A guide for the TSHOOT Exam

For the TSHOOTv2 exam we will encounter:

+ 2 Simlet (small troubleshooting sims)

+ Multiple Choice Questions
+ 12 Troubleshooting Tickets (check them at the right-side menu)

Below is a summary of 16 Tickets you will see in the exam:

Device Error Description

1. Access port not in VLAN 10
ASW1
2. Port Channel not allowing VLAN 10
1. HSRP track 10 (removed)
DSW1 2. VLAN filter
3. DHCP IP Helper-address (APIPA addresses on clients)
1. Wrong IP of BGP neighbor (removed)
2. NAT Outside misconfigured
R1
3. WAN access-list statement missing
4. OSPF Authentication
R2 1. IPv6: enable OSPF
R3 1. IPv6: remove ―tunnel mode ipv6‖
1. EIGRP – wrong AS (removed)
2. Redistribute Route-map
R4
3. EIGRP Passive Interface
4. missing Redistribution from RIPng to OSPFv3

Notice that in the exam, the tickets are randomly given so the best way to troubleshooting is to
try pinging to all the devices from nearest to farthest from the client until you don‘t receive the
replies.

In each ticket you will have to answers three types of questions:

+ Which device causes problem

+ Which technology is used
+ How to fix it

One more thing to remember: you can only use ―show‖ commands to find out the problems and
you are not allowed to make any changes in the configuration. In fact, in the exam you can not
enter the global configuration mode!

Multiple Choice Questions

http://www.networktut.com/multiple-choice-questions

Question 1

In which troubleshooting approach, you start troubleshooting from middle of OSI layer stack
and then either go up or down layer for further troubleshooting?

A. Bottom-up
B. Top-down
C. Divide-and-conquer
D. Follow-the-path

Answer: C

Question 2

Which two things should you check while troubleshooting uRPF? (Choose two)

A. uRPF enabled on interface

B. uRPF enabled global
C. CEF disabled
D. CEF enabled global
E. Strict or loose mode configured global

Answer: A D

Question 3a

Which access-list allows SSH access from network 10.10.15.0/24?

A. Access-list 142 permit tcp 10.10.15.0 0.0.0.255 any eq 21

B. Access-list 142 permit tcp 10.10.15.0 0.0.0.255 any eq 23
C. Access-list 142 permit tcp 10.10.15.0 0.0.0.255 any eq 22
D. Access-list 142 permit tcp 10.10.15.0 0.0.0.0 any eq 22

Answer: C

Or

Question 3b

Securing control plane on R1 connected via SSH to the network 10.10.0.0/16. You should
choose right answers and place in right configuring order. Not all options will be used.
Answer:

Sequence 1:
access-list X permit tcp 10.10.0.0/16 eq 22 any estab
access-list X permit tcp 10.10.0.0/16 any eq 22

Sequence 2:
class-map match-all SSH
match access-group X

Sequence 3:
Policy Y
Class SSH

Sequence 4:
Control plane
service-policy input Y

Question 4

What could be reason for GRE Tunnel interface in up/down state? (Choose two)

A. GRE tunnel mode is set to transport mode

B. Tunnel source is in down state
C. Route to tunnel destination points to tunnel interface itself

Answer: B C

Question 5
Which are valid AAA authentications methods? (Choose two)

A. Line
B. Krb6
C. LDAP
D. Local
E. Blowfish

Answer: A D

Question 6

Refer to the exhibit.

Which commands required to setup GRE tunnel between R2 & R3? (Choose two)

A.
R2:
interface tunnel 1
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.252
tunnel source 192.168.1.1
tunnel destination 192.168.2.3

B.
R3:
interface tunnel 1
ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.252
tunnel source g0/0
tunnel destination 192.168.1.1

Answer: A B

Question 7

While troubleshooting you noticed *** as output of traceroute command. What is the reason for
that?

Answer: Probe is timed out.

