From: Ron Trunk (rtrunk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Jul 06 1999 - 09:55:56 GMT-3
Brian,
Is it proper to say congratulations for a good try?
Thanks for your insights. I do have one question though:
You said you only got a score in the high 20's which didn't get you past the
first day.
Bu t you arrived late to the second day. Does that mean they didn't score
your first day's work until the second day?
If so, how did you feel when you finished the first day? Did you think you
passed? Were there things on the test that you thought you had completed
correctly, but found out you hadn't? I guess I'm trying to say, were you
surprised by your results?
Thanks again for your thoughts,
Ron
(2 weeks and counting)
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Van Benschoten <vader@inxpress.net>
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Date: Monday, July 05, 1999 11:18 AM
Subject: My first attempt
>fell a bit short. I ended up in the high 20's. I needed 30 out of the
>possible 45 to get past the first day.
>
>There's a few things I can share with you regarding the test that wont
>violate the rules.
>
>I took my test in San Jose.
>
>The email I received from Janet Swain stated that the lab would run from
>9:00 am to 6:00 PM. THIS IS NOT TRUE. The lab ran from 9:00 am to 5:00
>P.M.. with a 1/2 hour lunch. The lab guide stated that the lab was 7.5
hours
>long. The proctor stated that "around 5 I will remind you to save your
>configs". No one really explicitly stated that the stop time was 5:00
P.M..
>I was preoccupied and nervous, perhaps I should have paid better attention.
>I would encourage you all to get the proctor to tell you the exact stop
>time. Needless to say, I planned my strategy around a 6:00 P.M. stop time.
>I ran out of time. I think another 15 minutes would have done it for me.
>
>I asked the proctor why the time difference? She stated that the times are
>stated to assist in flight scheduling and allow for a minor hardware
failure
>during the lab.
>
>Now the best part...
>
>I got to the first day 1.5 hours early. (My hotel was about 10 miles away)
>so the second day I planned how much time I needed for travel and set off.
>There was an accident on the freeway and I arrived 5 minutes late. The
>group had already been let back in to the lab. I told the receptionist
that
>I was there for the lab. She stated that the proctor would be out in a
few
>minutes to get me. I asked the receptionist to call back to the lab or let
>me pass. She stated she would not call the proctor and would not let me
>pass due to security reasons. Well, 25 minutes passed. she left the
>proctor a voice mail message. I knew the proctor was busy starting the
next
>group of students on the first day lab and talking to our group about our
>first day results. I'm sure she was quite busy. So I called Cisco
security
>and asked them to escort me to the lab room. Which they did. I couldn't
>believe the attitude and lack of assistance the receptionist showed me. I
>paid 1000.00 to take the lab and was barely treated like a person. It was
>frustrating to say the least.
>
>Tips for the lab.
>
>TIME MANAGEMENT !
>
>In a real network you don't leave pieces undone. On the test you may need
>to if you are spending too much time on a section. Count the number of
>sections and divide by the time you have. This will give you a rough guess
>of how long you should spend per section. Skip things you don't know how
to
>do or take too much time. Get the points you need to pass to the second
>day. In general I found the material fairly easy, there is just alot of
it.
>
>Good luck to you all. I'll try again in a few months.
>
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