Re: Attack by Proctor

From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Jun 09 2007 - 13:23:46 ART


I have never seen or heard a proctor looking at configs or changing them.
But if you really think that they are doing that, you can save your config
to the flash after each section. That way you are only few step behind.

On 6/9/07, Scott Morris <smorris@ipexpert.com> wrote:
>
> Like most of the troubleshooting within the lab, it may have fallen under
> the category of "self-induced".
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Paul
> Dardinski
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 11:27 AM
> To: Yinglam Cheung; Jinhong Im
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: Attack by Proctor
>
> Hrmm.....don't remember a proctor even having the slightest interest in my
> configs during any lab attempt....
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Yinglam Cheung
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 11:12 AM
> To: Jinhong Im
> Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Attack by Proctor
>
> I seldom wrote to the group, but the subject line caught me to take a
> look.
>
> It would be interesting to know why proctor would get on your router to
> check your configurations. AFAIK, proctors don't check candidates'
> configs during the testing time. Did you suspect a bug and ask him to
> check?
> I'd have asked proctor why he erased some configs if I were you.
>
> In any case you can write to ccie@cisco.com or Cisco Certification Support
> and I believe you can fill out feedbacks after finishing your lab.
>
> Overall I feel proctors in my CCIE lab experience are very professional.
>
>
> regards,
> Yinglam
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Jinhong Im <jhim@kornet.net>
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Sent: Friday, June 8, 2007 4:58:38 AM
> Subject: Attack by Proctor
>
>
> Hi GS,
>
> Today I took my 4th R&S test.
> After I checked all my configuration I found the proctor had changed too
> many things, left about 20 minutes.
> I really astonished because of too severe attacks by the proctor. He blew
> out the whole BGP configuration on a switch and so many other
> configurations
> I made. I tried to recover all them, but I couldn't have time to check it
> again because the proctor was counting time. So I am not sure it all the
> configurations were correct, and finally I found one missing configuration
> and I couldn't be able to complete it because He was saying time was over.
>
> I think it is too severe attack to cope.
> I would like to know if there is a way to let Cisco know that there will
> be
> few candidates to protect themselves from the attack.
>
> Any opinion?
>
> Regards
> /JH
>
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Narbik Kocharians
CCIE# 12410 (R&S, SP, Security)
CCSI# 30832


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