From: Du, Jianbo (jdu@ebay.com)
Date: Thu Mar 29 2007 - 02:17:59 ART
Hmm... I heard from rumor. Did any CCIE would clarify?
Regards,
Jerry
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Adam
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:26 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Re: Frustrating - failed 1st attempt
Is that still the case? I thought they only did that back when the exam
took
2 days?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Du, Jianbo" <jdu@ebay.com>
To: "Ryan" <ryan95842@gmail.com>; "Cisco certification"
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:46 PM
Subject: RE: Frustrating - failed 1st attempt
> Hi man, so sorry for hear this bad news.
>
> Did you note that Proctors changed your configuration in afternoon for
> your troubleshooting? I guess it is a part of exam which new need pay
> attention.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Jerry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
Of
> Ryan
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:07 AM
> 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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