From: S.K. Chan (chn345@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Mon Dec 25 2000 - 11:49:24 GMT-3
Vincent
A question is langauage a barrier in Tokyo lab? Isn't true that knwoing
English only(no japanese)is good enough to
sit for the lab ?
Many Thanks
KS
----- Original Message -----
From: Claude-Vincent <claude_vincent@yahoo.com>
To: Andrew Lennon <andrew.lennon@nscglobal.com>; Ronnie Royston
<RonnieR@globaldatasys.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2000 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: Summary of my Lab Experience
> 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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