From: Westmoreland, Alexis (Alexis.Westmoreland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Dec 26 2000 - 20:28:37 GMT-3
I apologize for taking so long to send this but.....
I passed on my 2nd attempt in RTP on Dec. 15th!!!
My experience;
I passed my written in April of 2000. Got a date for my 1st try in August. I
started studying and made my 1st attempt. I knew that I was not quite ready,
but made the attempt anyway. I had a problem with one technology and spent
too much time on it because I thought that I could get it working. I should
have moved on.
On the morning of Dec. 14th I arrived to the lab site at 8:00 am. I sat in
my car doing some last minute reviews until 8:15. I was scheduled to start
at 8:30. Little did I know that they were waiting for me to get started.
This time I was at RTP's new location. The proctor spent a few minutes
going over the equipment and telling us what to expect. Then we were
assigned a station. By the time we broke for lunch, I was somewhat
optimistic. I was having a problem with one technology just like before.
However, this time I decided to leave it and go on with everything else. I
finished with everything else at around 2:00. Then I worked on my problem.
Got it working around 3:30 or 4:00. I used the rest of the time to save
configs, even though I did that through out the day, then I rechecked my
work. I left feeling pretty good about going on.
On Dec. 15th, I arrived and found out that I had enough points to go on. We
were given our 2nd day books. It started with 5 in our group. 2 of us had
enough points to go on. I had just enough time to complete before we had to
break for lunch. As we waited, in the waiting room, I got more and more
nervous. I had completed everything, but did not have time to do much
testing. Finally, we were called individually to find if we had enough
points to go on to troubleshooting. Again I had enough to go in to
troubleshooting. The other guy did not have enough points as he suspected.
Then, I had to wait some more for the proctor to break my network. It was
the most nerve racking wait in the world. Finally after troubleshooting I
got my #. I was numb with shock leaving the lab with my # on yellow post-it
note.
Thanks
Alexis A. Westmoreland
(713 )852-5402
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