From: darby.weaver@universalorlando.com
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 12:45:58 GMT-3
I have on good advice and repected opinions that the CCIE Lab Assessor is pretty decent indication of what to expect in the lab itself.
By the same token, I have also heard it called easy.
This would probably be opinion-based.
If one had completed 25-30 Lab Scenarios and done so honestly, then yes, I would think it would be easy, and by the same token, so would the actual lab.
I have heard many people say that the lab was very doable and yet, this forum is littered with the tattered and shattered egos of many who had thought the same time and time again...
Not to be disrespectful to anyone...
However, if you are going to comment on the level of difficulty you perceived this assessment lab to have been.
Please take the time to flavor it with where you are in your studies and what materials you have completed wor at least worked through, and how many you have been to the lab or if you have not been at all.
These things would be helpful...
But for some of the guys who are so far along they can write labs as challenging as any of the commercial vendors is not very fair....
to come back and say it was easy...
I seem to recall a conversation a close friend of mine recanted to me when speaking with one of the Brians about how "easy" their labs are...
Well, my friends, no one said the lab was "HARD", as individual tasks taken by themselves, it is the combination of a few things rolled into one:
1. Anticipation and Expectation (You waited and at least you know what you came for... and only you know how well you really prepared)
2. Nervous (You have spent a lot of money, time, and effort)
3. Lots of topics (You may not know all of them that well, you have not practiced them, you have not mastered them, you may not know your options or worse not know how to find them quickly enough on the UNIVERCD).
4. Tired (You could be exhausted or even sick)
5. Multi-protocol (Now throw all those topics together and try to find the meatball in the spaghetti)
6. And did I forget to mention you have all of these anxieties, truths, and emotions all going at the same time...
It is about pressure, I have seen this in many programs of study, it is no less for members of the Special Forces, or even Nuclear Science Students...
Why would you expect less of it than it is...
Why would you make more of it than is is...
It is simply a test to challenge your knowledge of a realms of the IOS and lots of technologies...
No more, no less...
I know many an networking professional who thought they were detailed and thorough, only to find out they were not as detailed and thorough as they had thought in the first place...
I've been there before and recently as I think many of us have...
So when you comment, please define yourself...
At this time, as far as I know there is but one CCIE Assessor Lab, so what one person may find extremely easy, another may find as a significant hurdle to overcome...
Enjoy the challenge and the experince in either case.
My appetite is whetted, I am now going to schedule it for myself.
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