Question 8

Drag drop question about MPP.

Answer:

Constructing the CoPP Policy

For CoPP policy construction, several steps are required to create the MQC classification and
policing functions. These include: access-list construction, class-map construction, and finally,
policy-map construction.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/about/security-center/copp-best-practices.html

Question 9

Drag Drop question about four valid debug commands on switch (Choose four)

A. debug hsrp
B. debug glbp errors
C. debug ip igmp snooping
D. debug ip interface route-cache
E. debug spanning-tree mstp init

Answer: B C D E

Question 10

Drag and drop question. Choose and place in the right order headers when monitoring GRE
packet

A. Destination tunnel IP header

B. Source tunnel IP header
C. GRE header
D. Original destination IP header
E. Original source IP header
F. Data

Answer: B -> C -> E -> F

Simlet
BGP Sim
http://www.networktut.com/bgp-sim

Loopback0 is used for IBGP peering while physical interface address is used for EBGP.
Identify the IBGP issues on R1 to R2, R3 and EBGP issues to RA and fix them so that the
―show ip bgp‖ command on R1 will display all loopback interfaces of other routers.
Configs on R1:

This lab is for BGP only so we only need to check BGP section

R1#show running-config
—-output omitted—-
router bgp 64520
neighbor IBGP peer-group
neighbor IBGP remote-as 64550
neighbor IBGP update-source loopback0
neighbor 172.16.2.2 peer-group IBGP
neighbor 172.16.3.3 peer-group IBGP
neighbor 209.165.200.2 remote-as 64525

—-output omitted—-

HSRP Sim
Refer to the topology. Your customer network is using HSRP but it does not appear to be
operating properly. They have contacted you to provide solutions for their problems
Note: The problems in the exam may be different so please grasp the concept well.

Question 1

Your customer have reported that when the link between R1 and R5 is down, they notice that
the active router for HSRP group 1 has not failed over to the standby router for group 1. Identify
the problem.

A. An HSRP group track command is misconfigured

B. An HSRP group priority is misconfigured
C. An HSRP authentication is misconfigured
D. An HSRP group number is mismatched
E. This is not an HSRP problem; this is routing problem.

Answer: A

Question 2

The following debug messages are noticed for HSRP group 2. But still neither R1 nor R2 has
identified one of them as standby router. Identify the issue.
Note: only show commands can be used to troubleshoot the ticket.
R1#
HSRP: Et1/0 Grp 2 Hello out 172.16.20.2 Active pri 100 vIP 172.16.20.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello out 172.16.10.2 Active prj 130 vIP 172.16.10.254
R1#
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello in 172.16.10.1 Standby pri 100 vIP 172.16.10.254
R1#
HSRP: Et1/0 Grp 2 Hello out 172.16.20.2 Active pri 100 vIP 172.16.20.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello out 172.16.10.2 Active pri 130 vIP 172.16.10.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello in 172.16.10.1 Standby pri 100 vIP 172.16.10.254
R1#
HSRP: Et1/0 Grp 2 Hello out 172.16.20.2 Active pri 100 vIP 172.16.20.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello out 172.16.10.2 Active pri 130 vIP 172.16.10.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello in 172.16.10.1 Standby pri 100 vIP 172.16.10.254
R1#
HSRP: Et1/0 Grp 2 Hello out 172.16.20.2 Active pri 100 vIP 172.16.20.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello in 172.16.10.1 Standby pri 100 vIP 172.16.10.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello out 172.16.10.2 Active pri 130 vIP 172.16.10.254
R1#
HSRP: Et1/0 Grp 2 Hello out 172.16.20.2 Active pri 100 vIP 172.16.20.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello in 172.16.10.1 Standby pri 100 vIP 172.16.10.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello out 172.16.10.2 Active pri 130 vIP 172.16.10.254
R1#
HSRP: Et1/0 Grp2 Hello out 172.16.20.2 Active pri 100 vIP 172.16.20.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello out 172.16.10.2 Active pri 130 vIP 172.16.10.254
HSRP: Et0/0 Grp 1 Hello in 172.16.10.1 Standby pri 100 vIP 172.16.10.254

