Hi Ray,
Thanks for sharing your experience. I have not taken my first attempt
and it is great to hear some experience from the lab.
Cheers,
Lukasz
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 17:51:31 -0000, Ray Courtney 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
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