From: Joseph D. Phillips (jphillips@ufcwdrugtrust.org)
Date: Wed Jun 16 2004 - 18:03:45 GMT-3
This is not off-topic.
The key to taking the lab exam is to have no expectations either way. You may pass on your first try, or it may take ten attempts. You may feel you failed and find the next morning that you passed. You may be sure you've nailed it and find out you failed. Grading of the exam is still very subjective, to the point where one wonders if Cisco can be pleased at all.
Get a good night's sleep (if you can) before the exam. Have a good breakfast and go in. Just do the best you can.
You are allowed to use the documentation as it appears on their univercd area: http://www.cisco.com/univercd
You can use the search function but you will not be able to bring up anything within the public area. It has to be within the univercd area.
You will also be tested on undocumented commands, which you won't find anywhere, not even on Google. That's how cruel Cisco is.
If you configure your IGP perfectly and one of your interfaces flaps, at at 4:30 p.m., for any reason, you'll lose partial connectivity and flunk the exam, even if thought you had 80 points.
It won't matter if you nailed SNMP or configured a router for WCCP or IRDP or any of the hundreds (literally) of protocols and products that Cisco has developed, whether or not anyone in the world actually uses them.
Any of you who have taken the exam 3 or more times will attest to this.
Do the best you can, is all I can say. It's a crap shoot, even if you know it all.
-----Original Message-----
From: Yash Bajpai [mailto:ccieyash@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 13:00
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Somewhat OT: CCIE lab temparament
Hi all,
I have a question for the experienced people who have
taken the labs. (sorry, but iam panicking)
I am thinking that no matter what i do, there would be
questions/problems in the lab that i would not know
how to tackle. Technologies that i would not be very
conversant.
For instance, i have not got an opportunity to work on
ATM, PPOA, PPOE and i dont seem to find the right docs
on the CCO too...
what is the best way to handle things you are not sure
off (or not good at?) run to the doc CD and look for
config guides? try to accomplish it with whatever you
know of it? or hope that you can make up 80% by doing
everything else perfectly? (like i said, iam
panicking)
or perhaps, one cannot hope to get the covetted number
unless one knows everything there is to know?
Regards,
Yash
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