From: Martin Kiefer (martin@kiefer.dk)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2007 - 20:20:19 ART
Hi.
If you feel you nailed it, I would definitely go for a reread from Cisco.
Let them check your score and lab. The script is not without its faults.
But you should have gotten a score report saying in which technologies you
failed. That usually gives a pretty good indication on what went wrong.
HTH
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Ryan
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 1:07 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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