From: Chris Broadway (midatlanticnet@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jun 14 2006 - 08:50:29 ART
Well Said Darby...I have attempted the lab a few times and honestly feel the
reason I fail is not because of trickery on the part of Cisco. It is
because of me. The lab is very easy. So easy I, and many others, fail. I
am my enemy...not the lab.
-Chris
On 6/13/06, Darby Weaver <darbyweaver@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> After thinking things over...
>
> Let me be very clear:
>
> The lab was very fair.
>
> It was in no non-sense English.
>
> I had heard about all of the tricks and twists, but if
> there are any, you make them yourself.
>
> Let me repeat: The Lab is in English.
>
> Caslow has a plan: He says "Make No Assumptions" and
> he also asked his students: At every question you must
> ask yourself: "What options are they taking away from
> you?"
>
> The Brians said: "You simply must have an approach,
> and You must absolutely know the basics, cold".
>
> Those who fail have failed for one of the above
> reasons above.
>
> You can add over rationalizing (Yep), overconfiguring
> (Yep), falling in love with your first idea (Yep -
> Great Engineers don't always pass the first time).
>
> Typos and the number one reason is simply lack of
> knowledge.
>
> I do not care if you did all of the lab workbooks
> twice.
>
> I call this brute-force.
>
> What have you gained, when a question comes along that
> you have never seen before (Remember real life)?
>
> So you see, I never said the lab was not doable or
> fair.
>
> It is and it is very much so.
>
> The simlicity of the lab is in the fear and
> apprehension it creates in a candidate.
>
> It is this urban legend that makes the lab seem tough.
>
> The fact is this: Cisco tests a candidate on the
> capabilities of the IOS.
>
> Simple as that.
>
> They are fair and they are not trying to "beat"
> anyone.
>
> They want to know you can solve problems under
> pressure and duress, and what is more read the
> specifications and solve those problems
> exaclty/explicitly as required.
>
> This lab is a test of real world ability to comprehend
> what is being asked of you.
>
> You must also do so in a limited amount of time.
>
> Sometimes (many times) I go to a Prometric Testing
> Center and I take a 100 Question test or more.
>
> They take me about 4 questions per minute to solve
> andI typically pass the exam.
>
> I know my subject.
>
> This lab is no different. Guys like Petr, Brad, etc.
> they killed this lab.
>
> They also could answer most any question asked of them
> as a matter of routine.
>
> They each also had things they did as a matter of
> technique and some things were simply intuitive at
> that point.
>
> They passed.
>
> I have not spent that kind of time yet.
>
> I thought about it and I know what tripped me up, I'm
> going to lab what I did and why I did not see what I
> expected to see and this is why I spent so much time
> on one item.
>
> I would have stuck and moved like I planned but this
> was a foundational "CORE" issue that was critical to a
> lot of other stuff.
>
> I know pretty much what went wrong.
>
> I'll be much better next time.
>
> I can "read" now.
>
> No thanks to some scenarios that overly complicated
> things as a byproduct of keeping up with the
> competition and people who thought labs should be
> harder but not necessarily realistic in terms of the
> real lab - but then some of those folks, have not been
> in a while and have only groupstudy and their own
> customer feedback.
>
> Learn the fundamentals and learn how to apply them
> using the IOS.
>
> I see a market nitch by the way...
>
> :)
>
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