From: subodh.rawat@wipro.com
Date: Fri Aug 24 2007 - 10:43:18 ART
Herbert,
Much awaited mail of the day.
Its sad to learn this.
Good luck for next time. I think you should plan to do yoga to manage
your nerve system....
_Subodh
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Herbert Maosa
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 7:02 PM
To: Cisco certification
Subject: Why I did NOT pass the first time
Well, I asked the question why I cant pass the first time. I now know
why I did not pass the first time = NERVES.
The exam was very fair and nothing surprised me at all. Every question
to me was unambiguous and every topic asked was familiar. But the nerves
did get the better of me and was forgetting the litte things to make the
solution complete.
I had a strategy. My strategy was to get EVERYTHING on Bridging and
Switching, IGP, EGP,Multicast and IPv6 and collect as many points as
possible on the rest, with the help of the Doc CD.
Well, I got everything on those topics, 100%. However, I did not manage
to get enough points on the rest to compliment that good work. So,
IP/IOS Features, Security and QoS got the better of me on the day.
Honestly, when I walked out I felt I still did enough here to get the 80
points, but it was not to be.
I wouldn't say I am surprised I failed, but I would say I missed a real
opportunity to get this done on the first attempt because I trully
believe of all the CCIE Lab Exam Sets that maybe there, I possibly got
the most fair of them all. I can not imagine anything Fairer.
My advice to those going any time soon is : Never Lose sight of the
fundamentals of routing and switching. While the Work Books push us to
the limit to know the whole Doc CD, if you are not careful you may lose
the fundamentals and concentrate on extremely complex scenarios that
leave you feeling good when you are done, but by the time you do
scenario number 100, you may have lost the very important fundamentals
which you will need on the exam.
Well, I am obviously disappointed, but then, its not the end of the
world.
Herbert.
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