From: Daniel_Steyn@Dell.com
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 00:13:43 ART
Hey Ryan,
I'm sorry to hear your news. I'm not a CCIE (yet) and have not
attempted the lab yet either - so take this however you wish.
We all know that there are many ways of configuring a specific task -
such as originating default routes. Maybe you could try configuring
some of these tasks in a way other than what you did - but only in the
areas that were you low points! Obviously you used the proctors well
enough for clarification of the questions, but did you try asking them
HOW they wanted certain tasks configured? In other words: if a task is
very vague and there are 2 ways of configuring it - did you try asking
them "I can do this task this way or this why. These are the affects of
doing it the first way and these are the affects of doing it the second.
What way are you looking for?" Just an idea.
I'm sure you'll nail it in time. Cisco may just need to get their money
out of you =)
Good luck,
Daniel
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 6:07 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Frustrating - failed 1st attempt
I failed my 1st attempt yesterday at San Jose.
I'm extremely frustrated right now because I walked out believing I had
nailed it, yet I some how failed and I have no idea what went wrong.
I arrived 2 days head of time and got a great night's sleep before the
lab.
I finished the lab in about 5 hours and verified my configurations over
the remaining three hours. Found a few minor issues and did some
tweaking. I asked the proctors for clarification on almost every
question (Proctors were great and very patient) and got good feedback
regarding the questions.
Reloaded the routers and checked everything again. I left with
everything working (except for 3pts of IP service which I intentionally
did not do) and feeling like I had just kicked the lab's ass.
Then this morning I wake up to a score report that says I failed. What's
worse is I have no idea what I could have done wrong. There was nothing
on the test that was difficult or I was not very familiar with. I even
verified several config's right from the doc CD where the command
description read almost verbatim what they were asking.
Could I have gotten someone else's score report?
I'm sure many have thought the same thing. I'm just really frustrated as
I don't know what I did wrong and I have no idea how to prepare for my
next attempt?
Time management was not an issue, stress was not an issue, technology
was not an issue, and I'm pretty sure question interpretation was not an
issue.
Obviously there was some issue, but how do I find it? How do I found out
what I did wrong so I can correct it? Maybe technology was an issue.
Maybe I needed more configuration or they were looking for a specific
solution. How could I know?
Aaaaaghghgh!!!!
Sorry for the whining...I'm just really frustrated...
-Ryan
(going to try to reconstruct the lab from memory and see if I can
determine where I went wrong)
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