A. HSRP group priority misconfiguration

B. There is an HSRP authentication misconfiguration
C. There is an HSRP group number mismatch
D. This is not an HSRP issue: this is DHCP issue.
E. The ACL applied to interface is blocking HSRP hello packet exchange

Answer: E

Question 3

The routing table of R4 shows no entries for 172.16.10.0/24 and 172.16.20.0/24. Identify which
of the following is the issue preventing route entries being installed on R4 routing table?

A. HSRP issue between R4 and R2

B. This is an OSPF issue between R4 and R2
C. This is a DHCP issue between R4 and R2
D. The distribute-list configured on R4 is blocking route entries
E. The ACL configured on R4 is blocking inbound traffic on the interface connected to R2

Answer: D

Question 4
Router R5 do not see any route entries learned from R4; what could be the issue?

A. HSRP issue between R5 and R4

B. There is an OSPF issue between R5 and R4
C. There is a DHCP issue between R5 and R4
D. The distribute-list configured on R5 is blocking route entries
E. The ACL configured on R5 is blocking traffic for the subnets advertised from R4.

Answer: C

Ticket 1 – OSPF Authentication

1.Client is unable to ping R1‘s serial interface from the client.

Problem was disable authentication on R1, check where authentication is not given under router
ospf of R1. (use ipv4 Layer 3)

Configuration of R1:

interface Serial0/0/0
description Link to R2
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.252
ip nat inside
encapsulation frame-relay
ip ospf message-digest-key 1 md5 TSHOOT
ip ospf network point-to-point
!
router ospf 1
router-id 1.1.1.1
log-adjacency-changes
network 10.1.2.0 0.0.0.255 area 12
network 10.1.10.0 0.0.0.255 area 12
default-information originate always
!

Configuration of R2:
interface Serial0/0/0.12 point-to-point
ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.252
ip ospf authentication message-digest
ip ospf message-digest-key 1 md5 TSHOOT
!

Answer: on R1 need command “ip ospf authentication message-digest‖

Ans1) R1
Ans2) IPv4 OSPF Routing
Ans3) Enable OSPF authentication on the s0/0/0 interface using the ―ip ospf authentication
message-digest‖ command.

Ticket 2 – HSRP Track (removed)

HSRP was configured on DSW1 & DSW2. DSW1 is configured to be active but it does not
become active.

Configuration of DSW1:

track 1 ip route 10.2.21.128 255.255.255.224 metric threshold

threshold metric up 1 down 2
!
track 10 ip route 10.1.21.128 255.255.255.224 metric threshold
threshold metric up 63 down 64
!

interface Vlan10
ip address 10.2.1.1 255.255.255.0
standby 10 ip 10.2.1.254
standby 10 priority 200
standby 10 preempt
standby 10 track 1 decrement 60

Answer: (use IPv4 Layer 3 Topology)

On DSW1 interface vlan 10 mode, type these commands:

no standby 10 track 1 decrement 60
standby 10 track 10 decrement 60
(ip for track command not exact for real exam)

Note: 10.1.21.129 is the IP address of a loopback interface on R4. This IP belongs to subnet
10.1.21.128/27.

Ans1) DSW1
Ans2) HSRP
Ans3) delete the command with track 1 and enter the command with track 10 (standby 10 track
10 decrement 60).

Note: For more information about IP route tracking and why the command ―threshold metric up
63 down 64″ is used here please read this tutorial: http://networktut.iptut.com/hsrp-ip-route-
tracking.

