From: Patrick Bikar (pbikar@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 19:51:06 GMT-3
Ronnie,
Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
Coming back to what you said :
>What will kill you is not knowing
>every layer 2 technology that Cisco supports well enough to configure it and
>tweak it, and routing.
I'm focusing on the "common" L2 technologies, such as FR, Eth, Tok, ppp,
atm,... however, I have no experience with HSSI, FDDI and SMDS (and other less
common L2 technologies) ...
Any advice ?
Patrick.
At 12:04 23/12/2000 -0600, Ronnie Royston wrote:
>For those of you who haven't been yet, here's what I saw. (I didn't pass,
>...this time - neither did anybody else)
>
>I went to RTP. Cisco has a campus of about 5 buildings, all facing a big
>open parking/park area. When I arrived to the right building, the door was
>locked just like every other door at Cisco and it was about 20 degrees,
>...damn! Anyway, there were three guys sitting in the reception area. A
>guy came in about 8:15 and grabbed those guys ( who were there for day 2).
>By 8:30 all of us day 1 guys were there. We were brought to the lab room.
>It was a big corner room on the first floor full of cubicles that stood
>about 3 feet high. Each cubicle had a rack of gear. The proctor gave us a
>very brief tour of the rack and walked us to our respective stations.
>
>The lab test was made up of many 2 point questions. You'll be given patch
>cables and have to wire up your rack appropriately. Under the pressure of
>the CCIE lab clock, I was uneasy about getting all of my layer 1-2 up, but,
>you'll figure it all out, I did in about 30 minutes, except for one thing,
>...crap!
>
>I believe that it is safe to say that you can expect to be asked to do
>things that you haven't done before. I was. That wasn't that bad though,
>if you believe, and hit "?" enough along with the command reference to
>double check, you'll get those points. What will kill you is not knowing
>every layer 2 technology that Cisco supports well enough to configure it and
>tweak it, and routing. I recommend that no matter how much you're missing,
>stop building at 4:00pm and start checking what you have built. You WILL
>find many simple mistakes that you will know how to fix. Do NOT build until
>5:00pm. Make yourself stop at 4:00, ping, telnet, show ip route, show dlsw
>peers. I sat there on day two after being failed and fixed more than half
>of what I got wrong in one hour.
>
>Good luck everybody and Happy Holdiays.
>
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