Re: First attempt failed in San Jose

From: Jaspreet Bhatia (jasbhati@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 15:28:38 GMT-3


   
Hi,

                     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 07:59 PM 7/17/2002 -0400, EbonyGuru@aol.com wrote:
>Lets see if you really passed or not.
>
>Did you check your work by doing the following:
>
>1) show ip route on ALL routers to see that ALL routes were present? were
>they being learnt from the right protocol and with the correct metric?
>
>2) Did you do Show dlsw peers/reachability/cache?
>
>3) Show isdn status and debug dialer event.
>
>4) Show Frame Map and show Frame PVC
>
>5) Show ipx routes/Servers
>
>6) Show ip bgp/nei
>
>7) sho ip ospf/eigrp/igrp nei
>
>8) Sho buffers to view your acl logs after you enabled them?
>
>9) show ntp associations if relevant
>
>10) show nat trans
>
>11) show config all on the cat
>
>This list can go on forever....
>
>Even if you did check your work thoroughly, it still does not mean that you
>did not misunderstand the requirements.
>
>The point I am trying to make is that while you may well have done a great
>job on the day, the fact that there is no more partial marking ,and you being
>mortal, means that there are a million places to make errors.
>
>Take heart and realise that they almost always want a precise solution when
>they set their questions, and anything else will be a failure.
>
>If you really feel 100% sure you did enough to pass and still failed, -
>highly unlikely, you can email the ccie group at ccie@cisco.com. Mike Reid is
>an old pro and he will make sure the right score was given. I had a similar
>issue before and was very pleased with the treatment I received from the ccie
>group @ cisco. Still failed.
>
>So try your luck and you may become the first person to have a score
>reversed, - again highly unlikely. Bear in mind though that the effort may
>cost you $250 dollars.
>
>To cap it all, I will say forget it and take heart. Next time remember that
>almost every word in the question is significant and when in doubt, ask the
>instructor before you implement a solution.
>
>Last tip, if you feel confident about knowing the material, do your next lab
>sooner rather than later before you get off the boil. If you passed it this
>time, you will certailnly pass it next month. No guarantees after three
>months.
>
>HTH,
>
>E'Guru
>
>
>In a message dated 17/07/2002 23:22:08 GMT Daylight Time,
>dizzy74_98@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
> > Subj:RE: First attempt failed in San Jose
> > Date:17/07/2002 23:22:08 GMT Daylight Time
> > From:<A HREF="mailto:dizzy74_98@yahoo.com">dizzy74_98@yahoo.com</A>
> > To:
>
>
>
><A HREF="mailto:ccielab@groupstudy.com">
></A>
>Sent from the Internet
>
>
>
>Give it a couple of days and look deeper. The
>mistakes you made will hit like a brick in the
>forehead. The key is in the details.
>
>HTH,
>
>Scott
>CCIE #9340
>
>--- George Stylianou <georges@is.co.za> wrote:
> > Hi Jaspreet,
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Regards,
> > George
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: steven.j.nelson@bt.com
> > [mailto:steven.j.nelson@bt.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 21:34
> > To: jasbhati@cisco.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: RE: First attempt failed in San Jose
> >
> >
> > Jaspreet
> >
> > If you search the archives this has happened to many
> > people, including me.
> >
> > Stick at it... is the message
> >
> > Thanks and HTH
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jaspreet Bhatia [mailto:jasbhati@cisco.com]
> > Sent: 17 July 2002 18:46
> > To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: First attempt failed in San Jose
> >
> >
> > Folks,
> > I took my first attempt at the Lab
> > exam yesterday in San
> > Jose and failed . I did the exam very well and
> > attempted all of it and
> > produced the desired results . I am not satisfied
> > with the grading and was
> > 100 % sure that I would make it through. Should I
> > go in to have the exam
> > re-evaluated or not ? I have spent about 10 months
> > preparing for this and
> > done every possible resource of labs ( commercial
> > and cisco internal) ,
> > read all the books two to three times. Read all the
> > samples and tips from
> > CCO. Even in the exam , I did all the tasks that
> > were required of me and
> > got the results needed. My question is if there are
> > multiple ways of doing
> > the same task , is it that they are looking for a
> > task to be done in a
> > certain way or are they just looking for working
> > results . If the latter
> > is true , I should have passed . Please advise me as
> > I feel very lost and
> > without a clue...
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jaspreet
> >



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