Share your ENCOR v1.2 Experience

I think on the new exam there will be no WIRELESS Technologies question and it will be great if you (admin) remove all wireless related questions.
Thank you for the update!!

this is a good reddit post on diff between v1.1 and v1.2
https://www.reddit.com/r/ccnp/comments/1n6vz0b/encor_v11_v12_comparison_and_differences/

Good day fellas! For those who are taking their exam soon (v1.2), sharing your experience would be greatly appreciated. :)

From this reddit post: I figure it might get taken down by mods so pasting here:

This is not me so I cannot answer questions, if you have Q’s go to reddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ccnp/comments/1rymcka/ccnp_encor_v12_exam_advice_to_people_studying/

CCNP ENCOR v1.2 exam advice to people studying
Passed CCNP v1.2 Exam ! Some advice for CCNP students

I PASSED !! I think I studied for 2 months and 1 weeks from start to finish.

I accidentally didn’t save my config on one of the devices in one lab where there were alot of configs on two devices —- noooo so I thought I’d fail the exam but I didn’t.

And alot of the questions I was second guessing myself cause they make it like that

Labs:

fix etherchannel on one device so it can go up. STP config

Multi area OSPF configuration and summarisation

eBGP – this one involved alot of subnetting as it had a huge number of loopback and physical addresses to advertise – wasn’t hard just time consuming.

One lab had many things to configure on a router and switch: 1. Local SPAN, IP SLA, flexible netflow,

VRF , tunnelling , static routing so traffic from both vlans go over the tunnel

Fix ACL so that it permit OSPF any any without deleting anything , configure CoPP to do XYZ

Then 53 questions after that – lots of drag and drops for python, Json, EEM scripts and drag and drops for ansible,puppet,chef,saltstack. (Those config management tools drag and drops were easy tbh)

There was a mention of Fabric WLC for SD-access

Mostly easy one liner questions for SD access, SD wan, LISP, VXLAN about the components which was easy.

There were 2 very hard python code snippets but perhaps I got it right that didn’t relate to json or networking at all

Lots of questions on next generation firewalls

Id say there’s heaps of config snippets and you gotta perform troubleshooting and answer why the output says XYZ and what you need to do to correct it . And also loads of code / script snippets.

For python/json: Know dump, dumps, load, loads , JSONEncoder().encode(data), JSONDecoder().decode(data) Working with files – reading and writing to them ( with open , )

Python loops, for loops, format functions

There was a screenshot of a rest API POST request on postman – there was an error and you had to say what you would do.

Honestly this version of encor is not as scary as it seems tbh. This is honestly what Encor should be not the 5+ chapters of wireless crap.

I was more scared about CCNA tbh as it was my first cert. But if you come from CCNA and then do CCNP Encor, you’ll be okay.

Study materials used:

Arash deljoo CCNP Encor course + labs + quizzes (course content)

interactive active recall quizzes on notebookLM and Gemini AI by using pdf of OCG book and also another notebook for all of the white papers. Keep generating more and more quizzes.

I didn’t read OCG, I learnt better by video and doing. I just used a PDF of OCG for uploading to AI.

CCNP encor safeguard plus ( comes with many full labs and questions – highly recommend) the questions seem very similar to real exam.

boson EXSIM – honestly I just did the labs over and over on that . I didn’t really do any quiz questions from it.

Pearson free exams that come with pdf – I used this a little, it’s okay . I got the pdf of OCG for free so I just used the exams for free too.

NO INE USED

didn’t read OCG tbh – however Arash course covers all of the ocg book plus alot more .

And I used the OCG PDF to help generate interactive active recall quizzes in notebookLm and Gemini AI .

I also used all of the whitepapers in another notebook to use for interactive active recall quizzes too

(You can reference your notebook in Gemini AI To generate endless questions )

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I was surprised at how many one liner question and answers there were but they are not all like that! lots of logs and configuration reading and things to change.

I will have the exam next month and I was already sure on all topics, now this change..

@Frodo

There where some questions / labs from premium ?

@Milky see 2nd line of my post and follow the link. Info is from a Non Digital Tut member.

I don’t see ENCOR V1.2 Questions, Or do I need resubscribe to get those V1.2 Questions? or just continue study ENCOR V1.1 Questions ?

(This is from a Reddit post 2 days ago)

Yes, I took it this morning and passed! (third try for ENCOR). Overall it seemed very similar to the old. Wireless was completely removed, I didn’t even see wireless mentioned once. The labs were similar to the previous exam, pretty simple and nothing to head scratching.

It did seem like they filled out the missing wireless questions with the other topics that weren’t covered in the labs, but it did seem like the same amount of automation/SDN/Python (which was heavy on the previous tests). I’ll say this, I don’t think I got a single route/switch question outside of the labs.

