From: Manny Gonzalez (manny@xxxxxxx)
Date: Fri Jul 19 2002 - 23:38:37 GMT-3
Best of luck.
Jaspreet Bhatia wrote:
> 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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