From: Jaspreet Bhatia (jasbhati@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 15:31:59 GMT-3
HI Manny,
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 12:09 AM 7/18/2002 -0400, Manny Gonzalez wrote:
>Jaspreet
>
>First of all, sorry to hear of your disapointment. There are MANY pitfalls
>in the CCIE Lab. The questions kind of force you into a corner but you
>will never see them (the gotchas, or "issues" as Caslow puts it) if all
>you are looking for is a working result, not the right answer.
>
>Also, you have to think about the way points are lost. You miss one small
>bullet, there goes 5 points. Very easy to bleed 20 points man... you only
>have to get four 5 point questions wrong or five 4 point questions
>wrong... very easy to bleed points.
>
>I can think of one EXCELLENT example of something that works that is
>incorrect.
>
>In BGP, you may be asked to allow only routes passing through AS 200. If
>they are sending you stuff passing AS 200, 300, 45, 89 and 76, you will be
>set with something like:
>
>_200_
>
>but, this will also get the desired result
>
>200_
>
>Which one is WRONG? The bottom one. Why? Because bottom one will also
>match 1200 and 2200 and 19200 etc. etc. You DID get the thing to work,
>but, it clearly indicates amateur thinking. This is the sort of attention
>to detail you have to pay in the lab to make it. Little tiny mistakes hurt
>you bad. And it is better in the one day format. Think about this... in
>the one day format you had to come up with your own IP scheme. Imagine
>misplacing an IP address? You are screwed. It does not matter if you KNOW
>IT... come on, EVERYONE gets an IP address wrong... I do it regularly :-))
>But in the lab, they will they will cut you deep! ;-)
>
>Another example is you are asked to allow a /24 network for example, some
>people will use a reverse mask of 0.0.0.255 and some will use 0.0.0.0
>(just an example, not to scale :-)) The latter will lock in the NETWORK...
>whereas the former will allow also /25 .. /26 .. /27 etc. You get the
>idea; both work, one is correct (or better).
>
>Hang in there. Some of these things will play a more important role your
>next go round. So learn from [your] mistakes, lick your wounds and go for
>it again soon. Don't let it get you down.
>
>Disclaimer: I am only trying to make a point. The examples given above
>have not been tested in a lab scenario and may be wrong... hahahahaha
>
>P.S. If you really KNOW FOR SURE you got all questions right as you
>mention (don't know anyone who can claim that with any certainty) by all
>means fight it with Cisco. This is the reason for them to allow you to
>re-grade.
>
>Sincerely,
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