From: Alex De Gruiter (Alex.deGruiter@didata.com.au)
Date: Sun Jan 28 2007 - 20:28:56 ART
I'd have to agree - I asked a similar question and had the response "I
can't answer anything technical"!
A big thanks to everyone who has posted. Plenty of useful info - I
realize at the end of the day the proctor should only be a last resort,
however really appreciate the advice offered in resolving any potential
ambiguity.
-----Original Message-----
From: Faryar Zabihi (fzabihi) [mailto:fzabihi@cisco.com]
Sent: Friday, 26 January 2007 3:24 PM
To: Sergey Golovanov; Filyurin, Yan; Scott Smith; Alex De Gruiter (AU)
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Proctor questions
Good luck getting him to answer that question. I agree you have to ask a
lot of questions and even to a certain extent talk through portions of
the lab with proctors, but if you ask them which way do you want me to
configure....you will get the "it should be in the task or other
requirements will depend on this" One time I was amazed(using a nice
word) that the proctor didn't know the lab he had handed me. I will save
everyone time by not sharing why I was further amazed on this lab
attempt.
Just curious, which IE lab# are you talking about?
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Sergey Golovanov
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:25 AM
To: Filyurin, Yan; Scott Smith; Alex De Gruiter
Subject: RE: Proctor questions
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Filyurin, Yan <yan.filyurin@eds.com>
> Subject: RE: Proctor questions
> Sent: Jan 25 '07 10:30
>
> I will be doing my lab in April and so far as I am doing practice
> labs I constantly run into problems, or I think they are problems
> where I configure something that fits the requirement, but it is not
> a correct solution say by Internetwork Expert, even though it works.
> And I think I misinterpret the instructions. For example let's say
> if I am being asked to configure multicast sparse mode and then asked
to configure RP.
> I can do static RP or I can do auto-rp or bsr and in case of the
> second do autorp listener. In a similar case would it work to
> approach a proctor as ask a question such as: "Is it okay by you if I
> do it this way, or you want it done this way?" Or maybe even without
> the second part?
>
> Yan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of Scott Smith
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:53 AM
> To: Alex De Gruiter
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Proctor questions
>
> Through 3 visits to the lab @ RTP I don't recall a single time where
> the proctor didn't provide the feedback I needed. In my last attempt
> the only question I asked went like this:
>
> ======
> Me: My brain is toast and I need some help.
>
> Proctor: Ok (smiling)
>
> Me: Does this task (pointing to task in question) mean "this" or
> "that"? If its "this" then I need need to configure it this way. If
> its "that" then I need to configure it that way.
>
> Proctor: "that" way would be correct.
> ======
>
> This is pretty much how every question I ever asked was presented
> and I always got the response I needed.
>
> --
> Scott
> CCIE #17040 (R&S)
>
>
> On 1/24/07, Alex De Gruiter <Alex.deGruiter@didata.com.au> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am looking for the best advice on how to approach the proctor.
> >
> > I tried 2 completely different approaches for each of my labs. In
> the > 1st I asked a lot of questions and received persistent negative
> > feedback. So I posted a similar question to this one after the 1st
> lab, > and I was torn down in flames by certain people who stated
> that I > "obviously knew nothing"; if I had asked clear, reasonable
> questions, I > would receive a response.
> >
> > So I spent time between lab attempts better learning the
> technologies, > and in the 2nd lab asked very few questions. I
> basically ignored the > proctor - on the few occassions that I did
> ask questions, I was met with > a similar response to my 1st
> attempt.
> >
> > I am now faced with a dilemma. Due to locality there is one
> location > that proves particularly practical in my endeavour to sit
> my next, and > hopefully last, exam. The trouble is that if there are
> any areas of > ambiguity... And lets face it, there are going to be
> at least 1 or 2 > areas of ambiguity, even small areas, in the lab...
> I honestly am lost > when it comes to getting clarification from the
proctor.
> >
> > So my question is: how can I structure a question in such a way
> that the > response is useful? And, perhaps, should I simply not
> bother asking any > questions at all?
> >
> > Advice appreciated.
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
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