ROUTE. SWITCH. TSHOOT.
You would possibly recall that again in 2010, the very talked-about CCNP Routing & Switching certification included these three exams. Quick ahead to at this time, and I nonetheless bear in mind TSHOOT fondly. The examination was a very new expertise: After answering a number of multiple-choice questions, you have been offered with a collection of bother tickets and needed to decide what was damaged in a posh community, the place the problem was situated, which expertise wanted to be mounted, and which instructions to deploy to resolve the problem. This was correct troubleshooting, and the examination truly examined your information of Cisco routing and switching applied sciences. Cisco even publicly shared the community topologies used within the TSHOOT examination that will help you put together.
I bear in mind taking the TSHOOT examination a number of instances to recertify my CCNP R&S. I used to be educating ROUTE, SWITCH, and TSHOOT programs for studying companions but in addition at an area Networking Academy. My NetAcad college students loved the problem of fixing these advanced community points as they consolidated their routing and switching expertise.
In 2020, Cisco Studying & Certifications retired the previous CCNP Routing & Switching certification and launched the CCNP Enterprise, changing ROUTE, SWITCH, and TSHOOT with the brand new ENCOR and ENARSI exams and programs. Curiously, the present ENARSI examination matters embrace a number of ātroubleshootingā duties, making it a strong contender for changing TSHOOT, however ENARSI additionally serves because the substitute for ROUTE because it covers superior routing matters.
Though I like ENCOR and ENARSI, I (and plenty of others) miss the TSHOOT examination and course.
Once I joined Cisco in 2021, I proposed a Cisco Stay session based mostly on my TSHOOT educating expertise. I designed a posh IPv4 and IPv6 community and created 27 bother tickets for attendees to repair throughout a four-hour instructor-led lab. The lab has been so well-liked that over the previous three years Iāve offered it 9 instances at Cisco Stay occasions, with a tenth and eleventh developing at Cisco Stay Amsterdam in February 2025.
You could be questioning āPatrick, why are you telling me all this?ā
Nicely, Iāve acquired some thrilling information to share. WEāVE DECIDED TO BRING BACK THE TSHOOT COURSE!!!!!! Weāve up to date the content material, renamed it, and made it obtainable on Cisco U. for All Entry subscribers!
The brand new studying path is named Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise Networking Options (ENTSH) and consists of two tracks. The primary monitor covers troubleshooting methodologies and procedures in addition to finest practices for community upkeep. The second monitor is damaged down into 5 case research that require you to resolve bother tickets logged by your colleagues at fictitious corporations.
The case research seem like this:
On Monday, you arrive at your office at SECHNIK Networking Ltd. 4 staff let you know that all the pieces labored superb on Friday, however now they’re dealing with points. Because the senior engineers are all out, it appears that you’re the one one on website who can repair the next points:
- Kimberly, the person on PC1, can’t entry knowledge on the server at 172.16.200.10.
- Andrew, the person on PC2, can’t entry the Web. Andrew is attempting to entry the general public server at 209.165.200.2.
- Carol, the person on PC3, can’t use SSH to connect with the server at 172.16.200.10.
- Jack, the person on PC4, says he desires to entry the Web by means of IPv6. Jack provides that as a result of Andrew has entry, so ought to he.
Every case research revolves round a distinct community infrastructure and can take a look at your information of VLANs, trunks, STP, EtherChanel, FHRPs, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, NAT, ACLs, SSH, IP SLAs, route redistribution, DHCP, NTP, and AAA.
The labs for ENTSH are solely virtualized and spin up inside three minutes, permitting you to rapidly get began together with your studying. Every lab features a debrief that analyzes and explains the difficulty tickets. These debriefs enable you to perceive finest resolve the problems customers report.
When youāre fascinated with seeing a demo of ENTSH, take a look at the Snack Minute we are going to launch February 18, 2025, during which I’ll present Kareem Iskander and Matt DeNapoli what the brand new studying path appears like.
When youāre planning on attending Cisco Stay in Amsterdam or San Diego, you may register for my CCNP Enterprise Fingers-On Troubleshooting lab (LTRCRT-2002) and see what number of bother tickets you may repair in 4 hours!
Take a look at the brand new Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise Networking Options (ENTSH) studying path on Cisco U., and study to troubleshoot like a professional!
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