented by 40 for HSRP group 1.
B. The interface will have the priority decremented by 60 for HSRP group 1
C. The interface will have its current priority incremented by 40 for HSRP group 1
D. The interface will have its current priority incremented by 60 for HSRP group 1
E. The interface will default to the a priority of 100 for HSRP group 1 (or priority default is 100, interface e0/1 no HSRP priority configured)
Correct Answer: E
Section: (none)
Explanation
Explanation/Reference:
From: cybernet October 22nd, 2018 (Certprepare)
I see new question for HSRP Simlet about if router interface ethernet0/0 goes down in dump to connect e0/0 R2, but in exam is ethernet 0/1 to connect R5.
Be careful.
– I choose priority default is 100, interface e0/1 no hsrp priority configured.”

@Proton. Study all of them except for those that say “UNOFFICIAL”. It seems that other people have gotten a different Drag & Drop questions than the ones I got. Luckily I studied them since it wasn’t that hard, for those that there are only two options, I only learned the shortest or only the easiest half, then I would knew the other options must be placed in the other side.

@Racko. When the interface has configured “track interface Fa0/0 state decrement 10” that means that if that link goes down, the priority of the active router (i.e. active router is 192.168.1.3 priority 85) will be decreased by 10, in this example, it would go down to 75 (85-10) and if there is any other router with higher priority, let’s say 80, it will take the active router state. If the previous router link goes up again, then the priority is restored to 85 (75+10) and if preempt is configured, the router can take the active router state again. That’s what I understood from the online forums, documentation and dumps I read. If I am not correct, please someone clarify better.

Thank you @CCNP-Switch Looking at my current VCE file for DND I have a total of 24 so I assume that I’ll need to study them.

@GOKUSWITCH. I remember also this questions:

Which feature do you implement so that an interface enters the root inconsistent state if it receives a superior BPDU?
A. BPDU filter
B. root guard
C. BPDU guard
D. loop guard
Correct Answer: B

Which two statements about 802.1q are true? (Choose two.)
A. Each frame contains a 12-byte VLAN Identifier field
B. Trunking devices add an 8-byte VLAN tag to all VLAN packets
C. The header is found within the Ethernet trailer.
D. It insert a 4-byte tag filed to the Ethernet frame.
E. When it is enabled, the minimum Ethernet frame size is 68 bytes.
Correct Answers: DE

Refer to the exhibit. (The one that have 5 switches interconnected, SW1-SW5 with SW1 priority 16376, SW2 priority 8192, SW3 priority 28676, SW4 priority 1288 and SW 5 default priority)
If all switches in this environment are running PVSTP+, which switch is elected as the STP root switch when a
new VLAN is added to the network?
A. switch 1
B. switch 2
C. switch 3
D. switch 4
E. switch 5
Correct Answer: B

An EtherChannel bundle has been established between a Cisco switch and a corporate web server. The network administrator noticed that only one of the EtherChannel links is being utilized to reach the web server. What should be done on the Cisco switch to allow for better EtherChannel utilization to the corporate web server?
A. Enable Cisco Express Forwarding to allow for more effective traffic sharing over the EtherChannel bundle.
B. Adjust the EtherChannel load-balancing method based on destination IP addresses.
C. Disable spanning tree on all interfaces that are participating in the EtherChannel bundle.
D. Use link-state tracking to allow for improved load balancing of traffic upon link failure to the server.
E. Adjust the EtherChannel load-balancing method based on source IP addresses.
Correct Answer: E

Which option is the minimum number of bindings that the DHCP snooping database can store?
A. 1000 bindings
B. 2000 bindings
C. 5000 bindings
D. 8000 bindings
Correct Answer: D

Which feature can prevent ARP poisoning attacks on a device?
A. Dynamic ARP Inspection
B. DHCP snooping
C. MAC snooping
D. CGMP snooping
E. Dynamic MAC Inspection
F. Static ARP Inspection
Answer: A

