From: Brian (signal@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 02:56:13 GMT-3
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Charles Huang wrote:
> Finally it's my turn to write my CCIE experience.
>
> I passed the lab this Monday, the 19th at San Jose. This is my first time
> taking the lab so I don't know how it is compare to the 2 day lab. Although
I
> do think this lab is harder than the 2 day lab because on the 2 day lab you
> need to score 55 out of 75 to get to the trouble shooting part. But if you
> were to take the 1 day lab, 55 out of 75 = 73% that would fail the lab alread
y
> (without the chance to trouble shoot). to score 80 points on the one day lab
> is like score 60 out of 75 on the 2 day lab before trouble shooting. And mos
t
> people made it to trouble shooting, pass the lab. ( I guess the one didn't
I don't believe that. True, to pass, you had to make it to
troubleshooting, but not true that most that made it to troubleshooting
passed. Alot of people made it to troubleshooting needing max points, or
close to it..........thats just not happening. some people even made it
very comfortable, only needing minimal points, and blew it.
the thing is, troubleshooting was like no other part of the exam. The
scenerio was not your own, totally new, the technologies were not even
necessarily the same as you had on your lab (for example, you may not have
had voice on your lab, but then when you get to troubleshooting all the
sudden there is voice!)
> pass were the one score between 55-60 ) Maybe this is one of the reason Cisco
> remove the trouble shooting part from the lab.
troubleshooting was a big brick wall, it was not the easy part of the
test, or the part everyone walked. True, many people found
troubleshooting easy.....there training/jobs was right up that alley, but
alot of people found it outlandish and difficult. It was eliminated for 1
reason only, and that was to save time.
> I had a total of 8 hours lab time.
> The desk was kind of small about 4' x 30"
> I notice some of my routers are still running 12.0 version, not 12.1
> I heard T train IOS was not in the lab which is not true. I DO have a T trai
n
> IOS
> One of my router was very buggy. After I config one of the routing protocols
> I did a "show ip protocol" and nothing came up. I did a show run and the
> config was there. I clear the routing protocol, and still no luck. I was
> about to reboot the router then one thing came to my mind. I recall one of
> the buggy T train IOS have this problem. So I did a show version, and It is
> the exact same version. to resolve the problem you simply need to copy down
> the routing protocol config. remove it from the config and pasted back. WOLA
> it worked. so know your IOS problems.
excellent point, yeah others (including myself) also had "ios bugs" in the
lab. You almost have to wonder if there intended. It makes no
difference, know the IOS, and you are ok (bugs and all!)
>
>
> CCIE Security next
>
> Charles Huang
> CCIE 8431
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