OSPF - Check
Gone through Narbik’s OSPF labs. Went all good with most of them. Not much caught me out.. Just a few obscure commands… Like these:
max-metric router-lsa ! This guy advertises the largest metric so this router is the least preferred path through the network. Never used it before!
area x range xxxxx not-advertise ! to filter route updates as opposed to distribute lists
area x nssa translate type7 suppress-fa ! when converting to type5 LSAs makes the forwarding address 0.0.0.0 as opposed to the one in the type7 LSA
That’s about it really… Like I have mentioned previously, I am finding this stuff too easy for my liking. I dont know if it is because of the methodical nature of Narbik’s books or what. I am not that comfortable with this. I think I will go further through the books and when I’m done, so the Cisco Assessor lab to get my arse into a reality check. Hopefully I balls them up totally so I can see if my fears are realised… But if I do ok with them then I know I am doing something right! 
I love reading your blog and why? because it appears that we are working on identical technologies. lol. I am going through Narbik’s soup-to-nuts and finishing up OSPF today. I am so behind schedule but hopefuly I can put in few extra hours a night to get this done. Are you going through soup-to-nuts again or you are doing super lab?
I am going through the Advanced CCIE Routing & Switchjing Technology focussed lab books that Narbik gives you on the bootcamp. They are a bit more in depth than Soup-to-nuts and have a few more tricky things to deal with. Narbik gives you a strategy on the final day… Study programmes etc, and it revolves around his workbooks.
Thanks for bringing me back to reality. here I was thinking that there is SOMEONE who is as prepared as myself.. but boom nope.. I am way behind.. oh well.
Mate… life gets in the way. It’s called being an adult.
Don’t get down about it, just get on with it. Whenever you can