From: McCallum, Robert (Robert.McCallum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 12:16:54 GMT-3
You do know that discussing your score report in anyway is a violation of the N
DA !!
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From: Paul [mailto:sixfooter777@btopenworld.com]
Sent: 25 June 2002 15:53
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: My lab experience
I took my lab yesterday in Brussels. It was my first go and unfortunately I
didn't make it thru. However I think it's a good thing for hopefully some of
you who are awaiting you lab date and also myself to say a few words about
the lab itself.
Like other posts I have read, the lab is very much doable and yes time is a
factor but not as much as you might think. I personally had a couple of
hours spare to revisit a few things and find a few more mistakes I had made.
The test itself is more about not what they ask you to do but what they
don't ask you to do and apparently as long as you don't do something they
forbid you to do and it works then that's fine.
The proctor I had in Brussels was a good guy and had a good attitude which
was "there's your booklet, get on with it" and they left you alone which was
fine.
Now my whinge. The scoring on the exam is in points and there are sections.
The results you get for each section are in percentages. OK, you can roughly
convert points into percentages but to me, the whole marking system is a big
grey area and one that Cisco really need to address. On the 2-day lab I
would have had some idea on where I would have gone wrong. Now, I am totally
in the dark. For example, I thought I'd got the Dial section 100 per cent
but I get 60 per cent. Why ? I will never know. Show me any book or
experiences that will help me here. It seems that another factor in the lab
exam is insider knowledge and that is wrong. With the majority of candidates
I suspect financing their lab exam privately and without the help of
expensive training sources ( just by private lab practice ), many of us are
at a disservice.
I hate to say it but it seems the CCIE is more about who you know than what
you know and that's why I won't probably continue on this path because I
don't have deep pockets but for all of you that aspire, good luck.
Paul.
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