From: Lee Carter (l2carter@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jun 22 2005 - 22:09:43 GMT-3
Robbie
I have been to both. I was told that the proctors at
RTP (after going to San Jose) were a bit more willing
to help if you had questions so I took the hit on
loosing time since I live in Missouri for my 2nd
attempt. I thought the proctors seemed a bit more
friendly there but in both cases if I had a question
they both seemed to answer it with the same results.
The environment is MUCH nicer at RTP by far. The food
is catered in and your work area is in a finished area
where in San Jose it's more like the back of a
wharehouse.. Not really that bad but if you have seen
them both then you would know what I mean.
In RTP they have (had) a huge area on the wall for you
to sign your name to say that you have been through
the gruling exam. San Jose did not have anyting like
that.
I thought the testing center was easier to find in San
Jose but I would higly recomend that you do a drive by
the night before just to make darn sure you know
exactly where to go and park so that's probably not a
big deal.
All in all, exams were the same. Passing score is the
same. Other than the fact that the proctors at RTP
seemed to be a bit light hearted the two were very
similar.
For that reason, I am going back on the 28th of this
month and have decided to go to San Jose so that I can
gain 2 hours of sleep.
I have been told that the best stratagy to have is to
ask the proctor to clarify on every question no matter
how simple it may seem. I have been through the exam
now and each time I felt that I would have passed and
was very confused when I found that I did not as do
many people i'm sure. So this next time, I will assume
NOTHING and will ask the proctor for every little
detail.
For example (since my ASET lab test scored it wrong)
I was asked in a test lab to configure IBGP between 4
internal peers with various (next-hop-self,
send-community, update-source... ect.)attributes. I
(assumed) that I could use peer-groups to simplify the
configurations but when the e-proctor graded it... I
got a 34% on BGP. All I missed was tons of... neighbor
x.x.x.x remote-as xxx and neighbor x.x.x.x
update-source... because they didn't look to see that
I had configured a peer-group and all those statements
were there. So my configuration technically worked but
the script greader that basically did a "show run"
didn't catch that.
I don't konw that this is true for the real exam but I
will make darn sure to ask the proctor on every little
thing like that because I don't want to fail again
when I know that I passed.
Anyway, good luck and I really don't think it matters
where you take the exam. If you are paying out of
pocket for travel expenses maybee RTP is better for
you but I don't think the exam will be any easier or
harder depending on where you go. (they are all hard
:)
HTH
Lee
--- B Kim <beokim@comcast.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I see more people getting their numbers at RTP.
> That's probably because
> more people go to RTP. I am not sure that the
> passing rate is different
> depending on locations. If it is, everybody will
> certainly want to know
> which location has the highest. :-)
>
> To some people including myself, the lack of sleep
> affects the physical
> condition more than others. When I travel eastbound,
> I lose one or two
> hours. I usually couldn't fall asleep until 1 or 2AM
> in Hotel room and I
> have to get up by 5:30 to be at Cisco by 7A. I could
> sleep only about 4
> hours, which is enough for some people, but not for
> me. If you go to SJ,
> you gain one or two hours, which is a big advantage
> to me.
>
> Think about 8 hour of intense work with a full
> concentration the next
> day. You certainly want to have a good start in the
> morning. I believe
> the physical condition is certainly a factor,
> especially if you are 40+.
>
> Good luck.
>
> B. Kim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> robbie
> Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 11:56 AM
> To: Group Study
> Subject: Raleigh-Durham vs. San Jose
>
> Hello all,
>
> As my (planned) date looms closer, I'm starting to
> try and get an idea
> of where I'd like to take my lab. I live in
> Birmingham, AL, so flying
> (or even driving) to RTP would be far cheaper than
> flying out to San
> Jose, but it also means that the lab would
> effectively start at 6:15 CDT
>
> for me (I'm definitely not a morning person). I had
> read quite some time
>
> ago that the two labs used markedly different
> software for terminal
> emulation, in addition to the atmosphere being
> fairly different, so I'm
> curious to know what the actual environs are like. I
> don't know if
> talking about it would be an NDA violation - I
> certainly hope not, I
> just want to get some kind of idea of what to expect
> when my first
> attempt comes (Sep 9). Thanks in advance.
>
> Cheers,
> Robbie
>
>
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