From: Claude-Vincent (claude_vincent@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Dec 25 2000 - 04:24:53 GMT-3
I have got similar experience as Ronnie Royston except the fact that I could
troubleshoot my config. within 30min.!!!!
Some silly mistakes, really stupid ones!!!! I suppose I can call it now
experience, isn't it? That was my first attempt in Tokyo last 14-15 Dec.
READ CAREFULLY THE QUESTIONS!! Your brain makes the difficulty. Sure.
In my scenario, I found 2 errors!!!! I just got "Gomenasai" from the
proctor. He doesn't speak english. As I am neither native english speaker
nor japanese, you can imagine the mess!
But the rack and computers are in a very good condition like new.
Everything's clean like Tokyo. I love it.
Claude-Vincent Perez
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Lennon" <andrew.lennon@nscglobal.com>
To: "Ronnie Royston" <RonnieR@globaldatasys.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2000 7:43 AM
Subject: RE: Summary of my Lab Experience
> Hi all,
>
> As someone who has been to both RTP and Brussels in the last six months, I
> found this rather interesting. . I think you may find this interesting
and
> maybe a little shocking...
>
> At Brussels, they have two labs, Asterix and Obelix. Each seats 6 people.
> Upon arriving, its grab a coffee time and sit and wait. The two proctors
> came in to the cafeteria at about 8.55 and shouted some names out and 6
went
> to one lab, and six went to the other. Upon entering . Asterix, I was
> surprised by the lack of equipment. Having been to RTP, I was expecting to
> be faced with half a dozen racks. The racks are all behind a closed door.
> Then I realised that I wouldn't be actually patching cables....
>
> Anyway. We started at 9, had 1/2hr lunch at 12.30 and started again at 1pm
> (all the passmarks/stats etc. are on a whiteboard for you - opposite of
> rtp!). Lunch was OK, it was allpaid for but there was a slight problem.
> When people were talking, I realised that there were only two scenarios
> being done. One in Asterix, and one in Obelix. I really felt for the guys
> who didnt have my lab as it was the one that I had had in RTP, and I know
> how hard it was!
>
>
> The real kicker was at 16.30. Hands down and leave! and wait. We were
marked
> that evening.
> I eventually went in at nearly 8pm. I made day 2 but I knew I didnt have
> enough to get to t/s. My final thought was "how much different it was".
The
> labs were the same, but the approach was a world away.
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Ronnie Royston
> Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2000 18:04
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Summary of my Lab Experience
>
>
> 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
>
> Didn't see any day 2 guys on both attempts, and I got to RTP at 8am!
>
> 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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