From: Donny MATEO (donny.mateo@sg.ca-indosuez.com)
Date: Sun Apr 06 2003 - 22:25:46 GMT-3
Congratulation Tim,
I suppose the beach looks better after you passed the test hehehe.........; )
Donny
Tim Fletcher
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Please respond to
Tim Fletcher
Throughout history, mankind has struggled to maintain a sense of individual identity. Many people have struggled and fought against governments and other organizations attempts to reduce them to a mere number in the system.
We on the other hand are struggling to become that number in the system, and I got mine!!!!!
Finally passed in RTP on Thursday, 4/3. Because I scheduled late, I couldn't get cheap air fare, so I drove down from Philadelphia on Wednesday. I decided I wanted to make this trip fun, even if I didn't pass, so after the test I drove to Virginia Beach
for the night. I was walking on the beach at about 9:00pm when my cell phone rang. It was my wife telling me THE e-mail had arrived. I walked her through logging in, and she said I passed. I didn't believe her at first because she always gets confused by
the score for the written which is the first table on the page. I wasn't until she read the number to me that I believed it. I could hardly get to sleep that night I was grinning so much.
I won't offer any advice on study, which has been covered many times, but I will offer some lessons learned from my unsuccessful lab attempts.
- Don't over engineer the lab. In fact, don't engineer it at all. If your solution is really complicated, you are probably missing the right solution. The lab is very difficult, but it's not very complicated. In one of my earlier attempts, I had 3 routers
sharing 2 routing domains. I configured redistribution on all 3 with lots of complicated route-maps and acls to prevent routing loops. It was an elegant solution, but it took lots of time to configure and troubleshoot. I didn't even get to several
sections of the lab. To the best of my recollection, the lab did not even require multiple redistribution points.
- Do exactly what is required and nothing more. You either meet the requirement and get the points, or you don't. There is no extra credit for more elaborate solutions, and the more complicated you make things, the the better the chance of breaking
something. Keep it simple.
- Read the requirements carefully. I have a big problem with this. Like most people, I get very anxious in the lab, so I read the requirements very quickly, and sometimes miss some detail. On this lab, I missed 1 of 2 addresses I was supposed to allow on
a certain requirement. Not only would that have cost me points for that requirement, but the 2nd address was needed for another requirement later on. I also recommend making a list on your scrap paper of each requirement number, and draw a diagonal line
through them as you complete them. Draw a second line through each one as you double check them.
- Don't over complicate the requirement. It's easy to read too much into many of the requirements. I found one of the most effective questions to ask the proctor is something along the lines of: "The requirement says do X, but what about Y? Am I over
complicating this?" Frequently the answer is yes.
- Make sure what you're working on doesn't break what you've already done. I think one of the most common examples is applying route maps and acls. Before you apply any route maps or acls, make sure you are not over writing one you applied earlier for a
different requirement.
- Ask the proctor, but trust your gut. Although all of the proctors I have had have been very good, I have also gotten some bad information from them (proctors are only human). In my previous attempt after getting an answer from a proctor that I wasn't
comfortable with (the answer, not the proctor), I decided to go with my gut feeling instead of the proctors guidance. I scored %100 percent on that section.
- Double check your work. I was done by 1:00, so I read through the whole test again and checked my configs against the requirements. I found a few mistakes that could have made the difference between passing and failing. By 3:00 I was finished that, and
considered leaving. Instead I read through the entire config for each router and switch again.
Thanks to Paul for maintaining this list, and to my family for their unwavering support. I now resume my normally scheduled life.
-Tim Fletcher #11406
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