From: Sidalo (sidalo@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 25 2007 - 22:01:18 ART
It sounds as if you are missing smaller details in the areas which are
costing you the points for the section. Smaller mistakes spread out over
the exam hurt more than just large mistakes in on section since it is all or
nothing per section.
It is a common thing, and I would certainly not give up at this point. If
you ever want to pass the Lab it is much easier to keep going, than it is to
stop and break and then pick it back up again.
IGP - 63% is roughly 20/32 or 19/30 or 17/27 in points depending on what you
had on exam
BGP - 25% is roughly 3/12 in points
QOS - 38% is roughly 3/8 in points
In the IGP section 3 small mistakes is basically the difference between the
63% and the goal you are looking for - 3 x 3 points sections = 9 points
which could easily be lost without attention to detail. There have been
sections on the Lab that when I configured them and checked them and left
the Lab I was sure they met the requirements but as I drew up my after lab
notes, I realized I forgot soemthing small that cost me points.
My suggesstions are to concentrate study time on reading the question
thoroughly, executing a solution, and then re-reading the question while
running debugs, show commands and very detailing checking whether or not
your solution actually meets each and every requirement in that section.
Also see if you can find a study partner who can do this with you and
possibly point out some things that you are missing and vice-versa. I found
that the study partner was the best thing that helped me in my studies. The
details on the sections that we consider "easy" are sometimes the ones that
get us because we are really not looking hard enough at the exact
requirements and checking the specific details of the section because we are
over estimating our own abilities on those topics.
Feel free to drop me an email offline if you have any questions,
CCIE #16921
On 1/25/07, Xiangling <xianglingzj@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Buddies,
>
> I failed my 2nd attemp in HK on 24th. It was another happy and painful
> experience.
>
> I think the exam is quite easy except a few QoS and security problem. And
> I
> spent 1 hour to redraw my diagram, 5 hours to finish the lab and 2 hours
> to
> verify my answers. I was happy when I step out of the exam center as I
> don't think I made any mistakes in the exam
>
> But the real pain comes again on the day after when I checked my result.
> The result is even worse than my last attemp! I scored only 63% for IGP
> and
> 25% for BGP. Moreover QoS is 38% and Multicast is 0%!!! What an awful
> result!!
>
> It really greatly diminished my confidence with these topics. Before I
> went
> for the exam I tried the all IEWB ver 3 and CCIE assessor lab but I didn't
> find any problem to make my IGP/BGP/MCast working to fulfil the
> requirements. And in my last 2 hours. Each and every points in
> IGP/BGP/MCast is double confirmed with various show/debug/ping/trace
> command. But, the almost the same as my 1st attempt, I still can not
> score
> more than 70% for IGP or 50% for BGP (MCast drop from 100% on 1st attemp
> to 0%). And, ironically, I think these questions are rather simple to
> understand and to solve and I really got no idea on where goes wrong.
>
> Now I am in the dilemma of whether should I go for it again and what kind
> of
> preparation shall I adopt for the next try. I believe that I masters all
> the topics well in IGP/BGP/MCast but it should be way of interpreting the
> question or method adopted cost me quite enough marks to fail. May
> someone
> suggest me how to improve on these "soft" areas? Otherwise I'm really
> going
> to have a phobia for the lab exam...
>
>
>
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> Thanks & Regards,
> Xiangling
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