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There is an "enablement guide" for the netscaler exam, which lists all that you need to know.... I forget where I found it, but if you have problems, let me know, and I'll happily email you a copy.

A lot of the exam is command-line based, so gen up on that. Also try & remember the "figures" (max throughput of NS12000, max #ssl connections...), that might give you a couple of "free" marks.

Of course, you can always come on one of my courses (sorry, you have to PAY for that!)


Paul

If you went to one of the courses you should be good. I went to a course and then took the test, granted I've also worked on NetScaler for about 8 months. I passed the test without any problems. They do ask some command line stuff, and policies, overall though it wasn't too difficult.

Let me know what you think of the test when you take it.  I am also thinking about taking the test soon, and I want to get a feel for what I need to know.

Thanks!
Jeremy

The test is pretty much all scenario based. Get ready to read and think.. It's not hard at all if you've been working with the netscalers very long. Know how to write policy expressions, know your ports, understand everything about HA.. Just know what you’re doing and you will be fine..

What are you doing sub contracting through Citrix? Just curious why they are requiring you to get the cert.


Over all this one of the simplest certification test I've taken. I found the Access Gateway 8.0 test to be much harder.

I was lucky enough to only miss one question..

Here are some sample questions that might help:

1. An administrator should configure Link Aggregation on a NetScaler system when __________. (Choose the
correct option to complete the sentence.)
A. redundancy on a half duplex operation is required
B. redundancy on an operation across multiple data rates is required
C. network connections between LAN switches and network servers require more than 1Gb/sec
D. network connections between LAN switches and network servers require more than 8 Gb/sec

A company is planning on implementing NetScaler systems in High Availability pairs.
Which entry in the NS.CONF file of the secondary system needs to be unique from those of the primary system?
A. VMAC
B. Node ID
C. MIP address
D. NSIP address

Scenario: An administrator is configuring monitoring for web servers in the environment that often results in
services being marked as DOWN because of slow back-end servers. The administrator wants to configure the
virtual server and services so that existing connections stay open when a service is marked down but not when a
virtual server is marked DOWN.
How must the administrator configure the service and virtual server to reflect this dependency?
A. set lb vserver lbv1 -downStateFlush DISABLED
set service svc1 -downStateFlush ENABLED
B. set lb vserver lbv1 -downStateFlush ENABLED
set service svc1 -downStateFlush ENABLED
C. set lb vserver lbv1 -downStateFlush DISABLED
set service svc1 -downStateFlush DISABLED
D. set lb vserver lbv1 -downStateFlush ENABLED
set service svc 1 -downStateFlush DISABLED

In order to content switch browser-based requests based on the domain, which expression should an
administrator use?
A. HEADER Host == http://www.domain.com/
B. REQ.HTTP.URL contains www.domain.com
C. REQ.HTTP.URL == http://www.domain.com
D. REQ.HTTP.HEADER Host == www.domain.com

Which expression should an administrator use to drop all non GET and non POST requests?
A. REQ.HTTP.METHOD != GET || REQ.HTTP.METHOD != POST
B. REQ.HTTP.METHOD == GET || REQ.HTTP.METHOD == POST
C. REQ.HTTP.METHOD != GET && REQ.HTTP.METHOD != POST
D. REQ.HTTP.METHOD == GET && REQ.HTTP.METHOD == POST

Quote from: FishH20 on October 22, 2008, 01:07:18 PM

A company is planning on implementing NetScaler systems in High Availability pairs.
Which entry in the NS.CONF file of the secondary system needs to be unique from those of the primary system?
A. VMAC
B. Node ID
C. MIP address
D. NSIP address

Hmmm... I can see TWO things there that should be unique....   



But a nice set of questions, thanks for posting them! (I hope you don't mind, I've added them to my training slides)

Paul

Whats the answer??? :-)

I might start a thread with a daily question for some of you guys... You think we could pull together some kind of contest? Im about to start working on the APP Firewall cert and I think thats the one thats going to get me.. WE SHALL SEE!

Quote from: Paul B on October 23, 2008, 03:24:20 AM

Quote from: FishH20 on October 22, 2008, 01:07:18 PM

A company is planning on implementing NetScaler systems in High Availability pairs.
Which entry in the NS.CONF file of the secondary system needs to be unique from those of the primary system?
A. VMAC
B. Node ID
C. MIP address
D. NSIP address

Hmmm... I can see TWO things there that should be unique....   

Whats the answer??? :-)

D) The NSIP is always unique to the box. This is the IP used not only to manage the box, but by each box to talk to its HA partner

B) Each box in HA points to the other using a *unique* node id (typically "1" and "2". The box always sees itself as node 0)

Both of the above items are part of ns.conf... here's an example:

> set ns config -IPAddress xxx.227.240.58 -netmask 255.255.255.0
> set HA node -haStatus STAYSECONDARY -haSync DISABLED -haProp DISABLED
> add HA node 2 xxx.227.240.59

Other unique items include network interface configuration, and any VLAN configuration (this is because, whilst not recommended, you might have different models in an HA pair)


Paul

PS: I like the idea of having some daily questions. Can I suggest using 2 threads: one for just the questions, and a second for discussion and answers. That way, someone trying to learn could read the first thread, and would not get distracted by seeing the answer a couple of inches further down. Oh, and you have to let me add them to the stuff I give my students :-)

i agree with the idea of a question/anwer thread.....

....still haven´t the certification i have been so busy installing wanscalers, edgesights, xendesktops, vmware vdi´s and doing some presentaton server support (without certification of any of these, of course  )
.....

WanScaler is my next step!!