Ticket 3 – BGP Neighbor (removed)

Problem: Client 1 is able to ping 209.65.200.226 but can‘t ping the Web Server 209.65.200.241.
Configuration of R1:
router bgp 65001
no synchronization
bgp log-neighbor-changes
network 209.65.200.224 mask 255.255.255.252
neighbor 209.56.200.226 remote-as 65002
no auto-summary

check bgp neighborship. **** show ip bgp sum****

The neighbor‘s address in the neighbor command is wrong under router BGP. (use ipv4 Layer
3)

Answer: need change on router mode on R1 neighbor 209.65.200.226

Ans1) R1
Ans2) BGP
Ans3) delete the wrong neighbor statement and enter the correct neighbor address in the
neighbor command (change ―neighbor 209.56.200.226 remote-as 65002″ to ―neighbor
209.65.200.226 remote-as 65002″)

Ticket 4 – NAT Outside

Configuration of R1
ip nat inside source list nat_pool interface s0/0/1 overload

ip access-list standard nat_pool

permit 10.1.0.0
permit 10.2.0.0
!
interface Serial0/0/1
ip address 209.65.200.225 255.255.255.252
ip nat outside
!
interface Serial0/0/0.12
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.252
ip nat outside
ip ospf message-digest-key 1 md5 TSHOOT
ip ospf authentication message-digest

Ans1) R1
Ans2) NAT
Ans3) Under interface Serial0/0/0.12 delete the ―ip nat outside‖ command and add the ―ip nat
inside‖ command.

Ticket 5 – R1 ACL
Client is not able to ping the server. no one can ping the server.
Problem:on R1 acl blocking ip
Configuration on R1

interface Serial0/0/1
description Link to ISP
ip address 209.65.200.224 255.255.255.252
ip nat outside
ip access-group edge_security in
!

ip access-list extended edge_security

deny ip 10.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
deny ip 172.16.0.0 0.15.255.255 any
deny ip 192.168.0.0 0.0.255.255 any
deny 127.0.0.0 0.255.255.255 any
permit ip host 209.65.200.241 any
!

Answer: add permit ip 209.65.200.224 0.0.0.3 any command to R1‘s ACL

Ans1) R1
Ans2) IPv4 Layer 3 Security
Ans3) Under the ip access-list extended edge-security configuration add the permit ip
209.65.200.224 0.0.0.3 any command

Note:
+ This is the only ticket the extended access-list edge_security exists. In other tickets, the
access-list 30 is applied to the inbound direction of S0/0/1 of R1.
+ Although host 209.65.200.241 is permitted to go through the access-list (permit ip host
209.65.200.241 any) but R1 cannot ping the web server because R1 cannot establish BGP
session with neighbor 209.65.200.226.

Ticket 6 – VLAN filter

Client 1 is not able to ping the server. Unable to ping DSW1 or the FTP Server(Use L2
Diagram).

Vlan Access map is applied on DSW1 blocking the ip address of client 10.2.1.3

Configuration on DSW1
vlan access-map test1 10
action drop
match ip address 10
vlan access-map test1 20
action drop
match ip address 20
vlan access-map test1 30
action forward
match ip address 30
vlan access-map test1 40
action forward
!
vlan filter test1 vlan-list 10
!
access-list 10 permit 10.2.1.3
access-list 20 permit 10.2.1.4
access-list 30 permit 10.2.1.0 0.0.0.255
!
interface VLAN10
ip address 10.2.1.1 255.255.255.0

Ans1) DSW1
Ans2) VLAN ACL/Port ACL
Ans3) Under the global configuration mode enter no vlan filter test1 vlan-list 10 command.

Note: After choosing DSW1 for Ans1, next page (for Ans2) you have to scroll down to find the
VLAN ACL/Port ACL option. The scroll bar only appears in this ticket and is very difficult to
be seen. Also make sure you choose DSW1 (not ASW1) for the first question as there is also
"VLAN ACL/Port ACL" option for answer 2 if you choose ASW1 but it is wrong.

