From: Joseph D. Phillips (josephdphillips@fastmail.us)
Date: Tue Sep 07 2004 - 13:44:28 GMT-3
A very interesting mail, Mr. Sean C.
Just a reminder to everyone, though. You can score perfectly on routing
and switching and still flunk the lab exam.
I have taken it four times, and there seems to be a growing emphasis on
new features, security, QoS, multicast and other things that you can't
test with a TCL script.
The time you spend on a practice lab isn't really relevant. You could
bash one out in eight hours, right on time, and end up memorizing the
configs perfectly. You wouldn't necessarily know why the authors wanted
you to do it that way.
I don't remember having to study nearly this much for my bachelor's
degree. It is coming close to taking that long for me, and is costing me
more.
Sean C wrote:
> Hello to all,
>
> I just wanted to add to the forum on what to use versus not to use to help
> attain the almighty digits. I know we have some recent postings going
> around about different workbooks and study guides - and I wanted to add
> something else to the forum of tools - NMC's CheckIT labs.
> I've now done labs 1 and 2 - and they are both tough!
>
> I took CheckIT's lab 2 on Sunday and I don't believe the real lab is this
> much of a challenge! The CheckIT lab took me 11 hours (yeah, I know 3 hours
> too long). Val was nice enough to give me some more time to complete the
> lab.
>
> A couple of the reasons why the CheckIT lab helped:
> 1 - Some of the tasks/issues revolve around 12.2T issues. Some solutions
> involve commands I haven't seen before in other workbooks or practice labs.
> 2 - Another item that grabbed my attention was the unknown backbone. Unlike
> workbook labs where you mostly configure everything on your own - this lab
> simulates the real deal by having you link up to a non-manageable backbone
> router that may give you some unexpected headaches.
> 3 - The best part about this is that NMC provides a detailed auto-grading
> and answer key. The trouble with workbooks is that I usually have to grade
> everything myself. The CheckIT test comes with a full, colored report of
> what I did right and wrong. The grading gave me a concise report about
> where my configs differed (and failed) as compared to what the question was
> really looking for.
> 4 - My configs are stored online so I can go back and compare them at
> anytime with the correct configs.
> 5 -What really helps in understanding how the correct solution worked, was
> the use of NMC's 'ShowIT' tool. I can run a ton of 'show' commands from the
> correct configs and compare their output to my output that NMC saved.
> Looking at some 'show' commands on their routers topology vs. mine really
> gave me some clues as to what to look for in troubleshooting.
>
> Of course, there are a ton of gotchas. Using TCL and RCMD helped in finding
> some of the routing issues.
>
> Anyway, I know we're all struggling to get our numbers - I've been going for
> far too long and need to get these digits behind me! I really think the
> CheckIT lab is a great tool before I walk into the real lab next week.
>
> Good luck to all, Sean
>
>
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