Hi Everyone, I've had a good think about my lab failure and I've worked out a few things.
Firstly the TS section is really hard. You press "Go" on the exam and suddenly you have gone from a mindset of having had a nice breakfast and pleasant walk to the Cisco office, and having to deal with nothing more complex than writing your name on the sign-in sheet, suddenly right into a very complex network nightmare with many routers and all sorts of overly-complex stuff going on with the clock ticking and your brain needs to get right up to speed ASAP. I got flustered here and wasted 20 minutes not having my windows organised properly, mis-typing commands and transposing DLCI's and IPs and then re-doing it all and I ran out of time and I failed to properly fix a few things - result: fail. I really think next time I'll get up 20 minutes earlier, fire up the laptop and mess about with GNS3 briefly, just to switch my brain into clever mode. The Config section was ok. There was a lot to do and it was almost all in the Cisco official syllabus, and IPX stuff. There was plenty of time to do it. I did leave out one question which was related to a serial link. I figured it was 3 marks down - end of story. The same link was involved in about 4 future questions though. Maybe I lost points on all those because the underlying link (although fully functional) was a different configuration - I would welcome a proctor's perspective here: Do you think that might have been the case - would the scripts merely have not seen this correctly? All in all I am genuinely pleased with myself that I could do everything there. I could do all the configurations and do them well. The problem was that I didn't do them perfectly. And that is the key - this is a really really easy exam to fail. In a work environment you would be fine but in the lab the tiniest little thing missing or not quite as required and your lovely network is worth zero points. So... I have learned that "good enough" is not good enough. I need to read and learn every single word of the Doc-CD. I need to work to the most exacting standards imaginable and read the questions really really carefully.. Next time I'll crack it. Ray On 16/03/12 11:36 PM, "Ray Courtney" <[email protected]> wrote: >An update... > >Look no numbers :( > >The scores are in and they are lower than I thought. Some are >surprisingly lower than I thought. A bit of a kick really, but the only >thing to do now is to take a couple of months to get some cash together >and raise my game even further and then go and crack it next time. > >There were others in the room on their 2nd, 3rd attempts. So it's a bit >of a shame to fail, but without shame in trying. > >Thanks for all your encouragement, next time I'll have better news. I >hope! > >Ray > > > _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com http://onlinestudylist.com/mailman/listinfo/ccie_rs
