From: Chuck Church (cchurch@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sat Jan 13 2001 - 00:11:28 GMT-3
Entertaining? Pleasureable? You can't be serious. I thought my first day
today was about as pleasurable as running naked through a field of pricker
bushes. Not that I've ever done that, it just happens to be the most
unpleasurable thing I can think of right now.
Chuck Church
CCNP, CCDP, MCNE, MCSE
Sr. Network Engineer
Magnacom Technologies
140 N. Rt. 303
Valley Cottage, NY 10989
845-267-4000 x218
-----Original Message-----
From: Erick B. [mailto:erickbe@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 2:00 AM
To: Padhu (LFG); 'Tony Olzak'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: In defense of the lab...
I've been to the lab once and am going back soon. I
found it an entertaining and pleasureable experience
and wasn't stressed at all (Stress is for the birds!)
and had time. I didn't make the best use of it
(mistakes learned) but had a good strategy. I had some
issues with my termserv which ate up some time. I
think I would have made it if I was solid with LANE
and a few other things. I'm also doing the CCIE for
fun and am not going to kill my personal life or my
bank account on a home lab to get a certification.
The #1 lab strategy I recommend is to not touch any
equipment until you have read through the binder(s) a
few times when you get them, and have your network
drawn on paper in as much detail as possible. If you
have that the config will go a lot faster.
Erick
--- "Padhu (LFG)" <padhu@steinroe.com> wrote:
> not a complaint but however i think they can do a
> few things better ...
>
> Like a really nice big white sheet of paper , where
> we can neatly draw out
> and not worry
> space for fitting all protocol and all other info
> reqd ...
>
> a better pc with no sticky 1980 keyboards....
>
> CDROM drive that works at a "reasonable speed" ...
> one rarely would use
> ..however when u really wanna use its useless .
>
> We all know those 2 days are probably the worst
> stress test in life ...the
> last thing we
> wanna get frustrated about is all those silly things
> mentioned above ...
>
> cisco definetly has the money for fixing all the
> above ..donno why they
> aren't fixing it .
>
> Cheers,Padhu
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Olzak [mailto:aolzak@buckeye-express.com]
> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 2:32 PM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: In defense of the lab...
>
>
> On both of my CCIE lab attempts, I've heard people
> attack the format of =
> the lab. They usually go like this:
>
> "I think the whole thing is a crock! No network
> would ever be set up =
> that way and you wouldn't have all those
> restrictions. If I had enough =
> time and didn't have the restrictions I could get
> everything working."
>
> Yes, it's true that anyone, with enough time and no
> restrictions, could =
> get everything to work. However, this isn't called
> the Cisco Certified =
> PROFESSIONAL Lab--it's an EXPERT lab. That means you
> can take a bunch of =
> routers and make them do whatever is required, no
> matter how many =
> restrictions are placed upon you or how ugly the
> situation gets.
>
> Anyone can get routers to work, only experts can
> make them dance.
>
> Tony Olzak, CCIE #6689
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