Ticket 7 – Port Security (removed)

Client 1 is unable to ping Client 2 as well as DSW1. The command ‗sh interfaces fa1/0/1′ will
show following message in the first line
‗FastEthernet1/0/1 is down, line protocol is down (err-disabled)‘

On ASW1 port-security mac 0000.0000.0001, interface in err-disable state

Configuration of ASW1
interface fa1/0/1
switchport access vlan 10
switchport mode access
switchport port-security
switchport port-security mac-address 0000.0000.0001

Answer: on ASW1 delele port-security & do on interfaces shutdown, no shutdown

Ans1) ASW1
Ans2) Port security
Ans3) In Configuration mode, using the interface range Fa1/0/1 – 2, then no switchport port-
security, followed by shutdown, no shutdown interface configuration commands.

Ticket 8 – Switchport VLAN 10

Configuration of ASW1
interface FastEthernet1/0/1
switchport mode access
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/2
switchport mode access
!

Answer:

Ans1) ASW1
Ans2) Access Vlans
Ans3) In Configuration mode, using the ‗interface range Fastethernet 1/0/1 – 2‘, then
‗switchport access vlan 10‘ command.

Ticket 9 – Switchport trunk

Configuration of ASW1
interface PortChannel13
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan 20,200
!
interface PortChannel23
switchport mode trunk
switchport trunk allowed vlan 20,200
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/1
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 10
shutdown
!
interface FastEthernet1/0/2
switchport mode access
switchport access vlan 10

Ans1)ASW1
Ans2)Switch to switch connectivity
Ans3)Under interface Port-Channel 13, 23, add vlan 10,200 and then no shutdown interface
fa1/0/1

Ticket 10 – EIGRP AS (removed)

Client 1 is not able to ping the Webserver
DSW1 can ping fa0/1 of R4 but can‘t ping s0/0/0.34
Check ip eigrp neighbors from DSW1 you will not see R4 as neighbor.(use ipv4 Layer 3)
‗Show ip route‘ on DSW1 you will not see any 10.x.x.x network route.

On DSW1 & DWS2 the EIGRP AS number is 10 (router eigrp 10) but on R4 it is 1 (router eigrp
1)

Answer: change router AS on R4 from 1 to 10

Ans1) R4
Ans2) EIGRP
Ans3) Change EIGRP AS number from 1 to 10

Ticket 11 – Redistribution Route-map

On R4:
router eigrp 10
redistribute ospf 1 route-map OSPF->EIGRP
network 10.1.4.0 0.0.0.255
network 10.1.10.0 0.0.0.255
network 10.1.21.128 0.0.0.3
default-metric 100000 100 100 1 1500
no auto-summary
!

route-map OSPF->EIGRP deny 10

match tag 90
route-map OSPF->EIGRP deny 20
set tag 110

Ans1) R4
Ans2) IPv4 Route Redistribution
Ans3) Change the ―route-map OSPF->EIGRP deny 20‖ to ―route-map OSPF->EIGRP permit
20‖

Explanation for this ticket:

In this topology, we are doing mutual redistribution at multiple points (between OSPF and
EIGRP on R4, DSW1 & DSW2), which is a very common cause of network problems,
especially routing loops so you should use route-map to prevent redistributed routes from
redistributing again into the original domain.

In this ticket, route-map is also used for this purpose. For example, the route-map
―EIGRP_to_OSPF‖ is used to prevent any routes that have been redistributed into OSPF from
redistributed again into EIGRP domain by tagging these routes with tag 90. These routes are
prevented from redistributed again by route-map OSPF_to_EIGRP by denying any routes with
tag 90 set.

