From: Joseph D. Phillips (josephdphillips@fastmail.us)
Date: Thu Sep 09 2004 - 12:16:23 GMT-3
And here I thought you could walk on water, Scott. :)
Welcome to the club of soaked pedestrians. :)
Scott Morris wrote:
> Interesting subject line... Sorry for the grabber there.
>
> I've had a number of you guys send me e-mails, which I appreciate! But I
> figure I'll take this time to send an e-mail that I have seen plenty of
> other times over the years!
>
> On Tuesday, I was out in San Jose sitting for a CCIE lab, just like many of
> you are! Granted, it was for the Voice CCIE and not the R&S, but all in all
> the status and concept is all the same. :) I went out and took the lab,
> of course always hoping for the best, but in my case, expecting otherwise.
> At least I met the expectation (grin), as today I received the e-mail that
> many do containing the availability of my score report as opposed to a
> simple congratulatory e-mail.
>
> As I hope many of you accomplish when you move across this exam is an
> appreciation for many things:
>
> 1. What a royal pain in the ass these things can be!
> 2. Just how much studying is involved, and even then, there are always
> different methods of thinking that you may not have approached before.
> 3. No matter how much you know, there is always more out there. (In a
> nutshell, having passed four other exams didn't help a whole heck of a lot
> at this stage other than people have lofty expectations for some reason!)
>
> My exam was interesting. There were some hardware-related issues that I
> could have done without. Did that affect my passing score? Not likely. I
> counted up the points at the end of the day, and there were enough things
> that I wasn't happy about or sure about to make that grey area too wide.
>
> As hard as it may seem, the focus should always be on 'next time'. I
> thought the exam was challenging. I thought the exam was fair. I thought
> they came up with things that I hadn't pondered before. But that's all well
> and good, because next time I will be prepared for that! (and the other
> holes I left this time!)
>
> Anyway, I just wanted to thank those who had sent me e-mails offline, but
> also take the time to point out that everyone is really in the same boat
> when it comes to taking a CCIE lab exam of any variety. No matter what the
> experience level, or overall expertise, there is a LOT of technology and
> information to cover. What is selected for one particular exam may end up
> being the bane of one person's existence while a cake-walk for another.
> It's all in the name of learning, and hopefully anyone taking the lab finds
> a way to get a positive experience out of it all!
>
> For now, I'm still the same obnoxious guy that I have been and my head
> hasn't grown any larger (smirk). All kidding aside though, at some point in
> time, we are all peers as CCIE candidates.
>
>
> Scott Morris, CCIE4 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security/Service Provider) #4713, CISSP,
> JNCIP, et al.
> IPExpert CCIE Program Manager
> IPExpert Sr. Technical Instructor
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