From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 12 2007 - 04:54:39 ART
Each of these labs and other mock labs have their
challenges - of that you can be sure.
The devil is is the language and your interpretation
of the laguage you are presented based on your own
knowledge of a given topic.
One thing is for certain none of the vendor labs are a
"brain dump" of the lab and if you pay careful
attention you would do well to note that each vendor
has taken careful strides to avoid this.
For instance - NMC CheckITs and IE Mock Labs both have
rather unique and different layout altogther than the
real labs.
If you have ever considered NLI, they use a greater
number of routers for all of their labs.
IPExpert takes a different approach than all of the
above.
So... one sice does not fit all.
I will tell you that while some people have passed the
lab and have not passed these mock labs, that number
is rare.
The well-prepared candidate can pass anyone's labs on
mostly any day.
I would strive to achieve a passing score from these
Mock Labs, CheckIT Labs, Workshops, Bootcamps or
whatever you may choose to call them before taking the
lab if you want to pass on the first try.
However, many have gone to the lab several times to
learn some cold hard facts.
"There is no shortcut to success, so don't waste your
time looking for them."
Suppose one did pass the lab and suppose one did pass
the first try.
And let's further say one just got lucky (any serious
candidate knows this is about as likely as getting
picked up by aliens and winding up among the 4400).
But even if one did, what would be the point if one
did not learn what was needed in order to do the job.
I guess one could take low-paying, less challenging
positions and eventually learn to be a real CCIE.
But once this is done this way, one would always have
to live with the idea that one just couldn't quite cut
it - so the title would be meaningless.
My point is that the goal of the CCIE program is not
to make an army of CCIE's but instead to make a higher
quality networking engineer who is an expert with
Cisco Products and Services per given discipline.
This is not something to just pass and stick away,
this is more or an opportunity for one to learn the
technology and as a result become a better, more
prepared network engineer.
So...
My advice is to try them all if you can afford it,
unless you have good friends who are quite creative
and can make you challenging labs to complete, and can
grade them for you, and can give you meaningful
feedback that can help you identify your weak spots
and get to the level you need to be in order to pass
your own lab when the day comes.
--- nhatphuc <nhatphuc@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Group,
>
> Can you tell me your idea?
>
> Between IE Mock Lab, DoIT Checkit and Cisco real
> exam, which one is more
> difficult?
>
> If someone can pass IE Mock Lab and DoIT, how many
> percent he can pass the
> real exam?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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