Therefore in this ticket, typing a wrong route-map (which does not exist) may cause problem.
Ticket 12 – IPv6 OSPF
DSW1 & R4 can‘t ping R2‘s loopback interface or s0/0/0.12 IPv6 address.
R2 is not an OSPFv3 neighbor on R3
Situation: ipv6 ospf was not enabled on R2‘s serial interface connecting to R3. (use ipv6 Layer
3)

Configuration of R2
ipv6 router ospf 6
router-id 2.2.2.2
!
interface s0/0/0.23
ipv6 address 2026::1:1/122

Configuration of R3
ipv6 router ospf 6
router-id 3.3.3.3
!
interface s0/0/0.23
ipv6 address 2026::1:2/122
ipv6 ospf 6 area 0

Answer:

In interface configuration mode of s0/0/0.23 on R2:

ipv6 ospf 6 area 12

Ans1) R2
Ans2) IPv6 OSPF Routing
Ans3) on the serial interface of R2, enter the command ipv6 ospf 6 area 0 (notice that it is ―area
0″, not ―area 12″)

Ticket 13 – DHCP Helper-address

Note: Currently the link above is not up-to-date. We will update it soon.

Configuration on DSW1:

!
interface Vlan 10
ip address 10.2.1.1 255.255.255.0
ip helper-address 10.2.21.129
!

Note: In this ticket you will find port-security configured on ASW1 but it is not the problem.

Ans1) DSW1
Ans2) IP DHCP Server (or DHCP)
Ans3) on DSW1 delete ―ip helper-address 10.2.21.129‖ and apply ―ip helper-address
10.1.21.129‖ command

Ticket 14 – EIGRP Passive Interface

the neighborship between R4 and DSW1 wasn‘t establised. Client 1 can‘t ping R4
Configuration on R4:
router eigrp 10
passive-interface default
redistribute ospf 1 route-map OSPF->EIGRP
network 10.1.4.4 0.0.0.3
network 10.1.4.8 0.0.0.3
network 10.1.21.128 0.0.0.3
default-metric 10000 100 255 1 10000
no auto-summary

Answer 1) R4
Answer 2) IPv4 EIGRP Routing
Answer 3) enter no passive interface for interfaces connected to DSW1 under EIGRP process
(or in Interface f0/1 and f0/0, something like this)

Note: There is a loopback interface on this device which has an IP address of 10.1.21.129 so we
have to include the ―network 10.1.21.128 0.0.0.3″ command.

* Just for your information, in fact Clients 1 & 2 in this ticket CANNOT receive IP addresses
from DHCP Server because DSW1 cannot reach 10.1.21.129 (an loopback interface on R4)
because of the ―passive-interface default‖ command. But in the exam you will see that Clients 1
& 2 can still get their IP addresses! It is a bug in the exam.

Ticket 15 – IPv6 GRE Tunnel

Problem: Loopback address on R1 (2026::111:1) is not able to ping the loopback address on
DSW2 (2026::102:1).

Configuration of R3:
!
interface Tunnel34
no ip address
ipv6 address 2026::34:1/122
ipv6 enable
ipv6 ospf 6 area 34
tunnel source Serial0/0/0.34
tunnel destination 10.1.1.10
tunnel mode ipv6
!
Configuration of R4:
interface Tunnel34
no ip address
ipv6 address 2026::34:2/122
ipv6 enable
ipv6 ospf 6 area 34
tunnel source Serial0/0/0
tunnel destination 10.1.1.9
!

Answer:
Ans1) R3
Ans2) Ipv4 and Ipv6 Interoperability
Ans3) Under the interface Tunnel34, remove ‗tunnel mode ipv6′ command

Ticket 16 – IPv6 RIPng OSPFv3

Redistribution
Problem: Loopback address on R1 (2026::111:1) is not able to ping the loopback address on
DSW2 (2026::102:1).

Configuration of R4:
ipv6 router ospf 6
log-adjacency-changes
!
ipv6 router rip RIP_ZONE
redistribute ospf 6 metric 2 include-connected
!

Answer:
Ans1) R4
Ans2) Ipv6 OSPF Routing
Ans3) Under ipv6 ospf process add the ‗redistribute rip RIP_Zone include-connected‘ command