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Share your TSHOOT v2.0 Experience

January 22nd, 2015 Go to comments
Note: The last day to take this TSHOOT 300-135 exam is February 23, 2020. After this day you have to take new Enterprise exams to get new CCNP Enterprise certification. If you want to find out more about the new exams please visit here.

This article is devoted for candidates who took the TSHOOT exam to share their experience. Please tell us what are your materials, the way you learned, your feeling and experience after taking the TSHOOT v2.0 exam… But please DO NOT share any information about the detail of the exam or your personal information, your score, exam date and location, your email…

Your posts are warmly welcome!

Exam’s Structure:

+ Some Multiple choice & drag drop questions
+ 2 Simlets
+ 15 lab-sim Questions with the same network topology (15 troubleshooting tickets or you can call it one “big” question). Each lab-sim is called a ticket and you can solve them in any order you like.

Topics of the lab-sims:

1- IPv6
2- OSPF
3- OSPFv3
4- Frame Relay
5- GRE
6- EtherChannel
7- RIPng
8- EIGRP
9- Redistribution
10- NTP
11- NAT
12- BGP
13- HSRP
14- STP
15- DHCP

The problems are rather simple. For example wrong IP assignment, disable or enable a command, authentication…

In each tickets you will have to answer three types of questions:

+ Which device causes problem
+ Which technology is used
+ How to fix it

When you press Done to finish each case, you can’t go back.

A demo of the TSHOOT Exam can be found at: http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le2/le37/le10/tshoot_demo.html

Note:

+ In the new TSHOOTv2, you cannnot use the “Abort” button anymore. Therefore you cannot check the configuration of another ticket before completing the current ticket.

+ We have gathered many questions about TSHOOT exam and posted them at TSHOOT FAQs & Tips, surely you will find useful information about the TSHOOT exam there!

Below are the topologies of the real TSHOOT exam, you are allowed to study these topologies before taking the exam. It surely saves you some invaluable time when sitting in the exam room (Thanks rrg for sharing this).

IPv4 Layer 3 Topology

IPv4Layer3Topology_networktut.com.jpg

IPv6 Layer 3 Topology

IPv6Layer3Topology_networktut.com.jpg

Layer 2-3 Topology

Layer2_3_Topology.jpg

You can download the SAM strategy here (specially thanks to SAM who created this strategy):

https://www.networktut.com/download/TSHOOT_PING-plan-SAM.pdf

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  1. Anonymous
    January 9th, 2020

    john upload it to mega. thanks

  2. flode
    January 9th, 2020

    any updates or is the exam the same?
    planning to take it Saturday

  3. GG
    January 9th, 2020

    @CCNPNow first of all congrats…..
    Secondly u confused me with your first ticket (IP Helper)…
    If i understood correctly u had one ticket with port-security enable and int UP/UP and u answered
    “”as1/port secuirty/shut/no shut f1/0/1-2 “” and u got 1000 score…..there isn’t any ticket like the one u say….so many people with score 1000 here, u r the only one who says something like that..

    ANYONE ELSE WITH THE SAME

  4. flode
    January 9th, 2020

    that one is clear for me, it sounds confusing but he actually choose dhcp.

  5. GG
    January 9th, 2020

    @flode ..u answered to my post?
    what is clear 4 u? is there sush ticket?

  6. flode
    January 9th, 2020

    @GG -> ticket 13
    u have port security on asw and dhcp ip-helper on dsw1
    the guy mentioned that he went for dhcp : ” So answered ip helpers wrong as the problem”…. english might not be his best friend but it is clear that you can have a mistake by answering ASW1 port-security instead of dchp on DSW1,

  7. GG
    January 9th, 2020

    @flode….u mean that he had the ticket 13 (with wrong IP Helper)….but he found port security issue on asw1 (with sh port-security int fa…), but with “sh ip int brief” the interfaces were UP/UP(so no port security problem)…..and
    he answered Dsw1/ Dhcp / delete the wrong, add the correct IP helper address
    right?

  8. flode
    January 9th, 2020

    yes @GG
    that’s very correct, and that’s where i had a mistake in the exam as well.
    They made in in such a way that you can easily have it wrong if you ping from the client to ASW1 and then you go show security port, you will see some violations, but the interface is up/up !! So you incline to go with port-security and choose asw1/port secuirty/shut/no shut f1/0/1-2
    Don;t fall in that trap,….just use SAM strategy and ping from R1 down instead of starting from the client.
    That’s very critical and useful info

  9. GG
    January 9th, 2020

    @flode…ok now i understood what he meant.
    2 things on your last post…
    first of all u CANNOT ping from the client to ASW1 cause u have got APIPA
    secondly i can’t understand how someone can answer
    asw1/port secuirty/shut/no shut f1/0/1-2….there is no sush answer and any ticket here.

    THE TICKETS DON’T CHANGE ..THE CORRECT ANSWERS ARE ON THIS SITE

  10. flode
    January 9th, 2020

    @GG -> APIPA is on the port-security ticket #7 as well. That’s the trick :)

  11. flode
    January 9th, 2020

    @GG check ticket 7….and you will find the answer he was talking about, that answer is available on any ticket if you choose the device ASW1.

