From: Robert Thompson (rthompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 23:54:34 GMT-3
Regards "Anything can be on the exam". When I took my lab I went in with
the assumption that if the equipment could be configured for it, then I
might get asked it. The only things I could rule out beforehand were things
like "no ATM because they haven't fitted ATM yet - as far as I know".
With the CCIE lab I didn't think the list of topics was complete, I
considered it a starting point. And while I never got asked on mine,
I had practiced various forms of tunneling/VPN.
That was my assumption, and I was not dissapointed. Obviously obsolete
things won't be on (e.g. EGP), bleeding edge won't, anything else is
fair game. There were things on my lab that I *really* didn't expect
and was saved because I'd prepared (things my friends who had done
their labs hadn't gotten - I think I got an uncommon lab). Fairest
exam I've ever had, if you deserved the title "Expert" you passed.
I really do love that zero-marking on the questions, means you get
it 100% right or you get zip.
Be ready for *anything* but if you do get something weird it will
be doable so long as you don't waste time. Be good with your configs,
able to cope with configuring things you haven't done before, have
a good understanding of the theory, troubleshoot well, don't panic
and you'll be through the lab in one go ^_^
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Robert Thompson, CCIE #4500, MCSE
Business Integration Solutions
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Australia
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Doug Hammond
> Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2000 14:58
> To: Brad Hedlund; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: VPN configuration URL
>
>
> I can relate to that Brian. Talk about being blindsided. Since
> this was the
> first I had heard of VPNs being on the exam, I cruised over to
> cisco's ccie
> site and looked at the blueprint again to make sure I hadn't missed
> anything. Hey, guess what? Not one word on vpn on the R&S exam, (although
> it was on ISP dial.) This strikes me as a cheap shot. Sure you
> can make the
> statement "Anything can be on the exam" but 8 points for something you
> didn't even know to look at? whew! SO, ATM, BGP, DLSW, OSPF, and Voice
> aren't hard enough they have to surprise you with random technologies?
>
> So am I missing something here? (other than a normal life or sanity?).
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brad Hedlund <BHedlund@LifeTimeFitness.com>
> To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 1:23 PM
> Subject: VPN configuration URL
>
>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I got a little bit scared when I heard there was CCIE test with 8 points
> of
> > VPN.
> > Loosing all of those point would almost garuntee failure. Im not sure
> what
> > the odds of getting that test will be, but I dont want to take any
> chances.
> >
> > I feel bad for the people who were caught by surprise from it.
> I would be
> > super bummed if it happened to me. (I wonder what other surprises await
> us
> > ?? )
> >
> > Nothing makes me learn better than $2000 of my own cash (exam fee +
> travel)
> > on the line.
> >
> > Knowing nothing at all about VPN's I started looking for information on
> CCO.
> > I found what I think is a good configuration guide.
> > Dont get too overwhelmed by all of the crypto lingo. Dont worry about
> > understanding it all.
> > Just go throught the configuration guide step by step and will begin to
> make
> > some sense.
> >
> > This is the URL: http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/105/IPSECpart1.html
> >
> > Read it all, dont just jump to the configuration examples.
> > Read it before you look at my configuration in the next email.
> >
> > -Brad
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