I considered making a whole post about my experience, but like everyone else says on this sub, much like before, it’s still VERY heavy on SDN/Python/API calls/ and automation in general

@digitaltut.. Would it be possible to remove all the wireless questions so that we don’t get them in the quiz pools?

Do we have a date estimation of the labs, drag and drop and question will be posted on this platform?

I think its best to be patient for now. Since V1.2 just release.. So it take some time to get new sets of question.

As for now best use 1.1 to understand the concept than hard memorize..

I’m cooked… I had already signed up for my exam the first week of April without knowing they were going to change it. Some comments have said not much changed except wireless questions removed and the labs are all the same and all the other questions are the same. So I’m still studying all this content from v1.1 and hoping for the best…

@Cooked .. See if you can reschedule it.. i do believe you can reschedule if you give them 24 hours notice..

Else just do your best to understand the concept.. I wish you the best.

@Rob I would but unfortunately my cert expires next month as well… so its do or die for me :D

@Cooked pls share ur experience doing the exam, I also must do it within a month!!

@Cooked good luck with your exam. :)

@Cooked, you can take a cisco boot camp that will give you CE’s to recert without taking the test.

Took the exam today. Got 56 questions, 6 Labs. They just removed the wireless section.
Got so many questions related to automation/json/python/ansible.
Study automation drag and drop questions.

Took the exam and passed today. I got 53 questions and 6 Labs;

All labs are on this platform and most question are from v1.1.
Need to study Automation a lot

@panicmode @Jikinya Many Thanks for letting us know.

@digitaltut, please remove old encor stuff.

sounds like cisco replaced the wireless questions with more automation questions.

I just took the exam, and passed!

6 Sims with 52 questions from the different pools in digitaltut

VRF Configuration Sim
eBGP Neighbor Sim 2
OSPF Summarization Sim with /19 summarization variant
LACP & Root Bridge Sim
NetFlow Sim 2
Access-list & CoPP Sim version 2 with 8000 bps variant

test was heavy on SDWAN, SDA, and Automation and JSON

@error404 all those 52 questions and 6 Sims are from V1.1 Quesions Part 1 – 7 ?

I am Japanese and took the Japanese exam today, and I passed.
I’m providing feedback on the translated content.

Regarding the Japanese exam, as of March 27, there are still a large number of questions related to wireless technology.
This is likely because the translation of the exam content has not yet been fully updated.
Therefore, if you plan to take the exam soon, please be sure to study the wireless-related questions (covering the ENCORE v1.1 scope).

The exam consisted of six labs and 58 multiple-choice questions.
The lab content was as follows:
eBGP Sim2 (almost identical)
OSPF (using network commands instead of interface commands; /20 aggregation)
LACP & Root Bridge Sim (only minor differences)
NetFlow Sim 2 (only minor differences)
Access-list & CoPP Sim (OSPF ACL permit, Telnet CoPP)
VRF Sim 2 (only minor differences)

There were a significant number of wireless-related questions in the multiple-choice section.
(RSSI/SNR, AP mode, WLC, wireless authentication, roaming, etc.)
I also believe there were many questions related to automation and Catalyst Center.

Since I answered almost all of the simulation questions correctly, I feel confident that I passed.

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

How many questions are there in total, including the labs?

Has anyone passed the v1.2 after 20th March?

ok ladies, here is the breakdown. I genuinely passed the exam, some of these other comments about wireless still being part of the exam is a bunch of bollocks and i wanted to share some actual good info to help y’all out. (yes im just the best aren’t I).

I passed on the 28th of March, and would honestly say if you are planning to take the exam, take it now.
There were 6 labs at the very start,
OSPF Summarization with the network command not the interface command,
eBGP sumarization was almost identical to eBGP2,
Netflow Sim was a mix of 1 and 2. The first question about flexible netflow was completeing the exporter rather than applying monitor to the interface. (study both netflow labs)
VRF Configuration Sim 2,
Access-list & CoPP Sim was very very similar (i got the HTTP one)
For the LACP&Root Bridge Sim, the wording is a bit funky but it was quite similar. however, the trunk was not configured properly until you take out “sw access vlan …” from the “interface range …” i was stuck but figured it out by doing. “do show ip int trunk”. UNtil you get a result in this, your port-channel has not been configured properly. So make sure to check “do show run” constantly.

