From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Thu Sep 12 2002 - 14:08:23 GMT-3
At 9:37 AM -0400 9/12/02, Laing, Douglas wrote:
>It took over 2 years of studies, but I finally passed the RS lab in RTP.
>This was my third attempt and I was contemplating on whether I should take
>it again if I failed. My study habits are no different from everyone else.
>First, I said a prayer before starting the exam. I asked God to keep me
>focused and to be by my side. I finished around 1:00 leaving plenty of time
>to go back to some of the configs I didn't feel 100% confident. Upon
>re-reading the questions, I realized that I did not fully read some of the
>questions. This was because I was in hurry mode when first configuring
>everything. I made my changes and then went through the questions two more
>times looking up stuff on the CD for verification of some things. At the
>end, I felt like I had 98 points, but I knew that was if I was grading it.
>Fortunately, I had lots of prayers from friends and family. I received the
>"congratulations" email last night.
First, Doug, my sincere congratulations.
From yours and other posts, I'm beginning to wonder if there needs to
be a new sort of study aid -- maybe the group could work on it.
There are lots of scenarios for doing exotic things.
I'm beginning to think there needs to be -- I don't know if scenario
is quite the word -- that are "pattern recognition" rather than
general troubleshooting.
In other words, reasonably complex configurations (no NDA violation,
of course), which have minor configuration errors in them. These
minor errors, however, will keep the lab from working.
From a learning standpoint, I think there's an advantage to doing
these WITHOUT live routers, so one gets practice in really reading
configurations rather than using time-consuming active displays.
There might be a hint on what isn't working on some of these labs,
while others might simply say something is wrong.
When I taught hands-on Cisco classes, I often began by looking at the
configuration, scanning my mental list of common errors, long before
I looked at the routing table, etc.
Don't have time right at the moment, but I'll try to post some
examples within a day or two.
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