From: Marc La Porte (marc.a.laporte@gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 11:59:59 ART
Each candidate gets the same type of PC, color pencils, monitor, mouse and
keyboard. So that's your fair shot. Like Scott said, all you should be
concerned about is configuring your devices. As far as I am concerned I get
a 286 as long as I can telnet into the devices I am fine. I don't know how
20-inch non-glance flat screens, quad-core processors, and a mouse with 86
buttons changes that? If you don't configure the devices you fail. Simple as
that. Does a noisy keyboard or flickering screen constitute as fighting with
equipment? I don't know... As long as CCIE is still the most respected
certification out there you should take it seriously. And crappy proctors?
Do you feel you get a fair shot when the proctor is a former top model and
thus good looking, or should he be ugly so it's not an external nuisance?
Over 20,000 people passed the exam, a lot even come back for more, so I
guess it's all up to the individual whether he wants to be bothered by this
all, or just focus on the task at hand, and that's getting those five
freaking digits behind your name
To be sure, I am not saying this all to offend you or anyone, just to say
"Shut Up 'n Configure Yer Router" (for those illiterate to quality music:
it's a Zappa paraphrase)
Marc
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Tony Varriale <tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com>
wrote:
> This and crappy proctors have been a huge pet peeve of mine.
>
> 1) There has to be a base level of professionalism to ensure that most
> candidates get a fair shot and are not bothered with external nuisances.
> (there will always be very rare goofy stuff).
>
> 2) If candidates for the most respected vendor cert have to sit fight with
> equipment because the CCIE group can't come up with a PC procedure, what
> should the outside people think? Should they take this cert and vendor
> seriously?
>
>
> Tony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Jason Madsen
> Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:00 AM
> To: cciestudy
> Cc: Matt Bentley; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Re: Lab question....
>
> I wonder why they have such crappy equipment to work with. There are only
> two testing sites in the U.S. One would think that a place that charges
> $1,400 per person every day could afford some better quality equipment. As
> for me, I'll be bringing a bottle of tylenol because if the monitors are as
> crappy as they sound, I will get a headache or even migraine within the
> first hour.
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:54 AM, cciestudy <cciestudy@mid-world.net>
> wrote:
>
> > I'll have to ask the proctor if I can reboot it at the start of the lab.
> I
> > should have done that the first attempt, not that it would have helped
> > much.
> >
> >
> >
> > I'll have to dust off my old Pentium II and practice.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> > From: Matt Bentley [mailto:mattdbentley@gmail.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:50 AM
> > To: cciestudy
> > Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> > Subject: Re: Lab question....
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi CCIESTUDY:
> >
> > I used to work in building 3 - where they offer the lab in RTP. I am
> > afraid
> > you're stuck with the old stuff unless something's happened since they
> > moved
> > me to a new building. Those boat anchors aren't going to get updated to
> > paperweights in the near future either. Sorry this did not help.
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:34 AM, cciestudy <cciestudy@mid-world.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > Anyone taken the lab at RTP recently? Did they replace the PC's? The
> one
> > I
> > had back in December was a real "boat anchor" and appeared to not have
> been
> > rebooted in months. It was difficult to browse anything. (maybe this
> was
> > by design?)
> >
> > Yes, I know quit my complaining, real CCIE's can do the lab with an Apple
> > IIc and a 1200 buad modem...
> >
> >
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