From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Dec 12 2006 - 02:50:06 ART
Now you see with a lab of ATM Switches (I have 2
LS1010's now), Cat 5000/5505's (I have 4 now - had 8,
each has an RSM, and I have ATM Blades, and even a
Token-Ring 16 Port Blade), and ISDN (still got my
simulator), 3920 (I had 2 1600's, 3 3920's, and an
Olicom 8600), and even a 6000 (Yep -even got one of
these just in case - I'm told it'll do fine for Voice
by the proctors at RTP)... I even got 3 4000 Switces
and some WS-X4322 Blades...
I might even have a better chance at it...
Luckily, I can now simulate most any network with my
lab gear - if only my the electrical system in my
house would support it.
Hmmm...
Overkill, huh...
Yep, I've got the server farm to with em' and stuff
like CiscoWorks, Openview, Orion, What's Up Gold, and
a variety of other products. The best ebay can allow
for.
I'm telling you - you have to sell your soul to get
past this beast sometimes...
Or actually spend more time practicing and less time
worrying about what might be on the lab.
--- Brad Ellis <brad@ccbootcamp.com> wrote:
> There used to be a time when the CCIE team didn't
> really give much
> information regarding the lab...(I could be wrong -
> but I don't remember a
> lot of info being publicly available or announced
> back in 1998). I know
> when I took my lab exam in 2000, there was a nice
> little token ring switch
> on the exam that I had never seen before nor knew
> was going to be on the
> exam. Anyone else remember the good 'ole 3920s?
> What a lovely surprise!
> Thank you for taking the CCIE Lab exam...and "say
> hello to my little
> friend." (say it like Al Pacino and it sounds much
> cooler) Needless to
> say, I hacked my way through it, and figured it out
> (and got four digits to
> prove it). The CCIE lab has changed significantly
> since back then and I
> think it reflects real-world situations even less
> now, then it did back then
> which is making it more difficult to apply ones
> experience to the CCIE lab.
> Four switches vs. two switches etc, shouldn't really
> impact the prepared
> student that badly. However, spending time
> configuring an additional two
> devices - including troubleshooting these devices,
> could impact the amount
> of "extra time" the candidate has when they have
> finished. I say bring back
> ATM, bring back ISDN and IS-IS, bring back the
> Catalyst 5500, bring back the
> 3920, bring back Appletalk, IPX, Decnet, bring back
> the troubleshooting part
> of checking to make sure the cables are pushed in
> all the way (heck, doesnt
> this fix most production problems anyhow?). Add a
> catalyst 6500 for the
> core and a cat 4500 at the distribution layer.
> Interconnect candidates
> racks so they have to work together to figure out
> the over-all picture..now
> we're talking!!!
>
>
> thanks,
> Brad Ellis
> CCIE#5796 (R&S / Security)
> CCSI#30482
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <istong@stong.org>
> To: "Gabriel Nunes" <gabriel.nunes@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Kenza@kenza.nl" <sales@kenza.nl>;
> <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 5:10 PM
> Subject: Re: anybody passed the CCIE r/s exam ?
>
>
> > Gabriel,
> >
> > I understand your concerns. It is difficult to
> spend all
> > that time and effort studying for and taking the
> exam only
> > to get a somewhat generic score report. It breaks
> it down
> > somewhat by categories but trying to relate that
> to the
> > actual questions and what you missed is very
> difficult. Many
> > people have commented on how they would like to
> see more
> > feedback and information on what they missed and
> what they
> > didn't miss. In the "old" days when they had the
> 2 day
> > exam, if you failed the first day you would have
> the
> > opportunity to meet briefly with a proctor to
> understand
> > what you missed. Those days are long gone.
> >
> > Perhaps some day the policy will change and a
> better
> > feedback mechanism will be in place. Until then
> the best you
> > can do is try your best at understanding what you
> might have
> > missed, where you need to refocus your efforts and
> where
> > your weaknesses are. Best of luck on your
> studies.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ian
> > www.ccie4u.com
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I know the exam is hard and must to be hard. I`ve
> being
> >> studying for 8 months and You know that I
> practiced a lot
> >> beacause I rented many sessions of your lab.
> >>
> >> The point is that I have seem many gaps...
> >>
> >> 1- A friend took a lab another day and there was
> a router
> >> with the "ip base" IOS and he had to configure
> BGP on it!
> >> 2- On my second attempt the proctor provided me a
> wrong
> >> advice (and I have an e-mail from him to prove
> this)
> >> 3- I asked for a reread on my 2d attempt and my
> score has
> >> increased but not enough. (this means that they
> may
> >> correct wrongly the exams) 4- At my 3rd attempt
> there was
> >> a wrong question (the proctor agreed with me).
> >> 5- How we can get 28% in some tecnology if there
> were 3
> >> questions: one of 2 points and two of 3
> points??????
> >> Sometimes the percentage is not correct... 6- At
> my first
> >> attempt someone run a script on the racks and I
> lost
> >> connecticity of all devices and I got an output
> on the
> >> terminal sever like this: "delete vlan.dat" and
> "write
> >> erase". Imagine... I asked for a free lab but I
> had to pay
> >> my travel again... 7- At this 3rd attempt I
> tested all the
> >> BGP requirements, and I got 0%. At leat the first
> question
> >> which was easy I had to get right... I also got
> 0% on
> >> Security and Multicast... In my opinion this is
> >> impossible... I`m sure about some questions!
> >>
> >> How can I trust them with this history...?
> >
> >
> >
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