General Tip

[Tony Olzak]

Group,   I wanted to share a simple thing I do that I thought really helped in my lab. I never got a lot of access to ATM gear, so here's what I did:   I used practice scenarios and the configuration guides for different versions of the IOS. Since I didn't have the actual gear, I tried to solve the scenarios using notepad alone. After a couple hours of doing this, I knew the IOS commands better than I ever would have before because I couldn't use the help menus.   When I got to the actual lab, I flew through my ATM section and everything worked perfectly.   I believe this to be a pretty good method for practicing any scenarios. Try doing the whole config with only notepad, and check it against the answers or if you have a home lab, paste in the configs to see how you did. You won't believe the impact it will have on your speed.   May sound stupid, but it works.   BTW- You DO have access to notepad in the lab.   Tony