From: Wes Stevens (wrsteve33-gsccie@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Oct 06 2008 - 13:46:55 ART
No myth they are doing interviews before the bejing lab. As to who would fail the interview that could pass the lab - is someone that memorized curent lab contents but did not have the experience to pass the interview process.
----- Original Message ----
From: Joseph Brunner <joe@affirmedsystems.com>
To: Wes Stevens <wrsteve33-gsccie@yahoo.com>; Darby Weaver <ccie.weaver@gmail.com>
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Sent: Monday, October 6, 2008 11:08:56 AM
Subject: RE: CCIE, i wish to take a different path !
There is no interview... that was a myth right????
Who would legitimately pass the lab, and fail some interview (perhaps
because they don't speak well or are nervous, then be denied a number)
Lets leaving the trolling to the CCNP board!
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Wes
Stevens
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:49 AM
To: Darby Weaver
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: CCIE, i wish to take a different path !
I was told the pass rate in bejing was extreamely high till the interview
exam was implemented. Then it dropped back to the 20% range.
----- Original Message ----
From: Darby Weaver <ccie.weaver@gmail.com>
To: Hobbs <deadheadblues@gmail.com>
Cc: john matijevic <john.matijevic@gmail.com>; Tony Varriale
<tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com>; Gary Duncanson <garyduncanson@btinternet.com>;
Cisco certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2008 9:07:43 PM
Subject: Re: CCIE, i wish to take a different path !
Not to belabor the point. Jared, Narbik and others were quiet eloquent and
to the point.
Yes you can probably eventually pass the CCIE Lab on your own with little or
no use of any workbooks.
It was done in the past by a few people still here to tell the tale today.
Would you want to? Ouch! Maybe not.
I've found the CCIE Lab Exam to be littered with lots of things that one can
find on one's own but even reading the design guides a few times and poring
through the command references all the while typing at the CLI would just
take an enormous amount of attention to detail - very much quality attention
to details.
Now one could pass just learning the specifics on putting making a pod
work. I think this is possible. But I do not think it is the most
practical way to go about it.
There are a lot of very intelligent people on-list and off-list who take
more than one trip to the CCIE Lunch Buffet. There's a reason. Maybe we
are all deluded... or maybe we just did not pay enough attention the first
time.
Today lots of bloggers are passing of their reported first attempt. I'd
like to see if Cisco acknowledges this % of improvement. I've heard some
people claim their first attempt and yet they say elsewhere they went some
years before, etc. Not quite the first attempt. :)
It may be possible, but it may not be feasible.
There's a certain school of thought that firmly is entrenched in the idea
that this lab is very much an insider's exam.
Knowing what I know, who I know and knew, and a few long years now with
hindsight being 20/20, I'd say that while it may not be intended to have
been an insider's exam, it may well have come to that.
I do think that if one were quite experienced with a wide variety of
technologies, that the lab difficulty diminishes with the inverse of one's
experiences with any given technology tested.
On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Hobbs <deadheadblues@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ovais: Everybody's path IS different :)
>
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 5:01 PM, john matijevic <john.matijevic@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hello Andrew,
> > The author of the BGP and OSPF Command Reference books is name is
> > Parkhurst,
> > I had the pleasure of meeting him personally when I went for my lab.
> > Sincerely,
> > John
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 6:19 PM, Tony Varriale <
> tvarriale@flamboyaninc.com
> > >wrote:
> >
> > > Comments inline.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf
> Of
> > > Gary
> > > Duncanson
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:24 PM
> > > To: Ovais Iqbal
> > > Cc: Cisco certification
> > > Subject: Re: CCIE, i wish to take a different path !
> > >
> > > >Vendor products are certainly popular, however it is something of an
> > urban
> > > >myth that they are a relatively new phenomenon. Bootcamps and
bootcamp
> > > >labbooks have been around in one form or another for almost as long
as
> > the
> > > >CCIE track has been public. In other words they have been used to a
> > > greater
> > >
> > > >or lesser extent by just about every CCIE minted for years now.