I’m gonna be honest, the test pools on this website is really good. A lot of questions and even some drag and drops were on it. However, there was a lot of question where i have not seen before (i’m honestly gonna say around 20+) or had different wordings to the questions you guys are probably practicing.
With 59 multiple choice questions that i got, there was so many where i had to make some educated guesses based on the knowledge i had from studying and memorizing teh questions on this website. AGAIN, ALL WIRELESS HAS BEEN REMOVED. there is no need to stress about these false comments saying wireless questions are still there. lowkey pmo before i took it, gave me false anxiety.
The questions area very SD-WAN, AUTOMATION – PYTHON, JSON, REST API, AGENTvsAGENTLESS, SECURITY concepts heavy.

To be honest, I didn’t get the greatest scores on Architecture, Security and Automation but got carried by the others. This tells me that, if you absolutely ace the labs, you are going to be fine getting some multiple choice questions incorrect. I honestly believe I got every lab 100% because I was struggling answering some of the multiple choice questions.

Final advice, memorize every answer in the v1.1 pools on this website. more than 50% of the multiple choice answers was the same.
For the 6 labs I mentioned, memorize it. Don’t rely on getting the concept. Memorize it to the point where you can do it blindfolded, it will save you so much time. I got all my labs done in 30 minutes and have 1:30hours to do the questions (yes i’m a genius aren’t I 😂😂😂)
Also don’t just memorize the 6 labs, look over the similar labs as well, because they lowkey mix it up. While you are memorizing, also understand the debug, traceroute, ping, and SHOW RUN. knowing exaclt where to look and what changes confirms your answer is crucial. DONT FORGET TO SAVE CONFIG.
Lastly, find CCNP chapter slides online and put relevant ones into AI to give you a good summary. Ask it to give you all the niche, minor information as well. Keep looking over these it will help.
When doing the multiple choice questions, for the code script questions, don’t go over any of them (even if you answer correct) without understanding the code.

These are just suggestions in what helped me. I’m very glad I found this site because it is most affordable with the best resources. I studied for 3 weeks on this site, just memoizing the labs and questions.
I do belive they are soon gonna introduce more and more new questoins along with changing the labs, so if you think you are ready, take it tomorrow. Hope this rant helps. Bye Bye. 😘

Please share more on v1.2

has anyone passed recently

Hey,

Can anyone confirm that question on v1.2 are come from part 4-7 (premium) ? Or u have to remember all 1-7 ?

True @digitaltut I noticed you renamed the 1-4 questions v1.2… does this mean you have updated the questions in those pools and that only those are in the v1.2 exam?

My CCNP is up for renewal in July. I’ve had it for 12 years and I’ve used digitaltut solely to renew it in the past 6 years. I found the last renewal the hardest due to the introduction of all the automation questions which I’ve no experience of. I more or less memorized those ones. Is using digitaltut solely an option to renew for v1.2 do you think?

has anyone written recently to confirm

to admins – will the Datacenter website be update to same as this ever ?? nothing there but a placeholder and scammers flooding share your experience page. time to move forward… its been many years of nothing there.

@CCNPerMarch

Just take 80 CECs to renew

I took the exam and passed!
I got 6 labs and 52 questions.

Access-list & CoPP Sim with 10000bps variant
OSPF Summarization Sim 2
eBGP Neighbor Sim 2
LACP & Root Bridge Sim
NetFlow Sim 2
VRF Configuration Sim 2

I would say maybe 15-20 questions were exactly as the ones from the pool. Others had other wording but similar question.
There were new questions for automations (try to understand when tu use dump, dumps, load, loads, etc and it will help you analyze the script). Somes for VRRP and GLBP. Learn how the leaders are selected,
There was one for QoS. Study for policing the concept of cir and pir.
For NAT understand how the inside and outside interfaces are selected and the concept of rotary.
How NSF with SSO works when the active goes down.
Definition of VM
How PBR works vs regular routing. Order of operations
There was a question on how to trigger an EEM script when the track state goes down

1 drag and drop for pim dense mode, one for ansible vs chef and configuration management vs orchestration

A question of a traceroute output and we had to tell why traffic was not working. In my case it was because of a loop

No wireless question. Only one with a WLC that a customer wants to deploy in the network that it’s deployed as SDA fabric but they don’t want the WLC to be added to the fabric —> Then they should use wireless over the top (ott)

Hi Guys!

I also had an exam on 2nd April and passed.

Labs were the same as presented on the website with little modifications like in the ACL lab I had to allow OSPF instead of EIGRP.

I’ve studied only from the premium’s sections 4-7. I have no idea whether the “new” questions were coming from the parts 1-3 or were completely new but it seems if you complete the labs for 100% and know about 40% of the answers for the Qs its enough to pass the exam. (Most likely I also had some luck :) )

Thank you for the feedback, @ccnp v1.2!

@ccnp v1.2
Did you mean just 15-20 questions from the Premium pool?