  12. I
    January 9th, 2020

    Passed 1000/1000 yesterday. Everything is premium. Good luck to everyone.

  13. Emma
    January 9th, 2020

    guys quick question, do the options change on exam when you pick devices just like here or?? cheers x

  14. Layer
    January 9th, 2020

    @PeeWee thank you for your reply. I read that there´s no more 4 textbox like here instead of a regular console to type all the commands:
    router bgp 64520
    network IBGP remote-as 64520
    neighbor IBGP remote-as 64520
    and
    no neighbor 209.165.200.2 remote-as 64525
    neighbor 209.165.201.2 remote-as 64525

  15. flode
    January 9th, 2020

    @Emma -> yes they do.
    If you choose ASW1 at Q1 you get a set of answers for Q2, if you choose DSW1 at Q1 then you get different choices at Q2

  16. cicciolo
    January 9th, 2020

    hi there community,

    i remember that some month ago i’ve read something like “a check list to find what ticket you are facing”.

    there was some step to understand what kind of ticket you have to resolve, someone can help me… and link or repost it ?

    thank you

  17. Emma
    January 9th, 2020

    @flode thankyou but thats just confusing. why would i choose asw1 on q1, i will choose the right device which has a problem, no? i meant lets suppose i chose R2 & 3rd options shows its choices but then i realize the right device is R3, would the last choice switch or remain the same?

  18. SFL
    January 9th, 2020

    Reading all the posts about ip helper and port security, surely the way to find out is to do;

    ‘show interface status err-disabled’
    or
    ‘show int fa1/0/1’ and look for ERR-DISABLED.

    Then check the ip helper-address anyway to see if it matches the loopback on R4. If it does you know port security is your problem. If it doesn’t then changing it is the answer to the problem.

  19. Joe
    January 9th, 2020

    Hi All,

    I want to ask, in the exam can we abort the tickets and do the ones we are comfortable with and come back to the previous tickets and do them again?

    What i mean if we choose lets say ticket 1 and quit and do ticket 2 and come back to ticket 1 later?

  20. cicciolo
    January 9th, 2020

    Just found the PDF !

    dropbox . com/s/upg9bfohlrxiwae/ Tipu-Pashas-Strategy-to-Solve-Tickets.pdf?dl=0

    try to follow the PDF tips to resolve the tickets, hope someone enjoy it :)

    thank you to Tipu pasha and @funghet

  21. SFL
    January 9th, 2020

    @Joe – No you can’t do that. You have to answer each ticket in the order they come. When in a ticket you can switch back and forth between the three answers before you submit your final answer, but once you have submitted the ticket you cannot go back to it.

  22. Namlish
    January 9th, 2020

    Passed today score 1000. everything from here is valid. MCQs are all from Nov and had the BGP and HSRP Simlets. Had 3x IPv6 tickets and the rest the IPv4 tickets. I followed the NULLZERO approach. works like a charm. Thanks and good luck to all still writing.

  23. MK-20202
    January 9th, 2020

    Pass today 903…..a big thanks @ networktut.com

  24. cybernet
    January 9th, 2020

    passed today, everything are in premium.

  25. TO
    January 9th, 2020

    @SFL – Those commands are not allowed in the test. I heard yesterday that someone went on the test and did a “show interface ” or a “show interface status” and those commands didn’t work. Well, I know for fact that the first one can’t, but you might be able to do “show int status”.

  26. TO
    January 9th, 2020

    @CCNPNow/GG/Flode – I’m a bit confused on what CCNPNow said on his first ticket. I understand that the “show port-security” would show the ports as shutdown, but the “show ip int br” would show the interfaces as up. The answer is a bit confusing. Is this the DHCP helper ticket, where the issue is with DSW1 having a wrong DHCP Helper IP address? What is with the “no shut” on fa1/0/1? Was that meant for a different ticket? If the “show ip int br” shows as “up”, then you wouldn’t need to “no shut” the interfaces because they are already up.

    I missed this question on the test. I saw an APIPA and immediately did a “show port”, I saw the interfaces were shutdown and answered as such…. I know now to double-check.

    It sucks that we have to do that. In a REAL environment, if the “show port-security” shows port as “shutdown” they are ACTUALLY shut down!!!!!!! Stupid how Cisco throws in these bugs on the test.

  27. Mofr2
    January 9th, 2020

    Passed today, thanks networktut.com. Premium account is very good and helpful.

  28. SFL
    January 9th, 2020

    @TO – In which case the best strategy seems to be to check to see if Client1 has an IP address and if it doesn’t, immediately check the IP helper-address.

    If the IP helper-address is not what it should be, then that is the answer. If it is, then carry on troubleshooting the layer 2 possibilities.

    I am basing this on the assumption that Cisco wouldn’t put two problems in the same ticket!

  29. TO
    January 9th, 2020

    @SFL – Yeah, I heard that from people that there are two issues on one ticket. Only one is correct, but there are multiple issues.

  30. MD
    January 9th, 2020

    pass today with 9xx/1000, everything as of November update!
    big special thanks to @ networktut.com

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