From: Alex Dean (Alex.Dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Sep 25 1999 - 01:45:09 GMT-3
I have been dreaming of the day I could post this e-mail for quite a few
months now, so here goes... I passed my lab exam on Thursday in Sydney,
on my first attempt, so am a very happy man. Have re-introduced myself
to my family, and the sun is shining, couldn't ask for much more...
My thoughts are:
Do not lose site of the point here. You will not get a huge weighting
on something obscure, you will get a huge weighting on something
fundamental. So learn the basics so well that you will never forget
them. I got a few little obscure things in my exam but I had no
problems with them because I knew the basics so well by the time I got
there that it took me no time to configure them. This left me heaps of
time to research the other stuff on the CD and in the manuals.
And as other people have said - read the questions. All of them.
Before you start. I read everything twice and did a complete design on
paper before starting anything for real. In fact I didn't touch my
keyboard for the first 50 minutes.
And finally, this exam is achievable. I went in with the impression
that it would be so difficult that I was really just wasting my time,
depite having lived and breathed the suff for months. This is partly
due to the scary stories that get propagated around. I was almost
surprised when they asked me about TCP/IP and routing protocols, I think
I was expecting a 90 mark question on developing a regime for world
peace or something. So remember it is achievable, but don't get me
wrong, I am not saying it is easy.
Anyway, I am starting to ramble. I intend to stay on this list for a
little while at least and see if I can be of assistance to anyone.
Enjoy yourselves, after all there is more to life than routing (it is
so much easier to say that now ;-)
Cheers
Alex
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