Took exam today and passed.. I was very nervous about the timing because of them changing to v1.2 but it was not much different than the v1.1 content on this site. I am sure the further along it goes, more stuff will change but as of now, it looked very similar to everything that is provided here for v1.1. So if you are on the fence about taking the exam, my suggestion is TAKE IT SOON before they change too many questions or even worse, any of the labs.

Lab Sims I got were all the same as on this page:
*OSPF Summarization Sim 2 – Asked me for /19 summary route, so make sure you know the concept and not just memorize the /18 way.
*eBGP Neighbor Sim 2 – You can look to see how eBGP was setup on the other routers to help if you forget.
*Netflow Sim 2 – I got version where you use preconfigured flow monitor. IP SLA had different requirements, but same config format as shown here.
*VRF Configuration Sim 2 – On mine, R22 was finished and I had to finish configs on R11. So have to think about it backwards but config format same.
*Access-list & CoPP Sim – I got the permit telnet version of this, which is different config format from the eigrp version, so make sure you know all versions!!
*LACP&Root Bridge Sim – My portchannel was 10 instead of 11, but same interfaces and config format.

I practiced these labs on the web GUI on this website (setting up the EVE-NG was too much work and I was short on time) The VRF and Netflow did NOT have the web GUI option, so I just practiced those commands and would put incremental, hidden parts of the lines of config in excel to simulate me typing “?” in CLI. Can also practice this on real gear if you have it available, but practicing the command on excel was fastest for me.

Had a few drag and drops questions. Saw 1-2 questions I have not seen before (probably were the trial questions they put in exams that don’t really count towards your score). I thought I had a wireless question but this could have fell into one of the other categories, but other than that, did not see any other wireless questions. Had maybe 2-3 multicast questions, thought I would see more to replace wireless, but didn’t. The majority of questions I saw were about Security, Automation and SD-WAN.

The topic specific questions towards the bottom on the right side seem to be older and so I did not focus on going over those. 99% of the questions I got came from the ENCOR v1.2 Questions parts 1 – 7, so definitely study all of those. I did the medium sized comp quizzes constantly until I was getting around 90% or higher each time. You will want to do this several times because the pool of overall questions is so high, you might get a lot of repeats, or not even get some of the questions. You can also quiz yourself on each part of questions, but I found the composite one more authentic, as it is just like on the exam.

1000% recommend getting premium membership here to help you prepare for your exam. It is a game changer.. Thank you @digitialtut for providing this content and please do not ever take this site down haha. See everyone in three years :D

sorry for the late reply, yes the pool of questions where from v1.1 1-7

MInor update the questions from the pool were completely based on SD-WAN, SDA and LISP, AUTOMATION – PYTHON, JSON, REST API, AGENTvsAGENTLESS, SECURITY concepts heavy.

There were no questions about wireless, with the exception of the ones that are related to SDA and WLC in SDA fabric. Other than this v1.1 pools 1-7 are good enough to pass the exam. If you completely avoid the wireless questions from the pools you should be fine.

I passed the exam today, thanks to digitaltut!

I had the same labs as what have others mentioned except for VRF Configuration Sim. I had the one with tunnel protection configuration and with minor differences.

Best of luck to all!

Thank you to everyone who takes the time to come back and share updates with us, as it is greatly appreciated. It really helps those of us facing tight deadlines and added pressure from new version uncertainty. Keep them coming and thanks you all again!

I passed the exam yesterday and yes thanks everyone guys for the advise and sharing your experiences, it helps a lot as my basis.

For the future examinee, just an advise don’t only memorize, still learn and study the concepts. The labs here was not the same, yes the figure the same but the requirement was different but it’s a little related that can help you as reference, study as much as you can, you’ll never know if it will change in the future. Honestly, I didn’t expect to be passed but I’m very thankful that I made it. Just a little suggestions, take it soon before they change too many questions or even worse, any of the labs.

Goodluck future examinees! :)

Hi Team, I took exam today and passed.

Drag & Drops remains the same.
Multiple Choice are heavy on automation with about 5 new questions.

Labs remains the same.

*eBGP Neighbor Sim 2
*VRF Configuration Sim 2
*Access-list & CoPP Sim
*LACP&Root Bridge Sim
*OSPF Summarization Sim 2 –
*Netflow Sim 2

@Kamo

Thank you for the Update Bro!

@error404 and others who have passed the exam recently, congratulations first of all. You mention that the questions come from v1.1 1-7. However I have premium membership and I only see v1.2 1-7 and ENCOR questions 4-11 (which I guess are v1.1)? Did you mean the questions came from v1.2 1-7 which have just over 500 questions in total?

Just wondering if I should also review the 500+ other questions on ENCOR questions 4-11 or whether v1.2 1-7 will be sufficient along with the sims?