Best of luck next attempt. Thanks for sharing your experience. -Randy
On Mar 17, 2012, at 10:51 AM, "Ray Courtney" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
