From: Shadi (ccie@investorsgrp.com)
Date: Mon Oct 21 2002 - 10:31:30 GMT-3
Nice Movie :-))
Shadi
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rah Hussain" <Rah@network-sol.com>
To: "'Howard C. Berkowitz'" <hcb@gettcomm.com>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 1:40 PM
Subject: RE: What's the policy on hardware failures?
> Howard,
>
> LOL
>
> I thinks u have been watching way too much Monty Python or John Cleese
must
> now be working as a Cisco proctor.
>
> -Rah
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard C. Berkowitz [mailto:hcb@gettcomm.com]
> Sent: 21 October 2002 01:39
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: What's the policy on hardware failures?
>
> Cisco certainly has said that there can be hardware failures in the
> CCIE lab. I haven't ever seen anything that says what you are
> supposed to do about it. If you can demonstrate a board has gone bad
> that prevents you from doing some part of a scenario, is proving this
> to the proctor sufficient to get the points?
>
> I've been picturing the situation below, and wondering what happens next.
>
> Candidate: I wish to make a complaint about this lab!
> Proctor: Read the question.
> C: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about
> this serial 0 interface on R2, on the rack you took me too not
> half an hour ago from this very boutique.
> P: Oh yes, the, uh, the Norwegian Blue 1X2, code name Parrot
> ...What's,uh...What's wrong with it?
> C: I'll tell you what's wrong with it, my lad. 'E's dead,
> that's what's wrong with it!
> P: No, no, 'e's uh,...he's resting.
> C: Look, matey, I know a dead interface when I see one, and
> I'm looking at one right now.
> P: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable interface card,
> the Norwegian Blue 1X2, idn'it, ay? Beautiful !
> C: The color coding don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
> P: Nononono, no, no! 'E's resting!
> C: All right then, if he's restin', I'll wake him up!
> (pinging at the interface, changing cables, pointing to LEDs)
> 'Ello, Mister Serial Interface! I've got a lovely fresh frame for
> you if you show...(owner hits the chassis)
> P: There, he moved!
> C: No, he didn't, that was you hitting the chassis!
> P: I never!!
> C: Yes, you did!
> P: I never, never did anything...
> C: (yelling and hitting the cage repeatedly) 'ELLO POLLY!!!!!
> Testing! Testing! Testing! Testing! This is your nine
> o'clock cron script!
>
> (Takes blade out of the chassis and thumps its head on the
> counter. Throws it up in the air and watches it plummet to
> the floor.)
>
> C: Now that's what I call a dead board.
> P: No, no.....No, 'e's stunned!
> C: STUNNED?!?
> P: Yeah! You stunned him, just as he was wakin' up!
> Norwegian Blue 1X2s stun easily, major.
> C: Um...now look...now look, mate, I've definitely 'ad enough
> of this. That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I
> purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its
> total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged
> out following a prolonged burst of line hits.
> P: Well, he's...he's, ah...probably pining for the fjords.
> C: PININ' for the FJORDS?!?!?!? What kind of talk is that?,
> look, why did he fall flat on his back the moment I got 'im
> home?
> P: The Norwegian Blue 1X2 prefers kippin' on it's back! Remarkable
> bird, id'nit, squire? Lovely color coding!
> C: Look, I took the liberty of examining that parrot when I
> got it home, and I discovered the only reason that it had
> been sitting in its slot in the first place was that it had
> been epoxied there.
>
> (pause)
>
> P: Well, o'course it was epoxied there! If I hadn't nailed that
> bird down, it would have nuzzled up to those bars, bent 'em
> apart with its beak, and VOOM! Feeweeweewee! Off to a 12000 GSR!
> C: "VOOM"?!? Mate, this bird wouldn't "voom" if you put four
> million volts through it! 'E's bleedin' demised!
> P: No no! 'E's pining!
> C: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more!
> He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker!
> 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you
> hadn't epoxied 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies!
> 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig!
> 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run
> down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!
> THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!
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