From: DAN DORTON (DHSTS68@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 15:20:46 GMT-3
I appreciate the sympathy & I also agree that if I could have gotten
more points on a couple of topics that I knew very little about I could
have probably scraped by as well.
Don't get me wrong I am NOT blaming my failure on this entirely, but it
sure as hell did not help my chances.
I guess all & all I am just most disgusted for the fact of going
through all the hoops & paying so much, but still not getting a
completely fair chance.
You would think for 1250 bucks that you would at least not have to wing
it.
Anyways I hope my second try goes as well as yours did.
Congrats on your success... Save me a seat in the big game.
Dan
>>> MADMAN <dmadlan@qwest.com> 02/07/02 12:15PM >>>
Don't misunderstand me, I empathize with you as I was pretty
frustrated when that happened. In and of itself It didn't cause me to
fail my first attempt but it certainly didn't make me feel any more
compfortable.
On a better note I passed round two!
Dave
DAN DORTON wrote:
>
> Well I probably could have dealt with it if we could have fixed the
> problem, but again we couldn't & I lost way more than 30 minutes!
>
> I understand the whole real world thing, but in the real world I
> wouldn't have spent over 3 grand to get there & work on a network,
they
> would have been paying me!
>
> >>> MADMAN <dmadlan@qwest.com> 02/07/02 12:06PM >>>
>
> DAN DORTON wrote:
>
> I see somethings haven't changed!! I had my RP in a 7000 croak
> during
> my first try, bad memory. The proctor found another RP and we
> installed
> it, lost about 30 minutes. I was told the lab is suppose to test
real
> world and that was real world:(
>
> good luck
>
> Dave
> > I only have one MAJOR complaint.
> >
> > Excuse me for being vague, but I don't want to break the NDA in
any
> > way.
> >
> > I had some equipment that failed at layer 1.
> >
> > I pointed it out right away, but they were unable to fix it.
> >
> > They told me to configure it like I thought it should be & they
> would
> > take it into CONSIDERATION. (Too my surprise I did very badly on
> this
> > section when I checked later!)
> >
> > Unfortunately that left me at a VERY big disadvantage, because
> > troubleshooting as you go is part of the test, but I didn't have
> that
> > luxury on a VERY LARGE part of my test.
> >
> > This happened to me right after lunch which basically screwed my
> entire
> > thought process & made me about ten times as nervous. As if I was
> not
> > nervous enough in the first place.
> >
> > It was something that I had torn apart a hundred times over in my
> home
> > labs & I KNOW if I could have tested it that I would have been
able
> to
> > fix it, but again... I did not have that luxury.
> >
> > My advice to you is that if you have equipment failure on your lab
> that
> > you stop & insist that it is repaired, before you go on. I really
> wish
> > that I had done this.
> >
> > Overall it was a gut wrenching experience, but again the test is
> very
> > passable. I believe that if my equipment had not failed & I had
not
> let
> > my nerves override my experience that I would have passed. In fact
I
> was
> > fairly confident that I did pass until I got home to see the
> horrible
> > results.
> >
> > I will be going back in a few months to attempt it again &
hopefully
> my
> > experience will be a little better this time.
> >
> > After this e-mail the proctors that are watching will probably
have
> it
> > out for me, but I wanted to try to save some other people the
> problems
> > that I had if at all possible.
> >
> > Anyways, good luck on your attempts & see you in CCIE land one of
> these
> > days.
> >
> > Dan
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