RE: First attempt failed in San Jose

From: Jaspreet Bhatia (jasbhati@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 15:30:30 GMT-3


   
Hi Hasang,

                     Thanks for your very encouraging words . I am starting
up my preparation again and hope to give my next attempt at the lab exam in
two to three months . And again I value your advice .

Regards,

Jaspreet

At 10:05 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, Hansang Bae wrote:
>At 11:00 PM 7/17/2002 +0200, George Stylianou wrote:
> >Sorry to hear that - not sure if you saw my email detailing my experience.
> >I too wasn't happy with the grading of my sections either - most of which I
> >expected to get the full marks for.
> >If Cisco doesn't want to accept the working solutions we provide them, then
> >the exam should not be so vague and state what it is they are looking for.
> >Keep at it, that's what im doing.
>
>
>I don't know about the one day lab as I never took it. But I can tell you
>that in the two-day version, there were not-so-subtle hints about what you
>needed to do. The lab isn't about telling you explicitly how to do
>things. Otherwise, anyone could do it.
>
>If you take the time to really read over the questions, you'll find subtle
>hints. On my first attempt, as I sat there in my hotel room, I did the
>entire lab over on my home rack. I mean down to the IP addresses that
>they gave me. I did the ENTIRE lab and as I was doing it, I kept saying
>to myself "oops, didn't think about that!" "oops, that's what they meant"
>etc. Needless to say, I did not pass. One month later, I CRUSHED it. It
>was a personal goal to not only pass, but to ABSOLUTELY CRUSH the test -
>which I did partly because it was such an easier lab scenerio <G>)
>
>The moral of the story is, being able to ping isn't the answer. Seeing a
>route in the table isn't the answer. Being able to see the whole picture,
>and *applying* what you know is the key.
>
>One of my co-workers did ask for another grading and went from
>Candidate-coming-back to CCIE# WXYZ.
>
>Good luck.
>
>hsb



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