From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@googlemail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 24 2007 - 18:50:05 ART
Good points, except while I understand where you are coming from passing the
CCIE does demonstrate you are an expert in routing and switching, at least
to the level Cisco deems you fit to award you a number.
The learning never ends though. Some folks will get the CCIE without ever
working on a 6509 switch.
Good luck next time Herbert.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Brunner" <joe@affirmedsystems.com>
To: "'Herbert Maosa'" <asawilunda@googlemail.com>; "'Cisco certification'"
<ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 4:34 PM
Subject: RE: Why I did NOT pass the first time
> Nice shot, Herbert!
>
> I failed my first attempt also. But tell me honestly, don't you feel
> better
> now about BECOMING A CCIE? If this process didn't tax us, test us, stress
> us, and push us to the limits, would you feel good passing an "easy test"?
>
> Now give yourself a breather, before you jump back in. You know what to
> expect.
>
> I can tell you this from experience. Become an Expert. Don't think passing
> the test alone makes you an expert. I had a CCIE come to my office once to
> EXPLAIN to me how the Catalyst 6509 hybrid can't do aggregate policing and
> I
> had it running for 3 years when he got there. This guy jovially explained
> how he failed his lab so many times. His name is on the ie page way way
> down
> near the bottom.
>
> Let's us really make it count...
>
> -Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Herbert Maosa
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 9:32 AM
> 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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