> Practice
> > > >labs do not have to come from vendors though.
> > >
> > > This is obviously true for >= than the mid old-schoolers. Before
> > > ccwhocamp,
> > > the primary learning experience was formal training and/or OTJ.
> > >
> > > The mid old-schoolers had 4 primary outlets: 1) ccwhocamp 2) own
> > > experience/dev 3) groupstudy lab test answer posting 4) formal
training
> > >
> > > I can assure you that #3 was a HUGE explosion in the CCIE process
> during
> > > this time frame.
> > >
> > > >Cisco Press have done practice
> > > >labs through books by Gorito and Duggan and Solie has practice labs
as
> > > well.
> > > >There was also 'fatkid' once upon a time but I digress :)
> > >
> > > Cisco Press was a factor after mid old-school, IMHO.
> > > w
> > > Fatkid? Where is fatty (I forgot his name...darnit)? I'm very aware
> of
> > > the
> > > labs that were "offered". I'm also aware of what was available on the
> > lab
> > > exam in 2000 (or before). And, I'm not the only one.
> > >
> > > >In terms of challenge, regardless of the mix of materials you use,
you
> > > still
> > > >have to put the necessary time in to cover the lab footprint and get
> to
> > a
> > > >point where you can recall the *right* solution to meet particular
> > > >requirements.
> > >
> > > I'll disagree here. Any idea of why certain regions of the world are
> > > moving
> > > towards an interview before you sit?
> > >
> > > >Vendor materials are helpful but
> > > >not a magic bullet. You have to make the effort. Many people have
> > invested
> > > >lots of money in multiple vendor sources and come unglued. A vendor
> > > product
> > >
> > > >wont give you determination or the inherent intellect to be able to
> > > >understand it all.
> > >
> > > Obviously you have to have the capability. But, the amount of
> > organization
> > > and material offered today from CCIE vendors is absolutely amazing.
If
> > you
> > > consider price too, it's mind blowing.
> > >
> > > >Cisco Press books and CCO offer an almost endless source of
> > > >topologies you can lab up and play with at home and I recommend you
do
> > so.
> > >
> > > Sure, Cisco Press is definitely the pinnacle of Cisconess. But,
> consider
> > > this. There are
> > > some CP books that just don't measure up...some are way outside of the
> > > acceptable variation.
> > >
> > > Tv
> > >
> > > PS - Brad, no hard feelings on the whocamp stuff. I didn't invent
> that,
> > I
> > > just thought it was funny. :)
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Ovais Iqbal" <ovais.iqball@yahoo.com>
> > > To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> > > Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2008 6:43 PM
> > > Subject: CCIE, i wish to take a different path !
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi all, first of all i mean no disrespect to the gurus who are
> helping
> > > > CCIEs a
> > > > lot, namely IE, IPexpert, Narbik and others,
> > > > mostly when i read the success stories, one point is present in all
> of
> > > > them, x
> > > > months configuring the routers using x vendors workbooks, i just
want
> > to
> > > > know
> > > > something very simple, can some one pass the lab without these
> > workbooks
> > > ?
> > >
> > > > can
> > > > someone suggest me a path that i shall take if i dont want to use
any
> > of
> > > > the
> > > > vendors ? right now i think getting CCIE is not a challenge any
more,
> > no
> > > > offense, but thats the truth, look around and you will see a hell
lot
> > > > increase
> > > > in the production of CCIE as never seen before, i know more and more
> > ppl
> > > > are
> > > > inclined towards it but i think the real challenge is to take the
lab
> > > > without
> > > > using any of the workbooks, ( again no offense to the latest CCIEs,
i
> > > > respect
> > > > them all :-) ),
> > > >
> > > > Is there anyone who took the lab without using any vendors, can
> he/she
> > > > shed
> > > > some light on his/her preparation ??
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > >
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> > > >
> > > >
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