Which two device types does DHCP snooping treat as untrusted in an ISP environment? (Choose two.)
A. end host devices
B. customer edge services
C. user-facing provider edge devices
D. provider edge devices
E. provider devices
Answers: AB

You want to correctly configure IP Source Guard on a switch. Which two tasks must you perform? (Choose two.)
A. Enable DHCP snooping on the switch.
B. Enable DHCP packet validation on the device.
C. Configure the DHCP snooping relay.
D. Enable DHCP option 82.
E. Configure the ip verify source vlan dhcp-snooping command.
Answers: AE

That’s all I remember for now, if remember another one I will publish it, but as I say, around 50% of the multiple choices questions where the same that Rick and M.Shahin published.

study all SWITCH OCT 2019 and IP HELPER AUGUST 2019 pages 1 – 200. that’s all I pretty much did.
do the 3 SIMS and you’re all set.

@CCNP-Switch

Refer to the exhibit. (The one that have 5 switches interconnected, SW1-SW5 with SW1 priority 16376, SW2 priority 8192, SW3 priority 28676, SW4 priority 1288 and SW 5 default priority)
If all switches in this environment are running PVSTP+, which switch is elected as the STP root switch when a
new VLAN is added to the network?
A. switch 1
B. switch 2
C. switch 3
D. switch 4
E. switch 5
Correct Answer: B

Correct me if I am wrong does the root should be SW4 (lower priority)?

@Proton, remember, there are like 7-10 I had that said “Unoficial”, those I didn’t even look at them and I have not seen anyone talking about them here, neither those about LLDP-MED TLVs.

Also, remember another question:

Which two commands configure RSPAN to capture incoming and outgoing traffic on a single interface? (Choose two.)
A. monitor session 1 source interface gigabitethernet1/0/2 both
B. monitor session 1 destination remote vlan 910
C. monitor session 1 source interface gigabitethernet1/0/2 tx
D. monitor session 1 source interface gigabitethernet1/0/1 rx
E. monitor session 1 destination interface gigabitethernet1/0/2 rx
Correct Answer: AB

@Proton, you are correct, I missed an extra 2 on the priority of SW4. SW4 priority is 12288 which makes SW2 then, the switch with lowest priority.

@CCNP-Switch – Right, currently the VCE I have for the Official DND contains 24 different questions. I will review these as you mentioned just to be safe and move towards Labs after.

Thanks

By the way, does anyone here have the tshoot Nov 19 mcq dump? Please provide a link to download it.

Getting mixed answers for the following questions. Can anyone help?

Which two configuration requirements for port security are true? (Choose two.)
A. Port must be in access mode
B. Port security must be enabled on the port level
C. Port must be in interface VLAN mode
D. Port security must be disabled on the port level
E. Port must be in encapsulation mode

A B and D seem correct

Which two statements about sticky MAC address learning are true? (Choose two.)
A. A single device can learn up to three sticky MAC addresses.
B. Devices can learn sticky MAC addresses dynamically.
C. Learned addresses are saved to the startup configuration file by default.
D. Learned addresses are saved to the running configuration by default.
E. Learned addresses are automatically preserved when the device reboots.
F. It can be used only on devices that operate in a single layer.

B D and E seem correct

8. Which two statements about static MAC addresses are true? (Choose two)
A. They are configured without an aging time.
B. They have a default aging time of 300 seconds.
C. They supersede dynamically learned MAC address.
D. They can be configured on multiple interfaces in the same VLAN.
E. They have a default aging time of 60 seconds.

A C and D seem correct

Which command do you enter on a device so that users are automatically placed in enable mode after they authenticate with TACACS+?
A. aaa authorization exec default group tacacs+ if-authenticated
B. aaa authorization exec default group tacacs+ local-case
C. aaa authorization exec default group tacacs+ enable
D. aaa authentication exec default group tacacs+ if-authenticated

Is it A or D?

hey CCNP-Switch. Im also looking for it. share it with me when you find it :)

@GOKUSWITCH can you please share IP HELPER AUGUST 2019????

The port fa0/1 on Switch A is configured as Access,
I am sure we need to change it. What could be the configuration for this?