From: Joshua Lauer (jslauer@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Apr 29 2006 - 20:04:03 GMT-3
The assessor lab is a pretty good indication of
where you are at in your studies. If you look at it
that way, then it's a valuable tool. If you have
configured many different full practice labs, it may
be easy. If you havent, you'll be frustrated :) I
used the assessor lab as a benchmark in my studies,
I found it easy...But i also did several vendors lab
books multiple times over the course of 2 years so
it should have been so. Taking it was not a waste of
money, I think it provided accurate feedback where
it was needed and gave me a pretty good confidence
boost....3 weeks later I passed the lab.
I think this is money well spent.
jl
jl
Joshua Lauer
CCIE#16024
CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, CCIP, RHCE, INFOSEC
----- Original Message -----
From: <darby.weaver@universalorlando.com>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 11:45 AM
Subject: CCIE Assessor - Opinions and Facts Please
>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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